I went from having a shit load of projects to work on to having absolutely nothing to do at work, and it has become a regular cycle that happens all the time, which sucks because I honestly do not feel very good in both situations.
When there is too much work, it's overwhelming.
When there is little to none, the days just feel so unproductive.
My boss is currently on an overseas trip for the next 2 weeks and my accountant choosing to work from home instead of coming to the office as much as she can, so I am pretty much alone in the office either watching YouTube, TikTok or blogging because I don't really have much else to do, most of the projects that I had been working on previously have either started renovation or have been lost, so right now, the ones that are busy are the Project Manager, or the only Project Manager we have left, who also has the unfortunate task of taking on my boss's project while he is on his 2 weeks trip.
As someone who has worked as a Project Manager before, and I feel like I have said this many times before, I am so glad I don't have to deal with all that shit anymore
Sadly, I do think that our current Project Manager isn't very efficient at his job and his level of experience in this field is a constant reminder that my boss has most definitely made the wrong decision of letting Yen, the most experienced PM in our company at that time, go. It's really stupid and now everyone is paying the price for it, especially my boss because our current PM has been making mistakes after mistakes that the company is paying for, literally affecting the profit margin for a lot of the bigger projects because of unnecessary rectification works to correct his mistakes.
He has recently made some on-site decisions on his own without consulting me or the clients, it's really frustrating because he is bringing attention to issues that do not need to be highlighted to the clients, but then not running through issues that actually need to be highlighted.
I'm not very happy with the way he is running the projects because this isn't so much about him being overloaded with projects, I am very aware that he is, this is just him not being very efficient at this job. I really wish my boss would hire another PM with actual experience who will be able to guide the current one, take some workload off of him and also be able act as some sort of motivation for him to do better.
Update :
The Project Manager has now gotten into a full on argument with one of the clients in the group chat.
In his defense, the clients are being difficult, but for him to lose his cool and be so aggressive towards them is honestly not helping anyone, my boss had to step in to try and defuse the situation, but this back and forth between the PM and the clients is really really bad.
We are not even halfway through with the renovation and he has already begun to lose his cool. This action of his has essentially screwed all of us over because now, the clients are going to become even more difficult to deal with in the future, my boss has recommended for him to meet the clients on site to resolve the issue, and for some reason, pulled me into this mess and ask me to go down to the site and assist if necessary.
Anyways, on to Carousell related things.
I have managed to sell off my iPad Air 13 and Apple Pencil Pro last week on Carousell, it has been collecting dust in my storage bed ever since I reverted back to my iPad Pro.
I had originally paid $1,238 for the iPad Air and a free Apple Pencil Pro thanks to the student discount I got from my sister, and I sold both those items at $880, which means my total damage is $358, if I were to pretend I had been renting that iPad, then it is about $45 per month, which isn't too bad I guess.
Having that $880 has caused me to develop an itch to get a new tech item, like a new iPhone for example, but when I think about it, getting a new iPhone 16 Pro wouldn't really be worth it because it will be just like my iPhone 14 Pro, with a USB C connection and a few extra buttons. I am ignoring all the technical spec bumps because it probably won't be noticeable to me base on my usage patterns.
I could just save up the money for my renovation works in the future, but I also need to do some retail therapy every once in a while.
Aside from the iPad, I was also able to clear some my PopMart items, they were sold at losses but at least I got rid of them, which I am very happy with.
Speaking of which, I just bought myself more PopMart shit.
They recently release the new Labubu V3 and colour me surprise when I saw how many viewers were online for the TikTok Livestream drop.
For the past few weeks, the Livestream hasn't been performing very well because the Labubu hype had slowly died down, the V1 and V2 were readily available for purchase and the white Zimomo was also in stock, so there wasn't any FOMO anymore since the ones who wanted it already got it, and the ones who may want to get it can since it is now available everywhere at retail price,, this was reflected in the viewership then and PopMart was only getting about 200 - 300 viewers on average, that's half of what they would usually get when I first started watching them.
Well, the V3 was released this Friday and when I went to tune in to the Livestream, there were 3000 viewers!
..the new release attracted 10 times the viewers they were normally getting.
It made snatching the V3 very exciting, so I tried and unfortunately, I failed to snag any on the stream. I did however snagged 2 from the official website, which was crashing a lot in the beginning, but since I didn't have shit to do at work, I just spend like an hour, trying to refresh the website and finally got myself 2 boxes.
Just like that, $50 wasted on 2 Labubus.
I got my hands on the blue and purple one, I am very happy with the purple one because that was the one I had been eyeing, the blue one however is kind of meh because the ombre effect is not as prominent. Don't think I will be getting anymore Labubu from this collection, 2 is definitely more than enough.
That's all the update for this month.
