Hands-On

"Honestly, I can manage poeple
Just that I cannot manage myself."
This was what Stephen told me this Wed
Well, he was not really trying to say that he could not manage himself
What he was trying to say was that I could not manage people
That I was too hands-on a specific task
He always means MORE than what his lines verbally meant
Yea, this is Stephen, my boss

I did seriously thought about what to do after that Wed dreadful lunch meeting
To boost sales
There are only few ways out
1. New items (a lot of new items)
2. Price tuning (+ succcessful cost bargining, or price tuning may mean nothing)
3. Keywords/Listing enrichment (Need to do in bulk)

Sadly
1. New items
-->Ryan previous said that logistics did not have such capacity
2. Price tuning
-->Cost bargining are never that successful
3. Keyword/Listing enrichment
-->A massive, crazy task

Returned to HK office on Thu afternoon
Because I did not want to travel to SZ
(Staying there is just tough
Always feeling grim +
Hard to concentrate because people keep asking you things)
Also because I took a half day sick leave
Escaping half day from reality is again
Though wrong & childish
Its reasonable

Back to HK
Had a chat with Fun
Good things started to happen
There were in fact A LOT OF so call "new items" available to be listed in the stock room!!!
Those items were originally meant to be FOR website only
Strange enough, website items should never be stocked
Anyway, I now had over 74 existing "new items"
And I was glad
At least I was not totally stuck

Just 1 problem
There were no photos & HTM for those "new items"
Plus the camera was not even in HK office
Therefore I stayed in HK again on Friday (which is today)
I brought my own DC camera
I took photos all day long
Definitely THE MOST hands-on tasks evaaaarrrrr

Yet this time
I think I had a point
If there were no photos
Nothing could be listed
My entire artwork team was in SZ
It would be impossible if I assigned this to anyone
So I DO IT MYSELF

I am not delegating jobs to the others again
But this time
I think I am right
And
I hope I am right