Making an Impact

Making an impact (while enjoying your work) instead of driving purely on ambition up the corporate ladder

 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/listen/work-it/leaders-chair-dbs-ceo-piyush-gupta-crisis-culture-and-power-storytelling-3601756

OVERlooked

Overlooked

Again

Meeting our expectations

So good, yet so downcasting

Taken for granted?

 

Yet, count your blessings,

Pollyanna says

Many do far worse

Dispel the morale drainers,

Pollyanna says

Keep up the spirits

And see where you can make an impact

 

No Running Away

Re-organisations Strictly structural Strictly to strategically strengthen the organisation But how painful it an be How emotional, even if irrational Yet another re-org in one's long career (deemed by some perhaps as too long) Yet another demotion in hierachy Thumbed down to be with the rest Attention more and more Micro-manage, do you call it? Regular meetings to report at Major groan Escaped it years ago But there's no running away now Pollyana says look at the bright side; it isn't so bad Yah but major groan There's no escape Can someone offer a path out to a better place?

An Inconvenient Feeling

 A wave of sadness

At the change in reporting

A demotion in reality

Though no change in remuneration

The casualty of re-org

 

A prick of sadness

Of history repeating itself

Again

And again

And again

Perhaps one is easy to do this to…

 

Brace up and be confident in one’s value

Brace up and face the world

Even if sobbing within

What an inconvenient feeling

Things Come in Threes

Happened more than once

Not twice

But thrice

So far

 

First, from Director to Manager

Fallout from organisational re-structure

Manager title less directly demotion-like than DD, no?

 

Second, a boss’ promise to “bring everyone up”

So promising!

Yet so false.

From divisional director

To a lower rung director

Under a group director

 

Then, in the twilight of one’s career

Yet another re-org

A Head like the rest

Down another level

The only one affected among one’s peers

 

Things come in threes…

Que sera sera

Pangs of Aches

 Pangs of aches

Shooting through the heart

Like electric impulses to pacemakers

Pangs of aches 

Hearing the now oft-repeated calls

For extending the retirement age

Pangs of aches

Of being retrenched (though coated under “early retirement”)

While still in prime 50’s

Pang of aches 

Recalling the audacity of the perpetrator

Recalling the “you have to go find a job yourself within the one year”

Permanent establishment post it was

What permanent?

Was it eyed for someone else?

What a caring organisation!

Kids = retirement plans

When parents view kids as their retirement plans

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/business/retirement-immigrant-families.html 

That's me! 

He said: “NTUC does not tolerate, condone nor approve of any discriminatory and unfair practices in the workplace, and will not hesitate to red-flag such practices.”

Workers supporting causes outside workplace should not face discrimination under beefed-up guidelines     
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/workers-supporting-causes-outside-workplace-should-not-face-bullying-harassment-or-ostracism-under-beefed-up-guidelines 

Really? Does it apply to the govt service too or are they exempted?

Long-serving or dead wood

One company for over 40 years: Long-serving employees on why they stayed on


https://www.straitstimes.com/life/long-serving-employees-40-years-in-the-same-organisation-and-counting

How many companies really appreciate staff staying on?

From "oh, the good ones leave" to dead wood.

An exclamations of "you stayed so long already ah".

After five years at the post, the HR keeps asking one to move.

Move to where?

To a post where one is not skilled at?

Posting shouldn't be for the sake of posting.

Long service is not a dirty phrase.

Even at the same post, one doesn't stay static.

One moves with the changes, learn new skills.

Some areas need time to build up, eg people engagement.

Fast-paced, agility, don't mean superficial engagement .

Knowing the past is not passé

For without understanding the rationale of the past, 

how to plan for the future in an informed way that builds on lessons of the past?

Returnees

 "Hao han bu hui tou" the Chinese saying goes.

Don't turn back after you leave.

Yet, one by one,

they return.

Not making it outside, some think.

We need people who know us, goes the rationale

Whatever.

So long as they buck up and do the work well.

And the system should treat all fairly.

Not see returnees as of "higher value", we hope.

Those who stay, and do work well, shouldn't be forgotten.