What a shitty day!!

I guess it’s just one of those days that start’s out great but because of one person it turns bad. I think it’s a bit troublesome if you have some one always trying to be right and expecting you to be wrong, people who only are selfish and back stab others to gain recognition, people who put themselves above and step on you just because you depend on them. It seems a bit harsh.. sad to say.. I’m only talking about 1 person!.

Everyday after the children had gone back, all the teachers would sit down and enjoy the one thing we look forward to when the day is done Our LUNCH! We would eat together and chat about the funny things that happen during class. Previously, we had an Indonesian staff that would cook and clean for us. She was a good worker; she always made something special for us and made sure we had good food to eat. Her contract expired last December and now she has returned back to Indonesia and don’t intend to continue because she wants to look after her teenage daughter... ok fine ... goodbye!

Anyway we had someone to replace her but she didn’t stay very long because of her health problems. Then we had another Lady to fill in the spot Ms Vali. At first she was very nice to every one, she was a good cook, efficient and manage to impressed the management team of cause!! … Once she gained their confidence, she changed. She has been with us for 2 months now and already making new rules and making life a bit stressful for us.

Basically she was in charged of managing the kitchen and the cleanliness of the school too, it’s her job to cook and clean. Lately, she’s been complaining to the principle that there was a lot of food being wasted and everyday she has to take the balance home with her.. she claims that the teachers don’t like the food she prepared, where else we always compliment her cooking. Then she says we don’t clean up after using the electrical appliances in the kitchen. After all the fuss and repeated complains, now there is a new ruling, now there is nothing special for us to expect for lunch.. we eat the same food that is prepared for the children… That’s ok it didn’t bother me much, most of the time I don’t eat lunch on Monday’s, Tuesday’s and Thursday’s anyway. The others we are not fussy.. they just tolerated it.

Last week she didn’t cook enough and there was nothing for the others to eat at all… She never even bothered about them… all of us were stun why didn’t she prepare anything?. she said “No one told me they wanted to eat, so I never cook” it’s like since when must we tell her…common sense.. all this while she was cooking for us, all the sudden we must tell her we want to eat only then she will cook for us? *sigh* after that she informed us from now on we must let her know if we want to eat in school or not. One of the teachers told her off “Next time tell us before you decide to do something like this!” That day all of us just sat at the table and drank our coffee and milo, none of us had anything to eat until 2.30pm by then it was already time to go home. We brought this issue up to the principle and so happen she agreed with the cook, we have to inform Ms Vali if we want to eat or not to avoid anything going to waste.

Today we reminded her that all of us are want to have lunch. She made a mistake and cooked 18 cups of rice rather then the usual 15 cups for the whole school including the teachers, the driver was there when she was preparing it. Everyone had lunch we ate what ever there was on the table. There was still balance left and she complained to the principle that we told her to cook EXTRA! but we didn’t eat. All of us were called for a meeting, I was so annoyed I told the principle that I decided to bring my own food from now on rather then tolerate all this. All the other teachers agreed with me and they also wanted to bring their own food too. The lady was not too happy because if there is still excess food she has no one to blame but herself.

*sigh* I don’t know how long this is going to go on… she certainly got on everybody’s nerves today. If she is so concern on trying to save and impress the Boss! if it’s recognition that she wants to gain … so be it. I’m not bothered about it. I really hate to see people trying to accomplish their own personal agenda’s and pointing the finger at others. The problem is not our work, the problem is not what we get or don’t get to eat… the problem is the attitude.