Thank you Min Min!
I gasped with despair as I saw the amount of letters pile up in front of my very eyes. There was a rough estimate of 30000 letters waiting patiently for the office to be folded, put into an envelope and sealed.
‘Di Wei, do you need to call your mom if you need to OT till 7pm?’
‘No. Why?’
‘Good, cause we need to finish the comskit by today.’
The intensity of the imminent physical labour has not sunk in yet when I started on the taxing assignment. Envision this: you spend about 30 minutes to finish sealing 100 letters, and there is 29000 more letters staring back at you. It felt like scaling Mount Everest without the proper equipment, and soon I was dead and out. I leaned back onto my chair, clutching my head forlornly as I came to a realisation that it was not going to be 7 pm. As it stands, I may reach home just in time to sleep.
‘Heavenly father, save me! What am I to do?’
After hearing my honest plea for help, god hit me abruptly with an imagine from yesterday: my cell group sitting around a table, Min Min voicing out her opinion.
‘I think we look like an assembly line, everyone doing different things and putting it together.’
Thank you lord! And of course thank you Min Min, for that sentence that was spoken became our saving grace. We immediately allined ourselves along the breath of the table, and we took off. One person stuffing the SAF announcement into the envelope, on person applying glue, one person sealing the envelope, and one final person bundling all the letters. Quicker than anyone can tap one red mana, summon a lightning elemental and use it to attack for 3, we finished letters 10 by 10. With hypersonic movement that eludes even the eyes, we actually believed we could finish everthing before the end of office hours. And that we did, finishing everything before 4 pm! But it was not just us. All the rest of the office mimicked our work ethics as well as efficiency, 30000 was done in a flash.
Praise Min Min! If it was not for her comment, an office might have to suffer fatigue from overtime. Praise the lord, for showing me the efficiency behind Min Min’s comments. As I prepare to go home as per normal, an approbating smile materialised on my face. Who needs the printing machine? (If you have not already known, we had to seal letters manually because the printer broke down. What a pain!)
