19 April 2010

I completed the acquisition of ball images. Swiftly after that, I finished updating the additional ECO assigned. To be frank, the work that I have been doing does not seem to be of any significance in engineering point of view. I felt like and still feel like I am merely an office boy. As a matter of fact, one of the document control personnel told me that I did a colossal favour in helping them clearing their avalanche of unfinished tasks, like updating bonding diagrams. Not to mention helping the engineering department to run all the measurements, input acquisitions and so forth. These works, to be blunt, irk and antagonize me. I feel anguished. I feel like my engineering knowledge was put to no use at all. Those are the jobs that an ordinary person can accomplish. I feel like this industrial training is a huge waste of time. I could utilize this time to embark on something more beneficial. To add insult to injury, my eyes have been in excruciating pain as all I was doing was just staring at the merciless computer which just radiates incessant stream of baneful rays straight at my face. Worse still, no one seems to care even thought I had requested for a monitor ray filter. I was just rebuffed. I feel like I am a cheap labour. A very cheap labour. I had completed so much task in such a short time, and I only get myself a scant 500 per month. No subsidies, no leaves.....This is an unequivocal living purgatory.

I am not trying to be pedantic, but my internship just keeps getting obnoxious. I was required to add colour to wires in the bonding diagrams that I had just updated. It sound simplistic, but in fact, it entails a tremendously tedious and troublesome process using Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Powerpoint and Acrobat Reader. In other words, I need to rework the 300 odd bonding diagrams that I had completed. Mind you, it takes 6-7 minutes just to get one of these done. The reason behind this addition is to enhance operators' understanding of the bonding diagrams. Come on, there are already ample information on the bonding diagram. Why put something gratuitous? At least notify me when I started out updating the bonding diagrams early on. Again, are these what engineers should do?