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CAREER REVIEW: Chapter 3 – The Real World

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After working for one month in a considerably big company, I’ve really learnt the cruelty of the Real World – an “open university” probably known as University of Society. There’s a lot to be learnt and it seems that the syllabus is very flexible and dynamic – changing all the time and you have to cope with it. It’s sort of “Dead-or-Alive” matter.

Office PoliticsI’m going to say what I observed for the past few weeks since I first working in the office. Just take K and M as an example. Read slowly, as it might get confusing. Both K and M are colleagues for a long time. But you can feel that there’s something unpleasant between both of them. One day, M made a mistake while typing some numbers for advertisement purpose (which actually can be a serious matter). That was a Sunday, K is not working on Sundays. But K is the leader, so she was told to write a letter to explain what was happening. M insisted that she was only a typist and the checker should be responsible for this, not her (M herself). The checker A was probably having blur vision or something, which made her unable to identify the mistake that M made.

Now, M thought that she is not the only one who must be responsible for this. K thought that she was not working on that day (Sunday, the day that things happened), and of course non of her concern. But she (K) turns out to be the leader…..at the end, during a monthly meeting, they discussed about this to the head. And the story goes on…

From this matter, we can see that…people won’t like to take full responsibility whenever anything concern about bad things. If something concern about Vitamin M and good things, I think each and everyone will put on his/her perfect mask. Scary, isn’t it? Yea, I know. That’s called office politics. The Real World.

The funny part about my colleagues are, whenever one person not around, the rest will talk behind him/her. For instance, when M is on leave, K and the others will be saying things about her (well, most likely negative comments). Same goes for the others… I don’t know if they have said anything bad about me or not..but who cares? I’m not gonna work there for my entire life! And even if I work in another company, same things apply, at least I’m prepared. And once again, who cares? As long as I try my best to accomplish my tasks.

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