Empress Dowager

How quickly the week has zoomed past....it's been one hell of a hectic one indeed..having fought a couple of fires at work.

It's the 2nd week of work for our new group head, my boss's boss, and already she's been making a very deep impact in the way things are run in our shop. She's pretty fierce, aggressive and strict. And she's already nearing 60! A veteran indeed. I call her the 'empress dowager'.

She seems gentle on the outside but beneath the kind benevolent look is the 威嚴 that you can never imagine. She's taking the entire department by storm, and in her eager pursuit to find out how things work in our shop, she's picked out every obvious and subtle flaw in our processes. And obviously she's not happy about them, and she's gonna do a Reformasi in the next couple of months. Sounds really scary indeed.

But for sure she is aware of the kind of work everyone in the team is doing. And now that she's shouldering the weight of the world (all the retail offices selling funds around the world report to her now), she's gonna make sure everything gets done without working me and my colleagues to death. And now that the department is about to take it more chores from other parts of the bank, it worries everyone especially Empress Dowager how we're gonna cope with the sheer amount of work to come.

There's just so much politics in a big firm like my employer. Just today alone, i've seen some really nasty sides of people within the bigger group - covering of assess, feigning ignorance and pushing blames. And today i also learned a bloody big lesson: always make sure you know every single word of a document before penning your name on it, cos if anything happens, u will be held responsible.

And these all happen within a day, thanks to empress dowager's brilliant eye in identifying problems here and there. Now, everyone really needs to pull up his/her socks.

Jialat la...Empress Dowager seems to have gotten too comfortable yelling out my name already. Let's hope i dun become a eunuch!

But for sure, it's really invigorating to work for a toughliner like Empress Dowager. Even though I have only interacted with her for 2 weeks since she came onboard, to a large extent, she's really pretty admirable. I do hope i will grow to become more dynamic and capable under her leadership.

For now, I'm still worried about the major reforms that'll take place shortly in our department. Really hope there's time for me to revise for my CFA exam.

I hope i will survive. I shall start singing that song everyday in the shower.

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