Double Standard (A Dissatisfaction Voice)!

Just want to voice out my dissatisfaction against work life. I realize that there is really double standard in my working place.

 

Under the same organization, there seemed to be different treatment among different group of people. I’m not complaining that I need to be in dungeon mode but the treatment among our group and other group of employees who is under the same mode.  To make thing worse, the reason that dungeon mode was being initiated because of misjudgment among some minority within that special treatment group. That’s why I have become disappointed with my organization.

 

I remembered in November 2005, I left my previous company for the same reason. Production and Research and Development (RnD) team seemed to be living in 2 different worlds. Comparing privileges, benefits and salary increment, RnD team seemed being appreciated more; while production team not only did not have such treatment but they also need to go for 24-hour standby call! Unfortunately I was in the production team and during my Exit Interview (An interview for people who were leaving the company), I told the interviewer that such double standard existed. She knew that and told me that it was a normal practice by every company. That was why when I left my previous company, I swore to myself not to step into production floor again!

 

Interviewer: RnD job has better benefits than production. This is the market trend.  So, you are leaving this company because of this dissatisfaction?

 

AsX: No, I’m following the market trend. J

 

Now I am having such unfairness dissatisfaction again! I guess our group is not truly appreciated by top management after all! 

Fake Tax Submission Site?

Just now I was planning to finalize my tax form submission because usually the server would jam up on the last day. However, I forgot the website and plan to ‘google’ it through using keyword ‘ehasil’.

 

Strangely, 2 similar sites popped up – one with ‘gov’ 

while the other one with ‘org’ as the address.

 

I got curious and visited both sites. Everything was exactly the same!

 

I knew that the ‘gov’ one was the real site but for now I seemed could not find out the difference between them and the hidden intention behind the ‘org’ one.  

 

Maybe there are some experts or specialists out there that could look into this?

Trick to Enjoy Special Meal & Better Service but Original Price

If you want to enjoy special meal with better service but at the same original price, bring along a big camera when you enter the shop. Just pretend to snap a few photos when you enter that shop, tell the boss or workers that you are doing a food blog. Trust me! Everything would seem better!

 

The food would taste nicer with probably extra ingredients. 

No matter how many people are waiting for the food, you would probably be served first. And you could see the workers are being more hardworking, especially when clearing up the tables around you.   

 

That's why most food review from those TV programs or books are always good but when you visit that particular shop, it taste normal (or maybe like crap!).

Embarrassing Shopping?

If you are a guy and your girlfriend or sister or mother requested you to buy sanitary pad, would you do it? Yeah, I understand that it is a complicated stuff – Wing, no wing, panty liner, regular, maxi, night and etc. But would you go to the feminine hygiene section and try to slowly select through the racks and probably being stared by those of different species – woman?

 

How about if you are a girl, would you be going to the birth control section and buy a pack of condom? Do you consider this as embarrassing?

These questions crossed my mind when I saw Guardian displaying disposable underwear for sales on the walkway. Some people are too embarrassed to flip through them, not to mention opening it up and see the actual size! 

Except for Gokuson who was desperate to get one for his Japan trip!

Unwanted Pressure at Signing Up Application Form

Yeah, economy is really bad. It’s so bad that when you signed up anything at a road show, lots of people would be guiding you. This poor guy should be under enormous pressure when filing up the application form. I could imagine that every word he wrote would be like signing a death form.

I remembered when the economy was good and I was wearing shabbily (I enjoyed being low profiled all the time), no one would even bother to entertain me, especially when I walked pass those credit card promoters. I could see them branding me as ‘Poor Guy’ on my forehead. Hmm… but I guess I am really a poor guy after all. But lately, as long as you are a human, they would be trying their chances on everyone. Economy is really bad now!

Interesting ATM Incidents

How fast does it take for you to withdraw money from an ATM machine? For me, it usually takes less than 30 seconds to key in my password and press all the buttons I want. However, some people really take their time doing so.

 

On one occasion, I saw a girl flipped out her long list of passwords from her phone, followed by searching for the one she wanted then slowly key in the password. After that she checked her balance then proceeded with keying the amount she would like to withdraw. Finally upon getting her cash and receipt, she went to check her account balance again, just to make sure it matched with the balance written on her receipt! By then, you could see lots of people queuing behind murmuring about her. If I were the one queuing behind, I would have started setting up a stall selling drinks to the people queuing over there.

 

ATM although common to most people, there is some people who are not so familiar with it. Let me relate some interesting incidents that I had ever encountered.

 

Wrong Language

There was a Malay girl who accidentally selected the wrong language at the ATM menu. She panicked, turned around and asked loudly “Ada siapa tahu Bahasa Cina? (Translation: Anyone know Chinese language?” Then appeared a kind Chinese Lady who went to help her. Hope by now she understood the ‘cancel’ button.

 

Body Password

One of my encounters was regarding another girl. She looked worried when it was about her turn to withdraw money. Then she did a very strange thing – She hold onto her breasts, followed by her waist then measured her hip. After that, she happily keyed in her password. At first, I was confused, thinking she was trying to seduce me (Yeah, my brain excited pretty fast). But when she was entering the password, she was saying out loud – “34 -28-36”, then I finally got it! Don’t know how long this password would last.

 

Wrong Account

Last time there was a donation drive for Palestinian refugees (Gazza War Donation). All Maybank ATM machines would be displaying an account number for us to transfer our donation when we logged-on. There was this old man who panicked when he saw that account number appeared after he keyed in his password. Then angrily he shouted to everyone “Don’t use this ATM machine! The machine displayed my name as Gazza! Someone might have hacked the system!”

 

Talking ATM

On one case, I saw a guy who I thought just got his ATM card. He inserted the card and then started to talk to the machine “I would like to have RM200.” There was for sure no respond. He repeated “ATM machine, I would like to have RM200.” Still no response. After a while the machine timeout, and the card was ejected. He looked at his watch, turned around and announced to everyone “I think the person behind the machine is on lunch break!”

 

I guess there are still lots of interesting story regarding ATM that I have yet to encounter. Any interesting ones for sharing out there?

 

By the way, here is one interesting picture:

Dungeon Mode

Yesterday my boss’s boss had initiated ‘Dungeon mode’ for everyone in our group. ‘Dungeon Mode’ in our working environment means everyone will be locked inside a confined space where we would be working hard for a project that is prioritized as critical. This period would last for a few weeks, so starting Monday we would not be allowed to leave the building, except going home to sleep at night. Annual leave might be denied too. And all engineers were to only focus on that particular project and nothing else.

 

Now I am concerned on my May trip to Kuching as well as my time for blogging!

 

This was the first time my group having this kind of situation, because the project we were working on had reached a super critical stage. Far worse than the end of the world... for me... i think.

 

As for Dungeon mode, I guess the only way to counter it was initiating Prison Break…. I mean Dungeon Break!

'Rain Man' @ Infinity Cyber Cafe, Sungai Dua

It was Friday lunch time and for the first time (last time was by accident) I decided to join my colleagues for their daily network gaming session at Infinity Cybercafé, Sungai Dua; because I was getting stressed up at work and I needed some fresh air.

 

It was just an ordinary cybercafé with lots of computer; 

and we were planning to play Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) against each other. 

That was when I saw a guy in a plastic raincoat inside the cybercafé. 

This was the second time I saw him. The first time was when he was using the computer while carrying an umbrella and still wearing a raincoat inside the cybercafé. At first I thought there was some leaking from the ceiling and the sky was dark and cloudy. But this time was different, it was bloody hot outside! 

I could not find a logical solution as why he was doing that. Maybe he was a superstar in disguise (Michael Jackson did wear mask when in public). Maybe he had just escaped from the hospital because of some awful infectious disease and he would like to prevent it from spreading to everyone. Maybe there was a hole on his head that could not be exposed to the air. Maybe he was trying to be a superhero in disguise (Who knows when he stripped off his raincoat, he became….emmm…. himself?)

But what I understood from my colleagues was that he visited the cybercafé regularly usually at noon and still with the raincoat on (just in case someone would like to get his autograph). I could not imagine that when it started to rain, what he would be wearing…. a diving suit together with an oxygen tank?

 

Anyway, he was walking around as though it was a normal thing. So the longer I stared at him, the more I felt that I was the abnormal one. I was feeling naked!

Guy's Urinal Etiquette (Unwritten Rule)

For girls who never sneaked into male’s toilet, this is how guy’s urinal looks like. 

These things allow us to ease our liquid faster without the need to sit on a toilet bowl and pulling down our pants. Usually those shy guys would rather go to a toilet bowl to ease themselves without exposing any part of their… how to say.. manhood!

 

Usually there are some unwritten rules when using the urinal – Always stand straight and look at your front; never and ever look around. But I guess this only applies to Asian.

 

So what are these unwritten rules? If guys don’t know, please play the educational urinal game.

 

Basically, the written rule is that you should never use the urinal beside an occupied one if there are many others unoccupied ones around…. Or should I say if you are not planning to start a conversation with him. Yeah, I do chat with my boss on work stuff when I am ‘working’ on my pee. =p

 

But come on, if I don’t know you and there are other empty urinal around, please go to them. I always feel like the person who stand beside me:

• Want to compete who complete the ‘shooting game’ faster (Over-competitive people do strange things)
• Want to compete whose ‘gadget’ is bigger (If you really want to do that, just ask how big my underwear is. And it is XL!); or
• Is gay and want to peek (If you are, why not you snap a photo of yours, magnify 100 times and frame it)!

 

Some guys need to remember that some people’s ‘devices’ would not function properly under watchful eyes! 

Photo Collection: Queensbay Model Search (Female Session)

As promised on my previous entry, I managed to get a lot of photos from a cameraman. If you would like to thank him for the photos, let me know and I shall pass the message to him. Feel free to click onto the photos for better resolution. These photos occupies 100Mb++ of my storage space! L

Sorry that i need to remove some of the photos because it was not nicely taken.

The waiting period…..

The moment of 1 minute fame….

This girl is cute, my favourite of all!

This is the girl that i think will win this competition.... so mesmerizing!