Friday, July 31, 2009

Work Satisfaction

The department is running on an issue about 'work satisfaction' and I honestly feel no one in this world can rob people their right to express their satisfaction or dissatisfaction.

Even if the survey indicates that staffs are generally unhappy, it cannot be that the staffs are later being reprimanded for voicing their feelings. It is then as close to not bother having the survey.

I mean, to many extend I wish to say that to Big L but I guess there is no use to open my gap because,
a) people may think I am trying to be smart
b) Big L always thinks he is definitely smarter than me in every way (and therefore he is the boss and I am not) hehe... and
c) Big L always thinks he is right.

While I try not to touch on this whenever I write as it is as sensitive as politics but I just can't help it. This fingers are just itching to write something. In my humble opinion, it is imperial that people is happy with their job but it is even more imperial that bosses should not 'assume' they are never the root of the problem or want to believe they are not the issue to the satisfaction level. Denial.

In fact, most often than not, it is the boss that is the root to all dissatisfaction. And these bosses are often in denial, again. Exactly like AIDS and those H1N1 and what other nots. People like to believe that it will never be them.

And when reality hits, they still think it is not them. Then they blame that someone, something has not been fair to them. And they still deny it can't be them. And then the claimed they are the victim to a lot of other circumstances.

See.

Example, AIDS don't get you if you did not share needles, or have open sex without condoms, or was not careful with any bloody thing per se. So, bosses generally are responbile to the well being and state of mentality of their staff, like it or not.

And the remarkable part is, everyone thinks being a boss is so easy that they want to one too one day. Hah, everyone wants to be a manager with a fleet of staff reporting to them. But when it comes to motivation and running a happy shop, they start open fire and blame the staff when no one's happy. It is always THE staff who is unreasonable, demanding and childish. It is never them.

But bottomline is, everyone, staff or boss has to remember that the fundamental to a good work place is having the respect for each other for their time, their work, their effort, their motivation, their cooperation, their support and for the bosses, their guidance, their willingness to share, their support, their understanding and their wisdom (if there is any).

It is just so simple.