I am not someone that is easily annoyed by anything. I know what you were thinking "Look at all your post, you are annoyed by something". Well, OK, fine, I am annoyed by other's action mostly, but not event usually, but hey, our action leads to event right?
At some point in my life, I have a friend name Chris (Alias.. yet again). Chris is a real kiss up, a brown nose, he will bend over for his boss. We somewhat noticed this behavior since high school. So just a little bit of background. I was a class clown, teacher doesn't hate me, but I did "conducted" a few experiments in the science lab and the electronics lab that the teacher won't be too fond of. Chris demonstrated the "brown nosing" behavior since then. You know the typical nerd you see in Japanese animate? The one that will join you for all kind of destruction work, then turn around running to the teacher telling him/her that "Yeah, I was with them, they forced me to blow up the transformer". That's the exact kind of people Chris is.
Chris is pretty much the last person on earth that I would expect to come to my aid. I still remember an incident a while ago. Ken (one of our commom group of friends) work with Chris in the same company. They pretty much carry the same title, except that Chris has another 3 months on top of him. Being new, Ken wasn't completely cushy towards the work that was assigned to him, as a result he missed a piece of important work. The manager ran and ask him "Where the hell is my report". Ken was ready to leave at that point, he had some personal issues to deal with so he was all packed up and ready to go. And he told the manager "I will try to get it to you by tomorrow". The manager wasn't too too happy, but think that its acceptable so he told Ken "OK, well, if you can stick around for a little and finish it tonight, that will be great, but if not, then tomorrow is fine". Chris found out, ran to the boss and told the boss that "You sometime need to be tough and put your foot down to get your work done, its not fair to us if he get an extra day extension". OK, so fine, it may not be fair, but Ken is new, and he is your friend, WHY??? So their boss ran to Ken, stopped him at the elevator and told him "I want it now"
Through out the years there were numerous similar incident, but this particular incident really annoyed me.
A while ago there was an opportunity for a gathering, I don't hate Chris, hate is a very strong word, just say I "Dislike" him enough that I don't want to talk to him. I am not being rude or anything, I mean, I do say hi to him when I see him and I do answer him when he ask me things. But I will not initiate a conversation, and definitely no "goofy clown me" while in a conversation with him, serious face - We mean business buddy.
THEN, he start asking around "What is wrong with him? Is he OK? I think he is upset at something, but I don't think its me"
Of course its not you, that's why I am normal and goofy around everyone else but you. Do you need me to hurt you to know that I dislike you or upset at you?
If you think about it, people always have justification to everything they do, I mean, will you do something that you believe is wrong? Don't think so. So, I am sure everyone will have some form of justification towards their action and deeds.
I pray to God that Chris will live a long life, its people like him that make this life meaningful, you get something to laugh at......
Friday, November 30, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
Brown Nosers
Been a while since I last complained
Ok, so for this one, I am not going to mention any time frame, people will easily figure out who I am talking about otherwise. The kind of "attention" that I really don't need.
I think it’s a good enough "hint" if I tell you this is when I am a QA team leader, which is probably a good chunk of my career.
So at THAT time, there are four other parallel teams that work with me. So, as most logical human would've guessed, yes, there were four other team leaders on the team. We each handle different products, and USUALLY there aren't any conflicts with the work we do. I said "USUALLY" because there is still a very rare, but possible chance that our work MAY collide with each other, but even that is something I would consider as "Niche".
One of the team leader (lets just call him Andrew) always think that he is a senior lead, of course he is, I mean, we have 5 leads, the one that have been with the organization the longest have about 6 months, I have about 3 months, and he is more senior than the other 2 lead by a week and a half. So yeah, he is senior alright... at least, he thinks he is.
He is the reason why I believe that if you lookup words like "Low Self Esteem" or "Male Ego" online, you will see a picture of him. To him, he is handling the biggest project of all and he is always the most important person at work. The fun part is that he lives his own delusion. How did we know this? Andrew is not someone that is shy to be vocal over these things. He TELLS us how busy he is. His favorite line is always "Yea, my project manager doesn't do anything; I have to do everything for them". I wonder if his PM knows that he said that. He does also look very very busy absolutely all the time. He stay late, usually as late as the boss, but then, that’s something that I would expect, since he is always just walking around, I could only imagine how productive he could be while he was away from his desk 6/7 hours he stayed here. Oh, and that hour he was at his desk.. LUNCH... He is really good at putting the other leads (including me) down to make him sound important. Things like "Your project is not half as busy as mine" or "That’s easy, I do that all the time" are not foreign around him.
Anyways, so Andrew is actually an artist in deception. If he was born in feudal Japan, he would've replaced Hattori Hanzo to honor the title of "Top Ninja". He is just THAT good. I mean, he made it just so the whole world does THINK that he is that busy, and he does work that hard. Darn, maybe I do need a lesson or two from him.
About seven years ago, I read a book from decently famous motivational speaker, interestingly he talk about the art to deceive your boss. One of the item that was mention was "Messy desk mean you are busy", "Personal items mean you have great moral". I am almost positive that Andrew must have read this book. You won't see any desk on his desk.. It’s all covered with paper and junk. His cabinet is full of personal items, items that make people think "Wow this guy is really prepared to camp here tonight", not only that, his cabinet got this aura of a horrid stick from old grocery bags and probably lunch from centuries ago.
All that didn't really trigger us off or anything. Until one day, he ran out of ways to show his dedication, or he ran out of things to put down people, he decide to run to the boss and sell us out. Two of my other colleagues/friend, Jessica and Geoff (again, aliases only) are extremely quiet, they are the non competitive type of anything. Jessica didn't have too much trouble with Andrew, except his momentary "almost harassing" behavior. Andrew also seems to get along with Geoff (or me for the matters). So the day comes, when our manager start to delegate different managerial task to us. Andrew's task is to track a few items from all the lead, and is the person supposes to be working with the rest of us to get these items from us. Geoff was under extreme pressure due to a project that was poorly managed, and was not able to provide Andrew with what he was looking for. Guess what, instead of helping or asking Geoff to "Pick up the pace buddy", he ran right to the manager and ratted him out. And that’s not the end of it, he told (and teach) the manager that he should pressure Geoff to get it done.
Talking of screwing your friends over!
Its interesting to see how skill-less people are so skilled at brown nosing.. Of course, they can't do anything else otherwise.....
Ok, so for this one, I am not going to mention any time frame, people will easily figure out who I am talking about otherwise. The kind of "attention" that I really don't need.
I think it’s a good enough "hint" if I tell you this is when I am a QA team leader, which is probably a good chunk of my career.
So at THAT time, there are four other parallel teams that work with me. So, as most logical human would've guessed, yes, there were four other team leaders on the team. We each handle different products, and USUALLY there aren't any conflicts with the work we do. I said "USUALLY" because there is still a very rare, but possible chance that our work MAY collide with each other, but even that is something I would consider as "Niche".
One of the team leader (lets just call him Andrew) always think that he is a senior lead, of course he is, I mean, we have 5 leads, the one that have been with the organization the longest have about 6 months, I have about 3 months, and he is more senior than the other 2 lead by a week and a half. So yeah, he is senior alright... at least, he thinks he is.
He is the reason why I believe that if you lookup words like "Low Self Esteem" or "Male Ego" online, you will see a picture of him. To him, he is handling the biggest project of all and he is always the most important person at work. The fun part is that he lives his own delusion. How did we know this? Andrew is not someone that is shy to be vocal over these things. He TELLS us how busy he is. His favorite line is always "Yea, my project manager doesn't do anything; I have to do everything for them". I wonder if his PM knows that he said that. He does also look very very busy absolutely all the time. He stay late, usually as late as the boss, but then, that’s something that I would expect, since he is always just walking around, I could only imagine how productive he could be while he was away from his desk 6/7 hours he stayed here. Oh, and that hour he was at his desk.. LUNCH... He is really good at putting the other leads (including me) down to make him sound important. Things like "Your project is not half as busy as mine" or "That’s easy, I do that all the time" are not foreign around him.
Anyways, so Andrew is actually an artist in deception. If he was born in feudal Japan, he would've replaced Hattori Hanzo to honor the title of "Top Ninja". He is just THAT good. I mean, he made it just so the whole world does THINK that he is that busy, and he does work that hard. Darn, maybe I do need a lesson or two from him.
About seven years ago, I read a book from decently famous motivational speaker, interestingly he talk about the art to deceive your boss. One of the item that was mention was "Messy desk mean you are busy", "Personal items mean you have great moral". I am almost positive that Andrew must have read this book. You won't see any desk on his desk.. It’s all covered with paper and junk. His cabinet is full of personal items, items that make people think "Wow this guy is really prepared to camp here tonight", not only that, his cabinet got this aura of a horrid stick from old grocery bags and probably lunch from centuries ago.
All that didn't really trigger us off or anything. Until one day, he ran out of ways to show his dedication, or he ran out of things to put down people, he decide to run to the boss and sell us out. Two of my other colleagues/friend, Jessica and Geoff (again, aliases only) are extremely quiet, they are the non competitive type of anything. Jessica didn't have too much trouble with Andrew, except his momentary "almost harassing" behavior. Andrew also seems to get along with Geoff (or me for the matters). So the day comes, when our manager start to delegate different managerial task to us. Andrew's task is to track a few items from all the lead, and is the person supposes to be working with the rest of us to get these items from us. Geoff was under extreme pressure due to a project that was poorly managed, and was not able to provide Andrew with what he was looking for. Guess what, instead of helping or asking Geoff to "Pick up the pace buddy", he ran right to the manager and ratted him out. And that’s not the end of it, he told (and teach) the manager that he should pressure Geoff to get it done.
Talking of screwing your friends over!
Its interesting to see how skill-less people are so skilled at brown nosing.. Of course, they can't do anything else otherwise.....
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