Monday, April 25, 2005

The Quiet Period

A time for us to rest, reflect and think about what we have done for the past semester, and how we are going to cope for the coming one. A time to catch up on sleep, on leisure reading and ahem, blog-writing. A time to clear the mind and clear the heart, reset level of dissatisfaction with our boss back to zero, ready to build up again when it all begins.

We, who while drawing on the same salary scale as a few choice others, are usually given twice, or even thrice their workload. Compare 8 hours per week to 18 (usual for me) and 24 (it happens). We, who would be so busy that we have to work while we eat, have to put up with endless chatters, giggles and in general, noise, generated by those choice ones, who do so out of having too much free time.

You may wonder why we do not voice out the lop-sided workload distribution. Oh, but we did. You will not believe the response. The choice ones are not capable of handling technical (i.e. difficult) courses, so they are given the easy (very little hours) ones. Cool. Do we get extra incentives for handling tougher courses? Nope. More bonus? Nope. Higher increment? Nope. Hmmm.

This is a time to think about it all!

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