It's been a year since coming up to Taobaoland and perhaps it's time to look back at the year and see how the Asoks are doing.While I am glad most of them managed to survive the first year, I am slightly disheartened that I didn't find any superstar performer amongst them. While some are quite good, it was still short of stellar that I was hoping for.
There were several changes to those who remained while we have new blood as well as some who left.
For the uninitiated, click here for the Brief Introduction to The Asoks.
Asok #1
His portfolio for changed twice, during the year, as the Business Units that he was in didn't perform well on each occasion. I won't fault him for that as we do have our weak spots in the company and he had the unfortunate luck of being in them.
So right now, he was been transferred to the National Sales Management department monitoring sales of our offices across China.
Asok #2
Left.
Asok #3
I couldn't use him as he wasn't able to fulfill any of the criteria that was required to work in my department.
Fortunately, we found a spot for him when I took over the Logistics department and he seemed to have a knack for that.
By June, I had him transferred to the Shanghai office as they are in need of an XO in the logistics department. While we all think that it was a right move, coupled with glorious praises from the Shanghai manager, we weren't too sure when the year-end stock take ended up in a disastrous mess.
3 stock takes over 7 days and they still couldn't get their numbers right until I have to send a team over from my side only to settle the entire warehouse inventory within 16 hours.
We are still in the process of evaluating what went wrong as I planted the team to be there for 6 weeks for a full logistic audit and at the same time migrate the warehouse over the 3PL.
This one was a piece of work so much so that it deserves a entire entry dedicated to here. How she spiraled from promising to nuts remained a mystery to us. Stay tuned.
Asok #5
One of the two 宅男 which from the beginning I didn't think very much of him but as I got to know him better, he has potential. Currently assisting Asok #1 in the National Sales Management department.
Asok #6
The ex-Starbucks barista, in my opinion, is your ultimate 宅男. Every Sunday morning, he would walk 3km lugging his laptop on his backpack to his favourite coffee shop and stayed there the whole day.
Reason? They have faster broadband for him to download his week's quota of animes. *facepalm*
Asok #6 left and return to Ta1wan to join some online gaming company which I felt was more suited for him.
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