The SELFish People You'll Face in Workplace



Selfishness - it's contagious, greediness, self-esteem and goal achiever. Is not like you only working in a company for several years and experienced it only 1 time. Unfortunately, every company ingrained with this kind of 'culture'. - It happens for reason.

Have you experienced the type of different personalities of human beings in your workplace? 

For example, 

The One Who Withhold Important Information

This is like a person being "too secretive", yet spreading the shallots (Big one) to several departments and making as a big thing. Until one day, your big boss asked you directly, if you know what is happening and is there something taking care off? You went blanked, confused with her/his question. Ohh wait a minute, not just the big boss, but your colleagues in different department start to question you one by one. On the other side, that so called "secretive thingy" was in progress (perhaps he/she doing it without telling you although you were in the team.) Finally, you discovered that you were the last person to know what the actual fuck is happening while others are talking about it.-Puke blood for "Teamwork" quotes for this. 


The One Who Do Not Respect Other People's Time

Is like one person who talks to you while you were in the middle of something that is important. But then he/she notices you were doing something the boss want it urgently and they just give fuck DAMN  long chit chat to distract you from that task. How bad is it? How annoying is it? You give them time to do something urgent, and by the time is your turn, they'll just screwed you up. Like seriously fucking unfair.

Another version; when you were doing that task, your boss want it right on the spot, given 5 minutes away, and he/she be like; "Hey, can you come over here? I need to show your something." Is not like a big deal, unless something is fucking urgent. You hesitantly replied: "Hey, Can you give me like few minutes to deal with this first I got a clock to run over?". He/She give you an unsatisfied grin with like "Ohh-Kaaay". Fyi, is not like everything about her/him is important, these people need to understand like certain task requires amount of time. You don't need to gladly messed up people's work to see them struggling. 

Last example; Your boss requires you to do her/his job first, but you were in the middle of your senior's task, you have to apologise to them and asked to borrow some amount of time, but then he/she'd be like "But mine is urgent first!" My Gosh...This is not only about her/him, is about the team man! These are the people who have no awareness of the things you need to get done as well. They want what they want, when they 'want it' and whatever you've got going on isn't of any importance.

The One Who Do Not Like To Teach, But Take The Credit 

Pretty much you know why this happened to most juniors/fresh-graduates. And do you want to know the reason why? Ok. This is because they're afraid of you learn to know how to do what they can do, and you'll replace them - Seriously like wtf?!  Surely your boss asked: "Are you jealous of him/her?" (Puh-lease lah. Rolled Eyes.) Why would people want to be so jealous?! Remember you are challenging yourself and you want to know how good you are. This is not an exam or competition. Some people are gifted with talents, some are not. Agak-agak la sikit ya.  But not all are selfish from teaching, because I believe somehow it is bloody ridiculous for not teaching people to do things. How to manage a business if you did not develop management skills? How a toddler study their first ABC before they learn to read and write? Everything are from baby steps right? 

Another example: taking credits? Okay. On the flip side, when the task goes right, they're right there to take the credit for it. How? Let see. You were told to follow up that paperwork progression. He/She taught you the steps. You followed until you about to reach the end of the street finish line. And when the task is done, he/she take that credit and literally informed the same boss you worked under for as their "job accomplished". HAHAHAHA! No kidding man. When you ask them, why would they do that? They'll replied you: "It's because He/She were the one who brought it all together, they were the solution and the positive inspiration". These people want us to know how important you need them as they are the "solution". They'll give such statements like: "Without me, you neither can do this nor accomplished this mission". This leads the kind of a feeling where you'll observed that the boss need him/her rather than YOU. 


The One Who Bring Others Down to Build Themselves Up

In the end, these people contribute to a toxic culture by tearing others down. You, doesn't matter whether you're junior or whatever noobie is, these human beings ain't really trying to provide a helpful feedback or to improve the work. They'll just blamed you when something is not right literally and also give that "next-time advice" which you're tired to hear that until your ears could burst. (Rolled eyes.) The reason is, they want to make others feel lack of confident in themselves. Even your bosses can see your confidence level. They simply asked twice than 1 time of a question and also please be aware of the "particular things" they're considered. They asked a lot and want to know WHY WHY WHY! Letih kan? In the end, you'll lose confidence which develops a hopeless feeling. "Useless and what should I do?"goes around your mind.  Instead of making us feel less confident, they create a 'false confident" that affects your personal well-being.


They are SELFish.

To Overcome this situation - FYI, SELFish human beings in Workplace.


JUST IGNORE, WITHDRAW FROM THEM. Tell them, you don't need them or to have he/she as your sounding board/ supporter in full-filing tasks. They're not worth your time. Stay Positive and surround with people who brings you Good Vibes. Stay low as your usual self, so that people won't throw shallots over you, one to another. (Just be yourself what I mean. hahaha) Never talk about your personal life to them (They'll try to dick out your dirty little secret to identify your weaknesses and that's how they brought you down below the hill.)

Attitude - DO NOT LOWER YOURSELF DEEPLY.
We have experienced certain people with extremely low self-esteem that affects their personal well being. Often apologising which makes us less confident, unhappy, weak and useless. You only do that in customer service (logically depends on the situation) and if you did something wrong. We should stand and chin up for what is right and what is wrong. Never ever blame yourself 100%. Sometimes in reality, we got to have both the good and the bad as we take the wheel. Being too good is not good and being too bad is not a good thing as well. Balance is what we need. Do not exaggerate everything but it's good to put efforts on your hard work.  Aim high but make it happen is the most important than just dreaming about it.


Friends from work and Friends from School - ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT. Work is Work. Hence, to be a better team-player, you have to choose the right boss. They're the one who SHOULD provide us with good advices in working as a team, how to improvise tasks and how to build up your human capital. Respect your nemesis, no matter how bad/good they were to you. Because in the end, they'll feel guilty when you did not give up on yourself.

But if it affects you badly, you got to definitely move your ass, chin up and fight for your rights. Who the hell are they to do such things towards you? Who they think they are? Demi-God? King of Planet Earth? Please do remind them, they are humans too. ;)  - Stay positive!




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