Of Work, Attitude and Independence

I've been busy. Tomorrow we will start the user acceptance test at the central site. I expect some minor issues to be reported but in general, I hope everything else will work out fine. As I'm preparing the documents for tomorrow, another part of the country is a hot spot eventhough it's raining.

Good luck Permatang Pauh! Vote wisely. And to quote Ustaz Asri, undilah yang kurang kemudaratannya. In short, vote for the lesser evil. God bless.

While preparing the checklist for the vendor, I recalled how reluctant the staff was to learn new things. To him, his job is basically putting the hardware in with minor configuration. When told that he has to do changes to the script file he fidgeted. His excuse was that he doesn't know these things. He's young, so I gave him that. So I said to him, isn't it great to be able to learn new things? And when he finished doing it, I asked him, doesn't it feel good that now you know something else? And after doing it everything works fine? He just fidgeted some more and grinned.

This bunch of kids, are lazy. They can learn new things and they can remember them, but they are just plain lazy. I didn't ask what is their level of education. On top of that, their interpersonal skill is zero. I could barely control my frustration when working with them. But one has got to do what one has got to do, no?

Sometimes I do wonder about this type of people. Don't they want to be better at their job? Why aren't they willing to take one step further when it comes to completing the task? And if things don't work out, they do not do a little research to try to find the solution. Instead they just wait for people to give them the solution.

And sadly to say, they are, most often than not, Malays. It's embarrassing. Not only the men has a gigantic ego, they are also bodoh sombong, unwilling to learn and lazy. And when the women perform better than them, instead of taking the opportunity to learn, the men simply shut these ladies off. Granted, not all Malay men do this, but majority of them do. The ones that I worked with in the past and some that I'm working with now, do.

So. changes are unavoidable. Attitude changes are desperately needed. Before you can change the nation, you should change your working and learning attitudes. Paradigm shift, as what the former primer always said. Sadly, we see none in works.

And it's the 51th year of independence. Our minds are mostly still being colonized. Wake up. The segregation based on race to what work you do is no longer valid. These days, you should be versatile and adaptable.