Offerings From Above

Posted by Ari in March 11th, 2008

Azlie Alias, who prefers to be referred to as Ari on the web, is the founder of the word Moojik. Moojik means Wonderful, in an abstract form. Ari is also the founder of the term Moojikulous which means, To hell with everyone, as long as I think its right, it should be!

No it’s not from heavens or anything like that…

No! Not from my neighbour upstairs! If I have a neighbor upstairs, I’ll probably be dead or having heart about-to-fail failure by now because I live on the top floor. The unit what Lis and I call, the “Penthouse Suite”.

What more can you ask for, the rooftop suite?

Back to the offerings, they are not from God or Orang Bunian or Orang Utan above the tree… No! They are offerings to appoint me to administer the whole sales unit in the region. Wah like big like that, right? Yes you can say so but I have to make a sacrifice!

With big offering comes big sacrifice! So, with Great offeringS come Great sacrificeS!

Well The Above did mention to me and ask me “Let me hear your thoughts & feel… I want to know your thoughts and feel about this…”

You know what? I simply replied in the mail, “My thoughts await the chance for us to converse.” That’s it, and true enough, we did talk later in the evening. A good talk about his views, my views, what I want to do, what are his directions and priorities and so on.

So what are the sacrifices? I have to let go of my current team. I have to take up a lot of other duties that are currently handled by The Above, I have to take over a lot of paperwork and reports that is currently handled by a single person for now, I have to implement new processes to simplify and smooth sail workflow. Basically, sacrifice is to take up a 4 person job.

And the offerings are….

My package will have to be revised due to the different job scope that I will be managing despite salary freeze at the moment across the board. And perhaps, I might be given a new account to manage, that is IF, I can manage my time, he added. And yes, I excitedly acclaimed that I definitely can do! Of course, I’ve done my research before diving into agreement. Out of the 4 man job, I can only complain about 1. That is to monitor and write up a daily report on the performance of an outsource company from Philippines that we engaged. That would be my headache. I should be getting profit sharing for overlooking this account (but I don’t think so and the cats can play guitar the day this can happen).

There were many feedback I received from Lis, friends, colleagues whom I shared with, and the 2 most interesting notes that I heard were:-

1. “You are a boot licker, you know! Not in a “carry balls” way but in a professional kind of manner.”

2. “If you take up his duties, then he do what?” This one cracked me up. Quite true when you think about it…

Well, The CEO used to mention in all his presentations and meetings to his staff;

“If you cannot get a person to replace the job you are doing, you can never grow in this company”

Optimistically, I am assigned rightfully of those responsibilities because I am the best (he only mentioned I am doing fine, btw! damn!) person to do the job.

Realistically, I am just cheaper labour than him.

What I believe in is, “Prove it first, negotiate later!“