Thursday, June 29, 2006

eyes & peanuts

The whole office was involve in photoshoot for annual report today. We are require to act as models for differnt scenario ~ talking to each other, working ...

I wasn't that enthu abt it, kinda feel sian. Guess it's the same for colleagues in the same division as me. Will talk abt the reason later.

So early in the morning, I was called in to act out 3 scenes.

1) talking to another colleague who was holding a book

2) Typing on notebook at workstation ( dun understand why I have to smile at the monitor screen)

3) Talking to another colleague who was hanging ard my work station.



(suddenly i thought of someone ~ the "精神支柱". U know, all these stuff abt "modelling".)

Anyway, after I was done and resume my work at my desk, overheard some colleagues lamenting they were rejected by the photographer.

" They said my eyes too small." and she whined.

"u mean the photographer really said that? How can they say such a thing?"

"very sad lah."



Then one of my colleague said to me " Yr eyes so big, that's why they won't reject you."


And my immediate thought was

我的眼睛很大 meh?


(In the afternoon, I was asked to act out for another scene again....)

Anyway, I rather give up the opportunity, after all, we the Div 2 staff are considered peanuts to the organization.

Yeah peanuts.
Or maybe even less than peanuts.



News leaked out yesterday that the rest of the colleagues who are in Div 1 and above will be getting pay increase. Not 1 to 2% but AT LEAST 12%.

Yet those support staff like us got none at all. Not even 0.01%. A colleague in the same division was telling me, apparently the top management thinks that we can’t contribute much (in terms of monetary gains) to the organization. And if we are unhappy and leave, they can find other people to do our jobs. Furthermore, the newbies wun even know abt the discriminating pay increase.


It’s really what you call
DISCRIMINATION.


越想越气. And we decided that there is no reason for us to stay anymore, since the management is unappreciative of our work. If we leave together, let’s see how can they cope with accessing the systems, banking $, photocopying and other admin matters.


This morning, my colleague added “我们是花生！” to her msn nic.
And I added on my msn nic: “我们连花生都不如。”


Most people won’t mind working for a company that is offering lower salaries or longer hours if the bosses are appreciative of their efforts. However, if the employee’s work is not being recognized, there is no motivation for him or her to work hard or stay at the place anymore….

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