Professionalism in my neck of the woods
The reason I haven't posted in a while is that I just haven't felt the urge to rant about anything. In the last week, I guess circumstances have kept me out of situations to complain about. One thing I can't escape, however, is the lack of PROFESSIONALISM in the workplace and other places - for you foreign readers, I mean in this part of the world!
I doubt that any of you literate folk reading this fit into any of the scenes I am about to describe, that are so typical of this region. Some of you might not believe what I write, and some might have a laugh, recalling similar experiences. And if any of you find you are the person I am complaining about, well we have stuff to talk about...!
Here I go:
Situation 1: Ravi, the supplier, never gives you quotes on time, and supplies you with rubbish you could never have imagined, that arrives late on time
Situation 2: Gloria, supermarket checkout chick: She asks you to go check the price of the *** yourself because there's no barcode on it. Since when do customers do the running around?
Situation 3: Magdalu, the car valet. As a lady, you are about to sit in the passenger's seat of a Ferrari. Valet boy opens driver's door. Lady opens her own door. That valet dude deserves a good smacking, preferably by the Management.
Situation 4: $$$, the client. They contract you for work, and expect you to commence without the $$, because "they are to be trusted". Yeah, where have we heard that before?
Situation 5: Nandakumar, the waiter at a 5* restaurant. He serves the guy before the lady.
He and his colleague engage in intimate conversation as you dine. One of them farts between courses. Taunted might laugh at this.
Situation 6: Pangadandu, the MD at a prestigious firm. He interviews you, and asks you for all the contacts in the international branch that you used to work at. He never follows up with an email, instead, you find the non-response was a rejection.
Well, that's all I have to say about unprofessionalism in this part of the world. From experience, I know things are different elsewhere. If you guys have anything to add, I'd be interested to know of your own experiences!
Unprofessionalism: deal with it or suffer its pangs...
13 comments:
Whatever gives you the impression that things are different elsewhere?
Even a Pro who preaches about ‘upping your service’ failed to deliver, which in turn prompted one to say to him ‘Up Yours Too’!
I leave the finger guessing up to your imagination.
*jim sullivan Of course things are different where professionalism is valued! Have you even been to Dubai?
Who the heck is this Kaufman guy? Never heard of him. What's the connection anyway, don't get it. You mean to say even pro's aren't professional? Yeah OK but he's not a true pro then is he ;)
Yeah, i*magination's the name of the game ;)
Why would I laugh?
I'm not into toilet humour....
Do I know you? Have I (or more precisely have you) had the pleasure??
Hmmm
*taunted One of your posts carries the word "ringstinger" in the title, that's why I thought you were into toilet humour.
Nope, I haven't had the pleasure. Unless you were the guy who was singing to Oasis on St Patricks Day.
A purely descriptive comment, of the effect of a rather warm curry.
Otherwise known as The Japanese Flag!!
LOL taunted...I seriously wasn't aware of these international terms for the effects of curry! Scuse my ignorance. Japanese flag: that's a crude description! I still class your use of these terminologies as toilet humour though...
I take the 5th & refrain from answering your question in para 1.
My connection about this Kaufman twerp was in spite of him being a Pro (or that's what he labels himself), he's a failure because he failed to deliver what he's trained to deliver.
Nobody's a true professional. All one can do is try one's best and deliver the goods.
*jim sullivan Feel free to ignore anything you want to refrain from answering. After I wrote this post and read your comment, it made me realise even the self-proclaimed pros fail at professionalism sometimes. From experience, and what I've witnessed, it's not easy to be professional all the time, and nor is it a simple choice - especially when low standards in the workplace force us to sink to the majority's levels...unless we're great at work politics and people have to follow our lead..
What you say is totally true though.
Twerp: new word for me. Might be too advanced if I used it here...
Hey - there's no need to rant - just describe. Rants are never original, descriptions can be, with luck.
And what I meant by that was - don't wait till you have a ready rant before posting - your non-rants read well and are far more interesting that silences!
Ah tell me about it. Unprofessional behavior is the norm. I'd be dead surprised if people behaved well.
*paraglider You are so damn cool. Umm...actually my mind has been filled with work in the past week and I couldn't think about anything else, therefore the silence. I do have a zillion things to say but I feel they might be too controversial to post..;) Will keep going though, thx 4 your "encouragement" ;)
*md even pros can't always be pros, as *jim_sullivan implicates in his comments above. That said, I do think pros could be true pros if there were not many UNPROFESSIONAL people down the ladder!
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