Sunday, October 29, 2006
Constant Vigilence
2 weeks of work have passed and working life has been hectic. So is that good or bad?
I guess it's so far so good. I don't dread going to work each morning (yet?) although neither do I look forward to a new day of work too. I'm suddenly exposed to a very interesting and colorful environment, and I get to learn a lot each day - so I guess that's a pro. And my bosses are pretty nice, humorous and easy to get along despite their high status. So that's fantastic too, though I seem to feel all the time that they expect quite a lot from their subordinates, and that could be stressful if I let it be.
You might have noticed that I haven't mention where I work at. Well, I can't. Cause if I do, then I can't tell all the juicy gossip and office politics that go on in there. And there's a TRUCKLOAD of those.
In fact, on my very first day of work, my boss spent a morning explaining all the politics going on in the department. She even apologized for bringing me in at such a bad time because the department is currently in a state of political turmoil. All the players there (not including lowly staff like me and all the other people who sit in the same office, of course) are rich, powerful, knowledgeable, well-respected and highly regarded. And some of them are simply trying to claw (and I mean claw literally) their way up to the top, bringing down the others standing in their way at no cost at all.
Let's just make the story short: The big big boss is the close relative of a BIG BIG BIG person in our country. And this person is so damn powerful that this person only speaks to 2 subordinates - one of my 2 bosses and this evil char bor, lets call her BD (Black Devil) for short. So you can figure out that these 2 persons are the next 2 important people in the department. I think I'm damn lucky that I work under one of them and he happens to be of the the nice ones in this war, people who just want to do their work well and find all this politics unnecessary and disappointing. BD is the current head of the department and she's evil cause she has just gotten 2 of the nice ones fired by back stabbing them in front of the big big boss.
Now being fired is scary because you won't expect people in this occupation to get fired unless they do some damn dreadful things like causing deaths of others accidentally. Morever the 2 persons were highly regarded in their field. And now every other of the nice ones are damn scared cause it could have been them too. The environment is so tense for them and they now have to watch their mouths, their hands AND their backs. Damn sian la cause they have loads of work to do aside of all this.
It kinda shocked me, and to an extent, disgusted me to know all of these because I wouldn't have expected people in that occupation to be doing childish and despicable acts like stabbing others in the back and even getting them fired by the big boss.
However life has never failed to surprise me. And there's all sorts of people in the world.
But at the end of the day, it's NONE OF MY BUSINESS.
Because firstly, I don't dab in office politics. Either I like you, or I don't. I'm probably good at pretending that I like someone and can be friendly and all, even when all I want to do might just be to set the person's hair on fire. But I don't like to do so, and I won't do so. Because I like life to be simple and things to be uncomplicated and I don't want to taint my soul. I'm not a saint but being despicable and deceitful is not my style.
I just have to do my own part well. Build a good reputation. And gain the trust of my bosses. Gives no bloody idiot an excuse or reason to stab me in the back. And whichever fucking idiot dares to do so, at least there's hope that my bosses would back me up.
Currently only one fucking bitch has been mildly rude to me and I'm not even sure if what she has done could have been considered as rude, but I am already considering catching and putting cockroaches into her drawer to give her a nice surprise. Because one fucking thing that I hate is people being rude to me as I happen to be a very polite person even if that's not how I appear to be. I won't see her often so I doubt that there will be any more of such unpleasant encounters. If there's, then she better watches out because it won't be just cockroaches. I can promise that.
Overall, I quite like and enjoy my job though I can't say the same for the politics aspect because it's tiring to be on constant vigilence and to watch my mouth, hands AND back all the time.
¶ 12:52 PM
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shoi! u are damn farny!! untainted soul yeay!! but no messing with you! =) i m glad i m still in sch i probably cant take office politics.. hate it to the core and i will definielty be affected big time...
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