All In a Day’s Work

Heh..heh..heh! Mata saya pedasss… Name saye ni Labu. Saye ni tukang masak Haji Bakhil. Bukan tukang masak saje, macam macam kerje yang saye buat. Pegi pasar, saye. Tukang masak, saye. Cuci pinggan mangkuk, cuci peghiuk belange, cuci ghumah tangge, cuci ghumah kecik kat belakang tu pun…saye..!!

Peeeeendeekkkkk kate, selagi belum tutup mate, kerje,kerje,kerje!!!

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It has been two months since I switched job. As for now, I could say that I’m quite content with my current position, I’ve been given a challenging portfolio although my boss hasn’t delegate most of the supposed workload just yet. Not that I’m complaining, some of my colleagues (from the induction programme) had to stay back until late at night in their first week!!! and some even have to work on weekends…sigh.

Anyway, my work has put me in a situation that I never encounter before, I need to work with pakcik2 and makcik2!!! (the non-executives personnel). Well, obviously there’s always a first time for everything but I’m still not getting used with this circumstance. In my previous company, only the top management are in the 40 to 50 age bracket and I hardly met them, and even then everyone is considered as peers regardless of race, rank and age. So everyone addressed everyone else by their name (including the boss, not even Mr/Madam). Quite casual I would say but that’s the work culture there. Once, during my early days there when I, ehem ehem having the nature of being polite call one of the staff akak (she’s about 30 I think), her face changed and asked me this instead, “Do I looked that old?” ….”Aiyohh akak, of course lahhh“. That, I obviously didn’t tell her and that’s besides the point but you get the drift, right?

I digress, again. So, here the work culture is different, I can’t address everyone by their name anymore as that would indicate ill-manner behaviour in my part. It’s just natural when you have someone much older than you are as your superior but when they are your subordinate, that can be a lot more trickier, or so I thought anyway.

Another thing about working here; I hardly converse in English nowadays and I can feel my grasp of that language is becoming loose by the day. NO, we don’t speak in English here despite being one of the largest GLC (a profitable one at that) and having the aspiration of becoming a GLOBAL company. Well, almost everyone here has the same skin colour as yours and eat sambal belacan, so that’s self-explanatory.

So, the significance? Expect, more crap postings and the language being used is going to be lot crappier, huhuhu…later.