This week I was planning a trip to Bangkok, Thailand with my boss. It was going to be an intense one. Travel there via a stop-over for a meeting in Hong Kong. Then two days of meetings in Thailand were we were going to get nailed for our lack of progress on new the QC process for a new product. Then back to Hong Kong for another meeting. The plus side is that our customer was having a vendor year-end party at a bar. The downside was that I had to give a performance and I did not want to do the Asian-style karaoke song and dance. I’ll try and post a video of what I was planning to do—I thought it would be cool.
Well the night before I left there were some serious anti-government protests picking up in Thailand so I checked BBC and they were saying no way these dudes go to the airport and things would still run smoothly. Well wouldn’t you know it but the next time I saw the news, when I was in Hong Kong, they had taken over the airport. My boss and I had no idea who serious it was since we were headed to a meeting. But when we got internet access and saw all the flights were cancelled and our customer called and told us not to come we knew it was bad. So we were lucky that we chose not to go to Thailand earlier (we would still be stuck in Bangkok) and were able to get back to Taiwan. Although it would be pretty cool to say I was stuck in Bangkok during all of this.
Well after I got back to Taiwan we had to deal with a ton of stuff from Thailand, it gives me an excuse to read more news (as if I need an excuse) at work. You see, we normally ship things to Thailand via air freight but now that’s out of the question so we have been working with the customer to re-organize everything and given that things are changing fast it has been interesting.
I must say it is really cool to read about something like in the news and then have it impact people you know and have a direct impact on my job. Not something that happens very often.
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