Today was a tiring day... Woke up at 6:30 am to get myself ready for the so-called factory big day. I barely have 4 hours sleep and I have to pick myself up when I heard 'Today is Fairytale' ringtone. The call was from my phone alarm, reminding me to get off my bed and get myself ready.
Its a Saturday and I thought I can have a good, relaxing weekend after 2 tiring weeks. Apparently not. I was summoned into my GM's office last month where he offered me to attend management and leadership training conducted by Mr. Tan KH, our company consultant. Ok, it's a rare offer and Michelle and me were the only two executives given this chance to become his disciple. But Michelle tendered her resignation shortly after the offer and hence I was left to be his only disciple.
A little bit about Mr. Tan. Mr. Tan might seem young at his age (61) but he is well experience in running a factory and had all the energies and experience to correct us. He used work in AMD as factory manager and GM for Seagate before he venture into consultancy. He is the man that don't play hanky panky with you and always straight to the point. I was introduced to him during Nov' 09 and since then had get to know him better when we work together through several projects. Well, he is the type that is well disciplined and organized. If you don't like to work with dateline and under tremendous pressure to perform, he is not the type you would like to work with.
Anyway, back to the topic. After getting myself ready, I went to Royale Bintang at Curve to meet up with Mr. Tan. He was already there waiting for me when I arrive. He invited me to have breakfast with him at this small cafe located at the lobby of Royale Bintang. Well, it's been quite some time since I last had a fullfilling hotel-morning brekfast and of course, being me who likes sausages and bacon, take up the offer without any hesitation.
It was an awesome breakfast and I can't believe they serve beef bacon, my favourite! Thinking of it now, makes me feel like going to Cold Storage and get some for tomorrow. Hehe. Ok, cut the story short, after we are done with breakfast we head to factory straight away as we are late and factory managers should be waiting for us. But we did arrive in time (thanks to my awesome driving speed).
One of my company factories located in Kapar, Klang. It consist of 9 blocks with a length of about 600 metre x 200 metre width. You can imagine walking under the hot sun if you were there for a 'MBWA' - Management By Wandering Around. Hahahaha.
Well, the training for today was for factory managers. I was there mainly becaused I missed the first session when it was conducted in Kepong HQ for HQ managers. It was an interesting training as the theme for the training was ' How Managers Make Things Happen'. Well, I'm not a manager YET, but aiming to be one, yes a big one in the next few years.
The training touch a lot about how managers should do things, how they should lead and how they can make the factory a better place to work. Mr. Tan do touch a lot on real time issue and relate it to the training which give us a better understanding and grasp on the topic and principle discussed upon. This is not my first time attending his training and I know he loves to focus on the 'system boy' which is ME ! Yeah yeah, as a project executive, I am running the SAP project for the company.
A lot discussion today mainly touched on the stock issue. We are a company with a turnover exceeding one billion RM. However, he keep emphasizing that our stock accuracy is so poor that we cant even fully utilize the manpower and system that we have and the issue had been dragged for too long. Poor me, as part of the SAP system administrator, I was given the task to find the truth behind this. And because of that moment of courageous, I took the job and even suggested to form a task force with me as the team leader =.=". Now feel like kind of regret, as I am so fully loaded with work. But nonetheless, its an exciting challenge and I like things like this where one piece of good work will solve things for a long period. The factory side was not any better. They keep getting battered from Mr. Tan and they got themselves so much work that I think for the next week few weeks, none of us can go home before 7:00 pm
The training session ends at 5:30 pm. By then, I was mentally and physically exhausted. During the entire training, I drank 4 cups of coffee, 2 cups of chocomex, ate 4 slice of pizza and 2 plate of chilli mee hon. Arghhh, there goes my diet plan. I quickly packed and talk to a few personnel on problem and address some issue before I left. Send Mr. Tan to the subang airport where he will flew back to Penang tonight. Then I headed home while listening to my latest Zouk 2k10 CD. Hahaha.
Now, while I am trying to gain inspiration on how to continue with this post, I am also partly doing some paper work that I need on Monday. And silently I am telling myself ' there goes one of my highly-anticipated saturday '.
