People are strange
People are strange. We willnever be happy.
In our case, when work isbusy, we are stressed out. We lose our patience, we are focused onour files, we talk rudely on the phone and everything has to berushed. After we finish a day’s work, just look at our faces，theyare not pretty anymore. Our hair stands up and our eyes are red andwe also look ten years older. We pray to God and hope that businesscan slow down so we can take abreak.
Now our wishes have come true.The business has slowed！In fact, it has even stopped. Oh my God!How could you make that happen? We are totallyfree.
Originally, we thought we willcelebrate. However, we are so bored out of our minds. Everymorning, when we come to work, we don’t know what to do that day.It is difficult to find something to do to kill the time. Don’tthink we can relax to do our own thing! Actually, we have topretend we are still busy. Oh,kill us!
We call the agents all thetime to send us conditions so we can complete our stupid files andsend them out to the next group which we call the closingdepartment so they can suffer. But things never work out the wayyou want them to. When we finish our routine work, we think we cango home but we look at the clock and realize the day is far fromover.
Since we can not go home, wehave to do some thing because we are human, not robots. Theworkplace social life is more active lately. We have more time totalk about kids,husbands, complaints, shopping and other interests.We also have more time for parties, outside lunches and food. Eventhough some of these changes are fun, in the end we still arebored. We call the agent again.
OK, so now what? We are nothappy when work is too busy and we are not happy when work is tooslow.
What is our dream work day?Let me tell you. 嗬嗬。
Every morning, after finishingmy housework, I would come to office around 10:00 am and say “goodmorning” to everybody nicely with my smile. I would then go to getcoffee and chat with friends and compliment them about their looksand dress, afterwords, I would check my e-mail and respond. Thiswould take more than ten minutes.
After all this, I can finallystart to work. In my drawer there would be only three files and allthe conditions would be provided. I would clear these conditionssmoothly. It would take about a half hour to complete each. Oncethe file gets complete, I would send out to closing department. Itwould actually be fun.
Between each file, I wouldmake a phone call to my friend and chat for a bit. After the thirdphone call, I would glance at my watch and it would already belunchtime. I would call my co-worker, who is also my best friend,to go out to lunch at my favorite restaurant. At lunch, I wouldorder whatever I want and eat it all too and never getfat.
After a wonderful lunch andconversation with my friend, I look at my watch again and see thatwe still have plenty of time to go shopping. At the mall, I findlots of discounts and I buy a dress that I have been waiting for.The best part is that the dress is 90% off so I buy two. Holding myshopping bag, I head back to work.
When I get back to office,there are two new files sitting on my desk. I open them and take alook. To my surprise, they are both agency refinances (Agency loanis the easiest loan to process. No income, assets, and appraisaldocumentation is required.). So I sit down and spend one hourvalidating these two files. The afternoon is the time when I ammost focused. After validation, I give my agent a call to updateher on the progress of her files. She tells me, “Wow! You are doingsuch a great job. You are the best loan processor ever!” I feelhappy too.
So I decide to go outside totake a walk in the beautiful sunshine. It is not really hotoutside, there is a gentle breeze, the wind softly blows my hairback, the sun is warm on my face. I think to myself, “Life is sobeautiful! I am so lucky, I really appreciate the simple things inmy life.”
Walking back, I feel totallyenergized and refreshed. I hum a little song to myself as I walk tothe elevator. Before I step in, I bump into my friend and she says,“Hi Tina, you look great today,” as she walks by. I just smile andgo back to my desk.
When I get back to my cubicle,I remember that the manager has already left for an off-sitemeeting. I glance at watch again, it is a little too early to gohome but who cares, I am the best worker and the manager reallyloves me so it does not matter. I start packing my stuff. Rightbefore leaving, I check my paycheck on the company computer system.I am delighted to find out I received a great bonus.
As I leave to go home, I amlooking forward to eating with my family. As I am thinking aboutthis, I have a smile that stretches from ear toear.
What a great daytoday!
電腦照樣死機。我拿起鑰匙開了車直奔羅曼家。趁羅曼和她老公討嫌我之前，再發一篇舊文。雖然已經深更半夜，他們一家人已經要休息，可是，我顧不得了。嘿嘿嘿。
羅曼就是好姐妹，人家熱情開門，周到地遞給我一杯香茶才離開，讓紅花倍感溫暖。
這篇也是2003年在Campbell市的銀行上班的時候，偷空閑在班上無聊的時，寫的類似心情記錄的小散文。今天，我再讀這樣的文字，感覺又親切又有趣。我粗略想了一下，估計留下來的這類小雜文有六篇左右。它們都是集中在2003年8月份在公司寫成。這說明了一個問題，想起來了，那個時候正趕上美國第一次的金融危機，市場經濟泡沫化，矽穀許多的公司都倒閉破產，金融行業也在治理整頓，貸款項目壓縮得相當苛刻。當時房產市場很低迷，無人買房，無人貸款，。。。於是，我們生意清淡，整日無所事事，於是紅花隻好每日枯坐於工作間內，寫一些無聊小文來打法時間。
這篇很有意思，充分表現了我們工作的無聊無趣，也寫出了我做白日夢，幻想理想工作環境的天真。。。哈哈哈，時隔七年回頭讀，感覺到人生捉弄人啊。
人真的很奇怪
人真的很奇怪，我們從來就沒有真正開心過。
就拿我們的工作來說吧，當工作繁忙的時候，我們整個人就忙的幾乎變了型。我們失去耐心，專注於手頭的卷宗，講電話的口氣很粗魯，每件事都在趕趕趕。一天的工作下來，再看看自己的臉，哪裏還有什麽可愛嬌媚可言，頭發也根根直立，眼睛發紅，年齡看起來比原先都老了十歲以上。我們向上帝禱告：希望生意能緩慢下來，讓我們可以好好地喘口氣。
真沒有想到，現在我們的夢想變成了現實。生意清淡下來啦！事實就是，生意幾乎癱瘓了一樣停止不動了。哦，我的上帝！你是怎樣讓這一切發生的呢？我們徹底自由啦。
通常來講，我們應該為自由慶祝才是，但是，出乎意料之外，我們進入了無法想象的無聊狀態。每天早晨我們來上班，但是我們不知道有什麽可以做的。找一件事情來做地打法時間其實是很困難的事情。不要想著我們可以真正放鬆去做自己喜歡的事情，哦，不。事實上，我們不得不假裝還像以前一樣忙碌。哦，殺了我們吧。
我們照往常一樣，給那些貸款經紀人打電話，問他們索要需要的客戶材料，然後好把這些討厭的卷宗遞交給下麵一個Closing部門去， 讓他們去痛苦抓狂。但是事情總不會像我們想象的那樣進行。好不容易做完了手頭固定的工作，抬頭一看掛鍾，NND，離這一天的結束還早著呢。
既然我們無法提前回家，我們就必須找些事情做才對，因為我們是人不是機器。工作場合最後就變成了社交場合。我們有更多的時間談論孩子，老公，客戶，逛街以及其他有趣的事情。我們也有更多的時間聚會，外出吃午餐 和買零食。即使是這些改變能讓我們感覺一時的 開心， 但是最終還是感覺無聊無趣。於是，我們就拿起電話再給貸款經紀人打電話。
好了，怎麽樣？就是這麽回事，工作太忙我們不高興，工作太清閑了，我們照樣不開心。
什麽是我們夢想的工作呢？讓我來告訴你。嗬嗬 （開始癡人說夢）
每天早上，當我做完家務活以後，我大概10點鍾左右來到班上。我非常 禮貌溫柔地掛著微笑，對每一個人說著“早上好。” 然後我去倒一杯咖啡，和朋友聊聊天，寒暄一下他們的容貌和衣著。話說完了，我開始檢查我自己的伊妹兒，回複一下。這大概用去十分鍾的時間。
做完這些私活以後，我開始工作。在我的抽屜裏，最好隻放三個卷宗正好，而且這三個卷宗都是完整的材料齊全的，我可以很順利地就操作完畢不必費神。每一個卷宗需要半個小時來處理。等我忙完我該做的，我把它們送到下一個Closing部門去讓他們忙活。這是很有意思的事情。
在處理每一個卷宗的間隙，我給我的朋友打電話聊一會兒天。打完第三通電話以後，我一瞄手表，哈哈，正好是午餐時間。我叫上我的同事，當然也是我最要好的朋友，到我最喜歡的餐廳吃午飯。吃飯的時候，我就點我最喜歡吃的，把它們全部吃光，而且不增肥最好。
吃完了飯，聊完了天，我一看表，我們還有足夠的時間到商場裏逛一圈。在商場裏，我發現店裏正在打折，我買到了我早就想買的裙子。最好是這件裙子正在打90%的折扣，所以我可以買兩條。拎著購物袋，我趕回來繼續上班。
正當我趕回公司，有兩個新進來的貸款卷宗正好放在我的桌上。我打開一看，出乎我的意料，兩個卷宗都是“AgencyRefinances” （這中類型的貸款最容易審批。不查收入，不查財產，也不用評估房屋估價）。於是，我好好地坐下來，專心地審核這兩個不用動腦的貸款申請。下午的這個時間是我這一天唯一最專心的時間。做完以後，我打電話告訴她都搞定啦。於是我聽到她說：“哇！你做得太棒啦。你是我見過的 最好的審核員。” 這時，我也感到開心滿足。
於是，我決定到外麵明媚的陽光下走一走。外麵不是很熱，空氣清新，清風柔柔地吹著我的頭發，陽光溫暖著我的臉龐。我心中暗想：“生活是多麽的美好。我真的幸運。我真的感謝簡單的事物就在我的生命當中。”
散步回來，我感覺渾身充滿了能量和活力。我哼著小調往電梯那裏走。進電梯之前，我串門到我的好朋友那裏，隻聽她說：“嗨紅花，你今天看起來氣色真不錯。” 從她那裏走開，我微笑著重新回到我的辦公桌旁。
回到我的工作間，我想起來了， 主管有一個會議早就離開了。我又瞄一眼手表，回家呢好像嫌早了些但是管他呢，誰叫我是最好的員工而且主管總是偏愛我，沒事兒的。我開始整理我的東西。離開之前，我上公司網站看看我這個月的薪水如何。我高興地發現我收到了很不錯的獎金哦。
在我回家的路上，我期望著和家人共進晚餐。當我一想到這些的時候，微笑蕩漾在臉上，從這個耳朵一直扯到另一個耳朵上。
多麽美妙的一天啊！（哈哈哈， 整個一個白日做夢。）
