Cynical

I met Leen yesterday, and we shared with each other, well, our… observations of our current company and jobscope and colleagues.

Leen is my secondary school friend, and because she went on to complete her degree course after poly, I ended up joining workforce 3 years ahead of her.

However, because we are so alike in our beliefs and working attitudes, the worklife we are experiencing is eerily alike. It is almost like we are living in a parallel universe, getting the same kind of crap from the same kind of flawed human beings that descent in the form of nasty bosses, and those in the form of control-freak clients, and those in the form of hypocritical colleagues.

She gets it worse than me in the job responsibility department – if I say I am the designer / secretary / sales / helpdesk / cleaning auntie / delivery girl / teacher all rolled into one, then she is like a compact 20-in-1 kind of operation.

On the other hand, when it comes to human relationship in a workplace, I’d seen more than her, due to, ahem, the number of years I’d been working, and the ultimate streak of unluckiness in finding a nice and cozy working environment. Companies between companies I shuffled, and I saw more ugliness than I ever expected.

Per what Leen evaluated previously, back in school, we get to choose our project partners and lunch kakis, and we’ll never hang out with people we don’t like. In work, the people you don’t like might not necessarily mean they are imperfect, but only because your thinking and his thinking doesn’t gel. Given so, plus the unavoidable working relationship, because bosses said you MUST work together, things turn unattractive.

I warned her there’s more ugliness from people to come, and that she should take everything with a pinch of salt. These people whom you are working with are here for one purpose – make money. Anyone or anything that lies as an obstacle in their path to success must be eliminated with prompt efficiency, therefore if you invest too much trust in them, you are offering an opening in your armour for them to slice their sword through.

Wow. I sound very cynical, don’t I? Unfortunately, I mean every notion I spoke to her about. This is exactly how much rubbish I had been receiving and accumulating from all the experiences.