When you were a benevolent person, it might seem like the surrounding people were taking you for granted. Sometimes you wish you could stop doing things for others so that you would know how much you mean to them!
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I strongly believe that every single O friend of mine should have already known that I am working in the hotel line with Pan Pacific, so I presume that we can skip giving another long introduction of how and why I have chosen this profession as a temporary job.
THE PROBLEMS POSE BY BEING TOO MUCH OF A BENEVOLENT PERSON
My one and only colleague (co-ordinator) in my department will be named under the pseudonym 'Nina' to protect her identity.
Maybe you would like to hear more about my experience.
Nina, my 22-year old colleague, has always been changing shifts with me throughout the past two months. There were other times she would beg me to arrive work one or two hours earlier. At first, I decided to be generous towards her; since it has always been like the nicest thing to forge a good working relationship with our colleagues. Furthermore, it will also be much more easier for me to request her to do the same thing for me in the future.
However, she has taken my kindness for weaknesses after our first agreement. Just my luck that I have made the biggest mistake to be nice towards her. Let me break these down into three incidents which depict how Nina has destroyed my belief towards being a nice guy.
# INCIDENT 1
There was once she told me that it is of paramount importance to reach ten minutes earlier before work so that the previous shift co-ordinator is able to hand over and go back on time. However, when I was the morning co-cordinator, she only knows how to talk the talk but not walk the walk. Nina actually reaches the office 3 O'clock on the dot all the time.
# INCIDENT 2
I have always agreed to come a few hours earlier when she needed me. However, when I needed to return home earlier during the chinese new year season, she gave me an outright NO! She knew how this festival was important to me, but she REJECTED me OUTRIGHTLY. I was extremely incensed and ridiculed but I decided to be the bigger man and not be calculative towards such an ungrateful person.
# INCIDENT 3
Since we are both co-ordinators, we play a major role in the control of the administrative work which includes changing of shift for the whole department. That being said, we have more advantages over others when it comes to swapping our shifts without any hassle. As long as the other party agrees, we can always enjoy the important dates we might have on that particular day. The only thing we needed to do was to remind our superiors with a reason. (You know, normally we do not tell them the real reasons behind it. We are young and of course we all have our crazy needs to be happy)
Nina was right about this: We are all young and it is impossible for us to flitter our youth away in this place. Therefore, the remaining time after our morning shifts is important as the noon time is much more easier to engage in activities with our loved ones.
That being said, we both want to work in the morning shift! As Nina's only working partner, the last thing on my mind is to fall out with her! Last month, more than three-quarter of my shifts fell in the afternoon and I was not impressed. This month, I manage to convince my OM to put all the morning shifts back, BUT Nina was not very happy. For the past two weeks, I have been changed back to afternoon shift quite regularly because she mentioned that she needed to accompany her boyfriend, her mother and her sister.. Last week, I was swapped to two afternoon shifts again because she needed to go to the ROM with her fiance.
We have swapped our shifts too many times until our superiors have began to question us about our ever-changing schedule. Apparently, Nina has gone up to a whole new level by using 'Ryan's busy school commitment' as a reason to excuse herself from being questioned for all these changes. Well, It was obviously a lie. She has made me becoming the one who always causes so much problems to our schedule!
I mean, we are all men, and the society has THAT fixed mindset whereas the gentlemen must act chivalrously towards the distaff side! Unless you are an effeminacy and that everyone recognizes you as a female individual THEN you are spared.. The point of sharing all these is that we should all learn how to be a bad guy sometimes..
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