An Obligation Is Not An Option, Get That In Your Head!

I am now very assured that my views on my classmates has not been wrong; they are truly a bunch of amateurs or otherwise, childish and selfish individuals. Although my job is not to judge anyone but to work with everyone, I realise I can't help forming impressions of people.

The situation was as such: our chef instructor informed us today, that 6 people would be off tomorrow, but they would be required to stay back on Saturday to help out for coporate functions and that 6 volunteers were needed from the class. What happened next, was that for at least 5 minutes, no one raised their hands, at least until one fella gave up and I followed. 10 minutes after, no one else volunteered. Everyone were instead debating over who to stay, then all I heard from them were lame excuses, need to meet girlfriend, need to meet boyfriend, got family dinner lah(please lor, it just 8-5 job), cousin going to America(for that one, fine, I'd give it to that fella), and worse still; someone even remarked, "those not attached should volunteer". Wow! Really thumbs up to that poor idiot.

It really took quite a while before the last 4 finally gave in. I don't know how, but it happened. Benefits, the 6 who volunteered(including myself) got off class an hour earlier than the rest, and our chef instructor promised that we would have a good lunch that day. Not really something to me, but it noteworthy. It was afterall an obligation. I mean c'mon 1 day out of 365, if you can't dedicate just that one extra day for work, then how on earth would you survive in the workforce? Attached? Have a girlfriend or a boyfriend? If you're meant to be together, just one day out of your whole dating life shouldn't hurt, so what's the hurry? You've got a whole life ahead of you to spend together till you're sick of each other. Family dinner? Like I said, 8am to 5pm, don't tell me you have dinner exactly at 5pm. Seriously, I'd like to see those idiots tell their future employer, " I Saturday cannot work got to meet girlfriend/boyfriend, family dinner...", and we'd see if the boss is merciful enough not to fire their sorry a**.