Blackout Day

This incident happened a week ago. As usual I will have a department meeting in my company every month and it was a second day of the meeting. So I reached the office half an hour earlier as usual. When I opened the door and wanted to switch on the lights and air-cond, I found out there are many people in the office but the lights were not on though all the switches were on. Oh no, some of them said there's electricity backup (but I don't know what is that), then some said because of the thunder storm last night. Arrgg.. whatever it is.

So our meeting postponed because there's nothing we can do for the meeting since we needed electricity for the LCD projector and other stuff. We waited for so many hours. We had tea, read newspaper, chit-chating, telling stories... bla bla bla... But then still there was nothing happened. One thing good is, there was air-condition so we enjoy ourselves sitting and standing in the office and also the lounge in our office.

At 2.30pm, I went for a meeting in the HQ. So, I have no idea what has happened in the office after that. When I got back to the office on Monday, my colleague told me that boss was looking for me and wanted to talk to me. Guess what, it was my confirmation review. He talked to me for so long. He asked me so many questions. I felt so small and have no confidence that he will confirm me anymore.

But what surprised me was he actually printed out the confirmation review in front of me and signed it. After I signed it, he gave me a handbook. And I somehow wanted to cry in front of him. I was so touched that my boss gave me a book like that. It's a quite famous book (The Purpose Drive Life). Though I have it at home, but could you imagine that a boss actually would give you such a book and say "hope you will find your purpose in life and welcome to the company" in such a manner? Even my colleague also wanted to cry and couldn't speak much at that time. What more a crying girl like me? Hehe... we didn't cry in the end. We're so thankful that we have such a great boss.