Corporate Drain....

The way I look at it, my days in my current bank are pretty much numbered. Why? Put it this way.....my 'suffer no fools' and straight-talking manner will probably be my undoing, if I don't watch it. Take today, for example. I had a disagreement with a HR colleague, and she must have hit on something, cos she has been with the bank for 4 years, and she's still surviving. The disagreement was 'broadcast' to the whole freaking world, cos the flurry of replies (only once on my end) was sent to quite a few people in HR and Compliance (where I am at).

And anybody worth his salt will say that HR is the last unit one would want to antagonise. But straight-talking me couldn't help it. Cos I had realised there was a mistake in the way the memo was communicated (which somehow made it seem like it was my end who had done the revision), so sent her a short and simple reply pointing out the areas that were wrong.

I do realise one thing though, if I want to 'last' longer here, maybe I ought to be less frank. I cannot possibly depict myself as a renegade, trying to revolutionise a culture that may have been so insiduously ingrained for ages. So it's either I conform to the 'ching cheong'ness of it all, or if I really cannot tolerate it, I should probably consider my options. Why can't I just get a job running a resort? Now that's an idea.....ha ha.

But on a serious note, it's really hard to be 'edifying' and emulate the compassion our Lord has for all, with the way I perceive people and things to be. Time to do big business with Him. And I wonder why is it that I am always so drained out......