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Thursday, November 20, 2003

ONE DAY MORE!!! 

As the day draws nearer and nearer, I am getting more and more desperate.
One more day to the end of my misery, one more day to the day I have been waiting for for the past six months and one more day to the end of boring and bland routines.

The end of Professional Internship.

It's amazing how hypocritical people can get in this world. You see, my company is divided into teams. Different teams work on different accounts in different sectors and industries. My team deals with technology clients and I work closely with three of them in the team.

A few weeks back, one of my colleagues, whom I have great rapport with and great respect for, came up to me and asked me if I were free on my last week with the company as she (let's call her S) and a couple other colleagues wanted to take us out for dinner.

The thing is, S is from the consumer side. I only met and worked with her starting September, following the merger. She tries her best not to call for my help and as such, my work dealings with her is pretty limited. But here she is, arranging for a farewell dinner for us, the interns, even though she's only known us for a very short period of time. My own team members did not even make a peep about us leaving the company, but blatantly piled on more ridiculous work such as printing, scanning and RSVP-ing. It's almost as if they are thinking, We can't let them sit there and do nothing on their last week there! More work for them! There is this ONE big b**ch, C, who is on my team (very sadly) who is such a faker. She likes to insinuate that we interns have nothing much to do and dumps us with crappy work.

So anyway, my co-student and I were rather touched by S and her thoughtfulness. We decided to get going-away presents for the company (yes, I blew an amazing $90, I am eating air for the rest of the month) and went round distributing them today since the CEO and several others won't be around on our last day.

My team members got pretty embarrassed and were rather red-faced, making comments like, Oh you shouldn't! It should be us getting you gifts! and we were thinking, Yeah, whatever. And the last I heard, S was going around planning a farewell lunch for us on Friday, after we presented her with her gift (the cheapest at $2.90).

I would much rather go out with S and the others than with C and the trio of big fakers. I think she knew that she had the shortest end of the stick because she went around asking people what they had received from us and it was clear that hers was tiny compared to the rest. People like S whom I did not work closely with in our day-to-day routine had much nicer gifts than hers. Hah.

Anyway, it seems that many of our colleagues are envious of us leaving the company and wished they were doing the same. When asked why we were giving out gifts, I glibly replied that since we were the ones leaving and they weren't, we decided to spread some cheer. I was given a grumpy reply that I was hitting way below the belt. LOL.

yAnn at 11/20/2003 12:06:00 AM