Memang satu perangai manusia yang sukakan pujian dan penghargaan. You can’t blame anyone for that. But sudah tau begitu, pandai2 la cari jalan tengah. Susah juga kalau menceburi bidang yang u sendiri tidak begitu mahir. Maksudnya, u cuma gunakan peluang yang ada dan gunakan akal u untuk maju dalam bidang tu sedangkan orang lain yang bertungkus lumus buat kerja untuk u. You ada duit, orang lain ada kemahiran – dan bila bergabung, jadilah hubungan simbiosis? Dalam ertikata lain, win-win situation. Or is it actually Parasitism?
I know a few people who do that. Dorang run a business yang dorang kurang mahir dan berharap sepenuhnya dengan staff dorang. Contohnya business pembuatan batik. Ada sorang senior ni yang run the business. Dia hire beberapa pekerja. Sia pernah bercakap dengan one of the staff yang jadi “tulang belakang” kepada kenalan sia ni. Daripada gaji RM350, dilonjakkan kepada RM1,000 gara-gara dia berhasrat mau berhenti kerja. Dia cakap, semua kerja dia yang buat. Bengkel dorang tu macam rupa2 bangsal ja. Langsung tidak glemer dan tidak selesa. Tapi di sana lah batik2 tu dilukis. Boss dia jarang2 pijak bengkel tu. Boss dia pijak tempat2 yang orang nampak, contohnya pentas runway di majlis yang dihadiri artis2 terkenal tempatan, dan diperkenalkan sebagai one of the Designers of Batik. Sepa tau, semua ke-glamour-an itu sebenarnya berpunca dari sebuah bengkel buruk dengan pekerja2 yang tension yang merasa diri tiada kehidupan sebab tidak mix dengan orang dan asyik terperap di bengkel siapkan kerja. Apa lagi bila si boss sediakan rumah yang dekat dengan bengkel tu supaya dorang mudah. Lagilah dorang tidak mix dengan orang luar. Hidup dorang cuma di antara rumah dan bengkel itu ja. Bila staff tu bercakap dengan sia, I felt something deep inside her. Dia rasa tertekan dengan kerja dia. Tapi sepa sangka, dia ni la sebenarnya Nafas kepada business boss dia. Bukan senang mau cari orang yang boleh lukis free hand batik dan tidak pula mengomplen bila tiada caruman EPF. She said to me, “She knows nothing about Batik,” which she refers to her boss. I imagine that the girl won’t stay there forever. She will eventually look for a greener pasture. By then, what is going to happen with the business? I bet the boss would not rather think about it. “Nanti2 sajalah pikir.” Sia tidak mau salahkan the boss why dia tidak pandai buat batik tu sendiri, but itu tidak bermakna yang dia tidak setuju bahawa dia akan dilanda kesusahan bila staff dia tu berhenti. Bukan untuk blame sesiapa, tapi terpikir juga…memang susah kalau bergantung pada orang lain. For example, do you guys opt for machine pernafasan kalau kamu mampu bernafas sendiri? Isn’t it good to be able to breathe sendiri? Aha…something like that.
The other day, my sister asked for my help. Her superior asked for her favour for his coming presentation. The thing is, the last time, my sister asked for my help to do the same type of work for her. So after her workmates and superiors saw the work, they liked it. So when there’s a job like that, they just hand it to my sister. So my sister has to ask for my favour again. It’s not exactly a favour. She put a certain price so I would want to do the job. But this time, the timing was bad. I was busy with my new place. My sister gave me 2 days to do it and she assumed that I agreed. Only after less than a day, she called me. “I need the work in 1 hour”. Then I was like, “Whatt???” She said his superior had an urgent call for the presentation. So my sister came to my office and indirectly “forced” me to do the work. That was crazy. You know the likes of [256] gonna snap on something like that. This isn’t Symbiosis. I didn’t have anything to gain from the job and I didn’t want the money, and I didn’t have the freaking time!!! And to be a compassionate sister, the work wasn’t even for her! It was for her superior, who is a more experienced man who should KNOW something how to do the job on his own. Anyway, I did the job anyway and asked my sister to do the double-check since that she was rushing and I had a lot of job to do too. At least, she must spare me My Time after I had sacrificed my time. But my sister was like stuck there and said she couldn’t do it because she was slow on that and she didn’t have much time left. My goodness!!! “Kerja kamu ni macam kerja budak2 saja. Just hope itu budak sekolah rendah tidak tau taip macam ni.” *Lols. Because of their lack of creativity, their work looked like mess. And I had to sit there fixing their work…My goodness!!! You guys are so-called reliable people and don’t even know how to do this?? I was kinda mad because I knew my sister wanted some compliment from her superior for presenting the work, and the superior wanted to get compliments from other people for having a “well-touched-up” work. Everyone seemed to have something to gain but who’s doing the work again? Yess, ME!!! I was so pressured because of this chain of compliment-chasers and nobody would know it’s [256] who did all the job. No thanks for the recognition but PLEASEE, can you guys not be too much of a Parasite? TRY to be good in the skill you want to be recognized for. Equip yourself with the necessary knowledge. You guys can’t just turn someone’s life upside down just because you are too lazy and too dependent on others. If they want my help, they must Follow my time, agree? Do I have to cancel my schedule just because you don’t know how to do your own work properly and I have to sit there and fix all the little mistakes? This is crazeeeyyy!! You can multiply the payment 10 times, I still don’t want jobs like that again. I have the pressure of my existing job and now I have to share the burden of other people’s work too? This is wrong!!! My goodness! At least, you excel in the job you are assigned to do, right? Until when that I could stand in and do the work behind the scene when others get the compliments for it? Don’t you guys want to earn the compliment on your own? I tell you that you gonna land yourself in trouble if you prefer to resort to Parasitism – I’m talking about human beings who have no constraint to do anything they want. It’s only either you want or you don’t want. Or maybe you’re just plain lazy. So do you prefer to be a Parasite forever?
Challenge yourself. Never ever be that dependent as you were last year. I am still doing it too. I rather sweat extra sweats just because I don’t want to drag people in my own mess. Do you have forever to start and be responsible with your own life? It’s time, guys. Start now!!!
Note: You guys jangan heran…my sister used to having me membebel inda tentu and she has to tahan telinga cos the job that I could do for her is more important than my laser-talk. Hahahahaahahahaahahahahahaahahahhaaahahaha :PPPPPPPP
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