A Smiling Working Holiday-- Shirley's 88th Friendly Greeting-- Mon, May 7, 2007

Hi,Dear Friends

How are you? Have you had a good week? I do hope that you are well and have a relaxed Weekend.

May 1 to May 7 is a Chinese national holiday. It is funny that I am busier in the holiday than I was in my business days. I have been working on my new cooperated project in my holiday because it is our cooperators business day. For making one of my assistants to go back to his hometown to reunite with his family, I let the other assistant having more time to be with his young baby who is only 6 months and his wife and mother in law together for several days. I have been working in my office for 7 days and I entered into my office 7:30am or 6:45am for I wished our cooperators can leave for homes earlier for our time difference is 12 hours.

It is not hard for me to work on the project itself. It was difficult to organize people to work in the holiday for most of them have left to there home to reunite with their family in the other places or somewhere else in the city. Telephone calls has changed to be my main working tools and sometimes I felt my throat pain for I had talked too much. Meanwhile, I have found some of our business processes and organization styles have to be adjusted as soon as possible. So, I am spending much time dealing with some relationships between the departments or different business while I am spending more time to think and to write some proposals for improving our work efficiency and for saving the cost.

Instead of our colleagues, we employed someone temporarily to work for us. We paid them by the piece. Can you imagine? Until May 4, one of the groups had completed 140% of their duty that should be finished on May 7. Another group had completed their duty for 5 days within 3 days relied on a new technology. So, I decided to stop their work overtime ahead for 3 days.

Even though I made a mistake to send something wrong to our cooperator, the main work has been completed with a good way. The CEO and the delegate of the cooperated company have written to us, to admire our work in the holiday time from the other side of the Ocean.

I am really tired on my body so that I fell asleep in my washroom once. But, I am really delighted in my heart. For I have felt the value of my work and I feel good for I am working in a wonderful team.

What touched me is that our working partners are some very nice people. They are not only working hard, even on their Saturday nights, but also they are very tolerant and are considerate of us, to call us at our day time, to have a telephone conference at our business time, to connect us later on the weekends. Things were convenient for us in our business time, but that was their night or weekend time. The wonderful impression is that from their CEO to their technology people, they are all wholehearted to work on the cooperated project and they are all treating us with a very friendly and kind style.

So, since April 24 until now, in the short cooperated working, I do feel that I have learned a lot from them and I have seen many weaknesses on our side. So, I have written 2 weekly summaries and 1 proposal and a syllabus of a researching report while I was working on many things, to suggest the company to reform and improve our own work.

How about your work? Do you often see something better from your cooperators? Do you often think of reforming and improving your work?

I am just a learner on art, music, English, French and the work on the web site in my free time. Anyway, I would really like to do a little bit things with what I have learned to make this little web site to be An Electronic Bridge Of Culture Exchange, Friendship and Language Learning. During the process to help the others and to improve myself.

I do appreciate your understanding, directions and supports. I do hope to get your great help continuously now and in the coming time...

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please write to shirleyz004@yahoo.com or shirley@ebridge.cn . You are welcomed to publish your opinions in the forum.

Shirley
Written and Edited on Mon, May, 7, 2007