Since May...

Its been some time since i updated my blog. Well many things had happened.

1. Expecting a new family member


2. Busy work life


3. Lousy work environment


4. Happy family time


5. My daughter had grown

Well i think i will write the above title in different blogs.

Big boss with hearing ability or small boss who is deaf. Good words hurts the ear and bad bosses hurts your career

Now continuing what I left off in the last article, my Malaysian boss is the big boss in Malaysia but my company have bigger share holder which is based in Indonesia. Now the idiot is sent from Indonesia to monitor finance here.

Now my boss being afraid to lose his job here, always bias towards the idiot because she has value. She could speak of good things in Malaysia on my boss’s behalf since she is a spy. The idiot also requires my boss’s protection because she does not want to go back or be sent to other country so there is mutual benefit here.

My boss also cut off all communication with Indonesia from us. Only my boss, idiot and miss yap have communications with Indonesia. This makes it easier to control wrong information from reaching the Indonesia bosses.

My boss is very tactical. Everything he does is for the benefit for his own good. No one else matter. There was once before miss yap resign, I could see that my immediate superior almost became a scapegoat for low sales but miss yap’s resignation saved him. Well because no one else knows how to do certain job which my immediate superior knows. So how? My boss press hard on his balls and be patient lah!

Anyway, nasty bosses are everywhere. I really think that only nasty bosses can make good money. My wife has a good boss but every employees are like shit. I have a nasty boss but the employees are great. My wife’s company is small and difficult to progress because of lousy employees. My company is big but cant progress because of a deaf boss

Having written until here, I now had tone down my anger. I really hope I could control my temper for the rest of the day because I don’t want my wife and daughter to get it. I promise myself I will not lose my calm today. Hope all will be over soon when I get a new job

Why so honest you stupid fool?

Well I learned a lesson today. Never be too honest to your boss. He may think you are challenging him. Now here is a story

Last Monday in the weekly meeting, I told my boss that I need to know more on how salary is calculated in my company. For your information I seriously do not know this. We have 2 salary calculation period. Our claims including our monthly allowances are calculated from 16^th of month1 to 15^th of month 2 and being paid on end of month 2. Our wage period is from the 1^st of the month to the end of the month.

Of course as an employee, we are confused especially when you don’t have an SOP. At the very minimum the Human resource should at least explain to new comers like me. Now at the meeting I asked the question and I request that it should be in written (to avoid problems like miss yap in earlier stories) but the boss told me to ask her verbally

This morning I received this ridicules email from an idiot:-

Dear Lee,

With regards to your enquiry on the brought forward taxable fix allowance for the period 16 - 31 Dec 2010.

Again, as per inform & highlights in the Jan 2011 Sales meeting, fix allowances are suppose to be treated as part of your taxable income. However, company has bear the tax all this while.

Dear My immediate boss,

Please ensure that your team are aware & cleary understood with this matter.

Problem with the above mail:-

1. Paragraph one: you think this is an official written answer? My…my… you really are an idiot

2. Paragraph two: The company borne our taxes? Oh please its not like you paid extra

3. Paragraph three: what is clear? Can you make it clearer for me first before I make it clear to my staffs?

Now this is my reply

Dear Idiot,

I totally agree to this change as it is the correct way to do it. All these while, it is not deducted from us but it was not borne by the company because it was just treated as claims. The company did not bear any additional tax. Not only the company did not pay any additional charges, it also helps the company to save some taxes as the company expenses had raised and affects the profit and loss. Therefore if you did pay additional taxes please find out with the company secretary in regards to this matter.

As mentioned in the weekly meeting dated 21^st March 2011 evening, I my queries in regards to the salary calculations and all the deductions I hope I could get an answer from you as I must complete 2010 income tax once I receive EA from you. In order to refresh you memory in regards to this matter please find below the questions asked during weekly meeting

1. Is the allowances for 16^th to 31^st taxable?

2. How do you calculate salary during this transition time?

3. If its taxable, how do you deduct the tax from us?

4. Is our allowances still calculated from 15^th to 14^th every month?

5. If yes how do you calculate it?

6. If no, when is the transition period where changes had been made?

7. What are the formal announcement that had been made?

I hope you understand the urgency of this matter for individual employees. Just like managing the company accounts, every individual employees are required to manage their own accounts. Without any official announcement, it would be difficult to refer the matter to the higher authorities whenever required. Managing personal accounts requires highest attention just like how you manage the company accounts. Every little details requires prove and evident to be kept and the simplest form of evident is an official letter

Besides that, if any employees were to ask me in regards to this matter, I will never be able to answer.

A little side track off the main issue, please recall that besides the sales meeting nothing official had been told to the staffs including myself. All we know is starting January 2011 all allowances are taxable and no need to fill up in the personal reimbursement form. There is no memorandum stating this case nor any information on the changes of the new form until (my staff) filled up the new form. In this case, (my staff) also felt in doubt when he filled the new form and made the column by hand. This is the prove of confusion because our human resource did not make it official for the employees.

It is clear that employees are not the ones to be blamed. In order to reduce further misunderstanding which is for the good of the company and people within it, please make it official this time. As a matter of fact all employees are prepared for the tax but just do not know when and how to do it. Please do not make (my immediate superior) to tell us this information. Why allow us to listen from third party when you always have the accessibility to all your employees?

Looking forward to your reply.

Anyway, Not long after my email is sent, my immediate superior got a call from my boss and he got f@#ked. Then I am requested to join a telephone conversation with my boss and now its my time to get F@#ked up. I don’t even have any opportunity to explain. Anyway the idiot was in the phone conversation as well. The whole conversation was one sided à towards the idiot.

Later the idiot was asked to leave the room and my boss tone down his voice. This time the conversation turn out to sound like a father nagging a child (less violent)

Anyway I will share why the boss act this way on my next article

Today’s apple polisher…

Do you remember those days when your mother asked you to study hard to ensure that you have a good future? Well all those are the things of the past. In today’s world intelligence might be useful but not as useful as apple polishing.

If schools would like their students to be able to get a good job in the future, be sure that they create a new class called bodek class… at practical exam, get them to polish a man with high pride. If he likes it then give them an A.

Many people in Malaysia benefited from having the polishing skills. Well I’ve seen many myself. Let me tell you one of many that I’ve seen before.

Now there is a lady from a foreign nationality was posted in my office as Finance Director. She had trained well at her polishing skills. If you ask me her job description, my answer is below

1. Feed boss’s favorite dog every morning.
2. At lunch be sure to feed the boss himself. Don’t pack food, cook for him. The best way to get to a man’s heart is through his tummy
3. Chat with the boss whenever possible
4. If anyone does any minor mistake, make it big and tell the boss
5. If you did any mistake, shut up and use your power to make everyone else shut up. Ensure that the news did not reach the boss
6. If required, make a scrape goat out of anybody to take the blame
7. If there is something that you forget to do even though after reminders, act naïve and say no one told you before. If there is a black and white, blame it on IT.
8. Make people’s life miserable. If they have a good life they will have time to plan for your downfall
9. Whatever the boss said just say yes. Don’t worry, its your subordinates that needs to do the job regardless if they like it or not.
10. When boss is complaining about anyone else, try to recall past wrong doings and increase the problem.
11. When an issue arises, don’t find solutions. Find who is at the fault and put him to the boss’s office
12. When boss praise a job well done accept the complement, otherwise say who did it
13. Cut cost. Cut toilet paper, cut water usage, cut electricity cut wages and cut bonuses.
14. Say that you will stay late to complete a certain task but put an idiot to do it after the boss left

Anyway I will write more if I could recall more. Every morning before she does any work, she will ensure that the dog is fed. Then make breakfast for the boss and go back to her room. In the room, continue to look busy at facebook.com. when boss is free, go to his room and talk nonsense

At lunch wait for boss for lunch. If possible cook for him. Never leave the boss’s sight. Do some job for the rest of the day. If there is some dirty job to be done, assign it to someone. If he rejects the task, tell the boss.

Everyone hates her. She knew it but the boss don’t. And my boss dare to tell me that its difficult to polish him and change his mind. My understanding? Its so damn easy

Boys and girls if you need to learn, just learn the basic of school education and practice more on apple polishing. You will gain more from it.

People used to say “Bullshit could take you higher but cant keep you there”. In today’s world, all you need to do is to have continuous bullshit everyday to maintain the momentum and stay high. When things go wrong, bullshit somewhere else. There are companies everywhere

Crazy and Nasty Bosses

Despite the fact that the offer letter had been defined that resignation requires one month notice, some bosses could really turn and twist the story and makes it otherwise. I have a real life story of an unfortunate friend of mine. Below is her side of story…

Miss Yap (not her real name) had been attached to a company for more than 5 years now and as she could no longer stand the pressure of her job she had decided to put an end to it.

Miss yap was promoted from an executive to a manager during her employment in the company. When she got promoted, a new offer letter was signed and given to her. In the letter, it mentioned that she will get an amount of salary and notice of termination is as per her employment offer letter. In her first offer letter, notice of resignation clearly states that it requires one month.

After she found a new job, Miss yap tendered her resignation with a month notice and waited for the bosses news and advise on her last day of employment but in vain. Again and again she asked the secretary but still no news. When finally there are news about her last day, it was a bad news.

The boss said that she requires 3 months notice for resignation. Now calling in 2 other senior positioned employees, the boss forced the poor miss yap to sign a letter which states that she requires 1 and a half month notice. How did he forced her? Well the boss said that if she refuse to sign the letter, she will be charged under improper handover and shall be sued. The boss also said that he had consulted the company’s lawyer that it could be done. Now miss yap wanted to handover her job to the boss but he refused. (the boss is miss yap’s immediate superior and have no subordinates as all had resigned)

After such pressure and circumstances, Miss Yap unwillingly signed the letter and the 2 management employees act as a witness. Now after signing the letter, the boss said her last day will be 1 and a half month away. From here it might not look different but in actual fact, the boss had delayed the news for more than 2 weeks.

In other words, in order for miss yap to resign it requires 2 months notice. Considering that you are the employer of the new company, will you wait? Of course the poor lady lost her new job as well. Acting like a good boss, the boss said to Yap that he will consider to rehire her back if she would like to (in a manner that he is doing a favor for her).

What is the point of this story? Its just a reminder to folks out there that bosses could be really nasty if they want to. When you get a good boss, stick with them. It’s a jungle out there.

Now here are my questions…
1. Is it true that the boss could charge yap for improper handover despite the fact that she wanted to handover all these while?
2. Can the boss delay the news and treat it as null?
3. I believe that in the worst case scenario, Miss yap might need to pay the indemnity of maximum the number of days that she did not serve the notice.
4. What can be done to prevent such case from happening to anyone else?
5. Doesn’t Malaysian government have any rules which could prevent such cases from happening again?

If you do know the answer, please do feel free to comment as I would like to learn and prevent it from happening to me

Tired of my new job?

YES i am... how did i end up demotivated? the job and customers as well as the bosses.

Anyway wont give up yet... like my ex-boss always say..." Dont fight with money!"

Colleagues are always great... but choose the ally wisely... some are shitheads... lol

Have you ever asked yourself what are you doing here?

Recently i have been asking myself what am i doing here? What am i trying to achieve by being here? What could i obtain when i am here? What will happen if i am here?

Answers:-

1. Money
2. knowledge
3. bright future
4. provide better life for my family
5. to give joy and laughter for my family and friends
6. to develop someone
7. to satisfy my needs and achieve some wants
8. sense of belonging
9. achieve my ambition
10. reach my life goal
11. reduce my weakness and develop my strength
12. etc

Now can you do this elsewhere? the answer is always yes but are you sure you want it?

I am sure many do not understand my question and answers. If you understood, then you may be having the same shit as me but different day and venue... lol

First Day at new environment

Day 1

Cultural shock... managable
Lots to learn, time is limited
What i know about FMCG = 0
Have to catch up fast

My ex-boss told me to shut up and listen more
I did so and now my mouth stinks (talk too little) hahaha

Seriously its not my style. But i will try to be less obvious. Done that mistake in ex-company. Now need to learn how to maintain low profile... But not too low because that will be extremely not me... that way i might push myself too hard and it might snap

Advise is advise, just some comments from someone... Did someone used me in the past? Maybe... but i know now. Good words are painful to the ear but hurts more in the heart. Regardless of anything, i will still maintain friendship with the user. at the same time cant forgive the other wolf. The fact is, she is still a wolf no matter what happen. A wolf with 101 masks. but anyway out of sight, out of mind

Use the energy used in hatred into something more useful. Thanks dude for showing me this.

Now... Focus... On current Job... Make my family life better... Only one objective--> Happy Family...

Many Wont understand... but just wanna let myself know only.... Dont Understand?!?! nevermind... thats my intention.

First day after a week of holiday

Today is the first day I reported to work after a week of holiday. It was great but the side effect is: Eyes are heavy, legs are lazy but the body is energetic, and the brain is processing fast.

Anyway day 1 of work is always scary. I do not know what happen last week. Many things changed since a week ago. All kinds of problems arises and I am afraid to go to work.

The fact is after a week I have close to 200 mails to read, tons of meeting to attend and million of shits to clear. It will be a long day today. Pick up your head and face the challenges that are coming.

Today’s Agenda:
1. Clear Shits
2. Meeting
3. Meeting
4. More meeting

Face the fact! That’s job!