On company loyalty
The other day I was sitting in MOS burger and eating my.. what else, burger.. and guess what? In came 2 young people dressed in McDonald's staff uniform! Now why doesn't that suprise me? Well for starters, I guess they want to cut the calories, and I totally understand that after hearing of the movie "Upsize me" or something like that. But really, for Singapore, that is just a big hypocrisy that I have never understood. First they want to stay slim so they won't eat nice homemade sweets, but they will eat out 8 days a week and that too, deep Kentucky Fried Chicken. I just don't get it (This is my anger speaking for disregarding my mom's lovely homemade food). Anyway, back to the main point. So why were those people in MOS and didn't their employer disapprove?
I can't imagine doing that with my employer. If I were to walk around with a Nokia phone (I work with Motorola) I would get looks even from random strangers. In fact Nokia phone is almost an ice-breaker that causes these random strangers to just come up to me and say "Why are you using Nokia???? By the way, hello! I am so-and-so from who-the-hell-cares department"! Just like that, out of the blue. What am I supposed to do? I don't really owe any explanation to these guys, but I inevitably end up telling a sob story about how my earlier Motorola phone was lost and now I am using Nokia only until I buy a new Motorola. FYI, the story is true. But that's not the point. Why should I get all this, while the guys from McD apparently enjoy their after-work dinners in MOS everyday without any disturbance? Just because a mobile phone is 100s of times more valuable than a meal? Because losing one customer (read: hand-tied employee) means a bigger loss to the phone company than the food industry? And why do I have to bear the blunt for that? I have to spend 300 bucks just to have these strangers back off and take it easy on my privacy!
What if I just stop caring? Next time someone asks me, I will say "Hello! I am using Nokia because that's what I had before I joined Motorola, and I don't feel like spending an extra 300 bucks on something that I am not in need of. And as far as forcing Motorola on me is concerned, please get back to me once you have made Motorola fast enough to react to my key strokes within the same hour!"
So how? Will they fire me? Can they fire me? I am not really into the law n stuff, but if someone tells me you are fired for not using the company's products, I will have something to say. I am doing my job properly - well above "properly" in fact - I am doing the work at 1.5 years of experience that people 3 years into the job still don't do/can't do - I am effectively their bitch, because I am young, a bachelor, eager to make my mark in the industry. They can't fire me after all that! That's really company loyalty, if you ask me.
Someday I would like to debate this with my boss. Am I not afraid? Well, when 'someday' is the key word, there's really no need to get worked up. Meanwhile I have a good mind to go up to these McD employees and put them through the same scrutiny that I had to face! I even caught them on camera, in case someone's interested. How did I get my hands on a camera, you say? Sounds suspiciously made up for the sake of the story?? Well, hullo.. Motorola has camera phones remember?!!
I can't imagine doing that with my employer. If I were to walk around with a Nokia phone (I work with Motorola) I would get looks even from random strangers. In fact Nokia phone is almost an ice-breaker that causes these random strangers to just come up to me and say "Why are you using Nokia???? By the way, hello! I am so-and-so from who-the-hell-cares department"! Just like that, out of the blue. What am I supposed to do? I don't really owe any explanation to these guys, but I inevitably end up telling a sob story about how my earlier Motorola phone was lost and now I am using Nokia only until I buy a new Motorola. FYI, the story is true. But that's not the point. Why should I get all this, while the guys from McD apparently enjoy their after-work dinners in MOS everyday without any disturbance? Just because a mobile phone is 100s of times more valuable than a meal? Because losing one customer (read: hand-tied employee) means a bigger loss to the phone company than the food industry? And why do I have to bear the blunt for that? I have to spend 300 bucks just to have these strangers back off and take it easy on my privacy!
What if I just stop caring? Next time someone asks me, I will say "Hello! I am using Nokia because that's what I had before I joined Motorola, and I don't feel like spending an extra 300 bucks on something that I am not in need of. And as far as forcing Motorola on me is concerned, please get back to me once you have made Motorola fast enough to react to my key strokes within the same hour!"
So how? Will they fire me? Can they fire me? I am not really into the law n stuff, but if someone tells me you are fired for not using the company's products, I will have something to say. I am doing my job properly - well above "properly" in fact - I am doing the work at 1.5 years of experience that people 3 years into the job still don't do/can't do - I am effectively their bitch, because I am young, a bachelor, eager to make my mark in the industry. They can't fire me after all that! That's really company loyalty, if you ask me.
Someday I would like to debate this with my boss. Am I not afraid? Well, when 'someday' is the key word, there's really no need to get worked up. Meanwhile I have a good mind to go up to these McD employees and put them through the same scrutiny that I had to face! I even caught them on camera, in case someone's interested. How did I get my hands on a camera, you say? Sounds suspiciously made up for the sake of the story?? Well, hullo.. Motorola has camera phones remember?!!
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