Everyone gives excuses... some lousy, some acceptable, some exceptionally good.
Someone explained to me:
"I wanted to call J.F. but I've been looking for J.F.'s namecard since blah blah blah...". (FYI, J.F. is a high profile person)
-- This is what I label as super lousy excuse --
Why?
You just got to key his name in any search engine and bingo, his contact would just appear. You don't even have to search high and low for it.
Yes, I did point this out to that Someone...
Geez, these four years... I learn almost nothing except the 3-Ps... Please, Perseverance, and Patience.
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I'm initially neutral about the re-org. My boss even told me that I'm very cheem when I said "I'm not worried, just concerned..." to our VP a few days ago... =) Jokes aside...
Now, I probably have to take back partial of my words after I heard and observed everything that was done and said in just one day. The morale in my group dipped from an all-time high (what I observed when I first join them) to an all-time low (guess it couldn't be any lower) yesterday. For the very first time, I got to experience what it's like when those high up in the mgmt promote those who sang in tune with them so as to build their first line of defence, how the big fish eat the small fish, how they remove potential projects out of the hands of those who had painstakingly done more than 60% of the cumbersome/difficult parts, do the remaining on their behalf and claim the credits at the end of it all,... it's all the ugly high mgmt warfare tactics. I wonder if they ever turn their back and look at how many soldiers are still following them and how many they sacrificed in the process.
I had a talk with L., understand and address some of her concerns... offer some suggestions.
I also went for a drink with a colleague B. and we talked a little abt it too.
Haiz, I'm not at liberty to say certain things. Some of them still do not know abt certain things at the moment. I can only do that much at the moment...
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