Delicate Situations

When you are in position of certain power or authority, you have many decisions to make, which will affect and set another chain of reaction going. What you do, what you decide, all will have effects, somehow or rather.

My staffs were being offered higher pay. They were undecided, to stay or to move on. At present market situation, it is a wonder that people are still throwing money around..If they were junior staffs, it will be easy to make decision but when it involved senior staffs, I guess, a lot of consideration must go into it. What these people don't realise is that any decision forced upon me, will have another reaction to others that work for me too. Very delicate and tough balancing act.

In the end, there were compromise, we meet half way and we will take it from there. I don't know when there will be another round of staff pinching. Crazy people!!

Same goes for other matters. It was impressed on me that some issues about our residential area was not attended to satisfactorily. I thought everyone would have the common goal to ensure that matters be righted so we can live worries free. But when push comes to shove, apparently, people are still conservative and don't want to offend anyone. Fair enough, I can relate to that. Still, a spade is a spade and being Malaysians, we have rarely asserted our rights to the extent of being stripped away of it without us realising it.

The infamous Malaysian attitude of "Tidak Apa" (Nevermind) is so entrenched in our pysche that we rather swallow all the bitter pill than fighting it. I, along with many of the younger, so called X-Generation, those born in 60s and 70s, are in the twilight zone, we are more aggresive and blunt but just not blunt enough. We still have a wee bit of reservation.

I guess, one more generation down, we will get a more assertive people, people who knows their rights and will not let others take it away without a fair resistance. This applies in all walks of life. Politics, economy, education, everything!