Thursday, April 10, 2008

R.E.S.P.E.C.T


It’s amazing sometime to see how people react to a bad situation. For those who are defensive, they tend to shout and yell at other people just for the sake of showing that they have better power or they are the most right one (well, at least they think they are).

I’m working in a so-called multinational company, which has aggressive slogan and motto to become the number one company in its industry. They even claim that they are (and are really proud of it). They try to brainwash their employees to apply what they call as operating principles. We call it RESPECT (it stands for some valuable meanings, we call it RESPECT in short).

What happen inside the company is totally different with what people see from outside and different of what’s even reflected in the RESPECT itself. In the end, RESPECT only ends up just as slogan and motto, nothing more than that, it has no deeper meaning than just that. What they call RESPECT does not reflect the behavior of most of the people inside.

Here, people are trying to show that they have more power than another person. With the power that they think they have, they act as they have the right to yell at and raise their voice to other people. They say things that they should not be saying. Some of them try to smoothen their own agenda to the top by kissing their bosses a**. And other behaviors that are far from what they call as RESPECT.

If that what happen, why do we bother to make RESPECT as our operating principles where most of people in the company do not bother to even apply it?

If we fail to respect each other, then why do we bother to hang posters of RESPECT and give away CDs to employees to install and use it as screen saver in each PC?

If what it takes is to generate conflicts among employees, why do we even bother to call ourselves the number one company? Or is it what it takes to become one?

And finally, if we'll end up or gradually becoming one of them, then why do we bother to be here any longer…? ;o(

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