A company provides chocolates, nuts and dried fruits at the pantry for its staff.
Staff were informed that they can only consume them at the pantry. If any staff comes and take a handful of the snacks to their desk, the pantry lady would look at the staff although made no effort to stop the staff from doing so. At the end of the day, she will keep all the snacks (probably instructed by the office manager). A big corporation engaged a big and famous consultancy company to help it comes out with its long term strategic direction many years back.
At one time, the consultancy company said to emulate Enron. Enron is gone. Next, the consultancy company suggested another multinational corporation. The company is also gone. A newly appointed CEO took a walk by himself around the offices in its corporate headquarter.
He saw three staff at a desk doing something. He commented, "What are you doing?" After they replied, he said, "You need three persons to do this?" He went to another department and no one greeted him. He asked, "Why is everybody so busy? What are you all busy with?" A group of three elderlies and three housewifes were standing side by side around a fish stall.
Another few persons were standing behind waiting for their turn. An elderly Malay woman passed her plate of stingray for the fish monger to weigh to check the price and clean. The stall owner asked the woman if she would like him to cut the fishes into smaller pieces. She couldn't hear clearly and the two elderly ladies next to her asked her again. As they were talking, a man came from behind. He said, "Excuse me," to a guy standing behind and pushed his way to the front. He squeezed in between the third elderly lady and a woman and took a tray to select his purchases. He then said rudely in English, "Buy already quickly go off. Still stand here talking." The two elderlies rebutted him in Hokkien, "We buy already you think we will still stand here. You don't know how to see the uncle hasn't weigh and clean the fishes for us. We are not wood." The man then turned and saw those behind who witnessed how he had embarrassed himself. It turned out this man has parked his car illegally by the roadside. An admin clerk took a photo of a manager in her department having an afternoon coffee break outside.
She sent the photo to the human resource department. The head of the HR Dept approached the Vice President of the department and asked him what he intends to do. The Vice President said he is aware of the manager's habit of going for a break in the afternoon. He then called the clerk into a private room and scolded her for backstabbing her own department's colleague. |
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