Irritation and Satisfaction

[Work]
Imagine a pride of lions in a Safari park who are very down on their fortunes. They had lost most of the teeth and claws due to old age and accidents so the rangers had supplied that with steel fangs and claws. The design was such that these could be swapped between the lions themselves.

Comes the hunt. Long tails was stalking a zebra and spooked it. The zebra ran right into Swift foot’s ambush and she brought the zebra down by latching her steel claws onto its hinds. However, she could not get an effective kill and in the struggle, the zebra kicked her and got away.
"Why didn't you secure the steel claw and the steel fangs together?", Long tails demanded as she caught up.
"I couldn't. Bright mane is facing a challenge today and he took it".

Such is the problem I face at work and it irritates the hell out of me. There are 20 of us and there are only 7 IDs for our use. 8 terminals with email access are to be fought over by 40 of us. I was moved to pass on the joy to my boss by stating this whenever he ask, "Got problem a not?". I plan to annoy everyone ranked above me till this is resolved.
"We're looking into it", is not enough for me. They are not the ones being stressed. Already, there are signs that tempers are rising as our team got our load doubled and our resources halved. We are going to miss many of our targets this month and if complaints fall on deaf ears, then perhaps their precious statistics might make them sit up.

[Food]
Past experiences of Japanese buffets were not good. The food came deliberately slowly; Orders were "forgotten"; The sashimi was not tasty; You could never catch the eye of anyone.
So it was refreshing to have had something different.

We had our farewell dinner for Conrad at Telok Blangah: Mount Faber SAFRA club's Himawari Japanese restaurant. Everything was the reverse of what I complained. ALL the orders came, well cooked. The staff were all smiles and did not dodge their duties. The sashimi was nice and they gave us more than token pieces. Their tempura actually sticks to the skin of the prawns, rather than floating above it like a disgusting corndog.
Why not give it a try?

-4H2U