There Is a Cheapo Low Class Boss in My Office
Mar 4, 2008 Ranting, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs, Terrible Stuffs, Work
I should have written about this few days back, but I was too lazy.
Some background 1st. There are a few managers in my office. This particular one (female, middle aged) is not my direct boss, but manager leading other team of staff handling other responsibilities. And the staff turnover rate pf that team is very very very high. I have been in my company for about 15 months only and I have lost counts of the people who came and left, came and left.
Her team sometimes work rather closely with the one I am in, and both teams need to do shift work. Their night team people are rather close to my team also. Thing about working night shift is, when nothing happens, you are rather relaxed. So, sometimes we watch movies, online streaming, reading, sleep, or play lan game, together with that team.
This poor guy is a fans of Japs anime I guess. When he was free, he would watch anime online. Once, he kena complained, or more accurately, backstabbed by a much senior guy. Complained to his manager, which is that cheapo lady. Not all staffs in the company are permanent staffs, and this guy fell into the contract staffs group whose contracts (managed by a outsourced manpower management company) are renewed yearly. So, after she received the reports from the senior guy, she requested change his contract to monthly renewed, and he will be judged based on his performance. And subsequently, his pay was reduced to some where just above $1500 (not sure got include shift allowance or not). This guy accepted all these, think he was just lazy to go through all the troubles of finding jobs again since he is also taking part time degree course.
And, best thing came last week. The manager asked the guy to stay after his shift of 28th, which is on 29th morning. Then he was told by the manager that she did not want to renew his contract already and do not need to come to work anymore, reason being “he is not contributing to the company”. Also, she claimed that she “managed to fight for 2 weeks pay for this guy”. Yes, 2 weeks, a lots right? This guy must be sooooo grateful to her.
This is such a cheapo way to handle such issue and I feel that this ex-colleague has been treated in a very unfair manner. My colleague has advised him to seek opinions from MOM, see if there is anything can be done or not.
[Long Post With Photos] Why The Hell I Toutured Myself Visiting The Fiacking Airshow?
Feb 23, 2008 Life, Ranting, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs
Last week, I happily planned that I wanted to visit this Singapore Airshow, for the 1st time, because I never visit the previous Asian Aerospace held here. Thursday night, I booked the $20 ticket online, printed out. Friday, I kena accident at home injured my face just underneath my left eye. People advised me not to go, I should stay at home resting instead because the cut is quite deep. I thought I already got the ticket and it was for today only, might as well go, because other than my eye slightly uncomfortable, every thing’s alright. So I went.
$20 included RETURN ride of shuttle bus from Pasir Ris. I stayed Tampines, of cause I chose this service. When I reach Pasir Ris at about 11am, the queue to shuttle bus pick up point was very very very long. It made many many turns and I could not see the end of the queue. I guessed I needed to wait for maybe 20 buses just to get the free ride. So immediately I went to Tanah Merah, took second option. There are paid shuttle bus service from Expo MRT and some hotels in town, costs $5. I managed to get on the bus at about 1140am. And I did not know that, the nightmare just started…
The traffic jam started maybe 2 or 3 km from the location. The closer we get, the heavier the jam. It was the worst after the bus made the turn into the straight road leading to the venue. We saw many people taking cabs getting off their cabs and walked, and they were faster! But we couldn’t! The bus crawled and crawled and crawled to the designated dropping point. By the time it was already 1230pm. The Black Knights already flying! So, not wanting to waste time going into the venue, we all stood beside the big big longkang to watch. We got to queue again just to go into the place where the ticket house and security gantry are, and later queued to get through the security check. And I realized that, no one checked my ticket! No one! I saw a few staffs checking some other queues, but there were just none doing so for the other queues! Then what the hell I bought the ticket for if I can get in FREE?
After the gantry, it was another queue just to get to the display area! And there were just many many many people. You see people queuing to buy drinks, queuing to take photos with local pilots, angmoh pilots, queuing to get on some display machines to take photo again, queuing to buy coupon then later queuing to use their coupon to buy food. It was just crowds, people, crowds, queues everywhere. I got so exhausted that when I finally walked into the exhibition hall, I had totally no interest in anything. I just walked 1 round, and left.
No, the nightmare did not end there! It was another disaster to even leave the venue, and it was worse than going in! It was there I saw many red hat police officers (what are they called? Anti Riot Police? don’t know lah, those ang chiah one lah), together with Cisco and normal police, doing the job. Whole big chunk of crowd just squeezed and waited for the officers to released us so that we could rushed to the bus or taxi pickup point. The officers would released us in batches.
The worst part came when we reached the pickup points. Various queues were designated for buses going to different hotels, to Tanah Merah and Pasir Ris. But hell, I bet you can differentiate which queue was for what location. The staffs basically had to stand outside to shout for whatever bus that was in front so that people in the queue, or not in the queue can get on. Those were supposed to be paid buses but I doubt they got the time to collect money 1 by 1 (cash or Ezlink). Then, worst one was the Pasir Ris one. Whole cluster of people just squeezed, pushed, rushed to front, to chiong for the bus available. If not for the officers there, it would just be a riot. It reminded me of the scene in <<I Am Legend>> where they evacuated the NY city and everyone was escaping for their life, so messy. But even so, they were more civilized! You saw the officer in front shouted “3 more, 3 more for the 1st bus“, and the people in front of him just ignored never move and those at the back, even they wanted to also could not because they were blocked. You heard officers shouting “HOLD, HOLD“, “Don’t cut queue!” (in the 1st place, there was never any queue, just a big crowd of human). I never expected to see such scenes at a international trade shows. It was a riot scene man!
It was such a disgrace to Singapore because just beside them, there were many foreigners waiting in the long long taxi queue or the paid bus queues, and they could just see what happened. A graceful society? No way man.
I hope this is a good lesson learned for the organizer and government. The crowd management was so terrible, how are you going to manage the crowd of F1? Youth Olympic?
I think in the future, I shall ask whoever I know to make a trader pass or media pass for me, just to visit during trade day but no more public day. For people who want to take photos, you can forget it also.
Some photos of the crowd. As of aircrafts, I did not take much, and was too upset, haven’t sorted out yet.
The flying display just finished. Those inside rushed out, those outside, wanna chiong in.
People waiting outside
Still waiting
Inside, everywhere people
People people people
Taken while still inside queuing to come out. Whole stretch of human!
So many ang chiah?
I was inside the crowd. Like riot boh?
Tags: complain, lousy, Singapore, Singapore Air Show, stupid
