Hardworking

For the past few weeks, I have been rendering overtime at work for at least 2 hours everyday. Why? It's because my team is still struggling on the demands of the client (i.e. need to carefully follow instructions, and there are specific instructions per accounts - we handle 249 accounts, by the way). Last night, we had a risk meeting with all the stakeholders involved. During the risk meeting, we had to explain our aged items (i.e. accounting breaks). It was actually our first time to participate in a "real" risk meeting as the previous ones we had were "pre-risk" meetings. Being first-timers, we didn't know that the one who presided the meeting would boil us down to our nerves. We had lots of dead airs as we didn't know what to say. All we had in mind was the meeting would go smoothly as we had expected during the pre-risk call. Nevertheless, we ended after an hour. I was a bit frustrated (thought I should be very prepared next time).

It was 2am and we were still in the office catching up with open items for cash and no one had started with stock breaks yet. Time was a bit harsh on us as we needed to complete everything since it was already getting late. At 3am, I started to review my team's cash roll-up (It was good as I found no errors, except for JC that he had to raise CSX case to follow-up on a dividend). At 3:30, I started to review stock roll-up. Then at 4am, I prepared my final EOD checklist, completed the team's Issues log, attached a copy of fixed broken funds, then submitted everything to my manager, Cristy. At 4:30, alas, we got out of the office and we ate at the pantry (It's actually the building's food court located at the 7th).

To satisfy my hunger after a heavy day at work, I ordered 4 pcs longganisa, 1 pc of egg, and 2 cups of rice (not much choices if its already late). My team was with me that time craving for more food as we rewarded ourselves with laughter and camaraderie.

Went home at 5:15am.

Now, isn't it called "Hardworking"? Nahhh, not yet, more days to come.