The principal for the product I'm managing came down from Singapore today with a new guy whom I'm supposed to be working closely with for the entire duration I'm going to be employed in this company. Took them out to Tesco at Mutiara Damansara for lunch with my Division Manager and spent the next hour after a great lunch at Mdm Lim's Kitchen walking around getting a feel of their cleaning operations, type of flooring etc.
On the way back after getting my ticket at the Kota Damansara toll, Ignatius asked me something and I turned around to answer him. At the exact time, I took the wrong turning, supposed to turn right and I went and turn left. The road leads to Sg Buloh and Ipoh. So he jokingly asked me "Are we going to Ipoh for dinner now?" My boss flashed me a sarcastic smile and for the next half an hour they were engaged in a conversation about how men can't multitask. Thank God for Guthrie Corridor Expressway or I would have to use the long way back to Shah Alam on a sleepy Wednesday after a big meal!
I guess I must have been sleepy or something cos when I reached home, I reversed right into the metal gate at the office carpark and my rear tail lamp which was already cracked from my reverse into a lamp-post action last year cracked a further 2 pieces and now one is missing! It probably shows that after 15 years of driving, I'm still bad at it. (hears clapping and cheering)
Well the only consolation about it was that at 5:30 when the siren went off I was already at the punch card machine getting ready to shoot off and join the usual gang on the highway burning fuel and wearing off my brake pads. Yup, the 1 hour crawl home.
Oh well, you can't have good days everyday right? This is probably one of my not so good ones!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Thus all this garbage!
To me, the first week after the first month on your job is the toughest anyone who just started a new job has to go thru. This week is my first week after the first month I worked for this new company. I still can't get used to seeing rows and rows of forklifts everywhere and they're already planning to expand to the building next door!
To tell you the truth, I'm pretty lost about how I'm supposed to go about this job. The position states 'manager' but I'm expected to go out and meet clients and do sales calls just like the rest of the salespeople in the office and the difference is, they get commission for every expensive equipment they sell and I don't. Of course the boss promised me a big fat bonus and an increment if I managed to hit the ridiculous target I set for myself (its like shooting yourself in the foot if you ask me!)
For someone who have never sold expensive industrial equipment before, it was rather brave of me to set such a high target. But of course we have to justify the salary we are getting by setting high objectives to achieve so that management will see us in a positive light in the future right?
Earlier I was at a forum and one of the members posted something taken from Thomas Wolfe "You have reached the pinnacle of success when you become uninterested in money, compliments and publicity" I quite agree with that quote but the problem is, I'm interested in money, publicity and most of all compliments, but not in a salaried employment setting. How gratifying is it to have all that when you still have drag your ass up at 6 in the morning to go in d office by 8 to see black sulky faces all day long until 5:30pm and get stucked in a jam just to get home?
Something just ain't right if it's gratifying isn't it? So can someone say they have reached the pinnacle of success in their job or career? I wonder what defines success when it comes to being an employee?
I don't know if my feeling like this is a dead-end is part of the slow start or learning curve which I have to endure as part of the start of a new career for me or is it part of something more long term and I may have to change my attitude towards employment. I'm sure there are certain satisfactions and gratifications that come along with it and I haven't found it yet. I wonder...
When any employee starts working in a company they are given an employee handbook which among other things tells them what they should or shouldn't do, what they should or shouldn't wear to work and many other things. Why aren't we given a booklet that tells us how we should feel and react towards work and what we should do when we hit a brick wall or stall?
Many years ago I flipped the bible and there was a page which tells you to go to which chapter or page when you are feeling a certain way, like if you are feeling suicidal or depressed, you should flip here and the words will 'talk-to-you' and some how you would feel better.
Well maybe my mood is just down today, thus all this garbage!
To tell you the truth, I'm pretty lost about how I'm supposed to go about this job. The position states 'manager' but I'm expected to go out and meet clients and do sales calls just like the rest of the salespeople in the office and the difference is, they get commission for every expensive equipment they sell and I don't. Of course the boss promised me a big fat bonus and an increment if I managed to hit the ridiculous target I set for myself (its like shooting yourself in the foot if you ask me!)
For someone who have never sold expensive industrial equipment before, it was rather brave of me to set such a high target. But of course we have to justify the salary we are getting by setting high objectives to achieve so that management will see us in a positive light in the future right?
Earlier I was at a forum and one of the members posted something taken from Thomas Wolfe "You have reached the pinnacle of success when you become uninterested in money, compliments and publicity" I quite agree with that quote but the problem is, I'm interested in money, publicity and most of all compliments, but not in a salaried employment setting. How gratifying is it to have all that when you still have drag your ass up at 6 in the morning to go in d office by 8 to see black sulky faces all day long until 5:30pm and get stucked in a jam just to get home?
Something just ain't right if it's gratifying isn't it? So can someone say they have reached the pinnacle of success in their job or career? I wonder what defines success when it comes to being an employee?
I don't know if my feeling like this is a dead-end is part of the slow start or learning curve which I have to endure as part of the start of a new career for me or is it part of something more long term and I may have to change my attitude towards employment. I'm sure there are certain satisfactions and gratifications that come along with it and I haven't found it yet. I wonder...
When any employee starts working in a company they are given an employee handbook which among other things tells them what they should or shouldn't do, what they should or shouldn't wear to work and many other things. Why aren't we given a booklet that tells us how we should feel and react towards work and what we should do when we hit a brick wall or stall?
Many years ago I flipped the bible and there was a page which tells you to go to which chapter or page when you are feeling a certain way, like if you are feeling suicidal or depressed, you should flip here and the words will 'talk-to-you' and some how you would feel better.
Well maybe my mood is just down today, thus all this garbage!
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