Office Baby-ing

Ok here goes. People at the office baby me. I don’t know whether it’s good or bad. But they do. Here are a few examples of the baby-ing they do.

‘Ayu dah makan?’, nah amik 10 ringgit ni belilah apa2 kat bawah tu. Tp tu of course la klu I beli apa-apa kene share ngan tuan yang bagi duit tu.

Or another one, ‘Ayu nak makan Big Apple donuts la hari ni’, and then, all I know I found a box of the donuts on my table after I came back to the office after lunch. And there are ALWAYS the donuts that I like! They remembered!

‘Kereta Ayu kene pecah la’, that happened when I was on leave. And in the afternoon, they came to my house and brought me out for a drink ‘to cheer me up’.

‘Ayu, baik ko blah sekarang, Puan cari ko tadi. Aku dah tolong cover kan untuk ko. Aku cakap ko gi bank. Baik ko lari and nyorok sekarang sebelum dia lalu depan ofis kite’, was one of the very familiar baby-ings they do for me, especially on Wednesday mornings.

‘Ayu kene overtime? Sian Ayu. Meh akak temankan kejap’, is another one, if they see me working during lunch time or after working hours. The ‘temankan’ sessions will always be followed by the mocking of the Mak Tiri, in a how-dare-she-dump-her-work-on-you-the-last-minute-and-ask-for-it-in-two-hours mode.

Looking back, I was always babied at the workplace. In my 1st office, I remembered there were two ‘Kakak’ who always took care of me and had my back anytime-personally and professionally. When I was leaving the office, one of the ‘Kakak’ cried and hugged me soooo long and said ‘Akak tak pernah ade adik. Ko lah adik akak’:( In my 2nd office, the bosses babied me. Yup. Got got that right. I’ve never been scolded at in that 2nd office, much to everybody else’s resentment. I was brought into meetings, I was praised in meetings and during my farewell party the boss said ‘I am reluctantly letting her go’..auww..In my 3rd office, I had 4 ‘Kakak’s who knew everything about me, they were my fashion consultants, they have seen my cry, they know my fears and they mock the people I don’t like :D sukeeee.....Now at my current office, there are not a lot of ‘Kakak’s, but there are ‘Abang’s who show their care in a different way, but the effect is still the same.

Ahh..I can’t say I don’t love these little pleasures in the office. These are the things that make my day despite of the endless complications my boss can provide me; there are always these friends who guard me whenever I need. And I know I can turn to them if I need some spoilt-rotten moments.