Obnoxious People on the Prowl
9th March 2006, Thursday
Yesterday before I left, got a rather unfortunate piece of news from my supervisor concerning an IT guy over at our side who got into an accident when a window pane fell on his head and was admitted to hospital...
This is the same IT guy who is in charge of monitoring internet usage in our workplace and twice caught me red-handed for my vice last year.
I know I was at the wrong commiting what I did but a true nature of a Scorpio, I would never forget that incident and the person that aggravated the situation.
Thus upon hearing the news part of me felt shock and sorry for that chap, and majority me was smirking gleefully, thinking "revenge is sweet"....
Actually this particular Indian IT guy has a not so amiable reputation to begin with...People knew him as a lazy guy who would actually start step on people's toes with his random monitoring when been pressurized by his own boss.
He was never helpful when requested for help (though most of his colleagues are an aloof bunch who would only response to your computing plight when an official request is been put up).
Then again he is just one of the many obnoxious people in the neighborhood...
I'm pretty sure everyone has their own segregation of obnoxious people you detest in your workplace and mine is rather full of it..I sure miss the girls with their classic "name-giving" for all these people which is always befitting to their person's personality or outlook...although in most cases I felt their "acid-tongues" are rather uncalled for as many we hardly know and should not comment base on just one or two unpleasant incidents... And other time it is just personal vendetta against some personel such as the "uncle" from SeBan's lab who fashion sense, personality, work attitude and overall interpersonal skills need to be under scrunity, otherwise she/he is fine...
I also believe in "tit for a tat", so I am very sure many people would find us obnoxious and aloof and bestow us with names...I'm sure "grouchy pockmarked fatboy" would be a commonly given nickname for me...
The king of obnoxiousness is nobody else but JxMMy whose records are well documented and acknowledged that now I am just awiating from well known publishing houses to offer me the right deal to publish "The Chronicles of JxMMy D".
Seriously my so-called "introvert" partner in crime for the past 3 years or so is a dream worker for the company but an inferior grade team member...
Always on a "solo" mode, he is well-known for coming out new gimmicks and methods without consultation of others and usually caused inconveniences to his co-workers.
Unknowingly he would steal everyone's thunder and let himself shine in front of other people and went ahead to do what he ain't supposed to be doing, which resulted in the irritation of the girls and the catalyst for their departures.
Even the newer staff find him a bit too staunch to talk to and I believe he doesn't even mind maintaining the entire lab on himself..
As quoted from BY before, he could just bring his "barang barang" and stay in the workplace, so that he could run the show 24-7..
Poor Bobby, must be feeling restless these couple of days as the project that had been keeping us busy is coming to a close this week and the workload is evidently been decimated.
So now basically we are competing for work from the service side which is few and far between...
Then again there are the rather mundane housekeeping chores which dear JxMMy is too important to lay his sacred hands on...However without much situational awareness still, I had been the one slogging with such chores...but not that I am complaining as it definitely keeps my day busy...
Therefore for someone who would like to be kept on his toes from the minute he comes in for work till it's time for knock off, Bobby might feel his recent idleness makes his choice to join the lab (which is suffering from overstaffed at the moment) a not so wise career path...
However there are a couple of well-known "leeches" in the company that do not feel a strain of shame for not doing work and yet rightfully claim monthly pay...
One of them is this guy named JJ who the girls once heard from others saying that his inactivity in work is renowned and even their boss is hapless with his attitude...thus these days I look at him in an indifferent way
The other of course is none other than the soccer ball of my workplace, the ex-colleague of mine known as "Shit".
Yes he is the one who would call in late for work because of some errands to run and refuse to apply annual leaves for (since he had ran out of it)...
He is also the one who was caught sleeping in the library and surfing internet in the dark while everyone is off for a seminar.
He is also the one been kicked to at least 4 various departments and finally settling down at the teaching lab where he found his niche in a place he needs to work minimal and rattle non-stop nonsense to school students who are so bored, they actually appreciate his nonsense.
It is a scary thought that such a being is actually a father of 2, and imagine his children asking him.."hey dad, what have you been doing at work?"...he'll most probably reply "work? what's that?"
With the annual appraisal for staff here, I wonder how the above-mentioned could leech onto the organisation for so many years. (Shit actually worked here for like 13 years now)..
There are 2 possible hypothesis to explain that:
1) The company is reluctant to give anyone the sack especially those on permenant basis in the past under us who are under contract basis. Sacking means dishing retrenchment payments; so they rather forced you out by yourselves and obviously those 2 are too thick for that...
2) We actually believe that our supervisor loves to feel wretched to be tormented by the antics Shit pulls and actually award him with great appraisal to gives him the rights to stay for all these years while complain to us what he did for her own entertainment...
Well it's blatant that those 2 had dogshit luck to encounter nice supervisors, imagine they went to certain hellblazing ones the institute is famous for including SeBan, a Japanese guy more affectionately known as "走狗 (or traitor)" whom my old friend, BH had served and begrudged for years before leaving. He was also the one that acknowledged me as "another JxMMy" whom he had always favored for the person he entrusted to run his bloody samples.
But none would be as obnoxious as Zhiyue's boyfriend's depostic boss who demanded them to work their asses off every single minute and coming back to work on weekends and public holidays are a must and unconditional.
No wonder he had a turn over rate of laboratory biologist of 8 within 2 years or so.
Then there was this PRC supervisor who is known as the "most suave and well-adorned man" by all the China aunties in our institute which actually is a scrawny old Chinese man..think Japanese PM Koizumi except much wrinkled and more white but less wavy hair with specs.
He loves to strode around with his right hand in his pocket, with every steps he thought he would be able to charm off all the female population fortunate enough to be in his presence.
His fashion style should be the top tier from the early 1980s in some obscure southern province of China...
BUT..if the aunties kiss the path he walks, I'll rest my case...
Usually I had no qualms with this guy except he usually goes back home very early, utilizing his superior role in his lab while his staffs are slogging away for results.
However recently I got the feeling that he is not one to be trifled with when he lambasted a security guard who was just doing his job to request to see the staff pass during lunch hours before permitting his entry... Poor guard...
When you work in an environment with such variety of nationalities, you bound to have cultural clashes...
The "ang mohs" & the Japaneses will demand everything to be expedited without any glitches. One classic example is the Swiss pirate guy who I used to had a verbal war with in front of our supervisor who is at our side and wrote an email to his boss to complain about his unruly behavior.
It was water under the bridge now since I realized that he has a Japanese wife and enjoyed travelling to Japan which is always fantastic to chat about in my book.
It's the PRC researchers that I couldn't tolerate at times.
Most of them are fine and appreciative but some of them simply insisted to break a conversation in English which is apparent not their first language and my appeal to speak Mandarin to them is to no avail.
Then there was this chap who has more than once came seeking our service yet feel it was right that we entertain him as top priority and demand for stuff like we owed it to him. More than once I had crossed swords with him..cause unlike JxMMy I would not cowered and let these ingrates to push me around...which is why I would never be in the service line with my temperament.
Well last but not least the most obnoxious of them all...our empress dowager who determined our monthly income..the one that called OLD HAG...
Wearing the same outfit for like last 20 years, she had been ruling our workplace with her iron grasp for far too long....
When other sister institutes under our parent company is offering better wage & benefit package, we are actually been awarded crumbs which she deemed right to scatter.
She has been rumored to suggest that we laboratory biologists are just consumables and very much dispensable thus need not to be well treasured despite our years of toiling for the institute.
This is the very reason the turnover rate in the past year has been in such alarming fashion... the job market is high on demand now after the economic gloom of the early 2000s and many simply headed for greener pastures rather than stuck here to endure such dictatorship.
She has simply no peer nor confidante over here but only a few "pets" at her beck and call...
I am sure her departure would signal an unprecendented mass wild celebrations with a notion of relief...but I guess that won't happen in the near future, well not in the next century...
Well life ain't a bed of roses but even if it is, don't forget about the thorns within...
My mentality is to steer clear of all these obnoxious characters as much as possible and live and work my own way...at my own pace...
Hmm..makes me wanna hum to the tune of the Sunset Swish single now.. "My Pace"...
Yesterday before I left, got a rather unfortunate piece of news from my supervisor concerning an IT guy over at our side who got into an accident when a window pane fell on his head and was admitted to hospital...
This is the same IT guy who is in charge of monitoring internet usage in our workplace and twice caught me red-handed for my vice last year.
I know I was at the wrong commiting what I did but a true nature of a Scorpio, I would never forget that incident and the person that aggravated the situation.
Thus upon hearing the news part of me felt shock and sorry for that chap, and majority me was smirking gleefully, thinking "revenge is sweet"....
Actually this particular Indian IT guy has a not so amiable reputation to begin with...People knew him as a lazy guy who would actually start step on people's toes with his random monitoring when been pressurized by his own boss.
He was never helpful when requested for help (though most of his colleagues are an aloof bunch who would only response to your computing plight when an official request is been put up).
Then again he is just one of the many obnoxious people in the neighborhood...
I'm pretty sure everyone has their own segregation of obnoxious people you detest in your workplace and mine is rather full of it..I sure miss the girls with their classic "name-giving" for all these people which is always befitting to their person's personality or outlook...although in most cases I felt their "acid-tongues" are rather uncalled for as many we hardly know and should not comment base on just one or two unpleasant incidents... And other time it is just personal vendetta against some personel such as the "uncle" from SeBan's lab who fashion sense, personality, work attitude and overall interpersonal skills need to be under scrunity, otherwise she/he is fine...
I also believe in "tit for a tat", so I am very sure many people would find us obnoxious and aloof and bestow us with names...I'm sure "grouchy pockmarked fatboy" would be a commonly given nickname for me...
The king of obnoxiousness is nobody else but JxMMy whose records are well documented and acknowledged that now I am just awiating from well known publishing houses to offer me the right deal to publish "The Chronicles of JxMMy D".
Seriously my so-called "introvert" partner in crime for the past 3 years or so is a dream worker for the company but an inferior grade team member...
Always on a "solo" mode, he is well-known for coming out new gimmicks and methods without consultation of others and usually caused inconveniences to his co-workers.
Unknowingly he would steal everyone's thunder and let himself shine in front of other people and went ahead to do what he ain't supposed to be doing, which resulted in the irritation of the girls and the catalyst for their departures.
Even the newer staff find him a bit too staunch to talk to and I believe he doesn't even mind maintaining the entire lab on himself..
As quoted from BY before, he could just bring his "barang barang" and stay in the workplace, so that he could run the show 24-7..
Poor Bobby, must be feeling restless these couple of days as the project that had been keeping us busy is coming to a close this week and the workload is evidently been decimated.
So now basically we are competing for work from the service side which is few and far between...
Then again there are the rather mundane housekeeping chores which dear JxMMy is too important to lay his sacred hands on...However without much situational awareness still, I had been the one slogging with such chores...but not that I am complaining as it definitely keeps my day busy...
Therefore for someone who would like to be kept on his toes from the minute he comes in for work till it's time for knock off, Bobby might feel his recent idleness makes his choice to join the lab (which is suffering from overstaffed at the moment) a not so wise career path...
However there are a couple of well-known "leeches" in the company that do not feel a strain of shame for not doing work and yet rightfully claim monthly pay...
One of them is this guy named JJ who the girls once heard from others saying that his inactivity in work is renowned and even their boss is hapless with his attitude...thus these days I look at him in an indifferent way
The other of course is none other than the soccer ball of my workplace, the ex-colleague of mine known as "Shit".
Yes he is the one who would call in late for work because of some errands to run and refuse to apply annual leaves for (since he had ran out of it)...
He is also the one who was caught sleeping in the library and surfing internet in the dark while everyone is off for a seminar.
He is also the one been kicked to at least 4 various departments and finally settling down at the teaching lab where he found his niche in a place he needs to work minimal and rattle non-stop nonsense to school students who are so bored, they actually appreciate his nonsense.
It is a scary thought that such a being is actually a father of 2, and imagine his children asking him.."hey dad, what have you been doing at work?"...he'll most probably reply "work? what's that?"
With the annual appraisal for staff here, I wonder how the above-mentioned could leech onto the organisation for so many years. (Shit actually worked here for like 13 years now)..
There are 2 possible hypothesis to explain that:
1) The company is reluctant to give anyone the sack especially those on permenant basis in the past under us who are under contract basis. Sacking means dishing retrenchment payments; so they rather forced you out by yourselves and obviously those 2 are too thick for that...
2) We actually believe that our supervisor loves to feel wretched to be tormented by the antics Shit pulls and actually award him with great appraisal to gives him the rights to stay for all these years while complain to us what he did for her own entertainment...
Well it's blatant that those 2 had dogshit luck to encounter nice supervisors, imagine they went to certain hellblazing ones the institute is famous for including SeBan, a Japanese guy more affectionately known as "走狗 (or traitor)" whom my old friend, BH had served and begrudged for years before leaving. He was also the one that acknowledged me as "another JxMMy" whom he had always favored for the person he entrusted to run his bloody samples.
But none would be as obnoxious as Zhiyue's boyfriend's depostic boss who demanded them to work their asses off every single minute and coming back to work on weekends and public holidays are a must and unconditional.
No wonder he had a turn over rate of laboratory biologist of 8 within 2 years or so.
Then there was this PRC supervisor who is known as the "most suave and well-adorned man" by all the China aunties in our institute which actually is a scrawny old Chinese man..think Japanese PM Koizumi except much wrinkled and more white but less wavy hair with specs.
He loves to strode around with his right hand in his pocket, with every steps he thought he would be able to charm off all the female population fortunate enough to be in his presence.
His fashion style should be the top tier from the early 1980s in some obscure southern province of China...
BUT..if the aunties kiss the path he walks, I'll rest my case...
Usually I had no qualms with this guy except he usually goes back home very early, utilizing his superior role in his lab while his staffs are slogging away for results.
However recently I got the feeling that he is not one to be trifled with when he lambasted a security guard who was just doing his job to request to see the staff pass during lunch hours before permitting his entry... Poor guard...
When you work in an environment with such variety of nationalities, you bound to have cultural clashes...
The "ang mohs" & the Japaneses will demand everything to be expedited without any glitches. One classic example is the Swiss pirate guy who I used to had a verbal war with in front of our supervisor who is at our side and wrote an email to his boss to complain about his unruly behavior.
It was water under the bridge now since I realized that he has a Japanese wife and enjoyed travelling to Japan which is always fantastic to chat about in my book.
It's the PRC researchers that I couldn't tolerate at times.
Most of them are fine and appreciative but some of them simply insisted to break a conversation in English which is apparent not their first language and my appeal to speak Mandarin to them is to no avail.
Then there was this chap who has more than once came seeking our service yet feel it was right that we entertain him as top priority and demand for stuff like we owed it to him. More than once I had crossed swords with him..cause unlike JxMMy I would not cowered and let these ingrates to push me around...which is why I would never be in the service line with my temperament.
Well last but not least the most obnoxious of them all...our empress dowager who determined our monthly income..the one that called OLD HAG...
Wearing the same outfit for like last 20 years, she had been ruling our workplace with her iron grasp for far too long....
When other sister institutes under our parent company is offering better wage & benefit package, we are actually been awarded crumbs which she deemed right to scatter.
She has been rumored to suggest that we laboratory biologists are just consumables and very much dispensable thus need not to be well treasured despite our years of toiling for the institute.
This is the very reason the turnover rate in the past year has been in such alarming fashion... the job market is high on demand now after the economic gloom of the early 2000s and many simply headed for greener pastures rather than stuck here to endure such dictatorship.
She has simply no peer nor confidante over here but only a few "pets" at her beck and call...
I am sure her departure would signal an unprecendented mass wild celebrations with a notion of relief...but I guess that won't happen in the near future, well not in the next century...
Well life ain't a bed of roses but even if it is, don't forget about the thorns within...
My mentality is to steer clear of all these obnoxious characters as much as possible and live and work my own way...at my own pace...
Hmm..makes me wanna hum to the tune of the Sunset Swish single now.. "My Pace"...
Japanese word of the day: ひどく嫌いなさい ~hi-do-ku-ki-ra-i-na-sa-i~ (Detest) I'm sure JxMMy at times might simply detest my presence as well, uttering to himself with his low, monotonous voice.."that pockmarked fatboy"
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