Dawning realization

A summary of what I do (this is not, I have to enunciate, an exhaustive list):

Checking and clearing emails.

Dealing with complains from residents about minor issues.

Answering the phone to attend to queries, complains.

Preparing for meeting after meeting.

Preparing for event after event.

Designing publicity material only to be asked to change the details after the posters or banners are done.

Trying to mediate conflicts between grassroots leaders.

"Mobilizing" grassroots leaders to attend events, functions.

Submitting reports under tight deadlines.

Missing deadlines for submission.

Running around the building troubleshooting problems pertaining to building and maintenance.

Deactivating false fire alarms.

Getting phone calls from office on off days asking me how to deactivate false fire alarms.

Getting backstabbed.

Meeting unreasonable demands from grassroots leaders, public, colleagues, bosses, everybody.

Being treated without dignity.

Not getting help from anybody (on second thought, I do receive help from a few colleagues, especially my CSO but she has her own work to do, and I myself seldom offer help to others, so I guess I am not in a position to lament about my predicament).

Do this, check that, amend this, submit that, inform him, get back to her, feedback to them.

Do and endure all the above with a smile. Is this what service culture is about? Succumbing to the whims and fancies of everyone and keep deluding oneself that this is professionalism?

I beg to differ. I do not think this should be the way my workplace is run. I certainly do not think this what I really want to do day after day. Two ex-colleagues of mine have been enlightened and left. I want to be the next fortunate person to leave this god-forsaken place.

The World Today in History
On Aug. 29, 1991, the Supreme Soviet, the parliament of the U.S.S.R., suspended all activities of the Communist Party, bringing an end to the institution.