Saturday 25 February 2017
End of Internship, Phase 1
I've just ended 11 weeks of internship that's part of my course's requirement. My university actually requires 12 weeks, but it doesn't offer that long of a semester break so I've got to split my internship to two periods, and thus the title. I'm bound by a confidentiality agreement, and I do not feel comfortable revealing what company I worked at for multiple reasons. All I can say is that the company is severely understaffed due to the management's lack of appreciation for its employees' effort. I was an intern and I had to do overtime on a daily basis. I'm tired. I'm paid only RM500/month and working that hard isn't really satisfying for me because I have worked much less for much more money. But I can cope with it. The job itself is ridiculously busy, but that is expected. However, the way the company runs the projects is a question of the company's quality. Anyway, I just ended my internship yesterday, and I'm flying to Kuching tomorrow. My next semester commences next Monday, so I've got no time to catch a breath. I'm quite tired at the moment. But, life goes on, right?
Sunday 12 February 2017
Employers Should Start Changing Their Attitude If They Want To Keep Up With Time
I know a lot of people grumble about fresh graduates. A lot of them are incapable of providing anything beneficial to the company at the beginning stage and yet they demand immediate rewards and demand unrealistic stuffs from the company. I now live amongst them and I can testify that is true and not at all exaggerated. Fresh graduates nowadays are not committed and are impatient.
But I think it's unfair to blame entirely on the fresh graduates' attitudes.
Have employers given themselves a reflection?
Sometimes there are employers who are acting as if the employees need the company, and they can oppress them and start exerting control and act as if they are afraid nobody knows they're the boss and start throwing attitude at all their employees to ensure their control is in check. I know the employees need the job, I wouldn't deny that. But bear in the mind the company also needs the employees.
Look at the company I'm currently working in. The big boss holds a Dato title. Impressive, you might think. But given how many people and what kind of people have been bestowed the title you can hardly agree that the title now holds any significance anymore. So he's a Dato, he's the boss. And as a boss, he likes to boss around. He likes to pinpoint a lot of small stuffs that aren't wrong, but simply ain't to his liking. He has a tendency to show authority over everybody. He likes to talk in a way that shines the authoritative character in himself and thereby draws a clear boundary between a boss and an employee in a casual conversation (yet he asks himself why people appear to be "shy" to talk to him. Sorry boss people are not shy, they simply do not want to put up with your attitude).
You know what's the problem with that attitude? Yes, you're the boss. You get to boss around.
But look at your company.
You are severely understaffed. You cannot keep your employees. Your employees are slowly resigning and moving to other companies. You should ask yourself: Why have you trained so many employees to be one of the tops, only to have them resigned a few years after employment to contribute to other companies? You cannot keep your employees, and the worse thing is there aren't new ones for you to hire because people don't approach your company anymore. Look at your current employees - how many of them are senior employees who have stayed long? Look at the figure in percentage, seriously it doesn't pass a single digit.
And the consequence?
Your current employee is being overwhelmed with extra workload.
And the bigger problem?
Even though you're understaffed and cannot deal with your current mess, you keep getting new customers. You know you don't have the ability to deliver, and yet you decide to "take the job and decide the outcome later". You're stressing your employees, and effectively you are pushing them away.
They are working from early morning to midnight virtually on a daily basis to rush the work. And trust me, some are considering resigning because they don't get much benefits from being this extra busy.
Please. I don't want to reveal much here, but how can you ask them to do triple the workload and not giving anything extra in return? I know you don't. I know a lot more than you could possibly imagine.
Employers like this who demand authority and allegiance are not going to stay long. The employees must contribute to the company, yes, but it is only right for the company to reciprocate. At least recognise that they are humans who are working extra hard.
Employers like these need to start changing their attitudes.
But I think it's unfair to blame entirely on the fresh graduates' attitudes.
Have employers given themselves a reflection?
Sometimes there are employers who are acting as if the employees need the company, and they can oppress them and start exerting control and act as if they are afraid nobody knows they're the boss and start throwing attitude at all their employees to ensure their control is in check. I know the employees need the job, I wouldn't deny that. But bear in the mind the company also needs the employees.
Look at the company I'm currently working in. The big boss holds a Dato title. Impressive, you might think. But given how many people and what kind of people have been bestowed the title you can hardly agree that the title now holds any significance anymore. So he's a Dato, he's the boss. And as a boss, he likes to boss around. He likes to pinpoint a lot of small stuffs that aren't wrong, but simply ain't to his liking. He has a tendency to show authority over everybody. He likes to talk in a way that shines the authoritative character in himself and thereby draws a clear boundary between a boss and an employee in a casual conversation (yet he asks himself why people appear to be "shy" to talk to him. Sorry boss people are not shy, they simply do not want to put up with your attitude).
You know what's the problem with that attitude? Yes, you're the boss. You get to boss around.
But look at your company.
You are severely understaffed. You cannot keep your employees. Your employees are slowly resigning and moving to other companies. You should ask yourself: Why have you trained so many employees to be one of the tops, only to have them resigned a few years after employment to contribute to other companies? You cannot keep your employees, and the worse thing is there aren't new ones for you to hire because people don't approach your company anymore. Look at your current employees - how many of them are senior employees who have stayed long? Look at the figure in percentage, seriously it doesn't pass a single digit.
And the consequence?
Your current employee is being overwhelmed with extra workload.
And the bigger problem?
Even though you're understaffed and cannot deal with your current mess, you keep getting new customers. You know you don't have the ability to deliver, and yet you decide to "take the job and decide the outcome later". You're stressing your employees, and effectively you are pushing them away.
They are working from early morning to midnight virtually on a daily basis to rush the work. And trust me, some are considering resigning because they don't get much benefits from being this extra busy.
Please. I don't want to reveal much here, but how can you ask them to do triple the workload and not giving anything extra in return? I know you don't. I know a lot more than you could possibly imagine.
Employers like this who demand authority and allegiance are not going to stay long. The employees must contribute to the company, yes, but it is only right for the company to reciprocate. At least recognise that they are humans who are working extra hard.
Employers like these need to start changing their attitudes.
Saturday 11 February 2017
Change of Template
It has been a while since I have changed my blog's template, and I thought it's an appropriate time to change it now considering today is the last day of CNY.
I've been quite busy recently with my internship programme. I am under a supervision of someone only 3 years older than me but extremely pro and brilliant. Being brilliant comes at a consequence: you become the dependence of your superior if time is constrained. So I've been helping him whenever I can and this has resulted my working hour to be 12 hours almost on a daily working day basis. My internship is due to end in two years, and because I am bound by a confidentiality agreement, I cannot reveal much about what I do. All I can say is that engineering life is tough. To be frank, all jobs are tough. Daily bad traffic aggravates an already stressful day. I guess I just have to get used to it. Working is tough.
I've been quite busy recently with my internship programme. I am under a supervision of someone only 3 years older than me but extremely pro and brilliant. Being brilliant comes at a consequence: you become the dependence of your superior if time is constrained. So I've been helping him whenever I can and this has resulted my working hour to be 12 hours almost on a daily working day basis. My internship is due to end in two years, and because I am bound by a confidentiality agreement, I cannot reveal much about what I do. All I can say is that engineering life is tough. To be frank, all jobs are tough. Daily bad traffic aggravates an already stressful day. I guess I just have to get used to it. Working is tough.
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