You Get What You Give

I always try to rise above my knack of feeling happy with other people's misery. But I admit that it often fails me. So what? I'm weak. Sue me. Hehehe... Today was one of those days when I was just at the right place at the right time. Here's an overview.

A couple of months ago our company decided to do a re-organization. The first group hit were the Training Teams. We had our own beloved team with a very much loved Training Director. We were touted as one of the best training team around. I'm talking about the BPO industry over all. In all of our Prez' meetings, he has always taken pride of our little University. And Travel Trainers were the most admired of the bunch (ehem). We always know how to roll with the punches. So when the re-org happened we had to make something good out of a very disappointing and sad decision. I for one was an advocate of the re-org since I felt the company was in dire need of it. We were ripe for it. We grew too much these past couple of years and things were getting out of hand. We needed a change.

Well, re-org happened and that meant all the Trainers were put under their respective accounts. And what does that entail? We now report under the big bosses of that account. Personally, I never liked the "BIG BOSS" of my account. I never believed in fear as a great motivator. It might work at first, but you never get lasting results. And his management skills leave a lot to be desired. But I decided to reserve judgement. He doesn't directly handle me anyway so I should be fine. And that's my only complaint. He has always delivered on his promises so I just shrugged and told myself that it's "choosing the lesser evil".

So, what made my day? This morning I witnessed him being lambasted by our in-house client. She's a very small girl, so I was kinda suprised her vocal cords could tolerate that much volume. But shout she did. At the top of her lungs no less. I don't condone that in the workplace, but I couldn't help feeling it was coming to him. He does that too. The adage, "You reap what you sow" came to mind. I felt it was a long time coming. And again, I couldn''t help feeling happy that I was there to hear it. (Yeah, the devil on my right shoulder, [is that the correct position?] was having a marvelous time). Bad Cha, bad.

That's it. Something to mark my calendar with. My hope is that he learned a lesson in all this. Or he can come in later and start yelling too. It can happen.

Oh well, 'nuff said.