Disclaimer: This post is based on my own experience. Any similar name or code name used in this post is purely coincidental. This is Taglish so sorry for the Filipino wrong terms.
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Year 2009 when I was purely exposed to what they usually call LEADERSHIP. I told the ABE community that at that time, I was not given a chance to be an officer and that would be the first one. Fortunately, I was elected an Auditor because of them and that was when my GEMs career started. I was a neophyte that time but my Seniors taught me the things they know. So, the next year I aimed for one of the 2nd highest position in the said organization, I succeeded and there it was, I am the 17th Vice President for External Affairs of the organization since 1993.
I left my job sa GEMs with full of lessons. Like what I always say, GEMs is where I learned my well-lived lessons. I learned a lot and one of them is to deal with unprofessional people.
There was this one professor who tried to ruin my Transcript of Records by giving me an unjustifiable 2.75 just because he hates me for knowing that he had a relationship with my close friend. There was this professor who made some stories about me and my friend being these disrespectful juniors. There was this professor who spread rumors that I had an information failure. And there was this higher official of the university who did not want me to go out of the university and sulked to death because I was not responding to her messages about my career path.
I left my Alma Mater with mixed emotions and a lot of experience that made me stronger. Sabi nga nila, matibay na ang sikmura ko sa mga ganyang tao. Sa dalawang taon ko sa GEMs, nalaman ko na kung paano malaman kung totoo ang isang tao o hindi.
Unprofessional people (adj.)
- term used for set of people who do not know how to play the game fairly.
- term used for people who use personal grudges against people they do not want.
Sad to say, isang taon pa lang akong nasa corporate world but I already experienced bad things about work. I think it is not bad for me to dream of a good and healthy workplace. But maybe, it's not about the place anymore, it's about how you deal with them... Kahit nasusuka ka na.
I have dealt with hypocrite people, thieves and story fabricators. (This is my own term.) I really do not know their reasons on why they have to do such things to people who just wanted to have better life through striving every day. I do not know what they are going through, but I know they know what employees are really going through. We do not have the same reasons but at least, there is this common denominator.
This past week was a stressful one. A total surreal blur. I was not alone actually. I got a whole bunch of people at my back. But it is just, we cannot take what is going on.
We have this boss who loves to say bad things about other people. Isa kasi sa mga prinsipyo ko sa buhay eh yung pag may galit ka sa tao, just say it to them. Right in front of the person's face. O kahit hindi mo na sabihin, paramdam mo na lang. Wala naman sigurong gustong makasakit, pero if you think you're in the correct line of reasoning, why not?
He said bad things about other people. When we ask him, what was his reason of saying such, he said another person's name and drag it so that we will feel bad about the person. I thought I was the only one who noticed this bad attitude but I was wrong. It was the whole team who knew it.
This week, he unleashed the bitchy side of one of my closest workmates/friends from college. She was a kind person, but she saw injustice and poor reasoning, so she burst her feelings out and confronted him. No one expected that she would do it, but to my own surprise, she did.
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So there you go, the bottom line of this post is that, in the corporate world, you will find it hard to look for that person to trust. Na sa labas ng opisina, you are still friends and he/she won't do anything for you to feel bad.
TRUST. Importante yan kasi proteksyon. Joke lang! Haha. Kidding aside, TRUST is really important. and TRUST goes with RESPECT. These two things are those you cannot learn or be read from books or articles. THESE ARE EARNED. THEY ARE EARNED.
Sana isa sa mga matutunan ng tao eh yung rumespeto sa mga decisions ng iba. Respect their personality. RESPECT THE PERSON. And if you give them responsibilities to do, TRUST them...
Because A LEADER is far DIFFERENT from A BOSS.
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