The bridge that I'm supposed to climb everyday because I have already been seating in e office the entire day!
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Bridge
The bridge that I'm supposed to climb everyday because I have already been seating in e office the entire day!
Ask and you might still not be given
Today my boss who shall not be named here kept out grumbling about idiotic house rules which he claimed that is pivotal to him.
Did I mention that his English sucks big time? It's ridiculously bad and when I say bad, I mean it!
So anyway, he talked about our punctuality and how very bad it was, in fact he repeated very bad at least 5-6 times. Does he not know words like unconscionable or abysmal? Or at least disastrous?
Then he went on to how we should not eat in the office, even for snacks because this is a working place.
Then he moved on to how he got scolded by the big boss for his incompetency. Seriously, the tales of his incompetency bore me. I'm not interested in his ridiculous excuses at all.
For your information, he threatened every single time he highlighted a "house rule". After each rule, he will say that if you guys don't abide, I'm sorry but it's immediate termination with his unflattering Pinoy slant which is downright annoying.
No offence but the last thing you wanna do is to threaten your employees, it will have a huge negative impinge on their trust level towards you and they will eschew from you from that day onwards. A barrier will be set up for sure to fend against you.
As you guys can see, our relationship is rancorous and the animosity between the both of us is just growing day by day. Trust me, one day I will break him, literally.
Then at the end of the day, he asked for suggestions as to how we can improve the systems.
Here comes the point where I was extremely infuriated once again. He never fails to piss me off with his naive questions.
But from that, I learn quite a few things.
Firstly, it doesn't mean that if you ask for suggestions, you will get them. It really depends on the strength of the bond and the relationship between a superior and an employee. Some employees will contribute out of volition while others will be express their penitence, more often than not, in an inconspicuous manner.
Hence, it is instrumental to build that bond with your employee before you ask a favour of them. For your information, suggestions are huge favours to ask for. I cannot emphasis enough how important feedbacks are in today's corporate world. It sets you apart from your competitors!
Secondly, I don't see the point of asking for suggestions randomly at an awkward briefing. I mean, at that point in time, all our minds are blank and we are not superman, we don't remember all the problems we encounter to date. The atmosphere and environment is not even ideal to begin with!
From this point, I learnt that it is of paramount importance to provide the employees with the necessary feedback channel.
We all encounter problems one way or another along the way and we hoped that it will be more convenient for us the next time. When we encounter problems, we got no channel to feedback to, we will simply hold them inside us and then soon we forget about it. This is de facto the vicious cycle in many companies where no one actually bothers to contribute because there is simply no recognition for their efforts.
Other than providing the employees with a convenient channel to feedback the problems they faced at any one point in time, there should also be enticing remunerations awaiting them for every valuable suggestions they contribute.
It must be available to them easily and they should not find it onerous to bring a suggestion across. Otherwise, people will not bother again because it will waste their time and we all hate to waste time.
Yeah, that's what I learn from that incompetent supervisor of mine who has no skill over his command of language as well.
Atrocious is just an understatement! I have more denigrating comments for him but I shall spare you guys from that for now.
Thank you for reading and I hope these management lessons will help you in the future if you were to become a supervisor !
Credits -chm, -saidaonline, -warwick
Did I mention that his English sucks big time? It's ridiculously bad and when I say bad, I mean it!
So anyway, he talked about our punctuality and how very bad it was, in fact he repeated very bad at least 5-6 times. Does he not know words like unconscionable or abysmal? Or at least disastrous?
Then he went on to how we should not eat in the office, even for snacks because this is a working place.
Then he moved on to how he got scolded by the big boss for his incompetency. Seriously, the tales of his incompetency bore me. I'm not interested in his ridiculous excuses at all.
For your information, he threatened every single time he highlighted a "house rule". After each rule, he will say that if you guys don't abide, I'm sorry but it's immediate termination with his unflattering Pinoy slant which is downright annoying.
No offence but the last thing you wanna do is to threaten your employees, it will have a huge negative impinge on their trust level towards you and they will eschew from you from that day onwards. A barrier will be set up for sure to fend against you.
As you guys can see, our relationship is rancorous and the animosity between the both of us is just growing day by day. Trust me, one day I will break him, literally.
Then at the end of the day, he asked for suggestions as to how we can improve the systems.
Here comes the point where I was extremely infuriated once again. He never fails to piss me off with his naive questions.
But from that, I learn quite a few things.
Firstly, it doesn't mean that if you ask for suggestions, you will get them. It really depends on the strength of the bond and the relationship between a superior and an employee. Some employees will contribute out of volition while others will be express their penitence, more often than not, in an inconspicuous manner.
Hence, it is instrumental to build that bond with your employee before you ask a favour of them. For your information, suggestions are huge favours to ask for. I cannot emphasis enough how important feedbacks are in today's corporate world. It sets you apart from your competitors!
Secondly, I don't see the point of asking for suggestions randomly at an awkward briefing. I mean, at that point in time, all our minds are blank and we are not superman, we don't remember all the problems we encounter to date. The atmosphere and environment is not even ideal to begin with!
From this point, I learnt that it is of paramount importance to provide the employees with the necessary feedback channel.
We all encounter problems one way or another along the way and we hoped that it will be more convenient for us the next time. When we encounter problems, we got no channel to feedback to, we will simply hold them inside us and then soon we forget about it. This is de facto the vicious cycle in many companies where no one actually bothers to contribute because there is simply no recognition for their efforts.
Other than providing the employees with a convenient channel to feedback the problems they faced at any one point in time, there should also be enticing remunerations awaiting them for every valuable suggestions they contribute.
It must be available to them easily and they should not find it onerous to bring a suggestion across. Otherwise, people will not bother again because it will waste their time and we all hate to waste time.
Yeah, that's what I learn from that incompetent supervisor of mine who has no skill over his command of language as well.
Atrocious is just an understatement! I have more denigrating comments for him but I shall spare you guys from that for now.
Thank you for reading and I hope these management lessons will help you in the future if you were to become a supervisor !
Credits -chm, -saidaonline, -warwick
Friday, April 2, 2010
April Fool
Hey guys,
APRIL FOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was meant for yesterday, where I said I'm going to close down this blog
It was a joke, an april fool joke.
Did anyone of you out there get fooled ?
I was just kidding okay? Don't stop coming back please !
Haha, yeah, so keep on reading alright ?
Thanks, leave your comments on the tagboard if you like, I will gladly reply all the time, yeah so you can spam all you want!
APRIL FOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was meant for yesterday, where I said I'm going to close down this blog
It was a joke, an april fool joke.
Did anyone of you out there get fooled ?
I was just kidding okay? Don't stop coming back please !
Haha, yeah, so keep on reading alright ?
Thanks, leave your comments on the tagboard if you like, I will gladly reply all the time, yeah so you can spam all you want!
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Farewell
Hey guys,
Today will be the last day for this blog.
The demise of it so to speak.
I would like to say a big thank you to all the readers out there, especially the ones from the United States and the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Singapore and India, you guys have really been supportive and stuff.
Thanks to all of you, my unique views per day has shot up to the moon.
A big thank you once again.
I hope to see you guys in the future, anything is possible you see.
Yeah, so all the best to all of you out there and continue reading the global news because it will benefit you in the long run.
A little dosage of news a day will make you a master of all.
Consistency is the key. Remember that!
Bye bye
Today will be the last day for this blog.
The demise of it so to speak.
I would like to say a big thank you to all the readers out there, especially the ones from the United States and the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Singapore and India, you guys have really been supportive and stuff.
Thanks to all of you, my unique views per day has shot up to the moon.
A big thank you once again.
I hope to see you guys in the future, anything is possible you see.
Yeah, so all the best to all of you out there and continue reading the global news because it will benefit you in the long run.
A little dosage of news a day will make you a master of all.
Consistency is the key. Remember that!
Bye bye
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Ricky Martin is gay
"I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man," Martin wrote in a blog posting at http://www.rickymartinmusic.com/.
First it was Dumbledore from Harry Potter and now it is Ricky Martin.
I guess the world is really undergoing a revolution. It's changing like no one can possibly imagine. Anything can happen.
This definitely came as a huge shock. I read the news as I was eating my dinner and my jaw almost dropped, literally. I was in a complete daze when I saw the news.
Many have said that homosexuality is in the genes but doesn't it seem the other way round now ?
Given that there are so many random people being in the spot light of the gay industry, it seems more like a fad.
Not really a genetic problem, rather a trend problem. It is now de facto "cool" to be gay.
I was discussing with my friends why we like to talk about homosexuality and one of them said simply because their life is very flamboyant and intriguing. The things they do, the clothes they wear, the people they hang out with, their language, their style of speaking and their career.
Some say they are rich, some say they are smart, some say they are just lame.
Whatever it is, they are now the center of attention.
My friend told me that normal family life are already depicted in the drama series over and over again and people are sick and tired of them already. It turns them off in fact, it's too mundane and dry.
They need interesting stories about what these group of people do and their dramatic stories.
You hear about breakups in relationships often but when it comes to them, you suddenly become interested because their stories are always full of vissicitudes; ups and downs so to speak.
Are they bringing new ideas and sparks into this world?
Look at Lady Gaga, she brought all the craziest thing you can possibly imagine and look at her now, she shot to fame within a year and is now a world renowned pop star who is compared to Madonna.
Look at Ellen Degeneres, mega-tv talk show host and she's doing so well that Oprah Winfrey has to take a side step.
Drama, is that what we need in life? Are they the only source of drama for us today?
All these will be palpable soon enough.
Credits -mundofanclub, -ning, -devianart
First it was Dumbledore from Harry Potter and now it is Ricky Martin.
I guess the world is really undergoing a revolution. It's changing like no one can possibly imagine. Anything can happen.
This definitely came as a huge shock. I read the news as I was eating my dinner and my jaw almost dropped, literally. I was in a complete daze when I saw the news.
Many have said that homosexuality is in the genes but doesn't it seem the other way round now ?
Given that there are so many random people being in the spot light of the gay industry, it seems more like a fad.
Not really a genetic problem, rather a trend problem. It is now de facto "cool" to be gay.
I was discussing with my friends why we like to talk about homosexuality and one of them said simply because their life is very flamboyant and intriguing. The things they do, the clothes they wear, the people they hang out with, their language, their style of speaking and their career.
Some say they are rich, some say they are smart, some say they are just lame.
Whatever it is, they are now the center of attention.
My friend told me that normal family life are already depicted in the drama series over and over again and people are sick and tired of them already. It turns them off in fact, it's too mundane and dry.
They need interesting stories about what these group of people do and their dramatic stories.
You hear about breakups in relationships often but when it comes to them, you suddenly become interested because their stories are always full of vissicitudes; ups and downs so to speak.
Are they bringing new ideas and sparks into this world?
Look at Lady Gaga, she brought all the craziest thing you can possibly imagine and look at her now, she shot to fame within a year and is now a world renowned pop star who is compared to Madonna.
Look at Ellen Degeneres, mega-tv talk show host and she's doing so well that Oprah Winfrey has to take a side step.
Drama, is that what we need in life? Are they the only source of drama for us today?
All these will be palpable soon enough.
Credits -mundofanclub, -ning, -devianart
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
MEGATEX The Most Complete Electronics & I.T. Show
MEGATEX The Most Complete Electronics & I.T. Show
01 April 2010 - 04 April 2010
Event type : Retailer & Sales
Venue : Hall 4B
Don't know where is Hall 4B? Not to worry, just look below
Admission : Public - Free Admission
Event Schedules : Time: 10am to 10pm
Show Profile :
The Most Complete Electronics & I.T. Show
Organizer : Courts (Singapore) Pte Ltd
As you can see from the above, there's a plethora of brands participating in this IT fair. In fact, it is one of the biggest one, even better than that in Suntec Convention Hall a while back.
You have Nokia, LG, Lenovo, Starhub, Singtel, Fujitsu, Dell, Compaq, Yamaha, Buffalo and so many, many more.
So what are you waiting for? Do drop by Singapore Expo if you happen to be free this weekend and shop like there's no tomorrow if you happen to need some electronics!
Credits -photobucket
01 April 2010 - 04 April 2010
Event type : Retailer & Sales
Venue : Hall 4B
Don't know where is Hall 4B? Not to worry, just look below
Admission : Public - Free Admission
Event Schedules : Time: 10am to 10pm
Show Profile :
The Most Complete Electronics & I.T. Show
Organizer : Courts (Singapore) Pte Ltd
As you can see from the above, there's a plethora of brands participating in this IT fair. In fact, it is one of the biggest one, even better than that in Suntec Convention Hall a while back.
You have Nokia, LG, Lenovo, Starhub, Singtel, Fujitsu, Dell, Compaq, Yamaha, Buffalo and so many, many more.
So what are you waiting for? Do drop by Singapore Expo if you happen to be free this weekend and shop like there's no tomorrow if you happen to need some electronics!
Credits -photobucket
China Charged
A bipartisan group of 130 U.S. lawmakers issued an open letter Monday, calling on the Obama administration to label China a currency manipulator and impose sanctions.
"If the administration fails to act on this issue it will hold back our economic recovery and hurt the ability of American small businesses and manufacturers to increase their production, keep their doors open, and create jobs," Michaud said in a statement on his Web site.
Okay, I only have got one opinion on this when I first saw this. I'm not going to talk about China being a currency manipulator, helping its own exporters in order to boost its trade surplus and end up with an astonishing 8% annual growth and stuff.
Conversely, the first thing that came to my mind is that the United States feels threatened. China is going to overtake Japan any time soon and the next one on the chopping board will be the United States and they are threatened by that fact.
As far as I'm concerned, China is not really impacted by the financial crisis or has already recovered even if it was impinged by it. On the other hand, the United States is not recovering yet for it is still fraught with mortgage issues, all-time high unemployment rate, debts, loans and insidious social problems like labour's employability and stuff.
Thus, the United States feel that if they do not stop China (for they are on a roll), the United States will be overtaken faster than they can ever imagine.
All in all, it boils down to the United States being insecured about themselves in terms of sustaining its position as the Number 1 economy is the entire world. Nonetheless, I am going to agree with the United States that China is flagrantly manipulating its currencies by undervaluing it.
Credits -marketwatch, -scienceblogs, -wallpaper-s
"If the administration fails to act on this issue it will hold back our economic recovery and hurt the ability of American small businesses and manufacturers to increase their production, keep their doors open, and create jobs," Michaud said in a statement on his Web site.
Okay, I only have got one opinion on this when I first saw this. I'm not going to talk about China being a currency manipulator, helping its own exporters in order to boost its trade surplus and end up with an astonishing 8% annual growth and stuff.
Conversely, the first thing that came to my mind is that the United States feels threatened. China is going to overtake Japan any time soon and the next one on the chopping board will be the United States and they are threatened by that fact.
As far as I'm concerned, China is not really impacted by the financial crisis or has already recovered even if it was impinged by it. On the other hand, the United States is not recovering yet for it is still fraught with mortgage issues, all-time high unemployment rate, debts, loans and insidious social problems like labour's employability and stuff.
Thus, the United States feel that if they do not stop China (for they are on a roll), the United States will be overtaken faster than they can ever imagine.
All in all, it boils down to the United States being insecured about themselves in terms of sustaining its position as the Number 1 economy is the entire world. Nonetheless, I am going to agree with the United States that China is flagrantly manipulating its currencies by undervaluing it.
Credits -marketwatch, -scienceblogs, -wallpaper-s
Monday, March 29, 2010
Helping Hand
Here is something I learnt from work.
This happened about 10 days ago if I'm not wrong.
It was in fact one of the busiest day ever due to the shortage of manpower.
What I saw was definitely true friendship.
A colleague of mine who goes by the name of Joyce was floundering as the boss tasked her something that she is not skilled in and de facto had no idea about! Nonetheless, she said that she will try her best for she knows that our boss will mark her down if she were to say that she did not know how to do it.
At this point in time, when everyone is so busy, another colleague of mine who is called Jeslyn went over and help Joyce because she has some knowledge in what she was tasked to do. Then why not ask Jeslyn to do it in the first place you might ask. Well I myself am not sure of that!
Anyway, the point is, Jeslyn had a lot of work that day too but nevertheless, she went over and offered her help.
This is bona fide friendship to me. Helping your friends when they need help. A lot of us have the proclivity to approach others only when we need help ourselves. When others need help, we just pretend we didn't hear anything like those people sitting on the handicapped seats in the bus. We just act ignorant, as if we do not know a thing.
Are you guilty of that yourself? Well I sure am. That is for sure a human nature but I believe that we can change for the better.
Instead of leaving our friends to drown, we should start to offer our helping hand and continue to build an even stronger bond between ourselves and our friends, for this will be a bond that will be perennial. A bond that will bring you unprecedented rewards in the future.
Trust me.
So from today onwards, start to offer your help as and when possible. Do not conceal yourself when others need help or they will do the same thing when you need help one day!
This happened about 10 days ago if I'm not wrong.
It was in fact one of the busiest day ever due to the shortage of manpower.
What I saw was definitely true friendship.
A colleague of mine who goes by the name of Joyce was floundering as the boss tasked her something that she is not skilled in and de facto had no idea about! Nonetheless, she said that she will try her best for she knows that our boss will mark her down if she were to say that she did not know how to do it.
At this point in time, when everyone is so busy, another colleague of mine who is called Jeslyn went over and help Joyce because she has some knowledge in what she was tasked to do. Then why not ask Jeslyn to do it in the first place you might ask. Well I myself am not sure of that!
Anyway, the point is, Jeslyn had a lot of work that day too but nevertheless, she went over and offered her help.
This is bona fide friendship to me. Helping your friends when they need help. A lot of us have the proclivity to approach others only when we need help ourselves. When others need help, we just pretend we didn't hear anything like those people sitting on the handicapped seats in the bus. We just act ignorant, as if we do not know a thing.
Are you guilty of that yourself? Well I sure am. That is for sure a human nature but I believe that we can change for the better.
Instead of leaving our friends to drown, we should start to offer our helping hand and continue to build an even stronger bond between ourselves and our friends, for this will be a bond that will be perennial. A bond that will bring you unprecedented rewards in the future.
Trust me.
So from today onwards, start to offer your help as and when possible. Do not conceal yourself when others need help or they will do the same thing when you need help one day!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Abysmal Incompetency
Yes, as the title suggest, I was infuriated with anger yesterday due to the abysmal incompetency of my "supervisor" who plans the schedule for all of us because the system that does it is apparently down.
I'm typing this post with a placid persona because I have already calmed myself down.
Yeah so it goes, a few days back . . .
On wednesday, 24 March, I was discussing with my friends about Good Friday, nope we are not Christians, rather I was thinking that it will be great to work on Good Friday because you get double the pay, which is definitely a bountiful sum of money!
I was thinking since my schedule this week sucks so badly, the next one should be pretty great. So with great optimisim and alacrity, I was pretty sure that I had the Good Friday work day in the bag.
Considering that this week my off day was on Tuesday and Friday, I thought that there's no way I will be losing my weekend once again the next week.
But as you all might have already guessed. It happened. I'm on off on Friday again and I will be foregoing my weekend once again. The thing is not really focused on that fact that I will be losing my weekend. Rather, it is focused on the fact that I'm actually on off on a Friday and the worst part is that I will be losing my double pay opportunity which is practically like a once-in-a-blue moon opportunity.
So I went to approach him and I asked him why am I on off on a Friday again? And he told me that the schedule now is manually planned out by him and so it's a bit screwed up.
I was thinking to myself, what do you mean a bit? It's completely screwed up, 101%.
The tales of his incompetency bore me seriously. It is no wonder he is earning a measly amount of money every month. I guess the pay really does commensurate to his capabilities. Oh wait, perhaps I'm wrong, he deserve way lesser than that, given his intelligence.
He can't even plan a schedule properly? This palpably shows how pathetic his planning skills actually are.
If you can't do it right, at least get someone else to help you. Don't be ambitious and do it yourself.
Furthermore, this is not the first time he has failed us in planning. It has been incessant in fact, when it comes to his failures.
Don't even get me started on it please.
Truly appaling man. Devastating.
He seriously does not know how to reward the talent in the team.
Hence, from now onwards, I shall destroy the bible I wrote for the newbies which has facilitated training by a mile and made it way more effective than in the past. With my bible, the newbies can learn faster and they can even refer back if they happen to forget some of the details, which happen very frequently, particularly for the very new guys.
So, I'm going to withdraw the bible and I'm going to have nothing to do with the training from now onwards. Call me selfish or whatever you want but I'm not going to do a losing business.
It doesn't pay to put in so much effort because you have a fucked up supervisor that knows nothing and is always panicky in times of crisis.
Sick of his trite comments in an attempt to bond. I will ignore him the next time he tries to strike a conversation.
I have to be relentless on this one. No mercy
I'm typing this post with a placid persona because I have already calmed myself down.
Yeah so it goes, a few days back . . .
On wednesday, 24 March, I was discussing with my friends about Good Friday, nope we are not Christians, rather I was thinking that it will be great to work on Good Friday because you get double the pay, which is definitely a bountiful sum of money!
I was thinking since my schedule this week sucks so badly, the next one should be pretty great. So with great optimisim and alacrity, I was pretty sure that I had the Good Friday work day in the bag.
Considering that this week my off day was on Tuesday and Friday, I thought that there's no way I will be losing my weekend once again the next week.
But as you all might have already guessed. It happened. I'm on off on Friday again and I will be foregoing my weekend once again. The thing is not really focused on that fact that I will be losing my weekend. Rather, it is focused on the fact that I'm actually on off on a Friday and the worst part is that I will be losing my double pay opportunity which is practically like a once-in-a-blue moon opportunity.
So I went to approach him and I asked him why am I on off on a Friday again? And he told me that the schedule now is manually planned out by him and so it's a bit screwed up.
I was thinking to myself, what do you mean a bit? It's completely screwed up, 101%.
The tales of his incompetency bore me seriously. It is no wonder he is earning a measly amount of money every month. I guess the pay really does commensurate to his capabilities. Oh wait, perhaps I'm wrong, he deserve way lesser than that, given his intelligence.
He can't even plan a schedule properly? This palpably shows how pathetic his planning skills actually are.
If you can't do it right, at least get someone else to help you. Don't be ambitious and do it yourself.
Furthermore, this is not the first time he has failed us in planning. It has been incessant in fact, when it comes to his failures.
Don't even get me started on it please.
Truly appaling man. Devastating.
He seriously does not know how to reward the talent in the team.
Hence, from now onwards, I shall destroy the bible I wrote for the newbies which has facilitated training by a mile and made it way more effective than in the past. With my bible, the newbies can learn faster and they can even refer back if they happen to forget some of the details, which happen very frequently, particularly for the very new guys.
So, I'm going to withdraw the bible and I'm going to have nothing to do with the training from now onwards. Call me selfish or whatever you want but I'm not going to do a losing business.
It doesn't pay to put in so much effort because you have a fucked up supervisor that knows nothing and is always panicky in times of crisis.
Sick of his trite comments in an attempt to bond. I will ignore him the next time he tries to strike a conversation.
I have to be relentless on this one. No mercy
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