Tuesday, March 20, 2007

3-Tier Golden Tortoise

Yesterday morning's weekly WIP announcement by the head of the company, brought many to think if there is any hope left in the leadership. Or rather, if there were any to begin with?

We were greeted with an opening speech from the head :

"We invited a Feng Shui master in last week because the company hasn't been doing so well, and there has been conflicts & politics which are no good. According to the Feng Shui master, to bring back balance & harmony, we will be moving some furnitures & adding some elements".

The morning was abuzz with the head walking around the office, proudly proclaiming the "feng shui" tips to a group of people - from admin, from the head's office, from finance. They were frantically jotting down notes so not to miss out what to buy, what to shift, which walls to break down, what elements to move, which person should be moved facing a certain direction.

Things heard through the open office :
- To those sitting in positions with their backs facing the head of the department, they will need to shift,so that
they now face him.
- The cabinets at the back of the dept will now have to be taken away to make way for 8 golden horses
- Things i heard that has to be added in some rooms : Bowl of water with pebbles which has to be changed every 3 days, the world map, walls to be painted blue, picture of a koi fish, cystine money tree, gold coins, door bells hung from each room, 8 artificial roses, elephants ... etc.

Then came my room.
The prescription for me the Goat.
"You have to move your table diagonally.
We will add a blue carpet, which you must sit on it and put your feet on it.
There on the right hand corner on top of the cabinet, we will place a 3-tier golden tortoise"

I'm not sure if this "career suicide", as i told my HEAD, "I can't put the golden tortoise". It is against my religion"
I was asked : "Why you christian-ah?"
I nodded, but was told : "Oh don't worry, we'll hide it in the ceiling so you won't see".

Through this, i question myself :
1. Is good & hard work no longer rewarded, if superstitions as such supercedes what people have been doing right so far? Or have we been wrong?
2. If this is the way, the HEAD feels would motivate the people, it has in fact DEMORALISE many and cast DOUBTS about the leadership. ( again, what leadership??)
3.So now, with Feng Shui in place, should it now be the basis of the KPI of the employees or the benchmark of success of the company? If something screws up, can we now attribute them to Feng Shui?
4.Would superstition breed biasness - an honest worker who so unfortunately is born under an animal sign which is BAD LUCK to the HEAD?

I can only sigh and tell myself - don't bother la.
Just pray hard everyday for patience to accept the things that i can't change.
( i've yet to google what the 3-Tier golden tortoise mean for me, and i don't intend to )

3 comments:

Wandernut said...

Her religion is Old Vege.
Her holy water is Oyster Sauce.
Her guardian angel is Lillian Too.
Her pastor is the feng shui man.
Her bible is... oh, she too stupid to read. HAHAHHHHHAHAH...

Anonymous said...

Hey it's Chris here. Since I don't have blog or whatever other nonsense the comment box required of me - I'm appearing here as Anonymous. *bleh*

Anyway, Jesshy babe... welcome to my world - the little green house. Some of our dept rooms are a maze of desks because of our Zodiac cum Earth-Wind-Fire-Wood orientation. People of selected Zodiac animal are shoo-ed out of the office during 'shifting' time - the most auspicious time to turn the office upside-down according to Feng Shui master's lucky floorplan. Coins on our phones, monks sprinkling 'blessing' water around the office.

Sigh... it's a pitiful sight. That man grasps at anything and everything that will soothe their fears of unseen forces and instead cajole the spirits to work in our favour.

Futile... it's all a waste of time. Yet, everytime the frenzy of shifting starts, I stand still for a moment... and am saddened by the sight of jaded people scurrying around, who have not met the Father who's just there with open arms to give us all that we will ever need or want.

Well, that's my say about Feng Shui. Hhmm... maybe I should start my own blog and not hog other people's blog space. HAHAH!

Fruit of Eden said...

Apparently the 3-Tier Golden Tortoise comes in today! Haha...

Superstitions are a EVIL to mankind. A story i heard during lunch: A widow in in the Indian Caste system is the lowest being. Even her shadow, cannot be seen overlapping a person of a "Higher" caste. Due to poverty, she can be offered to a man of a Higher caste a prostitute.

What nonsense and oppression to the weak.