Today, someone jokingly said I’m very cruel to the company I work for.
I can’t help but felt hurt and sad though it was just a joke. I felt hurt because I have spent 8 years at the company. It’s like someone jokingly said I’m cruel to my lover.
8 years of tears and happiness. 8 years of valuable manufacturing experiences. 8 years of friendship with the people over there. 8 years of hard work for the company. And, in fact I spent more time in the company than at home.
I can’t describe my feeling for the company but all I can say is, it is in this company that I grow from nobody to somebody. It’s the people in the company that gave me the opportunities and help me to become who I am now.
Before I go on, whoever read this post, bear in mind that I’m not blaming her. Just that I feel the need to explain and to pour out my feeling in this blog. If you can’t accept and bear it, just click the X button.
Now, let me ask you, must someone pledge their loyalty to the company he works? The answer is definitely no. Let’s put the economics situation aside. Whenever we have the opportunity to grow our career and increase our pay( when everybody get pay cut ), we have to grab it instantly after taking into all considerations, right?
That’s all I did. Maybe too soon. But is timing the measure to how cruel I am?
Let’s say a company retrench its’ employees and give them a short notice. In this case, is the company cruel to them?
Some may start to grumble. Some may curse the company. But will all these lead you to happiness and avoid frustrations? NO. You can go on and on to grumble and curse, the end result will be the same. You are retrench. The first word your manager will say is SORRY. He or she can’t helps you anymore except maybe help you to pack your stuffs. And will your colleagues be able to share your burdens? Will they provide shelter and foods to you? Will they go all out to boycott the company for the sake of you? They can’t right? They can’t help you in that way simply because they too have to provide shelter and foods to their own family. Will you go and blame them? NO…
So do you get it?
When the time is up, then one must go. When nothing left for you, will you go out and seek for it or will you sit there and grumble things are not working for you?
And when opportunity knocks your door, and ask you to go grab it immediately or risk being taken by others, will you do all you can to grab it instantly? Or will you sit there and ponder all sort of things and let the opportunity slips away? There is always an opportunity cost.
One must bear in mind that as long as we remain in the rat race, as long as we are employed by companies, our destiny is not in our hand. Our pay whether high or low is set by the company. Our job is never secure. Look it at this way, our managers will never ever 100% guarantee the promises he makes until it turns out to be true. The best a manager can helps is to do his best to fulfil the promises. If things goes wrong, you can’t blame him if he has done his best. After all, he is just an employee of the company. Right or wrong?
That’s the reason why I never blame anyone for my hardship at workplace. I have been sacrificed, scolded, criticized, yelled, misunderstood and shamed but I never ever have a hard feeling at anyone. I was sacrificed for someone else goods, but do I blame that person? No. I felt sad at first but soon I felt that in this life, things either belong to you or to others. It is yours or others. If he has the fate or luck or whatever to posses it, then it’s his. And then, life goes on for us to continue to seek for a better career, more money, healthier and wonderful life.
Having said that, it doesn’t mean I am always the good guy and others are bad guys. I did a lot of things that many don’t like or felt hurt or insulted. I knew. If I were given a choice and full control of my mind, I will have tune it to be perfectly acceptable to anyone and offence no one. But I can’t. That’s the reason why I make mistakes. The best I can do is not to repeat it the next time and do more good.
Some people just don’t see the overall picture but just the surface of it. Again, I don’t blame them. I take things as it is, whatever the outcomes will be, I grab it, face it and solve it. As Henry always said one must always be steady and face the challenges.
That’s what I’m doing. It’s tough but it’s the tough decision that I have to make.
Going to miss you too. Remember to call me out from time to time lo.
Wish you all the very best my friend. Gonna miss you…