Well, blame it on global recession!!!

=P

In this country where the number of degree-holders outnumbers the job vacancies offered, if you get lucky enough to be employed in the few highly regarded companies, when they tell you to jump up and down and go round in circles, it’s almost too difficult to say, “Up your arse you friggin’ tossa!”

It’s really no wonder why you always see, “… and perform other tasks from time to time” at the end of almost every job description. So you multi-task and perform the jobs of two or three people and you still get the same amount of salary. What’s even worse is when the management would berate you for not being able to carry out your job as “efficiently” as they deemed.

Some companies are more cunning though. To avoid too much grievances and even make it appear that they are actually “rewarding” the employee, they created the term OIC or Officer-in-Charge. This means that you are given a certain amount of “power” but it’s not “absolute.”

You can now sign papers “for” your bosses, handle all the concerns yourself but only with the “guidance” of the higher ups, make presentations “according to their specifications” and just be this clueless nincompoop who is there to bridge the gap between the management and its people.

These companies are so good in manipulating people that there’s actually a good chance that when you go home at night, you’d feel a certain amount of pride in what you’re doing. Except of course, when you put your hands in your pocket and notice that it is still as empty as ever, or look in the mirror and realize that you’re still wearing the same clothes you’ve been wearing for the past eight years because you still could not afford that one suit you’ve long wanted to buy – but hey, at least you still look leaner than ever. What with all the work that you do and the budget meals that you eat because that is just how much your salary can buy…

It can be a dog-eat-dog in the office.

:-D