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星期四, 六月 20, 2019

高表現團隊結構

自步入新的一年,部门高层突搞【高表现团队结构】,设定了增速三成、减本三成的项目。为了这个项目,亚太高层打算接下来每个月来马数次。此项目规定每位员工,上至经理主管,下至普通员工,都必须按自己的工作范畴,拟定增速三成、减本三成的计划细节,属工作范畴之外的额外事。近数星期,许多普通员工都为须费时想出计划而怨声载道,可是,最焦头烂额的还是一班经理及主管。亚太高层一来到,都会集他们于一室数小时盘问进展及种种细节等等,开完会後只见大家脸露疲态,纷纷快点收拾回家。

K 小姐

上司说,即将有新人加入。这真是好消息,我充满期待,问是谁。上司说是K小姐,我的期待顿时被冷水冲走。我直言,K小姐未从马来西亚转职到纽西兰之前,其单位队友对其工作态度常有怨言。不仅如此,与她共事的其他单位同事,一样对她持负面看法。我继续说,虽然如此,我希望您不要只听我一面之辞,毕竟我未曾与K小姐共事过,对她的了解不过是听来的。我说,你最好自己亲自与她谈,甚至来个面试一探虚实。当初申请调往纽西兰,不过一年多又要回来,感觉好像有什么不对劲。上司说不如你面试她,我婉拒了,我说,我都对她有偏见了,万一她改过前非,焕然一新,我也很难会让她及格啊!还是由上司去面试吧!

辦公室趣聞

面试某友族,履历表相当出色,毕业自澳洲RMIT,毕业後先後在渣打、埃森哲、数码通讯及目前的戴尔效力。这四间通通为名企,我跟同事说单看履历表,这个可以要了。

可惜他这四间的经验不太有连贯。面试时,我问了比较深入的技术细节,他不太能作答,左一句右一句都非正面回答。後来他才说,我问的技术,他最後一次使用是数年前的事了。目前的公司用的是不同的技术,而上一间在数码通讯完全无技术下手的经验。

致命题在于同事问的,您怎样规划您的职业生涯?要几年?用什么策略去实现?他回答得很模糊。面试结束後,与同事还有上司讨论,同事的评语是他缺乏清晰思考能力。我说也许许他临场发挥欠佳准备不足,因为据我所知,至少在数年前,埃森哲内,个个都是能人精英,可我不知道如今这间公司变得怎样了。由于这是资深职位,责任非常重大,此人的应答怎样都无法给我们信心,被刷掉了。上司说,宁缺毋滥是公司的文化,不要破坏。

午餐的时候不知为何同事之间谈起了吊花场。富家子同事曾花了几千元吊花,有的同事则只花几百元,他说非常尽兴好玩。听说现在要吊花起码千元以上。

之後跟另一位同事喝茶聊天,才知道有两位被派往印尼银行做项目的同事,欢乐得不得了,去高级风月场所,有女生酥胸全露奶奶任摸还有点小姐陪睡服务,每人一晚花掉了千多元马币。当然,没人知道他们有没有打炮。

後来在我的桌位上,又不小心从同事之间的闲聊中听到,有一位已婚友族女同事,一样被派到印尼做银行项目。在那边应该是一个月吧,按耐不住寂寞,闹外遇了。

澳洲人麥克

自三月头起,就没在公司见过澳洲白人部门主管迈克的踪影。同事之间皆议论纷纷,对他的突然消失诸多揣测。有些直接问他们各自的经理,经理们的回答通通都是不知道。

昨日,某前同事H发来讯息,她在孟沙购物时,听到有人呼其名,原来正是迈克,他说因私自备份藏在其笔电内的资料,为公司资讯保安单位所侦测到,立刻被要求离职。公司是全美其中一大【信用局】,最近二年,全球许多信用局频频爆出资料严重外泄问题,我可明显感受到公司在资讯保安方面抓得越来越紧。

其实,在此事发生之间,我们已经看到迈克在公司的地位江河日下。去年,他的上司R要迈克的属下经理们直接向R本人报告,算是夺走了迈克的权力。之後的每次部门All Hands,迈克几乎不再被给予机会发言。

我和H都认为,R本来已在等候良机以赶走迈克。迈克的备份事件,给了R赶走迈克的借口。毕竟,如果上司真的支持你,就算你犯了错,只要能够合理解释,他必定会为你百般辩解。

我向另一位前同事W通告迈克之事,他高兴得跳起来,发给我多个Thumbs Up。当初客户澳纽银行遇到一个大问题,烧到迈克的屁股,迈克要求W摆平此事。可是,这个问题超出了W的专业能力,既然是超出其能力之外,最终当然给不出什么方案,W就这样栽倒在绩效评估中,而被置入为期三个月的表现增进计划下,因不过关而当天被要求立即离职。W觉得,迈克这次的经历是报应。

H跟我说,迈克当时身在酒吧,看起来容光焕发心情舒畅。我说,也许他打从心底早已想离开多时,不过自己下不了决心而已,最终反而是由别人替他做了决定,不必再每星期醉倒一轮只为解压。

內部評分

昨日公司大马区人事部经理召集本部门所有人,分享过去一年来人事部为员工带来的种种新增福利及庆祝活动等,要我们在下来的员工匿名内部评分中想到这些福利,以网开一面不要给太差的评分。

她也给给我们知道分数下降的後果,就是亚太部会参考这些评分,然後决定要不要继续加码投资大马区。她想避免公司关闭大马区部,导致大马区900位本地还有共来自26个不同国家的员工失去工作。

另一个单位的同事後来跟我们说,前一日人事部经理也召集他们单位的人,说同样的话。

咖啡機

人事部经理分享,单咖啡豆大马分公司一个月就花了近马币四万元。我楞了,我周遭的同事,和我本身都没怎么喝公司的咖啡呢。也许有人一天喝上数杯吧,所以三层楼九百名员工要用上六架咖啡机。

離職中國籍澳洲同事

澳洲悉尼分公司有同事离职,之前曾与他共事过,故趁他还在,与他远程聊聊故事新事。他原是中国公民,已入籍澳洲,我俩先以英文键盘谈,打着打着,打起中文来了。谈到一位墨尔本分公司的高层时,我说这人我两年前曾合作过,典型的懒散白人,没想到现在他那么快上到澳洲当地的高层。他说,当然啦,人才都走光了,多数跳槽去客户澳纽银行去了。我答,您言下之意,他是廖化咯?他哈哈大笑,说想不到你的文化那么好,还懂得蜀中无大将的道理,许多中国人都不懂呢!

培訓課

这两日上培训课。师为某已达耳顺之年的华裔女穆斯林。她本非穆斯林,因嫁马来人而入教。两日来,她偶尔言及私事,透露爱好禅修的信息。

在本国,穆斯林修禅可被视为叛教之举,惟师之伴侣似乎不甚在乎其修禅。可见本国政府强迫婚姻改教,并无法使改教者成为真正穆斯林,信仰真主和穆圣之道,反倒令其徒有穆斯林之虚名而已矣。

敗軍

今日又一高层向我们告别。继四月驻马十年的澳洲人高层突然匆匆离去,今日突然宣布最後一日上班的女高层是第二位今年离去大马区高层。其实,迹象早已有,自去年始,首先是澳洲人高层被变相降级,下来就是这位当时是澳洲人下属的本地华人女高层被打入冷宫。这两位本来都在明争暗斗,岂知两人都先後被对付。

我不曾是她的下属,可是我曾被借去她的团队助他们完成一个重大项目。我在这间公司所获得的首两个奖项都是由她所提名,心里相当感激。其实,她曾托人问我有没有意思要加入她的团队,我反而不太愿意,而原因就是她。我曾目睹她公开场合羞辱某员工,我觉得那是在宣泄情绪,不是真正的就事论事。对我而言,情绪化的处理方式非常不专业,不该出现在跨国大公司内。整个高层团队,唯有她曾如此做。所以,我认为还是不要成为她的直线下属比较明智。

很好的花紅與起薪

今日收到花红与起薪的通知信了。

我加入这间公司快四年,做得一年比一年好。

前一个财政年,我临时被派做了澳纽银行的紧急项目,该银行是本公司亚太区的最大客户,高层对这个项目非常紧张。我由头做到尾,同时还兼顾本来的工作,兼培训新人,非常压力。後凭这份功劳取得上佳绩效评分,获得我加入这间公司以来最佳起薪与花红。

反之,去年的财政年,我则如我所愿,过得相当轻松,没有太多值得称颂的建树,本来以为只会获得大多数人所获的及格分数而已,结果出乎意料,刚刚宣布的上一个财政年绩效评分,竟然跟前一个财政年一样,也是上佳。

我再次获得了加入这间公司以来的最佳起薪与花红。

榮幸的面試

工作多年,首次获跨国公司COO面试,是日本公司,他的英语口音我听得非常吃力。之前所遇最高级别为美资企业的Regional Head而已。

回流

最近兩個月,三新人加入部門。他們都有共同點:從澳洲回流。其中一位更在澳洲工作了十多年。身在大城,他們的生活水平差強人意。而且,今天辭掉這份專業工作,下份就難有著落。白人難受聘,亞洲人更難。

我的保加利亞同事

傍晚七点多,部门的座位区只剩下我和保加利亚同事。

他很少做得那么迟,之前,我就坐在他隔壁一年有余,最近换了位子後,少跟他谈天了。

我跟他打一声招呼,问他是否有紧急要事处理,为何迟归?从而聊到其他。

我问他满意今年花红吗?他说很高兴,等了这一大笔钱已久,要支付很多东西。

我问他怎么那么窘,孤身一人又高薪,理应钱财充裕。

他说是要拿来花掉享受的。我问他没储蓄习惯吗?他说储蓄来干嘛?多几年我都死了,我要及时行乐。我问你这人怎么这么想呢,自己咒自己?他说其父母皆死于49岁,而他今年42岁,多七年应该也会跟地球说再见了。我一时语塞,後来嘴里虽跟他说世事无绝对,未知何故,心里有种说不通的酸楚。

星期四, 七月 02, 2015

專注寫書



由于想尽快于年尾前出版新书,我自四月起就停止写评论登在报纸上了。

我觉得还是专注一点比较好。

我写此书估计已有一年多。白天要办公,晚上才能写上一二小时,实在不容易。

而且写此书要需要搜集许多资料,甚至阅读消化众多文章书籍,哇,真的无法想象这一年来怎么过。感谢上天!

期间,我也一面写书,一面实践书内所分享的方法,最近的一项成就竟然神奇的“赶走"了上司,使我获得百分百的自由,而且我上司是走得心甘情愿,开开心心的走的,我从没对他做过什么,我只是做我的方法而已。

目前我感觉好像回到了旧公司。同事八点多早上就到公司,我十点半才姗姗来迟。因为上司已走了,新上司远在欧洲,他只问我工作进展,不问我几点进办公室。

这段过程真的很神奇,非常出乎我意料之外,我没想到我的方法会有这种效果,感谢上天!

我会在书内提到这段故事。当然,书内还有我其他的神奇事迹。

星期三, 六月 24, 2015

Ads: Cut the crap of English-is-Everything



My company is hiring.

Benefits: 1.5 month of contractual bonus which is paid to you monthly. Insurance coverage for yourself and family members. Parking allowance is RM260 per month and it is more than enough. Data Line allowance is RM88 per month and they're talking about an adjustment to RM149 but not sure when will that happen. Employer's contribution on EPF is 14% after you finish your probation. The rest are standard stuff like claim for spectacles, dental treatment and blar blar.

Work Culture: I'm not sure about other departments. IT department is quite slow paced. Office is always 90% empty before 6pm. Once i stayed up till 6.30pm and i had a feeling that it was already 11pm or midnight. Not a place for those who love loads and loads of challenges.

My company is USA-based with offices around the world. Sometimes teleconference can be as early as 5 or 6am which is around 4 or 5pm Mountain Standard Time in USA. Sometimes it can be as late as 11pm which is the morning in Phoenix. You can attend to these calls from anywhere.

Your boss could be someone in Europe, USA or Japan or elsewhere. My boss is in Europe.

Oversea experience: You will get chance to visit Europe and USA unless you say no. Yes everything in this company is negotiable. The HR team here is very very helpful. They really take each employee as the company's asset. I can feel the difference between the HR team here with the one in my previous company which is also a MNC.

Relocation to USA: Very high chance as in just a few months we have three colleagues from the KL office chose to relocate to Phoenix, USA.

Language: This is not a place for people who loves English very very much or people who "mengagung-agungkan English". You can freely use "lah lor leh" and commit as many grammar mistakes as you can because our Angmos(White) Americans colleagues are able to understand Manglish. To them the real problem only comes when they're trying to understand what does a Japanese say in English. Anyway please don't say "I Think" too much as they will think that you really "think" only.

Work from home: Usually people get to WFH once in a month. It could be more but subject to the agreement between you and your boss.

Career Growth: Maybe you will be stagnant at one position for many years. One thing good is the C-level will visit almost all sites throughout the whole year and that's the chance for you to make them remember your name if you really want to move up the ladder.

The following are the positions available:
Program Manager
Sr HRIS Analyst
Sr Programmer Analyst
Sales Manager (Png)
Analyst Programmer
IT Helpdesk Specialists (9 positions) (English + Mandarin OR Japanese OR Vietnamese)

Like my page and leave your email at the comment section if you are keen and I will ask for the JD from HR. Thank you.

星期三, 五月 27, 2015

一身教服来授課



数年前,我获派往马六甲首长署做事。当时获安排坐在某培训室内工作,大家在上课,我在后方忙我的事,偶尔会听听大家究竟在上什么课。

一日,某高廋友族进入培训室。他头顶白帽,身著长袍,一副虔诚宗教师模样,一时令人搞不清楚状况,心想他应是来教宗教。

只见他缓缓走向培训室前方,立于白板前,侃侃而谈,满口尽是电脑技术词汇,方知非宗教师,而是电脑专业培训师也。

星期二, 十月 02, 2012

在老虎銀行的短短歲月


来到老虎银行

以为可以上上网 聊聊天 做做一点工 就过一天

毕竟老虎银行 数十年招牌 管着众人钱 岂能胡乱一番?

岂知 无论在何处 

只要头头争面子 不认输

项目搞砸了 全部人也要陪葬 车子无论是在弯路 岔路 阴阳路 还是要按时走下去

就这样 混乱中下猛药 先为你肚子止痛 交货了你要泄就泄个够吧!

把肛门炸烂也不关我事

好在我队头头 精明能干

早已搞好分内事 全体队员都有安乐茶饭吃

惟 身在同一个项目 没被火烧着 也被烟熏着

所以我 趁烟未笼罩头上

赶紧 溜之大吉 逃之夭夭

往风筝航空躲去了

呵呵呵

星期三, 八月 22, 2012

Yet another 4 year cycle

Time flies. There goes my 4-year again.

4 years back. I was assigned by my company to a local tel-co client. I joined the Enterprise Service Bus team there, where all team members belong to the same company as mine.

I remember i only had 2 days to take over one existing Java Standalone Program, also an "adapter" to the client's back end system. The program owner is a Filipino and he had to fly back to The Philippines two days later. The project phase then was System Integration Test (SIT).

So i spent 2 days with my Filipino colleague for the Knowledge Transfer session. Back then my Java knowledge was not really solid so it was kind of difficult for me. My previous experience was more on web application rather than standalone program. And I had to deal with web services(SOAP/HTML), API (to talk to the back end system), Message Queue and etc. Nowadays i think those stuff are easy but during the first week that I got to learn all these I just felt these were so challenging.

What was my mood back then? I took it easy. I still left office before 8pm. I was telling myself I should not again force myself to work till late nights, like what I did in my first company. One should be willing to work late night that the work result will only be good, that is my realization so far after working for many years.

After my Filipino colleague left, for every SIT issue, the client person in charge would look for me, as i was the successor for the program. They were disappointed that i could not commit to solve every SIT issue within a day. And they sent an email to my boss that they complaint I was not the suitable candidate to take over the program. My boss was kind. He is a very understanding one. He stepped in and helped me to resolve some critical issues. I really wanted to thank him. Till today I still remember his help. I know some people do not really like his working style but that does not affect my gratitude towards him.

Finally the program went live. I enjoyed every moment installing the the prerequisite software for the program to the production server, with root access. I enjoyed deploy the program to the production server with the help from deployment team. I enjoyed working from home for a few days continuously to troubleshoot the production issues of the program. That was really tiring but it was fun as well.

Few weeks later, my company managed to sign a Out Source deal with this client. That means my company will run the client's IT services from infrastructure to every services & systems. That was really a big deal to my company. The deal created a lot of job opportunities. Anyway the contract ended just last month.

So once Out Source deal was signed, my boss moved on to join one of the projects. Subsequently our team changed 3 bosses in one year time. LOL. I remember there was this boss. He has a poker face. He looks a really strict guy. I was kind of worry knowing he was going to be my boss. In fact, he turned up to be quite a good boss to me. He knows how to reject all unnecessary projects. He knows how to prioritize projects for us. I really appreciate his help during his term.

Soon another boss has come to join us. And with his presence our team had turned into Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) team. Actually what changed is just the name of the team and the service methodology.
This boss stayed with us until last month. He is really a good one. All team members really appreciate his guidance. As for myself, i also appreciate much the trust and freedom he has given to me. I can actually conclude that he is the best superior i ever had. His existence is part of the important process of my life, indirectly, but very important.

What interesting is, I have this good friend, an ex-colleague, joined in the same team as me! He started off in another team after the Out Source deal. Then because he was playing with some integration product, due to the nature of work, he finally joined the SOA team. I actually never expected that both of us would end up working in the same team again. He is a special one in my life. He has been introducing a lot of personal improvement stuff to me. He led to to another meditation teacher. I really owe him a lot a lot. I will not mention all the stories here because it will be very lengthy. Ha ha ha.

Few months after SOA team was setup. I became a module lead. I was leading a team working on the java module. Team members came and left. When our company left the client, i had 2 team members left. In the beginning, it was a bit challenging for me to duplicate my experience and knowledge to them because at the same time i was rushing for projects. Fortunately they are very eager to learn about the module. I just needed to spend like 2 or 3 months to coach them and then one of them eventually was taking almost all the works while i just hid behind and provided necessary support to her. I really really appreciate her help in this. She is a good team member.Of course, I have to thank the rest also for their effort. With their help, I managed to get away from getting calls every minute every second. Imagine I once had to entertain calls almost every night or during dinner time. My dinner mate was there to "testify" this. Ha ha.

It was a meaningful 4 years. Not only at job. But in my life as well. I met one senior citizen who actually shared with me a lot of concepts, a lot of knowledge and a lot of interesting stuff. Other than the friend I mentioned earlier, I owe this senior citizen friend a lot a lot too. Of course over the 4 years I managed to get together with all my university mates. We all had crazy memories during our university life. One of them was my daily dinner mate. So in KL, we talked about a lot of craps LOL everyday. We played FIFA in cybercafe and I really enjoyed all the games. We watched a lot of movies and spent much time crap about the movies also.

So, that's my 4 years in KL. It is like dream. What left is only memories. And I forget to mention I almost lost my life 4 years ago in a severe car accident. Just one week before I started my new job. On my trip back to hometown from KL, my car hit the divider of the expressway. Thank divine, thank divine that I managed to survive. Only this year one medium told me that It was the amulet that saved me from the accident. Life is really full of surprise. And now I have come to one crossroad that if I am courageous enough to LIVE MY DREAM.




































星期一, 八月 06, 2012

莫蹉跎青春

我今天

看到自己手頭上的工作

看到他們手頭上的工作

我突然間看到未來

未來的我 也像今天的他們 一樣

不同的是 他們好像很享受 充滿激情

不同的是 我已心如止水 只有 淡淡淡

這里 或者說 這領域 好像已沒什么東西能激起我的熱誠

這種未來 活脫脫是人間煉獄

我真想趕快逃

有什么東西比埋頭苦干數十年后才后悔更冤枉?

上天 我已夢醒了!

我已拋開當年的憧憬了!

上天 我投降了 

我把一切交給運行著神圣秩序的上天

我任由上天處置

我只希望 能成為一位圓滿的人

內心不再分裂 不再需要逃避

不再下班后才成為我!

我要先 謝謝上天!謝謝守護神!

讓我 能享受工作

星期二, 七月 31, 2012

正式离开明讯

轻松,好轻松,

正式把东西通通还给你!

我没不舍得,一点都没有

老早我已放下了

老早已毫不在意了

老早心思已不在此处了

是巧合吗?

四年后又要告别了

但这回, 藕断了,丝还连

身在新地方,还会看到许多张旧面孔

继续漠视心底的声音

继续苦闷下去

继续循环继续轮回

何时我能脱出轨道 迈向心中的阳光呢?

上天,我把大志交给你,

在你面前,我实在太卑微,

请给我迹象吧!守护神!

谢谢你们所给我的一切一切!