I am sure all of you have seen much nonsense at your offices and workplaces all your life. Where there's humans, there's bound to be conflicts. Just name it and I have seen them all from colleagues physically fighting, back stabbing, manipulations, dishonesty, cheating, having affairs and even engaged in sordid sexual activities.
Yes, I caught the 2 directors in my ex company making out in her room when all the staff had gone home for the day. The whole office's lights were turned off with alarm system turned on while the heavy breathing continued inside the female's locked door. My junior colleague and I made an unexpected return to office that night to return back some important stuffs when we chanced upon the discovery! Her always perfect hair was all messy with blouse wrongly buttoned!
My present workplace is like a whore house with heads of departments back stabbing each other all the time. The foreign workers in their departments are always taking naps at every opportunity!
They sleep like dead zombies in full view of everyone so I might as well snap their photos and show the world too. Did I do anything wrong? Now their problems and bad attitudes have been brought to my attention as they failed to control the QC and staff performance. Who am I to blame?
The recent mistake they caused in Singapore was a last straw as it involved several millions of losses if I had not gone to the republic to troubleshoot and rectify the problem. I had to drive there immediately and the rush trip back was so stressful that my whole body heated up with thick phlegms clogged in my throat. Our whole organisation of less than a 100 workforce had a field day gossiping and pointing fingers at each other instead of thinking of preventive measures and solutions not to allow such problems to occur again. If you think you have best buddies in your office, think again or dream on! You can never trust anyone BUT yourself.
I was surprised to hear the director's wife telling me that the entire factory and construction divisions would shudder in fear when I am near them!! Whoa!! Do I sound like a Hungry Ferocious Tiger that could claw my victims any minute? I am not sure whether this is a compliment or not but my responsibility is to troubleshoot everything for my MD.
Words can be scary and lies could kill anyone too. I am always on fullest alert to gag their throats when I smell someone was trying to create problems by spraying out toxins to the bosses. I always remember the valuable advice given to me -
......"Always Control The Situation & Not Allow The Situation To Control Us"......
Anay is a fearsome boss because everyone knows anay would not be bias :-P
ReplyDeletewho do wrong will kena anay's wrath :-]
Yeeeee! Anay is harmless and would not hurt even a fly. Yes I am not biased and could not tolerate hypocrites!
Deleteyes, politics everywhere as long as there are people around, and when there are more people the politics get more complex.. while i still have not seen physical fighting as yet, i have came across back stabbing, manipulations, dishonesty, cheating, having affairs and even engaged in sordid sexual activities!! anyway i try to stay away from all these..
ReplyDeleteThe one and only fight I witnessed was while working in a Japanese Advertising company where a male colleague fought with a female using metal rulers and punches. The lady was bloody with bruises and some hairs being yanked off!! Thanks to her deadly CB mouth!
Deletehuh?? workers taking naps in the factory during working hours?? that is something not right, the person who manage them should be responsible for the disciplinary punishment.. it's such an unprofessional sight to see people sleeping in the workplace, tsk tsk tsk!! i would say, if wanna sleep then do it obscurely, *padan mukan* Anay snap their photos and show them to the world!! or you should actually post them to the company's internal website if you have that :p
ReplyDeletePost up at website no point. Best if snap photo and cakl them into the office then deduct pay. If cakap pasal $$ sure they will wake up. U cakap company website, maybe they dont even care leh. To them maybe what the heck is a website. Lagi syok if photo come out in website. They will phone there friends and let tell their friend what a luxurious life they hare having. can sleep on the job
DeleteThey would sleep or play cards at any hour so long as they have no jobs to do. I think that's bad sight & influence on others. I have visited Jakarta and saw many workers sleeping everywhere at any hour too.
Deletewow, Anay made an emergency trip down to Singapore and saved the company from losing millions, or rather helped the company to save millions?? you surely are the most valuable employee of the company dei, but i wonder if your boss ever recognize that rather than taking things for granted that it's what he pays you for.. haha!! of course you get the pay and you are to help solve the problems, but then humans are still humans, we do need some kind of intrinsic rewards too right?? :)
ReplyDeleteMy bosses are real idiots, that's why I am crowing myself here!! Muahahaha
DeleteTo be precise, I saved my client's company from not earning millions!
Anay,
Deletethat emergency trip you made, ah... they better pay you bonus in millions after this! ;)
I saved the client's millions and not my boss punya. Anyway my bosses are bigots & idiots sometimes.
Deletewords can be the most useful tool and at the same time the deadliest weapon.. i always agree to this.. that is why we have to always be very careful with what we say, once said it can never be recalled.. and yes, "Always Control The Situation & Not Allow The Situation To Control Us", never let what we do not want to say come out of our mouth and make things messy and ugly..
ReplyDeleteAnay's CB mouth need to go for deep cleansing, I know that. Thambee buys me a bottle of Listerine okay?
Deleteyeah, Listerine Double Action!! so that your CB mouth turns into Flower mouth that attracts lots of ants and bees..
DeleteWhoooaa! Double Action punya botol?? My mouth smells so horrid!!!??? @#$%@ Thambee.
DeleteJust use Chlorox! Clean habis! LOL
DeleteJahat ni Mak Glemer. Why don't you sponsor All Purpose METHOD for me?????????
DeleteHAHAHA Pandai Anay demand.
DeleteWait wait. I see and go korek-korek whether I have excess method washing products for Anay. Can "gargle" all you want after that. *evil laugh*
Terima kasih, please dig out more!!!
DeleteI wonder what your work involves, so many foreign workers. Interesting!
ReplyDeleteThey're all like that and it would be hard to keep control of them - may just disappear into thin air. I know there were some at the car wash I go to - came over legally to work in the oil palm estates in the interior but they left without a word to work in the town even for a lower pay as there is much more fun here, not so boring...and they did not even care that their former employer was holding on to their passports!
Same problems too if you engage a maid to work in the house...may just disappear with everything in the house along with them - not all of course, but there have been one case too many.
Hey, you must have missed all my blog rantings where I mentioned the nature of my profession. We are trading in outdoor advertising and property development etc etc etc...
DeleteWhat you said is so true. We have seen countless of them who disappeared into thin air. One idiot even disappeared with our lorry!.He left behind a fake IC. We are mad against them yet we still have to get these workers who would do labour jobs. Pray for me!!!
Good afternoon Twilight Man...
ReplyDeleteWow, rush to Singapore and then back, that's very tiring...
DeleteWhichever company you are in, there bound to be like what you mention, politics, etc...
DeleteGood Evening Sharon. I believe that all humans are trading with each other using their karmas.
DeleteTM, you sound so sexy... "when you smell someone trying to......" That turned me on instantly..
ReplyDeleteWah, TM, lei hou geng wor... one trip to S'pore for that few hours saved your company millions.. Wahlauwei... So on the way back you had thick green phlegms and made you can't breathe? Nevermind, Strepsils+Woods+Hurix will always be there for you.. Within reach, at convenience stores :)
DeleteOffice politics are common in my workplace as well.. Yes, I've seen half of what you had written, including affairs.. But I have not witnessed the making out thingy with my own eyes yet... I just know our MD's foxy is the company's Account's Manager..
DeleteDid you just mention whore house? Heh, when you wrote that, together with the pictures, I am imagining things again... I am thinking of those foreign workers having sex with each other whenever there are any chances... Well, it's not impossible right..
DeleteI always try to be nice to everyone and not make enemies, because I need to face them everyday.
DeletePeople who backstab, bad-mouth, gossip, two-headed snake, well, just have more EQ to handle them. Mou-d*u them..
But to those who have affairs in the office - Don't Shit Where You Eat !!!
What a nice phrase - Don't shit where you eat!!! Reminds me of my ex-boss mother telling him that it's alright to drink milk outside but don't bring the cow home! LOL...
DeleteSo you have seen lots of weird office politics too with endless of squabbles. Even big or small companies are the same. The listed companies have bigger dramas too. All about one's karma to deal with the situations.
Wah louiz . You lagi geng wor. Declare love to anay here ah? Later Letchumi sumpah you jadi katsk leh .LOL.
DeleteNah.. you joking only kan...
She is just kidding lah cos she just drank toddy. Wakakaka
DeleteFearsome Anay.
ReplyDeleteTHOR or Hercules! I am just plain Anay who eats Chapatti.
DeleteChapatti is sedap! LOL
DeleteI try to eat more Chapatti than Roti Chanai.
DeleteChapati more healthy than roti canai. Bagusla ini Anay.
DeleteI suka tosai ;)
I used to like tosai but after seeing the worker's unwashed hands, my friend asked me why the tosai was a bit sourish!!! Their hands lah, alamak!!!!
DeleteOnce I found 2-3 hairs from the worker's hand being stucked onto the big Roti Tissue! Bluek! I scolded the hell out of him!!!
Office politic everywhere also have la.
ReplyDeleteSome times if you tarak join any group you also will kena tembak from left and right. If join group also will kena. Just see how vicious it is la
Agree..
DeleteJoin gang - kena also 1 day.. Coz too close liao ma.. To me, office colleagues no need to be too close lor.. When you start sharing personal stories and sob-sob stories with each other, haaa, there will be problems liao.. Got kamching liao, susah.. If that person kena backstab by his/her bestie, I think there will be WW3
No join gang - kena jugak.. Coz people will say he/she is anti social, lone ranger, dont wana mix with people.. pa ji pai...
So join or no join?
I am a member of all the gangs in my company. I help to fan fire and pour kerosene to all their bickerings and back stabbings! They have real selfish hearts and does finger pointing & rumour mongering as hobbies.
Deleteadui...your company look very bad leh the workers. How can sleep like that punya. Working time ka or lunch time. even lunch time pun go find oher place to sleep la.
ReplyDeletewhat if got customer come over to met the boss and sees the workers sleeping like that. Straight will think that the company is not efficient.
Fortunately we are manufacturing factory and have no walk in customers otherwise I would have lighted fire and cremate those sleeping bodies long ago.
DeleteCilaka lu....gua trngah minum kopi when i readcthis comment.
DeleteYa ...if not sure 9 lives slso not enough to die.
Hey, that was exactly what I scolded them - Bakar hidup hidup sampai mati.
DeleteI choked on my own saliva when I was reading this comment!
DeleteOMFG, TM... I dunno whether to laugh or cry thinking of u...
I think ppl around u dare not dakjui u... Else they will kena sumpah by you kaukau lor...
Again farting now...Laughed til farted...
Speechless...
ya, Anay you should whip them back in shape but at the same time take care of your health too. Too much anger later become crazy like the fella leh.
ReplyDeleteScared he "jau for yap more", then susah oohhhhh
DeletePeople say ahh, if you rare the pet, you will somehow look like the pet in long term.. It's very true.. I have a few frens who look like their poodle's face the more I see them... They very sayang their poodle one... Bring them go camp, doggie restaurant, buy them doggie cupcakes, take them for swim, walks in the park, make frens, etc.. Then ahh, their face now look like their poodles leh...
DeleteSo ahh, I agree with you, I hope TM wont get too mad.. If he gets too mad and face with them everyday, I scared he become crazy like them ahh.. hahahahaha....
I am a cool man and rarely gets angry with all my years of immunity. Even when they rubbed salt to my nerves, I could still smile and gag their necks up the walls. I sound scary yeah.
DeleteIf you explode sure all tikus cari lubang lari lo
DeleteYeah I just exploded 2 days ago at the accountant and banged the mouse on my table while I was reading SK's post. I just %@$# at him non stop.
DeleteI like this topic, I am one who hated politics, back stabbing and gossiping the most. There are people who are nice to you in front of you and talk bad about you behind you, last time I have a supervisor who gossip about A to B and gossip about B to A, so bad!!!! A double headed snake.
ReplyDeleteOh I do have this A & B in my office who back stabbed everyone and I made these 2 snakes bite their own tails. Muahahaha
DeleteNot only those foreign workers, those "foreign" security guard also take every opportunity to take a nap!!!
ReplyDeleteWhenever I saw sleeping guards, I would blast my car horn to shake them up. Yeah, they thought they were being paid to sleep.
DeleteOh My---Office Politics/Attitudes/Promiscuity/Back-stabbing, etc. etc. etc. is NO FUN... (I assume that none of these people read your blog.. Otherwise, they'd come after you!!! Yipes.)
ReplyDeletePeople can be so mean/so hard-headed/so selfish/so greedy... I see it in our country so much more than I used to... Workplaces used to be run efficiently and the workers were treated good by the employers.. These days, everything is about the almighty dollar---and people don't matter. Men who have worked in a business for 30 years and given it their all are tossed out on the ear when the bosses seem fit to do so.... TERRIBLE.. What has happened to us?
Good Luck to you as you work there... Are you looking for something better which is operated more efficiently --with more 'professional' people????? Hope so.
Hugs,
Betsy
No one from my office reads my blog except my ex-accountant Alfred. He is safe and has smartly left the company for greener pastures. I have been praying hard for better career opportunities and salary! The world has changed, so have the humans & bosses. They have forgotten the word loyalty! To them, all old staff should be sent to the retirement homes! It is often that we find the senior workers are the most experienced to lead the younger ones.
DeleteGood day TM!
ReplyDeleteWah, you caught that sexual activities? Eh, they are directors some more?? Ewww, shame on that 2 directors!
Yea, office politics are sure to have in every working places. Just depends on how big the company is, and also the number of employees.
DeleteBut I am glad that I din't involve in many politics when I was working last time, people say, just do what you supposed to do, yes, that's true.
Ok, time to sleep now, have a great day ahead TM!
DeleteYou have such a good fate in this life! We salute you that you can just blog and sit at home besides flying to countries and shop, shop & shop!!! That's heavens on earth.
DeleteWow...so you are a BIG shot in a company!! Yes, can be very frustrating when you do not have quality staff... and catching some red handed... :) In each company, there are always "politics" played ... I have been "stabbed" too.. and had worked under a "dictator" before.. in my 30 over years of working, macam-macam sudah experienced.. but still surviving.. at least for now.. hahaha...
ReplyDeleteI think I am big sized and not big shot. LOL
DeleteI see, you are also a great survivor in the whole career. No wonder you wanted to retire early and rest. I still need money, so I have to work lah!
I m blessed to working with current company with almost zero gossiping...quite unbelievable, right? but that's true and also the reason I have been working here for so many years.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful company that has no gossipers! Are there just 2 staff inside your office - boss and you? LOL
DeleteA successful business needs a Hungry Ferocious Tiger. Don't ever stop roaring!
ReplyDeleteEncourages the jungle woman ;)
DeleteLOL Wakakakaka This African Geisha always tickled my ribs!
DeleteWah! You so garang one ah? Scary :D
ReplyDeleteYes I am damn garang at work and often banged tables!
DeleteI can't stand office politics and gossips. SO no working in the corporate world for me! LOL!
ReplyDeleteIt is a nightmare to work for big companies where they have communists and terrorists! Better chew bamboo at the Panda sanctuary. Bliss.
Deletethanks for the meaningful quote "Always Control The Situation & Not Allow The Situation To Control Us", it does enlighten me~ =D
ReplyDeleteHope you will become a top man someday and remember me!
DeleteMy small company have no such gossiping or politics, so I've been working here for thousand of years!
ReplyDeleteThousand years!!!! Muahahahaha... You sound like the Egyptian Mummy.
DeleteCool down man, that's life. Sometimes it's also a good idea to move on if an organisation sucks.
ReplyDeleteOh yes I agree and I have hopped over 15 companies!
DeleteOh gosh... office politics just every where.
ReplyDeletemt
Meitzeu @ Blog
Meitzeu @ Facebook
Meitzeu @ Twitter
Adoi! You put so many links here. So hardcore and desperate blogger meh? LOL
DeleteYeah, office politics is bound to happen when there's more than 2 people. Haha! It's a fact of life.
ReplyDeleteAre you in the paper or timber industry by any chance? I can see the product but am not sure what it is, if I had to guess it'll be the former or PVC/plastics.
I used to be in the timber industry, which hires a lot of foreign workers - there was a huge strike once and all 2,000 workers were fired and there was a factory stoppage. That was the biggest thing that happened when I was there. Also lots of sexual shenanigans - more than one guard has been fired from the dormitories (all the Indonesian workers live at the factory and are not supposed to mix) for sleeping with female foreign workers!
What an interesting comment! I have chanced upon the long houses at the construction sites too where many females walked around in loose sarongs. They just entered the squatter when a man needs her. I was stunned to see that it is a norm.
DeleteYOU DID THE RIGHT THING!!!!
ReplyDeleteOffice politics is really worst, some real politician will get the undertable money for being a politician but ordinary employed people just will get their monthly salary. I used to think that politic is less when the organization is mostly occupied by male employees but I was wrong. Even worst if too many aunties hehehe
It is sadly true that it was often some unmarried aunties who tended to be worst snakes in offices. Men fought too but often forgiven over beers but not the aunties who carried the woes to their graves. Adoi...
DeleteOh dear sweet dreamzzzzzz while at work
ReplyDeleteYou have a nice job BOSS.
DeleteWow, I'm so glad to be out of office politics! Take care my friend, & drink lots of liang teh to cool yourself down......
ReplyDeleteYou enjoy in the luxury haven and stayed wrinkle free! How lucky!
Deletethis is the 1st time i read about your workplace
ReplyDeleteNightmare la.
DeleteWhen there is no job, there are not suppose to sleep. May be the company can offer other job scope to them like cleaning the factory or stock arrangement. Keke.. ..About the backstabbing and gossip, I always like to tell them that in Buddha teaching those are consider one of the most deadly sin. You don't want to know what the devil god does to people who backstabs and gossiping. Good luck bro.
ReplyDeleteI read this post more than twice. Just I don't have enough time to drop some comments. Next time I ''ll come here first before visiting anyone else so I got spare time to leave comments. Hmm, those month you only posted 2 post. Is ok, as long as you stay in the blogging world, you can always fan Si all your problems to us. Cos we are not your colleague....hehehe
ReplyDeleteOh that is so terrible sleeping when there's no work. How could this be? Don't they have other work? Attitude problem leh... Until u even snap their photo also didn't realized. Pengsan....
ReplyDeletePolitics are everywhere at any company. Indirect or direct method only. How suffer you are, it much depends which level or group join. I kena backstabbing too, long time go. But now i act smart now by less talking, less listening and see less too. All I do is read more and write moe in blog. Muahah
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Office politics? Ah Hua doesn't bother much, that's why Ah Hua is still stuck at the same old position for donkey years already. Just do my work and get pay monthly, that's it.
ReplyDeleteBut if my boss is as handsome as Lee Min Ho, I don't mind working late every evening and hope and pray for something sexciting to happen at the end of the day, muahahahaha!
DeleteJust kidding, I don't mix work and pleasure :p
But I'm a nosy parker. I love listening to all sort of office gossips, so please bombard me with juicy stories.
DeleteI think my office has the best staffs in the company. We don't play politics, perhaps except my boss. We are best buddies and so "ngam" with each other, no back stabbing, no hanky panky relationship. We just work in peace, hehe!
ReplyDeleteAnay, I have to admit to you, I come to this post when I browse through all your back dated one. I read this post first because I know this post must be very interesting.
ReplyDeleteTrue enough, I learn so many things again in this post. I am a fast learner. Thank you , anay.
Your first office story is the most interesting one. If I were you to chance upon the incident, fulamak, I would sure peep through the key hole. OMG! So exciting.
DeleteYannie and Ah Hua's company policy is very strict. Don't say sleep, eat at work desk also is prohibited. But then, at our old company, there are workers peeing every corner in the factory. So teruk right?
Delete1. Always Control The Situation & Not Allow The Situation To Control Us
ReplyDelete2. If you think you have best buddies in your office, think again or dream on! You can never trust anyone BUT yourself.
3. Words can be scary and lies could kill anyone too
I rank the above 3 sentiments the best advice of Anay.