Tuesday, February 26, 2008
MR ENGINEER
Recently alot of things have been going on over the status "Engineer".
I remembered that fine day when the team sat down with boss and we had a small discussion with him over some issuses. He said something like this...
Boss, "....... Apparently, HR thinks that engineer are of the same rank as graduate technicians... "
Senior 1 also said something the previous week to me.. "CK, as new engineers, you all should learn to be humble....."
I knew that senior 1 was referring to some one in particular (not me) and hoping that i will pass the msg. but all this words din stick in my mind cause i felt that i was doing well with everyone and being humble enough to everyone. Even to the techincians, i am always polite and would always offer my help and end my conversation with a thanks... but something happened today that really set my mind going....
It all happened on a normal bus trip for lunch. As usual we took the company bus and followed the rest for lunch. Since we had been servicing some equipments, we din bother to changed and were dressed in the dirty coveralls. While comiing back from lunch in the bus, i was chatting with D and suddenly some one tapped me. I turned and saw this total stranger who passed me a bottle of VC1000. She gave me the kinda look and just stared at me hinting me to open the bottle w/o saying a word.... i had no idea what came over and i just helped her open the bottle and passed her back the bottle. She handed me a piece of tissue back as a drop spilled onto my hand. It was just this 2mins of interaction that changed my opinion of things.
"WTH!!! Does she think that i am some labourer?? (term used in workshop) That puny action made me feel like a lower life form than her.. cant she even have the decency to ASK ME TO OPEN the bottle instead of COMMANDING me with her stare? Regardless of what i am wearing, clean coveralls or dirty ones, i am still an engineer and not some labourer. Where is the kinda respect that you ought to show? Not to mention the kinda respect that you should show to a human being.
I used to be against the idea that we should behave like we are a higher class from the technicians n others. Now my mind have changed.....
CANTtakeIT;11:06 PM
Thursday, February 14, 2008
MR PIG RAN AWAY WITH THE EGG!!
MR PIG ran away with the egg. Luckily, big bad wolf was alert enough to notice that they were missing. BIG BAD WOLF began searching high n low for them.
HE back-trekked all the path that they had gone, keeping his eyes wide open for them. The sun had already set and it was getting darker. The big bad wolf started panicking. HE was afraid that he would never be able to find MR PIG n The EGG. HE wanted to give up n go home but he too was afraid of giving up.
"Believe in persistence and have some faith" he told himself...
Alas he found MR PIG n the EGG.
HE was glad.. n happy too..CANTtakeIT;12:04 AM