Colleague or friend?
A colleague asked if I’ve read an article in the papers lately about colleagues. He also asked if I agree with the article, that a colleague is just a colleague. Colleagues cannot be friends as in buddies, because the relationship will eventually snap at one point of time due to some unforeseen circumstances.
Ok, when a colleague asks you this, you have no choice but to be diplomatic. He went on saying that colleague will use each other for their own gains such as promotion and you can only trust yourself. Well, actually I have always been a strong believer that a colleague is just a colleague. No matter how good and buddy you are to your colleague, I bet that someday when either one gets reward, the other will be envious and rivalry is the evil that go hand in hand with office politika. Its a dog eat dog world after all. I’ve read about the importance of team building motivation activities for staff so that he/she will be able to appreciate the comradeship of the other colleagues. Chinamen company is just different.
There are some exceptional instances where colleagues became good buddies. It just doesn’t happen so often in our life. What rubbish is all this? Thanks for reading.
August 13th, 2008 at 8:55 am
A colleague is just a colleague, except during my last job, where I enjoyed the exception to the rule - Hong Kiat, Chelva, Alvin, Gerald. Great people.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
i’ve made some great friends at work, i think it all really depends on the chemistry. i suppose we’d know when we ‘find’ a ‘friend’ at work. I wouldnt say u can’t make good friends and i can’t say that u can either.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Dear Blogger,
Hello.
My name is Edward Skading, from Selangor, Malaysia. I am writing for your viewpoint and support towards a good cause campaign to protect and uphold our consumer rights.
I am being sued by an arrogant corporate company (F&N Dairies (M) Sdn Bhd) because I exposed a horrible discovery concerning one of their products on my weblog. It is all about my shocking finding of an abnormal substance (mould) in a “Tea Pot” brand, sweeten condensed milk tin-can. You can read the full story (all the correspondence letters) and view photos of the contaminated milk and the disgusting hazardous conditions of F&N Dairies’ plant at my weblog http://consumersrighteousness.blogspot.com/.
As a consumer, I am sickened by the fact that we are not provided utmost protection from this sort of situations and whatever consumer rights we have now are defenceless. I also feel that my human rights had been deprived when I am being forced to silence and on top of all, I feel cheated when the company executive responded to my grievances that they are not liable for damaged products in the marketplace.
I am only requesting that the company be truthful, reliable and accountable for their mistakes, moreover produce cleaner and safer food. I believe, it is the responsibility of our whole society to protect the rights and benefits of consumers, and all concerned parties should together strive to do the work of standing up for consumer rights, improving the consumption environment, and pushing for faster, better economic and social development.
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Yours truly,
Edward Skading