SKIRMISHER

Avid Singaporean blogger and HP employee May Leong died more than a month ago from what doctors say was deep vein thrombosis, an often fatal condition you get from being in a fixed position for long periods of time. And the reason? She worked extremely hard.
In the following excerpt of her last blog entry, read the daily saga of pretty much everybody who is running on the rat race.

What I face everyday as a partner support manager is having more than 100 emails per day (I’m not joking, they’re no good ones), partners from New Zealand practically “screaming” to be served first, getting their orders delivered ASAP, wanting everything, complaining of everything. Month end was the most “exciting” part, you get to go on concalls almost everyday, prepare backlog reports for each concall session which consists of 500 over orders remaining undelivered, investigating item by item. That’s just the qty. What abt the amount in $$? Millions of NZ dollars involved. I’ve got 6 large partners and these are what I have to handle. Besides, I’ve got to work at home during non-working hours including weekends, just doing my best to clear my work. Did I mention my team is really short-handed? Only 3 of us managers handling the whole of NZ. All for the sake of a salary just enough to keep myself alive for a month. I’m not earning like the other managers are cos I’m only a contract staff.

As huge fuck ups go, May’s last blog entry is particularly disturbing, especially the first few comments where you can picture in your head how the lady was gonna get it. Did HP, her employer, was insane to drive her and other employees to the brink of human capacity? If we say no, would HP give us some free web server space? How about donuts? Massage? Nah. So folks, the moral lesson to be learned here is: don’t work too hard and keep on reading this nice blog, people.

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