Thursday, September 29, 2005
Whose side are u on?
Everyone wishes to be on the good team. You know... the one that is the best, the winner. In certain cases, the underdogs that finally win. Nobody wants to be in the bad team. Nobody wants to be the snotty highschool cheerleaders who bully not so good looking girls, in the movies. Everyone wants to be righteous, everyone wants to be right. But what happens if you are in the bad team and you don't know it?
This thought just hit me in the face today. Certain events took place and it got me thinking. I'm pretty sure everyone has their own cliques. Especially so in the office situation where there are mini wars taking place between departments =
- Sales hates marketing becos marketing keeps questioning sales;
- IT dept hates sales for bullshitting to the client and then leaves the impossible to IT;
- Accounts hates marketing because they feel that marketing is a waste of money;
- Customer service hates IT becos IT does a sucky job of simplifying technical jargon, leaving them to do the lengthy job of explaining to end users (who can be complete idiots at times)
So there u have it. World war 3.
My company is no exception. We have various departments and hence, politics are abound. It just occurred to me that my department may be the most hated department! I think other departments must be thinking that we must be a whiny group of people who only cower under the protection of our Manager. Every little thing, we make noise and blow the matter up. Our manager takes over from there and barks at the responsible individual/s in order to see things get done. If we do it on our own, nothing will get done! Once the manager barks, we get priority. These people are afraid of our manager only because he knows other key people in the company.
Doesn't it sound like we are bullying others? You may say that it's a necessary evil. You can even ask me to wake up to the REAL reality. That's how life is. And the irony is, we may not see it. We probably think that we are doing the right thing and it's ok. We don't see that we may be affecting other people who were right to begin with. They may have been doing their jobs fine but because of our unreasonable requests, they get harpooned and get an increase in workload. And we are super supportive of this manager. We are willing to fight for him. It didn't occur to me that we could be made use of in the process.
Sigh.. call me jaded, wet behind the ears or whatever. Having mixed feelings here. But I guess this is life. I also assume that these is how terrorists act? They believe they are right and they have a lot of faith in their leader. But who is to say that they are wrong? I guess it's just their beliefs. The terrorists probably think the US is the bad person. The US thinks the terrorists are the bad person.
open thy eyes Xallista.. open thy eyes...
This thought just hit me in the face today. Certain events took place and it got me thinking. I'm pretty sure everyone has their own cliques. Especially so in the office situation where there are mini wars taking place between departments =
- Sales hates marketing becos marketing keeps questioning sales;
- IT dept hates sales for bullshitting to the client and then leaves the impossible to IT;
- Accounts hates marketing because they feel that marketing is a waste of money;
- Customer service hates IT becos IT does a sucky job of simplifying technical jargon, leaving them to do the lengthy job of explaining to end users (who can be complete idiots at times)
So there u have it. World war 3.
My company is no exception. We have various departments and hence, politics are abound. It just occurred to me that my department may be the most hated department! I think other departments must be thinking that we must be a whiny group of people who only cower under the protection of our Manager. Every little thing, we make noise and blow the matter up. Our manager takes over from there and barks at the responsible individual/s in order to see things get done. If we do it on our own, nothing will get done! Once the manager barks, we get priority. These people are afraid of our manager only because he knows other key people in the company.
Doesn't it sound like we are bullying others? You may say that it's a necessary evil. You can even ask me to wake up to the REAL reality. That's how life is. And the irony is, we may not see it. We probably think that we are doing the right thing and it's ok. We don't see that we may be affecting other people who were right to begin with. They may have been doing their jobs fine but because of our unreasonable requests, they get harpooned and get an increase in workload. And we are super supportive of this manager. We are willing to fight for him. It didn't occur to me that we could be made use of in the process.
Sigh.. call me jaded, wet behind the ears or whatever. Having mixed feelings here. But I guess this is life. I also assume that these is how terrorists act? They believe they are right and they have a lot of faith in their leader. But who is to say that they are wrong? I guess it's just their beliefs. The terrorists probably think the US is the bad person. The US thinks the terrorists are the bad person.
open thy eyes Xallista.. open thy eyes...
# posted by Xallista @ 12:35 AM 
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In the working world, we operate very much like the Samurai.
We remain loyal to our superiors and fight the fight that comes to us no matter what side we are on. We can have diplomats to ease the tension, but it is business.
It's like a Debate. Proposition and Opposition. It doesn't mean one side will always win because they are on the side that the topic favours. it's how they present their case and how they fight for it.
Of course if we find that our superiors are total SOBs and not worth fighting for...that's when you go become a Ronin.
(...then slay your Master and Usurp his position, or go find another Master if Slaying him has no long term benefits...heh heh heh...)
Business is Business. Nothing personal.
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We remain loyal to our superiors and fight the fight that comes to us no matter what side we are on. We can have diplomats to ease the tension, but it is business.
It's like a Debate. Proposition and Opposition. It doesn't mean one side will always win because they are on the side that the topic favours. it's how they present their case and how they fight for it.
Of course if we find that our superiors are total SOBs and not worth fighting for...that's when you go become a Ronin.
(...then slay your Master and Usurp his position, or go find another Master if Slaying him has no long term benefits...heh heh heh...)
Business is Business. Nothing personal.
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