boundary

yesterday someone from my previous 'life' called me telling about work. it was like a carpenter is told to do goldsmith's work. multitasking, right?

however my mind flew back to about 10 years ago when i was assigned to be in a committee that do the audit for built-up facilities in a piece of property. the audit was designed to capture all the existing condition of the facilities. i was, and two other guys, representing the seller, which was also my employer. in the committee there were also representatives from the buyer.

so we did the audit. however the buyer representatives had in their hand the sale & purchase agreement while i'm not allowed to even to see the agreement from my employer. it's confidential, my employer said. oh, ok, so let it be. the audit finished, documented and presented to both parties.

though it was a good experience, but something else struck my mind yesterday. the audit that i went through was actually to set a boundary on which both parties could turn into if they were involved in any dispute later. and they were got into dispute later on. i actually got that idea about 10 years ago, diminished and only to be rediscovered yesterday!

perhaps it is a good practice to draw a line from which we started something. put it on record and periodically check for our progress. and document it. in the case of a carpenter who is told to do goldsmith's work, i need to take a deep thinking. should it be done? is the boundary need to be crossed?

life is somehow hard enough and don't make it harder.