For once in a long time I am finally able to spend more than 2 hours at my office desk, where no one asks me what I am doing or gives me any work. Here I can do whatever I want whenever I want to. Here, everything is more effective, more efficient, and more fun.
Let me share with you how work has been like here in my company & what I have to put up with:
1. An insecure colleague who has the urge of repeating everything she says twice. If you know your Math & your English, that's 3 times I have to hear her mention the same thing. My mom is older than her & she only repeats once!! And she only does that because she forgot that she had mentioned in a day or 2 ago. I'm not exaggerating one bit.
2. Colleagues who raise their voice when I manage to challenge something they said. It is my practice to stop talking when the other party begins to raise their voice, as it is a sign of irrationality. So often times they & other people have the perception that I lost the argument. AND, they often say one thing at this same & then say something totally different later. I call this lying.
3. Colleagues who plan on Monday to come to work on the coming weekend & expect me to join along. Very softly I say, "Why are you planning to come in to work on the weekend when it's only Monday? You're allowing yourselves to procrastinate. Why not plan how we can finish the work over the weekdays? That way we all can enjoy our weekend?"... After a moment of silence, they raise their voice again & say "Can finish the work meh? Sure cannot finish one?"...
4. 2 incompetent managers whose supposed-job is to manage our work. But the slow work progress is mostly due to their failure to hire additional resources (and hiring at the right time), their obvious desire to please the client & totally neglect the people who will have to do the real work, their imcompetence in time management of meetings, their annoying questions, & their lousy timing. Sigh, I use to like one of them, but that was when he was just a supervisor handling 1 department. He's a real nice guy, but I just can't work under him.
5. Programmers & developers who actually blame the QA team for not testing thoroughly enough when they themselves have not tested their own program!!
Hopefully this will give you a gist of what's going on in my workplace. Maybe I'll blog about the real incidents & you'll get a clearer picture. I have to insist here, though, that apart from work I do like these colleagues of mine. But the daily dose of stupidity is truly unbearable.
