Rhonda SG Yipers! Colleagues who sit by and watch fellow colleagues struggling with their work without lifting a hand to help? It's happening in my new workplace too. They have powerful cliques and if you're not accepted into their cliques, they will refuse to help you. I saw it happening recently when one 'outcast' colleague had to struggle all by herself and literally BEG those outside her work area to help her. I can't imagine stuff like that's happening in the healthcare profession!! We're dealing with lives here and really shouldn't let petty personal disagreements get in the way of work! Back to your team... It's really great that there's good teamwork in your team. Must be because their leader also rolls up his sleeves and chips in to help, right?
the Bear SG we've had too many team bosses... we have team leaders who do not do stuff too.. but with a few of us, there are no "i am a senior officer and you are a junior officer" thing.. i will not ask them to do what i do not want to do.. and i will do stuff with them, for them... and a couple of us will fight whoever it is, no matter how high the REMFs sit, if we are right and they are wrong.. and not shy to blast them if they show their arrogance... oh well... i'm "anti-establishment"
Rhonda SG Yeah, you are! But it's for the good of all, though! I believe a number of us are anti-establishment too, but we're closet anti-establishment peeps. We mostly don't have the gumption to do what you do!
Meia Gisborn SG Welcome to the wonderful world of Office Politics. Fortunately, the people in my functional area of the department are extremely cooperative and help each other out. Our department supervisor was formerly a systems analyst like us, so he knows what it's like to be 'down in the trenches' and will not hesitate to speak up for us. In the day-to-day running of the department, he's extremely laid-back and usually leaves us to our own devices, implicitly trusting us to get our assigned work done in a timely manner. And we seldom let him down. I'd be curious to find out how corporate cultures and management styles differ between Singapore and US companies. MG
the Bear SG very dependent on the mentality of the boss... my place, the big boss is a meddler and a stupid, vicious, vindictive and boorish one... while my team boss lets us go on with the work and is around when we have to consult him because it is not within our authority to do... mostly, the decision has been made and we tell him about it the big boss doesn't like that and takes it out on the junior officers because he's afraid of us (seriously) so we have to do out utmost to shield the working hacks from his petty viciousness... oh well.. office politics strangely and happily absent within my team, so bloody rampant outside of it
Rhonda SG Yo, MG!! Good to see you in here on a Sunday morn! The corporate culture between US and local firms is as different as night and day!! I've been employed in both types of firms and I definitely prefer the US way. My favourite employer is a US firm who believed in empowerment and employee welfare. Due to the large number of Americans and other expatriates in the regional HQ, our culture was almost like an authentic US 'import'! I loved working there! And then, the HR management changed and they decided to implement 'local terms', which created massive unhappiness and dissent. Part of the reason why I find it so hard to acclimatise to the culture in my current workplace is because it's really poles apart from my previous employers. It's totally local, which means, they practice the 1960's style of management with McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y being practiced. My new ward is much better - the senior management aren't Empress Dowagers. There are still a few senior staff who choose to be nasty, but they're still the minority.
Meia Gisborn SG Rhonda,Ack! It's already Sunday afternoon here (12:45 p.m. CST, to be exact)! This bloody weekend seems to be going by way too fast! How was yours? Did you engage in any additional 'retail therapy'? By the way, a fourth postcard arrived just yesterday, several days after the first three came. Thanks for taking the time to send them, even though the chances of winning an all-expenses-paid trip to Singapore was pretty minimal. MG
Rhonda SG What weekend? Was working throughout the weekends! Wow... the 4th postcard arrived so late?! It was a pleasure to send them, don't worry about it. I wanted to do the same for littlestream, but she said her dad would do it for her. I sent quite a few to SL too. This is probably the last year I'm here to send them. I ought not be here this time next year! Retail therapy? Erm... Eh... Did a bit of it on Saturday, before meeting Bear and gang at MM!
stellazio SG Don't worry the national blood foundation keeps asking me to donate blood again..Real Bloodsuckers..
Meia Gisborn SG Just finished downloading and watching episode 9 of Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid. Wow. Just wow. This series just keeps getting better and better. Yukino Satsuki is now officially my favourite voice actress (seiyuu) in the animé industry. MG
Rhonda SG Yo, stellazio!! Little wonder that you prefer Las Vegas... all the bikini-clad women in there mah!
stellazio SG WTH..Las Vegas got binkini clad women meh?I always see the guy and the stupid old boss only..Eh like that CSI better always got rape case..
