Saturday, June 16, 2007

Did I mention that my boss is pretty shrewd? Whenever she has alot of information to digest or need to report to the BIG BOSS, she likes to throw the thick stake of info & says "meimei, help me digest this & just tell me what I need to know". That is like the only instruction I am given. Now I am feeling a taste of what all the smu profs meant by in the working world you only have a min to make your speech. How true?! Cos she never allows ppl to talk or to inform her stuff in speech.

So that day she asked me to read through the proposal by some luxury lifestyle magazine for rich travellers. So I highlight what is impt & what she needs to know. Plus I summarized the entire proposal in a few liners for her. Of course I could see she is impressed since I took initiative to do alot of things without any single instruction on how to be done or what to do even. & you know what my boss did? she passed the entire pile to the BIG BOSS conveniently passing it off as her work. That was f***ing clever there and I am sure she is that efficient even. I am kinda shocked and that makes me realize people are really complex and I have been too naive. In the working world there aint much nice people. I mean I dont mind that she did it cos I dont need to impress anyone here since I dont need a job at St James. Neither do i need their apraisal. But what she did really wake me up & knock some sense into me about the complication of the bitchy working world. & I realize I have always been really living in the world of my own.

2 comments:

Jace said...

it is very typical of bosses to b like that... gawd... i hate working life... being a kept woman somehow appeals to me...

puree said...

hahaha!!! pukey: i luv that comment. ee mei mei ur boss's shrewdness reminds me of "the devil wears prada", just that the devil doesn't pass off someone else's work as her own =.=