Working in an office in SG here is so hard. With all the incompetent management people breathing down your neck and pointing fingers at you for every small mistake, yet they can’t even manage their own responsibilities properly. Always pushing work off others, making own mistakes, then try to push the blame to people down the ladder.
I didn’t know working life was that bad..when I came out to work, I thought, ‘hallelujah, no more exams!’ but, after working for nearly 4 years….I really start to wonder, what is life about? I’ve been thinking. About life. In sg. No matter how I think about it, no matter what job, most are 9-5, if not longer. The pay isn’t that great either (unless I work in a high-level job). Work so hard..and barely making ends meet, with the cost of living now.
Housing so ex. Education so ex. Food and beverages so ex. Work so hard, small pay, hard to make ends meet, no life, no time to enjoy. Only weekends got free time. But then weekends mostly burnt doing up the housework and odds and ends that can’t be done during a work week.
And everywhere degree holders. Even degree holders have problem securing job with this economy. Company give small pay, small bonus cos they are too stingy.
Is coming out to work really the start of an end?? Don’t tell me get married, have kids, work the rest of my life. Omg! This isn’t life!
your problem seems like you are in the wrong company
time for a change
What you need is a new hobby.
Like Taomi gyo.
Originally posted by charlize:What you need is a new hobby.
Like Taomi gyo.
I got hobbies. No time do. No money invest on them too.
What's Taomi gyo???
start by not copy and pasting.
management at the top of the ladder who are paid handsomely should be the ones who need to shoulder the stress, heavy burden and responsibility
from what you've narrated, if you are at the lower half of the ladder and not drawing overly lucrative remuneration, you shouldn't be the one feeling the stress and frustration...you should be the more relaxed and happy-go-lucky type of office worker
pay usually commensurate with workload, responsibility and stress
if anything screw up, those normally at the top of the ladder will be the first one to kenna
although they presume that they do have the authority to boss you around, order you at their beck and call, vent their frustration on you...or even bully you...
but why let them affect your mood..?? don't be intimidated by bullying tactics
workplace bullying is common in singapore
Singapore and hong kong bosses are the worst in the world..check it out
Originally posted by AngelOfDarkness:Working in an office in SG here is so hard. With all the incompetent management people breathing down your neck and pointing fingers at you for every small mistake, yet they can’t even manage their own responsibilities properly. Always pushing work off others, making own mistakes, then try to push the blame to people down the ladder.
I didn’t know working life was that bad..when I came out to work, I thought, ‘hallelujah, no more exams!’ but, after working for nearly 4 years….I really start to wonder, what is life about? I’ve been thinking. About life. In sg. No matter how I think about it, no matter what job, most are 9-5, if not longer. The pay isn’t that great either (unless I work in a high-level job). Work so hard..and barely making ends meet, with the cost of living now.
Housing so ex. Education so ex. Food and beverages so ex. Work so hard, small pay, hard to make ends meet, no life, no time to enjoy. Only weekends got free time. But then weekends mostly burnt doing up the housework and odds and ends that can’t be done during a work week.
And everywhere degree holders. Even degree holders have problem securing job with this economy. Company give small pay, small bonus cos they are too stingy.
Is coming out to work really the start of an end?? Don’t tell me get married, have kids, work the rest of my life. Omg! This isn’t life!
sounds like what most of us are doing?
besides....
"Is coming out to work really the start of an end?? Don’t tell me get married, have kids, work the rest of my life. Omg! This isn’t life!"
was pretty much what your paents went through. when the average chap went without a degree.
if yours is only a normal degree everyone has you're pretty much guaranteed the same life.
just remember, there's a young chap working for less then 1 k at the nearby wet market @14hrs a day with less whining
Now u need at least 3 degrees to be able to have a say. lol
You can take on a job like mine.
Go offshore 200 over days a year.
No fixed schedule, anytime must go, must go.
Not much paperwork to worry about, and can wash hands off the job after finish.
Not much paperwork, but job can be mentally, and physically draining, no such thing called 8-5hrs daily.
Money is fantastic, but thats because you sacrifice everything else for the job.
So before you say corporate world work is crap, every job out there got good and bad, its only a matter of which one you wanna face.
Welcome to reality.
2 choices
改�环境�适应自己
or
改�自己�适应环境
Life will kick you in the gonads.
when economy or business bad for company is like that 1. like me now i have to spend everyday in company meeting - getting shoot at for nothing. every meeting they cum up with new things, new nonsensical things. when youspend whole day meeting, you can do nothing ewlse. then they ask you why you never do your work.
i just wish my company fire the manager or otehr managers i don;t care.
If your company is public listed, nobody gives a damn one lah, just take yr paid and shut up, after all it is using public money. If you company is Pte Ltd, then I guess, there tend to be multi tasking, and you will not be so fee unless it is on the brink of collapse.
And if your company is a GLC or govt one, act stupid
nobusiness then a lot of funnie things cum out already. the managers making trouble for all teh subordinates so tehy all haywire and aru=gue then they can be safer keep their jobs. really some managers have to go. my department alone special have 2 managers. homo ones
other department no managers when they anot around also can operate.
only mine special - need two -
only tok only - know nuts.
2 managers is good, you just let them do more job, make them do the decision and sign for it, manager are skilful in delegation, as subordinate, you should be skilful in making them take responsibility of their delegation ya.
Jie, hope you find a better job! Meanwhile, start networking more! Look for the right opportunity!
This is reason why I don't like to work in singapore. No common sense working environment. I work with singaporeans before, I find some of the things they say really not in sync with reality.
Come to malaysia to work, life more easier here !
Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:Jie, hope you find a better job!
Meanwhile, start networking more! Look for the right opportunity!
Or you can give up your job and start tution business like Darkness Hacker.
in a peaceful and harmony country, most important is cultivate kindness and charitable amongst one another and together earnestly. Anyone on stress etc is usually the cause of poor management and next life....
Originally posted by speakoutfor:Or you can give up your job and start tution business like Darkness Hacker.
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TS better intergrate... or be replaced. lol
Workplace bullying is pervasive in Singapore because most employees would rather keep mum about it when they are getting victimised by those incompetent managers. So, in effect, the employees are partly responsible for making workplace bullying an accepted and rampant practice. Those managers may be incompetent, but employees who don't speak up when bullied are just as incompetent and irresponsible. It does not help that Singapore does not have law on workplace harassment so employees are not protected from those workplace bullies. It's a very frustrating situation. And sad that one could consider it the accepted reality, rather than a twisted reality.
You can't make a significant change to this unethical and inhumane practice by always trying to change jobs or wishing for good luck with the next job.
Try reporting it to the highest authority in the Company. I admired one who did that, and now she is still working at the Company; while the Chief of Operations(COO) was dismissed from work.
And because of that, I now added to the Company Staff Handbook a ZERO WORKPLACE BULLYING TOLERANCE policy.