Going Left

I am totally shagged these days. This week is probably the hardest I've worked in my department. I have tons of work to finish everyday, including learning many things on the job. However, as a workaholic by nature, I enjoy having work to do than acting busy (attaining the highest level of looking busy when I am not). At the same time, I am really using up so much energy. I've been feeling super tired by the time I reached home.

I have to clear some s*** for my team. Apparently, the other department, which is in-charge of checking through the documents submitted bymy team, are returning these papers to me to re-do. This should not have happened if not for the double standards that have existed in my department. Re-doing them means I need to check through that all documents are submitted, and then ensuring that I've attached the necessary additions. In addition, I will have to re-circulate the additional items to get the 'hanko' before submitting to the department doing the checks. That is simply a waste of time. If the team has done it in the correct way in the first place, they would have save all the trouble.

Beside ensuring that all documents are submitted this time, I supposed to get all the necessary 'hanko' through circulation by right. However, I realised in order to save myself the trouble, occassionally I have to "go by the left way" to complete the papers. I skipped a few protocols in that sense. Of course, I can't do that for all the time. Yet, this is the only way to save not only my time, but the time of my team. Obviously, the aim is to finish up this s*** that they started off, and complete the rest of the work for the team within this month as much as I could. If I could help them attain 90% completion before my attachment ends, I could potentially gain some good reputation at work.

P.S. Life is not just about going right, but at times we need to know when to turn left too.