are we running a losing race?

11.45pm.

There are still 4 people shown to be online on my company email account.

That's pretty much because the edutrust assessor sent us an email at 5.30pm today. It contained a really long list of stuff we have to show him by 9.30am tomorrow. Attaining the certification may be of paramount importance, but sacrificing your health isn't worth it. At all.

I feel bad for not staying back to help. The list of stuff mentioned above doesn't contain anything within my scope of work, but still...

Sigh.

Then again, my common sense is nagging at me. This honestly feels like a last-ditch attempt. No matter how much it's going to hurt my colleagues to hear it... I'm saying it anyway since my close friends are pretty much the only ones who know of my blog - I don't think we can attain the provisional edutrust certification-the highest possible edutrust status the assessors claim to be able to award us with.

Well-written policies alone won't get us through. We've got to put them to use.

And we've got to open several new positions with decent benefits and remuneration; that'll probably start to attract more experienced and talented staff to our company. We don't have to do this because our current management team is inadequately skilled; we have to do this because there's an inadequate number of staff in our team.

We have our merciless verbal assailants to thank today, for we have probably never received a torrential rainfall of constructive criticism before.

There may seem to be a dead end ahead if we don't attain this certification. But we could retrace our steps. Did we go wrong somewhere back there?

We may come back wiser than before, and become capable enough to tread upon terrain where no man has ventured.

Hehe. I think I went overboard with that metaphor. Back to reality. This is an 18 (coming to 19) year-old, inexperienced, and temporary staff member typing on the keyboard right now. Who is going to take my rants seriously? :P Tomorrow, I shall still try my best to help out.
We've gotta finish the races we initiate.