piles and piles and piles and piles and piles and piles and piles of paperwork

they should just call it paper resource. i think i killed a small tree today. this is why i never liked office work.

i guess i shouldnt be complaining cos i do get to see the actual aspect of this major. plus i am the special projects intern who will eventually get to do other non-HR aspects. still, there is only that much photocopying, emailing, drafting, chasing people for forms, calling people up because of forms, asking every other person “WHERE are your FREAKING FORMS??”, cursing at the damn bloody slow computer, sorting out papers, tranferring written info to soft copy THEN printing them out in hard copies that a sane human being ought to do in a day.

and they should stop introduce me as the “(name of school) intern” already. i am not ashamed of my school but i can do without the misguided perceptions. i never quite get why people think that just because you are from a higher institution, you are of a different breed. i have met some of the stupidest people who are credentially supposed to be damn smart and vice versa.

i want to pretend to be on the moral high ground and say that networking is evil; strings shouldnt be pulled. but we know that that is all bullshit. you build rapport and get ahead fucking quickly because of connections. eventually, you will still have to have the substance to stay on. but you are already so much further in the room than the average person.