Asok #4If I were to describe Asok #4 in a single sentence, I only need three words.
"Sum Ting Wong"
Initially, I admired her for her guts to venture out here as a girl, in an unknown land. While I don't mean to be sexist, Taobaoland is not only not a gender equal place but a very skewed one at that.
You need to be one tough cookies to make an impression here.
She appeared one of the more intelligent Asoks amongst the lot but I was sorely disappointed that all that had faded soon after.
As I slowly got to know her better, some aspects of her mentality just totally goes against my grain.
- Lack Of Perseverance.
She has a basic grasp of the English language but like most of these folks, they can't speak but able to read and listen by picking up the keywords and guessing the gist.
Writing is easier coz one can take all the time in the world to draft with the help of the dictionary. While the spelling is relatively accurate, the choice of words can some time be very obscure as they just copy whatever words shows up on the translator without knowing if it fits. Grammar leaves much to be desired as the word arrangements in a sentence between English and Chinese are often in opposite directions.
She approached me for help in improving her English which I was happy to help after office hours and since she has a blog, I suggest that she blogs in English in draft mode to let me vet before publishing. So for a couple of times a week, she will print out her blog draft on a piece of paper and I will go through her entry, proofing and explaining her errors along the way.
Sadly, this only last for around 3 weeks as the quality of her writing has gone from bad to worse. I soon begin to realise that her efforts starting to dwindle. It got to a point where it appeared as if I was simply editing her draft for her so that she can post her blog.
I stopped teaching her immediately for I did not feel that it is worth my time, if my efforts were not reciprocated.
- Pride.
For every new initiatives that began as a project, there were a lot of nitty gritty tasks e.g. info gathering, number crunch, data porting, to do which essentially can be very tedious. She has a tendency to push it to the local staff to do it as if these menial tasks were beneath her.
- Expat Princess Mentality.
Speaking of local staff, this probably annoys me the most. She has this Me Taiwan Superior-vs-Them China Inferior mindset where she feels the local Chinese staff are supposedly below her. So while she is just a management trainee, she behaves as if she is some kind of manager ordering some of the local staff to do her bidding.
One such incident was taking the company car to send her out of town to meet a friend for dinner, WAIT THERE, and then send her home. Since when the hell was she entitled to use the company car for private matters? The driver also one kind of gong gong fella, obediently fulfill her bidding. We later found out and the Admin Manager gave her a big dressing down consequently.
- Acting Wounded.
I believe the Chinese phrase for it that would more accurately describe it is 装可怜.
I remembered the day Asok9 first arrived and joined us. We entered the elevator to our apartments and it just so happened some asshole local resident smoked in the elevator before us. She suddenly convulsed into a cough fit.
Problem was, the coughing was so exaggerated what we all saw right through it. Asok9 threw me a WTF? look to which my rolling of eyes was the perfect answer to his query.
Seriously, we weren't sure if we were offended by the fake acting or that fact that she thought that we'd be fooled.
- Sum Ting Wong.
A strange incident happened some time ago. She didn't turn up for work one day. Initially, we thought she was ill as she was coughing (real this time) the whole of the day before.
So when the Admin Manager called her up to verify her medical leave which she didn't apply, he was told that she has a day off because she did OT the day before?
HAR??? Got such thing one meh? You do OT, next day you get Off Day? Where got so good kangtao one?
More importantly, where got such thing as happy happy create own HR policy one???
The last one really gets my goad for since she does not report to me, she is not in my jurisdiction. Alpha-Male did at one time lobby for her to come under my wing which I flatly reject and I picked a local staff instead to be groomed as my Executive PA.
For some strange reason, Alpha Male still wants to retain her while I would have sent her home in a heartbeat. So anyway, we posted her to the Shanghai office for a 6-week assignment and hope she would be able to flourish there and perhaps score a permanent placement there.
I wish she would do well there. I seriously do.
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