P.S: This post will be about me ranting over my big boss.... you might want to skip this if you are looking for something positive to read.....
This conversation happened like early this week...
Colleague: Are there any difference between a leader and a boss?
Me : YES!! Of cuzzzz!!!
Colleague : Aren't they both the same, like another term for your manager, boss or your leader?
Me : NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Colleague : *shocked* okkkk.....didn't know you will have such a big reaction over this topic.... okok....I get it. So, is our big boss a leader or boss?
Me : A boss who have no ballz.....period
Colleague : Ok....I totally agree on the "no ballz" part....regardless he is a boss or leader.....
We both had a great laugh.....
Yes, I have an indian boss who is from India and as far as I can remembered, I have never hold any grudge against anyone as much as I have towards him. If you asked me, I have zero respect towards him, not because I'm being racist but it's his way of managing his people.
He is someone who does not have a firm stand. Like how the locals would bluntly put it - he speaks according to the wind.
When the wind is blowing to the east, he would bring his whole team to the east. When the wind starts to blow towards the west, he will drive his whole team to the west. Whenever there's an issue/problem, he would just throw his people out and fend it off from him. To him, as long as his own interests are well taken care of, the rest is the least of his concern. Coward right?
At work, he would speak highly on doing the right thing in front of us. Asking us to do our due diligent to ensure we obliged to the rules and re-enforce our processes. When problem comes and people approached him, he would then agreed with them and asked us to support the request, even tho it is not the right thing to do. His explaination is - we have to be flexible towards situation and the needs of our customer. I'm like WTH??????
He likes to inject fear or intimidate his staff so that you lose your confidence to challenge his decisions. He would only groom his "blue eye boy/girl". For every small little thing they do, he would ensure everyone in his management team is well informed. As for the rest of the unfortunate soul, no matter how great you have performed, all your hard work would be swept under the carpet and remain hidden. On top of that, he would belittled you bit by bit, to a point that you start to question yourself, was that a true achievement or am I too naive to over-intepret something normal as a great achievement....
For instance, last month his blue eye girl got a simple compliment from our internal stakeholder. He immediately forward out that message to all his management team and he wrote a very long and powerful recognition and compliment on top of that message. From his message, everyone could tell he is very proud of her achievement.
However, when my colleague got a compliment from external customer, he just forwarded out the message to us without a single word. Personally, I think a good leader would at least try to inspire and acknowledge the great job that his team has done, regardless he/she is your favourite pet or not. I believe every manager practise favourtism. But the very least he could have done is to write a simple message such as:
"Hi ms so-and-so,
Good job and well done...keep up the good work...."
Is that so difficult? Well, he prefer to write nothing....
My colleague was soooo disappointed.....I would if I'm her.
Oh well...... I would always tell myself, if I'm in a bad situation, I have 2 choices- it's either I change myself to adapt to the situation or I turn my back and walk away from the situation.
So I shall......the moment I have secure another opportunity, I won't even bother to re-consider my option to stay...
I'm sure you would do the same if you were me.... ermm..... perhaps..... *shrug*
Good Night people.... ^_^
Thanks for reading......
P.S: Please pardon my choice of words, my tenses and the way I structure my words. It's 11.17 pm and my mind is already shutting down. I just wanna vent out my frustration before I sleep....somehow I feel that it helps.....
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