Passing the Buck

Some people would not know what this term means. I believe not everyone even many does not understand what it means. Well, some people would say, did you catch the ball? In this time and place, I find that many colleagues and team members in this office environment have what you call, to cover your ass. Your own ass is important as long it does not affect you.

Every time a problem is found in a system, the emails will go flying here and there. It is mainly finding the fault of the problem and the cc and bcc to all the line managers, team leads and other so called prominent names.

Working in such an environment definitely is a strange and dangerous thing. How long would I last? Maybe not so long, I am definitely going to look for a better place to be.

Coca Cola Addiction??

Work has been up and down. I have finally gotten the hang of things in this MNC. One thing though is that I guessed it also made me start a new habit. I am now starting to drink Coca Cola constantly through out this week as the company is providing it. Is it an addiction?


It is still hard to determine it yet as I do not drink it all the time yet but only on a daily basis once or twice in a small cup. Will I become a Coca Cola/Coke addict in the future?

Career Advancement

This will be what it is. Will the future hold bright for me? Or is it bleak? Well, this will very much decide what should be done in order to achieve what needs to be achieved.  Of course work is never enjoyable here with the team members all sitting on their own and they are mainly not active in anything much.

Found out this place is meant for workaholics. So how will the chat with the lead lead and line manager will go later.

MNC really different from non-MNC

It is now the third month I am here in this office, learning to grasp and to adapt to the office environment. In here, everything is done black and white. It seems that when you send an email, it accounts as your safe and guarantee in case something was argued about. It is also a double edged sword, so when you wrote something declaring you have to do something. You will also need to keep with your word. If one didn’t then people will be able to use what you wrote and use it against you.

In this office environment, it had helped me to start writing more documentation, referring to notes and manuals; also it had helped me to be more outspoken and trying to learn newer things as time goes by.

Though sometimes I get a kick in the ass when some mistakes were discovered at a time I was not in office and then got mentioned about it, but so it seems it happened to almost everyone here. I just got to get used to this. Picking up skills on SVN, web services and interfaces has helped me in my work.

Unlike previous occasions, the environment here is also very serious. It is hard to find something funny to joke about at times. In my past 3 months working here, I have only eaten one lunch with my senior while the rest of the times I usually eat alone or with friends that works nearby. A loner to be exact but I am not complaining. Life just goes on.