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Friday, May 09, 2008

Whew! I'm finally home again. It's been a really hectic 2 months for me. Been working from like 8am to almost 3am. One day to another day, and I wake up at like 7.30am. And my weekend often gets burned. Create the charge for this guy, that guy, run the office, push people to do work. And my fellow NSF clerks in the S1 Branch of my unit treat me like the Assistant Chief Clerk. Damn it. They always ask me what to do, pushing me to liaise with the Officers and regular Specialists because I'm so called the super "up" (meaning that I'm like the go-to, most knowledgeable and up to standards guy) in the Branch.

As the Regimental & Discipline (R&D) Clerk in the unit, my job's pretty menial and routine, yet calls for a scheming and intelligent mind in order to lower the punishments given by commanders or to help the men escape their extra duties. That's only so I have less work to do. But the shit hits the fan now that certain shit is happening and many people are getting extras or have to be summarily tried, put under close or open arrest, or even worst, Court-Martialled.

Working until 3am just to put everything in order so as to avoid an admin lapse, with my boss helping me so that I won't be bogged down by work. I don't want to get slapped with a lapse, because that would mean that I could be punished by the big-wigs in MINDEF, and be sent to DB. Even worse, my boss is a regular with a family to take care of. If she were to be charged, then the shit would really hit a friggin' hurricane and be splashed all over the world. Other than that, it would be pretty retarded to actually draft my own Charge report and then charge myself. That would be really... retarded. Haha.

Gah... And the government really gives too paltry an allowance to us clerks. The combat side gets like combat and hazard pay, plus they can take off as and when they want when the training's in a lull, they can sleep by 11pm, book out on Fridays and return on Sundays and not worry about work, while we in the HR side really bust our asses out to make sure everything is in order, working late and stressing ourselves out for only $400 a month. That's real BS from the government. And I dare to state that for the work I'm doing, I should at least be paid $1800 a month. It's more taxing than working in the F&B line, and even there I can earn up to $2400 a month as a part-timer, and sleep and slack more. I'm burning more brain cells than a grunt who's just paid to follow orders. I'm paid a pittance to burn my brain cells and get eye bags and basically do an Officer's job.

It really pisses me off that we in the S1 Branch have to stay back until 8~9 pm when the entire unit's given a half-day off, and not be able to claim it because after our work's done, more shit gets shovelled our way as a huge "thank you for a job well done" from our Commanding Officer. I swear, the bugger had better stop sun-tanning in Sentosa. The Sun's really frying his brains to a crisp and thus, he's not thinking right. I hope he uses lots of sun-block in SA.

Kenny died at 10:35 pm