Saturday, April 25, 2009
a while ago, probably just a few months back, i was still having that thought that i want to be able to please everyone around me. i won't know if that is what you call being naive, because part of me still doesn't think so. but it's just that after working in an office environment for half a year (note that my ns life now is similar to what an normal office job out in the civilian world is like), time and again i've been turned off by office politics, so much so to the extent that i don't even want to bother about them anymore.
what people tell you about others, more often than not, is true to a certain extent. but how you want to go about treating others is a completely different matter altogether. your very own judgement, how you deal with issues, how you interact with the others all plays an important role. if you don't get what i mean, i actually mean just be yourself, simplest job in the world (yet many find it hard to fufill and they don't realise it). if they're out to make your life misearble, they're f***-ed up so just ignore them. if they just want to claim credit for themselves, go ahead, as long as it doesn't degrade you in any way. if they really out to get you, just do your work and your boss will know what his employees are up to.
no matter how we work together, how people help each other out at work, how colleagues rely on each other, there'll just be this bulletproof glass wall existing in between people. because ultimately, we work for ourselves to survive. like from an economists point of view, everything we do, there'll definitely be an incentive behind it. money, fame, or simply just the satisfaction behind it. and of course, it's how much the individuals want them as well.
i don't know about others (note that i can't really be bothered by the people around me (currently) anymore), but when i step out into the cooperate world in the future, i doubt i'll be giving my complete trust to anyone at all, or at least it'll be very hard to do so. partly because i don't really bother. so i guess it's important to really search for the people whom you trust from the bottom of your heart right now. the younger we are, the less we know, the less f***-ed up people around you are, in general. the friends we've made in school will probably be the ones we can trust more than the colleagues or other people we meet in the future. it'll be quite screwed if there are already major politics going on in classrooms.(however, do note that it's just general fact. nothing is absolute and there're always exceptions).
how i wish office politics is an object i can put at the end of a shooting range, so i can just pummel it with live rounds from a M16 switched to automatic mode.
anyway, i had a fun yesterday. enough said =)
aaron | 8:12 AM
