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BUBUWIT
got wind of modern-day witches in their nastier
activities and in corporate settings, no less.
For
starters, there was this sales rep in a broadsheet (not
this publication) who must have discovered the
equivalent of the elixir of youth translated into a
potion of permanence in her workplace. How else can one
explain her “durability” in the office despite
complaints about her office decorum, coming from her
coworkers and from outside contacts? Ignoring the
reported minuses in her personality and work ethics, a
newly installed executive appointed her head of sales.
He thought this will give her a much sought-after morale
boost, and discourage her from carrying on with her
“witchy-bitchy” ways. However, the poor man no sooner
realized his error in judgment.
Among
her mischievous ways happily carried on to her new
executive position are pirating of accounts off her own
subordinates, poaching on potential customers belonging
to another team, bad-mouthing her peers and even her
superiors before important potential clients, as a means
to eventually gaining ad placements for herself.
Any
newcomer in the sales office who looks much better than
she does surely feels her ire in no time at all.
No
doubt, company executives must have heard about the ugly
incidents involving this lady, never mind the immoral
actuations. In most companies, those ill-mannered
attitudes are enough reasons for getting rid of the
erring employee. But not our lady executive. She must
take on the elixir of permanence, remember? Or is she
being successful with her machinations on some other
individual/s within the office? Bubuwit wonders.
Bubuwit
learned that this second modern-day witch is nominated
as Personal Assistant in the Chairman’s office. Sounds
familiar, or more accurately, all too revealing in its
familiarity?
This
lady started as a sales rep. By some twist of good
fortune, she got a job in this foreign company involved
in nontraditional marketing activities. Besides her
handsome Chinese mestiza looks, she grossly lacks any
executive abilities.
However,
by some twist of good fate, or was it good twist of
someone’s more intimate appendage, she was awarded this
very enviable position. Naturally, she uses her
newfound leverage in “brutalizing” her subalterns. She
shouts at them within hearing distance of most
employees, and even in front of customers. She reports
for work at 11 a.m., sometimes as late as 2 p.m., after
purportedly having to perform official biz outside the
office. She leaves the office as early as 4 p.m., while
her staff stays on until 9:30 p.m., even later. She
posted this never-to-be-broken policy that no one
dispatches any communication outside without her
approval, including those from the other company
executives. The obvious result is a long backlog of
pending matters, even trivial ones. More seriously, the
company’s distributors are starting to grumble, and
seriously drafting a petition letter asking for ouster.
But still they hesitate, knowing the special
relationship between the lady manager and the chairman.
Parang nakasandal sa pader, Bubuwit thinks.
But then
a number of coworkers also strongly suspect that our
lady executive has another “papa” who is locally based.
They are almost certain that he is the “outside” biz
concern which our lady executive spends most of her
company time with. Reportedly, one time she erroneously
sent a “papa message” via SMS to a colleague. The
latter has a SIM record of the missent, but very
revealing missive. How will “papa chairman” react if he
gets wind of this?
Bubuwit
has a good guess. But my, oh my, Bubuwit is not talking.
Who
art thou?
“THE
useless GM” featured in Bubuwit’s item on Tuesday should
come in the open. A handful of ad agencies, according to
Bubuwit, are dying to know who the GM is. “For the sake
of hardworking comrades, by all means, expose him,”
Bubuwit was told. Bubuwit thinks there’s too much
conflict between this GM and his agency people. Not
wanting to expose the inside story of a nearing
split-up, Bubuwit intimates it will just hurt both
sides. Bubuwit smells something amiss here . . . why
can’t he be fired by the agency’s president? Or is it
because the GM holds on to the top gun who owns a
building in Makati, that’s why he feels relaxed? Could
there be a design to “freeze” this hard-hitting GM into
early retirement, even if it’s long overdue? Bubuwit
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