Pain in the Ass

Went to Motorola China Center building this morning. Nothing special but a bit important-to get badge and access card for everyone in the company. It's actually very simple. Get three signature on each application form and deliver it to the security department. Wait for 1-2 days then it's done.
But when you do it, it's pain in the ass!
First fill out the application form and collect them, then prepare ID copy and other stuff. Simple. Then go get the manager's signature. Usually it's easy, just make a phone call and normally the manager is in his office in the morning time. It was quick. Then the difficult part starts. You need to call the HR to sign it. I waited for 3 days to get this signature because the HR went out for training. By the time she gets back most of our badge have expired already. What to do? Suffer from it!
I had a good plan for this "simple case" that since the HR and Finance are both on the same building I could just call up both and set a time to meet. But for this step HR took me 3 days then the Finance got me another day!
Went to that building this morning and crushed into a whole bunch of people who are waiting to get to work and finally reach to the floor. Followed an instruction and found the HR person who I called in the moring and waited for another 15 minutes. For these 15 minutes she was on the phone and didn't sound like it was about work. While she was signing the papers she got an other phone call. More neglected she signed without checking the papers and kept talking on the phone. I wondered how could she do that. Pretty impressive that she can do two things at one time. Then I went to the other side of the big office try to find the Finance person. It was 9:45 in the morning and from my knowledge that Motorola's work time starts by 9. She wasn't there. Half of the seats were empty. I hardly found a person who seems know this Finance and asked if she will be in the office soon. No more suprising that she doesn't know. How can a person doesn't know when her colleague goes to work?