Wednesday with Boss D

These are the things that I discussed with my bigger boss (Boss D) this morning. Well.. he asked for it!

• Better documentation to assist the team in supporting the system
• Weekly or monthly meet up with the team members for status update and knowledge sharing (yes, we never had this before...)
• Dental and optical benefits (no, we don't have this currently...)
• Language course! - to at least sponsor half of the tuition fee
  
• And during lunch, when I was asked what did we discuss, I just mentioned casually that Boss D said we're going for company vacation; which was seconded by the Boss L who proceed to explain how our partner had company trip to Paris a while back; to which I said, "...because vacation in Malaysia is so expensive..." (ha ha ha...)

Boss D (from HQ) came down a couple of days back to see the operations here. And also to find out more on the issues and problems that we have. Bottom line, he's spying. :-p Each one of us have a one-on-one meet-up with the man to be briefed about the plans for 2009 and for us to share our ideas for improvements and aspirations. So, each member of the team spent 20 minutes with him, and let me tell you everyone took the opportunity to speak up! Padan muka ini orang Franchis. Dia ingat kita senyum and angguk kita tak de opinion, eh?

The past few days have been busy for us. The system starts to be used by the customer. And starting next Monday, the remote sites will follow suit. But the problem is, the version that they have currently is not updated. And we were not able to do the update because of some network security policy that the customer has. SO, yours truly decided to use a valid loophole that is readily available. We'll see if it works out tomorrow...

On a more personal note, well, life is awesomely fabulous. With hiccups that I could live with. :-)