Diageo Training & Traffic Jams

It took 20 minutes for me to get to work today. That’s twice as long as it usually takes. That’s because I wanted to come in earlier to work today to check on work by 9.30am before I leave for my training session at 11am.

Diageo owns Guinness and they have training sessions for all personnel working on all their brands. Their marketing staff as well as advertising agency personnel alike attend the training for all their brands which includes Guinness, Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Baileys and more.

The training will include an understanding of how they come out with the briefing template for agencies to work on jobs as well as product tasting. Yup, we’ll be sampling (or downing for some people) all the different brands and variants of their alcoholic brands. But I don’t intend to be high until after 5pm each day. Such a good and sober girl!

The sucky part is that if we want food in the mornings, we gotta be there by 8am. The training session starts at 8.30am everyday. Which means I’ll need to wake up by 6.30am and be ready to leave the house at 7.15am! I know that this may be the norm for some people but for me, that’s madness!

I hate being woken up. I like to wake up on my own and at my own body clock time. I already find it a struggle waking up at 9am to be in at work by 10am. What more waking up at 6.30am? Just because there are traffic jams. I hate traffic jams. They are such a waste of time. So far I’ve managed to find jobs which allow me to go to the office late and leave work whenever I want so I’ve managed to avoid traffic jams. At least that’s 95% of the time. And I schedule meetings so that I hardly need to sit in jams either going to the meeting or coming back from it.

It’s for this reason that I have a rule that I my home and office should not be more than 15 minutes drive away from each other during normal circumstances. This means that I’ve ruled out working in downtown KL. Unless they triple my salary. AND include perks.

And since I’m in KL for the next few days (and I’m hardly in KL cos of the jams), I may as well stay there in the evenings and enjoy the night life there. And avoid the traffic jams of course.

So there won’t be any more posts from me till at least Friday.

Have a good week everyone!

I’m off for my Guinness, vodka, whiskey and other assortment of alcohol.

People Hating Mode

I’m in my people hating mode again.

Woke up easily enough this morning. Watered the new plants. Made a ham and cheese sandwich.

The moment I pulled out of the condo in my car was when the people hating mode started.

A Caucasian brunette woman in a black SUV pulled into my lane from the left and I had to swerve right. I chased her and stared at her and shook my fist at her. She was either oblivious to what she did and my reaction. Or she didn’t want to react.

Then a man in white sedan stuck the nose of his car out from a left lane as I was turning into a bend. And he stayed there! So I had to stop at the bend and let him go. And even then he took 3 seconds to decide to move.

After turning into the office car park, someone took the last park space available on the floor I wanted to be at.

Then coming into the office, there was a pile of job requisions which I sent in yesterday afternoon which the new traffic person left on my table with comments in exclamation marks (!!!!) just cos she’s new and didn’t understand the status of the job.

Notice how when you’re in a foul mood, people who greet you chirpily or hum a song makes you fume even more?

I need my coffee and smoke. Now. Bye.