Office Politics

Day 187 - 813 days to go

Really do not want to write about this but it overwhelmed me as the most critical and relevant event of the day. My whole department was not around last Friday and my staff attended a meeting with one internal department and one group level department staffs.

My staff was bullied by another staff who is much more senior in the market and company rank. The silly thing was that he said he was helping our department to carry out one activity which was actually his department activity in the first place. Maybe he is old enough to forget about what he put into his business plan or he thought my staff is innocent enough not knowing that it is the other department's activity. Really sad for the company for having staff who always busy doing all these activities instead of working towards achieving company's goals.

Happy events:

1. Finally my immediate supervisor showed that he was also annoyed by all the office politics instead of ignoring it and let the subordinate face it only.
2. We manage to sell more than 14,000 Terry Fox Run t shirts to raise fund for charity and may be able to sell more than 15,000 when the event is over this Sunday. Bravo.

Creativity: People who play office politics are very creative. One way is to turn black into white.

Creative does not mean that black can really turn into white. It is only a wishful thinking and may not last long as people will not be fooled for long. So black is still black.

Not so happy event: Office politics must coexist with office business activities?