Beers takes u nearly everywhere
Beers... what a difference it makes to guys who can't really afford em but yet, still worship em. Yesterday started off vague at work. To many things to think about when im still a minority amongst brain dominators and i doubt i use anymore than 2% of my brains in my fucking big head. Sleepyhead ( a hottie) cracked me up over YM with sum jokes. Hey, laughter's still the best fuckin medicine ya know!
Then came the dreaded hot afternoon, was pretty broke already. Payday was delayed to evening. Ended up havin lunch with brown bear (cool dark chap). Had 2 nasi lemak with fried egg for 2.20 each since he was also gettin broke. As soon as I stepped back into the office, things started goin berserk.
Damn customs (im in a freakin logistics firm, and yeah... we deal with the king of bribes aka customs), rejected one of our shipment and it shot back to the IT Dept stating that the information on the system ain't right.
Called the main man in Kedai EDI in Port Klang. That dude's a gem i tell ya, fella would walk a mile to please the company i work for (since we are paying em a bomb every month). That dude managed to pin point the problem and said its nothing wrong with the bladdy system. Its the customs operational error, and in that case we would have to settle it internally with the customs. Operational Manager went over to the customs, got it settle but he himself don't really know what was settled since it was only the money talking.
So i decided to step foot into the issue and find the core. Knew pay was in the evening, got hold of the Kedai Edi Manager, Mr.Z and an arse from Unikom (customs IT Dept) and took em for sum beers in D'Tavern. Had a jug, then another, then another... and then i took out the photocopy of the customs declaration print-out. That bladdy Unikom arse started laughing his head off, wish i could have morphed into Mickey Knox body at that time and shoot the living bejezuz outta him.
Gave him a gleeful smile, ordered another jug, and asked him what went wrong with the customs for that shipment. He said, 'engko punya operation bodoh ah, it problem unikom, memangla customs takkan approve. knaper budak ko tu tak datang unikom terus?? i leh call u clear benda tu terus' <--- do try to understand.
Well, and so i understood eventhought it cost me 130 bucks ( thank goodness it was payday yesterday). Any declaration that has a registered response from customs are approved. So the moment the movement in the port is blocked, we would have to liase with Unikom to see what happened and resolved it with them.
This fucking delay cost my company additional 340 bucks! which means we pretty much did that shipment for FOC.
But now i know eventhough took some beers to get him talking.
Moral of the story : Third party assistance never comes free and beer gets nearly everyone friendly, at least momentarily
