木曜日, 4月 21, 2005
Crab Mentality
Had a rare chat chance with Uriel. After exchanging the usual updates on each other's life, we got into a conversation about our experiences working and living abroad. It's interesting to note that we both noticed that usually it's easier to work with foreigners than with fellow Pinoys. Like in my case, I have exhausted all efforts to promote a member of my team but those Pinoy managers just wouldn't allow it. It's really strange especially since the recommendation is coming directly from those people she works with. Uriel also noted the same thing in his company. Usually it's the Pinoy co-workers who would piss you off. It got me thinking there. We Pinoys keep on denying that we have crab mentality. Numerous history authors have noted it time and again, and yet the contemporary, modern Pinoy wouldn't accept it. It's not us Pinoys but those Spanish conquerors whom to blame for this misconception. Although I don't want to generalize, my experiences tell otherwise...
Still on Uriel, he told me, I'm being like Mike R, my previous boss, generous over promotions. Right, all of a sudden I remember Mike. Yes, we had lots of disagreements, we had our share of love-hate professional relationship, but think about it, he left a legacy to me. And a good one at that! What's bad to giving credit where it is due? Praises, recommendations, doing something good for someone doesn't require much effort (ok, for recommendations, it does require paper-work hahahaha!) but I think it's a good life investment, I sure wanna get to heaven someday :)
Speaking of going to heaven, I find it so annoying that an ofcmate of mine seems to find joy in mocking other people. If Shana has a BBB( Big Bad Brother In Law), he's my recent BBB (Big Black Bastos!). Here's a good reason why. Imagine yourself being new to the company and part of your regularization is training. You're assigned to a very big project. You're doing your best. Your PM tells you to attend a project-sponsored training. All seems to go well. Until that training day comes. You proceed to the conference room, anticipating new horizons to explore. You can't wait to hear the lecture. You enter the room. BBB suddenly stands up and bluntly asks 'what are you doing here? you're not in my list of attendees'. You get mesmerized. 'Excuse me, say that again? ' you wish you have the guts to say. But all you can do is stare inside the already filled room and feel ashamed. You're not welcomed. You're not wanted. Don't you even try!
~~~Excuse me! Who's training is this anyway??? If I am to put it in perspective. BBB is the intruder. My team is just courteous enough to let him sit in there! If there's someone who had more right to question, it's Conrad. For the simple reason that he's a member of the team. Read: TEAM MEMBER. In my more than 10 years in the corporate world, I have never met anybody who's as rude, as bossy, as power tripper as this Big Black Bastos!
To BBB, each has its own place in the world. Know your place. Or else I will show where you belong...Read it. Get it?!
# posted by Unknown : 12:00 午前
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