Swordie Bloggie

Star Rating here… Star Rating there… haiyooo… every where also Star Rating… And NO, it has nothing to do with Hotels’ Star Rating… it’s all about work performance… Mechanisms to measure and rate the performance of the agencies in the Public Sector… with star rating… 😛

First it was just the usual general star rating to measure and rate the overall performance of our department, somewhere in Jun or earlier… and our section was tasked to handle the ICT management area… I can’t really remember when exactly they asked us to start doing it coz previously we have our boss to take care of that…. Then we became headless in October, so I have to take over… and I’m so lost about it… 😛

Then at the end of October, another kind of star rating came… this time, it just star rating for Finance and Account Management by the Akauntan Negara… gosh, this star rating is making all of us going nuts. The worse part, we have to redo our inventory… the documents we used for our inventory are no longer valid.. coz it was replaced since October 2010!… What the heck… I never saw any circular about this… 😛 No choice but we have to redo everything registered since October 2010… 😛

But lucky we have two in one system for the staffs to apply stuffs and to register anything we received… and we called it eShop… yes, the word came from ‘shop’ and it’s like a Retail POS System that you can find in supermarket… although we don’t have shop, we need similar ‘shop’ system… coz we need to keep stocks… to keep track what stuffs people request and took from us. We have been updating all our inventory for more than a month… 😛 I really hope we can finish everything by this week… so that we will start everything new and fresh next week… next year… 😀 Without the system, we may not able to complete it in short time… cross my fingers… 😛

Did you notice the Post Office or POS near you is changing its face? It seems that all the POS are having major renovation… a more modern and corporate looks. I believe this is the first time they change their looks since a very long time ago… probably since the 70s.

The POS near my house has changed it looks but I have not taken its photo yet… only while it was still being renovated a few weeks ago. And I really like the new look of the ‘new’ POS.

The one I really like is the front door… the huge clear see-through glass door. Printed with huge fonts on the glass door is the Post Code. Previously their door is a small two leaf glass door and heavily tinted. I don’t really like it tinted since I can’t see if the counters are busy or not from outside or from across the road.

Penampang Post Office during renovation stage.

And because of the new looks, on my Journey around Sabah this time, I tried to find the Post Office nearby to get a snap of the front door… to get the District’s name and postcode… and to proof that I was here 😀

And I can also see a couple of modern gadgets inside like PCs and kiosks. The kiosks are probably for purchasing POS accessories (envelope, stamp etc.) or for withdrawing money… looks like the POS systems are getting better and advance.

Kuala Penyu Post Office with the huge Post Code (Poskod) printed on its new see-through glass door.

You may be wondering why anyone will still need POS since email is there and emails are free. Well, you still need POS to deliver your package and greetings card 😀 And probably you will be able to do internet browsing or cash withdrawal soon within its cool room.