Office Rash
I, together with three of my officemates, were called by our big boss. She scolded us for storing gigabytes of movie files, personal files, in our hard drives, assuming that we were watching them all the time and being negligent in our work. The HR provided printed screenshots showing the folders where we kept our files.
"I am very dissapointed in you, lalo ka na Charvie, mataas pa naman ang expectations ko sa yo!"
I crippled.
I have been called by my big boss twice. The first time was because I saved a folder of wallpaper pictures in the shared network folder. And the second time, this time, because I stored movie files in my hard drive. And for that, I've been so disappointing to my boss. I, of all people in my office who, most of them, listen to music, view personal pictures, watch movies and even play computer games, was pointed at by the HR twice for being unprofessional by storing files in my computer.
At first, I was silent, but when I felt that it was enough, that it was too unfair, I spoke.
"This [accusation] is very heavy for me... This is unfair... We were not aware of the policy... the policy was not clear. " I said in between my arguments.
It's a petty problem too shallow exaggerated by the HR that it has to be raised to our big boss. And it's just too irritating.
I wanted to have a mass inspection of all computers in PhilCAT, in which I take charge of, not any outsourced IT "specialist" who is not effective in reporting staff who criminally store personal files in his/her computer. I wanted to put a hidden camera in the HR's post to prove that we were not the only ones who use our computers for personal interests. But what I can only do now is to make them feel that I am very furious with what happened and challenge any irrational memoranda posted by the HR. And it will start with wearing T-shirt and rubber shoes everyday.
At least now I know how to answer to my big boss.
Never again will I be silent in front of any superior when it comes to questioning my credibility as a worker.
"I am very dissapointed in you, lalo ka na Charvie, mataas pa naman ang expectations ko sa yo!"
I crippled.
I have been called by my big boss twice. The first time was because I saved a folder of wallpaper pictures in the shared network folder. And the second time, this time, because I stored movie files in my hard drive. And for that, I've been so disappointing to my boss. I, of all people in my office who, most of them, listen to music, view personal pictures, watch movies and even play computer games, was pointed at by the HR twice for being unprofessional by storing files in my computer.
At first, I was silent, but when I felt that it was enough, that it was too unfair, I spoke.
"This [accusation] is very heavy for me... This is unfair... We were not aware of the policy... the policy was not clear. " I said in between my arguments.
It's a petty problem too shallow exaggerated by the HR that it has to be raised to our big boss. And it's just too irritating.
I wanted to have a mass inspection of all computers in PhilCAT, in which I take charge of, not any outsourced IT "specialist" who is not effective in reporting staff who criminally store personal files in his/her computer. I wanted to put a hidden camera in the HR's post to prove that we were not the only ones who use our computers for personal interests. But what I can only do now is to make them feel that I am very furious with what happened and challenge any irrational memoranda posted by the HR. And it will start with wearing T-shirt and rubber shoes everyday.
At least now I know how to answer to my big boss.
Never again will I be silent in front of any superior when it comes to questioning my credibility as a worker.
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