office politics??
friday was quite a happening day,i was in quite a bad shape due to a very heavy bout of flu, and to top it up, i experience first hand office politics, which was to me, very dirty..first things first, after an afternoon meeting about a soon to be exhibition for our projects, which most IA students didn't bother to attend, not because we chose not to, but because we didn't really know what is going on as no one bothered to brief us..
a lady, a student from temasek polytechnic, who is the chair of this event, in her email to all the IA students and their supervisors..
"My details are:
******* Choo
DID: +65 *** ****
Email: ******@motorola.com
My vice-chairperson will be **** Wong, the guy from SMU with amazing initiative!
I have spoken with ****, who's been very helpful. He's a smart guy and he is very spear-headed - he will be key to getting things done."
well, i wonder what made her carry this SMU guy's ball to such an extent?
this SMU guy then took the initiative and sent out an email to all IA students and their supervisors.. below is an excerpt of his email..
"1) I shall propose a meeting everyday during lunch hour, to gauge the progress of this exhibition project. Means everyone has to come down and meet during lunch time, I assume everyone's lunch time is at 12pm. It would serve also as a networking environment for us all.
2) Please do not clog up the emails, as I am receiving countless number of emails from other countries' financial managers which is directly important. We have this web messenger thingy, please use that instead. IF NEED BE TO SEND EMAILS, do not CC to your supervisors or managers, just to XXX and YYY will do."
first, which idiot will meet everyday during his lunch time for this ambiguous stuff.. next, don't sound so high handed if you need volunteers for your project, you'll only put us off.. lastly, if you do not want us to CC to our supervisors, show it to us by setting an example! damn it!
a MAE engineer, who graduated from NTU some 8 years ago, also wanted participation from some of the MAE students for this exhibition, and wanted us to volunteer our services.. after getting disappointing participation, we now have to email him AND CC to our company supervisor AND our NTU tutor to say that we can't VOLUNTEER for the exhibition.
then this same engineer who called another meeting for IA students this morning at 9am, and mentioned that if we are unable to turn up, we are supposed to ask our NTU tutor to call him and let him know! what the heck? since when did our NTU tutor become our secretary, and in any case, i have hands and legs, and do not need one! how ridiculous!
me: morning sir! i need your help!
NTU tutor: yes linus! what's up?
me: could you call one of the engineers in motorola? there's a meeting at 9am and i can't make it as i got work to do for my own supervisor..
NTU tutor: why me?
me: because he said so..
its amazing when people need your help and they are so arrogant.. wow! and from the emails they sent, they managed to pissed just about everyone in the emailing list in less than 10 mins.. i certainly believe that they deserved to have a platanium award for being such as asshole..
posted by Linus Chia @ 8:20 AM
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