Mindful or Full of Sh__!

  Patience! Patience!

     How I wish I could just plan things and let them just unfold every day and let them turn out the way I plan them to be. Oh, it's just a wish that I could think of every day when I'm not that busy. I work because I have this plan that I want to accomplished. And then, as you work towards that goal, you realized that you have to deal with all sorts of personalities, people! It could have been simpler if people behave the way they should decently. 

     In one of my jobs, because I have another! He he! I intend to finished the tasks early, so that I can still enjoy other things like reading and reviewing for an up and incoming exam. Yes, I finished the tasks, double-checked the details and here comes this newcomer company nurse who projects that she's the best office person there can be! She projects that she's bubbly and with a wholesome personality, with lots of stories to tell. I said to myself, the first time I met her that this person is hiding something. I always catch her smirk at the end of her sentences when she talks to us. Maybe, she doesn't know that I can see her expression even at the side of my eyes. 

     Let me introduce you to Faker Wan, the lady who fakes her personality to gain leverage at the office. Single mom of two. Supposedly separated, but won't drop the married name and dates DOMs. She tells you the sob story of her life that you will feel uneasy since you will be left with a thought that "why is she telling me all these bad 'realities' of her life"? Is that her way of telling everybody that you should look at her with pitiful eyes? Or are all of her stories real? Or are they truly lies? The Human Resource staff briefed us and tells us that Faker Wan has a BPO background or that she has worked in a call center industry and that she has superb computer skills, but lo and behold, she doesn't know simple Microsoft Excel duh! One time, I would catch the Excel files in shambles! The boxes and columns are not all aligned, colors are different; she doesn't follow the pattern and lots of things that will make your work 'untidy' and misaligned most of the time. Anyway, since I can catch these "things", I would just try to correct and tidy up whatever she misses. Oh, she would "googled" it up most of the times! Haha! And she has this habit of checking on whatever we and the other nurses are doing when we are not around the clinic. She also has this habit of comparing her work with ours. One nurse would tell me that Faker Wan commented about the emails that I sent to patients when I'm making a follow up. She would comment that it's like that and that and she doesn't like it, and she prefers it this way. Oh my God, how can she be foolish enough and recognized that nobody needs her opinion on how I write my emails. Is it really important for her that I should write the way she wants to write hers? It's so silly and annoying at the same time why she reacts this way. Is she really that bored that she will always pick on me? There's another instance when she found out that I am receiving extra for the reliever job I've got from the clinic. Now, she's questioning why I was given such rate. Has she forgotten to grow old, wiser and mature? Of course, it will be different for each and every one of us since we have contracts. Roles, jobs and functions are well defined and would be equated with a certain amount that my employer and I have agreed upon. And then, here comes the Insecures...

The reason behind these uncooperative "attitudes" boil down to the other parties' weird way of channeling their respective "frustrations" in life. Most of the time, they pick someone from their workplace, anybody they encounter on the street, on instances where they order food from fast food restaurants or any where their brains or emotions will remind them how much of a loser they can be! Their brains telling their inadequacies, their vulnerabilities, weaknesses. Result: They create chaos in the workplace, disruption in the flow of things like poor service, incompetence, un-mindfulness, mistakes, incidents and sometimes danger.

TO BE CONTINUED...