Monday, February 21, 2005
Ego, power....
Ok, mentioned in the previous post regarding my boss. So far, I think she is the only boss I have meet who is sharp, observant, and really will do work, unlike most bosses who only know how to talk…
What happened was, me and the other MSO (J) was asked to see her regarding the announcements of clearing invoices before the financial year ended. Then my boss asked us” How do you find working with D (the 倚老卖老 CSO woman I had mentioned before”.
Well, recently, J and I ( actually plus another colleague) find it difficult working with “D” as she always draw a clear line on what she is supposed to do, bossed around as if she is our supervisor. But Since our Boss had stated that D is to report to J, so I keep quiet, let J decided.
J put it in a nice way “I would say she’s rather defensive”.
Then bingo! Our boss start to say how she’d like us to be frank with her, let her know about the problems we had , instead of keeping it to ourselves.
Well, Our boss actually suspected something—just from an email. She told us that she received an email from D, which is an amended file that D did, an she notice that D did not sent to J or me, though she was staed before that D is supposed to let u review her work. Yet D included the director ( her previous supervisor b4 we came ) in the email.
“ What’s more important is what’s are the thing missing than what’s in the list’ that was what my boss mentioned.
Well, few bosses will read through the emails ( like this type of amended file for circulation), yet my boss even read who’s in the sender’s list. Just two names missing, and she'd already guessed what happened.
( hmm, like what ah shui told me, this also mean that next time I have to be careful when dealing with her too, in case I made any mistakes, and she’s notice it right away).
Then she told us that she sort of prepared that this type of situation would happen, specially when we two are younger than D, and we have less working experience. D would find it unjustified that she’ll needed to report to someone junior than her, though our appointment grade are higher than her. She mentioned that of course it would depend on the individual. Some will accept this type of arrangement, but some won’t.
“ The whole problem is with ego.” She said. Then she talked about how some people always grumble “ Why do I have to listen to her”, “why people talks to her but not me”, “Why the boss only ask her to do things”……..
Yah, J & I never ever thought of competing against D. D is the one who often stressed that she worked with Ministries b4, and was supposed to be the same grade as I , but she don’t have the cert, hence the HR cannot promote her to that scale.
I myself hate to be involved in power struggle. My motto is: just do what you can, and give your best. No need to compete against other.
Suddenly, all these reminded me of someone in TXY. He always thought that I want to compete against hi, or actually he is the one who compete against me, when I never even bothered to be in the “race’. Years ago, I was quite active in reporting articles for my Poly, due to the good PR staff I have from my school, who always provide interesting press release to the editor, Yet he sort of grumbled that I am so aggressive in reporting that I took away other students’ chances of reporting their school events. He was so that he event when to the extent of keeping track how many articles each members have reported. When I received the one of the "写昨表现奖” during the annual prize presentation ceremony, he was like making comments again, while I myself never ever though of writing all those articles just to get awards.
Even when I got a position in the executive committee, all I want to do is to help out. Yet to him, he view it as some sort of competition. I myself never plan how to get into the committee, all I know is that someone nominated me, and I just try out, sort of to pay back with my service for in club, to thank them for the articles fees given to me.
During these years, I’ve seen him trying all sorts of ways to be an influential person in the club, trying to get the younger batches of members to obey him, twisting stories to make himself look as he is the victims and he was wrongly misunderstood by other people in the club. He treats this whole thing like a “Survivor” race, but he never understand that there are people who never never want any power, or being involve in the first place.
Ok, back to what my boss told us. Then she elaborated a lot, and then guided us that we have to find a way to deal with D. She also told us that we have to work extra hard to prove ourselves to D, to earn her respect. Cos we both are not accessed by her (boss) but also by D. Not as in assessment during performance appraisal, just that D will be watching us on how we do our work.
Yah I understand what my boss means. If J and I make any mistakes, D will sure gives us a “ I told you so, I got more experience” look. So we both have to prove that we are up to her standard to be supervising her.
Towards the end of the talk, boss even care to tell us that if we need her help to talk to D, she can do so, Then she got D to come in, told her gently that she need her to do corrections for the list and then pass it to J and I for checking.( sort of hinted again that D had to report to us) But D blurted out something which almost makes J & I fall off from our seats:
“But Director told me not to send out”.
Erh hrm, it was very cleared on our 1st day of work that we all three are under our boss, who is an Assistant Chief Executive, and her position is obviously higher than any of the Directors. Yet D dared to use a director name to 压她. * shakes head*
Anyway, J & I are still trying to find a way to work with D. But there were a few times where D always claim to be busy and left us two doing the work which is supposed to done by her. Well, luckily we both are not the type who don’t bother and left the work being undone and then blame D for what happened. If she don’t do, we do. We’re not going to let the department be disorganise just because of her.
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