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Silent Your Mobile Phone

Posted by jiunjie in Office Bored, Typical Malaysian on March 9, 2010

I really don’t understand why those office assholes can’t just switch their mobile phone to silent mode while attending meeting or in a movie.

It is really annoying when a meeting or movie is undergoing and out of sudden, the phone is ringing…

I know they want to show off their ring tone, mp3 format, lossless quality, dynamic surround sound quality and show the hippy side of them, but please not during a business meeting with your colleagues, bosses or clients or in a movie.

This will only show where your professionalism level is. In your ass I guess.

Another tragic is they like to leave their mobile phone on their workplace, when the phone is ringing, they are nowhere to be seen. So the phone keeps ringing nonstop. It gets really annoying when the phone is set to maximum mind blasting volume.

Can’t they just be smart enough to know the importance of the occasion and automatically turn their phone to silent? Do these office assholes need to be reminded just like those advertisement in cinema to politely request you to turn off or silent your mobile phone? Even a nine year old know how to turn off the phone during the class. Asshole!

These office assholes working in a multinational company, carrying high qualification from famous institution or university, dressing in branded and looking smart and professional, earning high salary, but do not know how and when to turn their mobile into silent according to occasion and importance. Asshole!

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Fingers Running

Posted by jiunjie in Office Bored on March 8, 2010

Imagine when you are concentrating on your facebook status work, next to your cubicle is your colleague is having a discussion over the phone with client, you could not hear them. Opposite you is your colleague sharing a joke with your other colleagues and burst into laughter, your facial muscle not even twitched simply because you are 100% concentrating on your work.

At this moment, you hear the sound of your table being scratched or lightly tapped. You thought your colleague is standing behind you looking and seeking for your attention. You turned and look, nobody was there and someone just passed by.

There are these kind of people with such habit that what they did were just to go to the destination and on their way will pass by your cubicle. Unintentionally, for no reason, when they approaching your cubicle, lift the arm up, place the palm facing down with the fingers pointing your table and runs the nails across the surface of the table as if wolverine is running his titanium claws over the walls. Or they could be tapping their fingers on your table back and forth as they passing by.

When their fingers reach the end of the table, continue to walk as if nothing happen. And repeat the sequence on the next table. Or they chose selected tables only.

These office bastards didn’t realize that they are disturbing and annoying other people at their work by having this small little bad habit.

Out of ten times I turned my head and look when this happen, eleven times was I saw those office bastards finished running their fingers on my table and continue their walk and not noticing there is a hulk to be with 180 heart beats per minutes pumping and staring at them.

I am getting fed up confronting to them about their bad habit and behavior.

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Who should be in charge of operating/pressing the close door button in a lift?

Posted by jiunjie in Office Bored, Top Tip, Typical Malaysian on January 29, 2010

Imagine this, probably need not to imagine, as this might just happen to you. You are in the lift, going up/down. More people are coming in until the final person steps in. Nobody press the close button to get door(s) close.

Some lift has longer waiting period on their door’s motion sensor before it closes. If nobody presses the close button, basically everybody in the lift are wasting their precious time, staring at each other awkwardly, smelling each other’s fart, putting more strain on your neck as you only look down the floor or up the ceiling and ended up being slapped and accused for sexual harassment for staring, fainted due to overdose on inhaling methane with hydrogen and ammonia, and neck pain that is more severe than formula one drivers sustained in a high speed corner at Istanbul Park circuit at turn 8 for more than 5g.

It is very frustrated when this is happening. Why can’t just the person closest to the button press the close button and rather to wait?

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Misunderstanding

Posted by jiunjie in Office Bored on December 15, 2009

During a meeting,

Participant: This function is not included in the system, right?

Presenter: Yes, you are right.

Presenter carries on with presentation.

Participant: Excuse me, earlier you mentioned that this function will be in the system.

Presenter: Which function?

Participant: Earlier I asked about the function in the system.

Presenter: Yes, I did reply to your question.

Participant: You said the function will be in the system.

Presenter: No, I did not.

Participant: But earlier you did reply yes?

Presenter: You were asking me the question ending with a “right”, so I replied your question by agrees with your statement. Yes, you are right. I don’t mean yes to the function is included in the system.

Participant: Sorry.

The whole meeting room had an awkward moment of silent.

 

Moral of the story, ask your question clearly and listen for the answer carefully, don’t just listen to the first part and make your own assumptions for the remaining of the answer.

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Strange Encounter with Strangers

Posted by jiunjie in Office Bored, Personal Encounter on December 10, 2009

I’m working in an IT company, and based at client’s office, so every day I meet many unknown people in various workplace.

Usually I’ll greet or at least nod my head with eye contact whenever I meet these people in office regardless I know them or not, because we are all in the same workplace.

There is this Malay lady whom I guess is from building maintenance management based on her outfit, walkie-talkie in her hand, running from place to place for checkup daily, she came to me when I was playing games working with my eyes staring on my notebook and greet me! I didn’t realize she was around me until she greeted me and I look away from my notebook and greet back to her.

A few more people whom I don’t know and didn’t work with me passed by my cubicle and greeted me and asked me whether I have my breakfast/lunch. Strangely, I barely know them by names except for their faces. It is very kind and friendly of them to someone don’t work for them.

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