Because We Are Malaysians
As required by my boss when I gave him my resignation, I spoke to my colleague regarding the cover of her duties during CNY. When I told her I cannot understand why both she and the first cover cannot take the standby duty on CNY, her answer to me, in a matter-of-fact tone, was, "Because we are Malaysians."
I expected her to give me that answer, but I was hoping she would offer up front to do the standby without making a last pitch at trying to get me to do it. The "we are Malaysians" thingy just totally puts me off. Told her off that being Malaysians does not give them the right to go back during CNY, and that she and the first cover had taken me for granted. I know they are away from home, but to be fair both of them cannot always use the excuse of being Malaysians to dump the standby duties on me. If they are so concerned with the fact that they are Malaysians then pay up the bond, and then go back to Malaysia for good. Why work in Singapore?!
We all know we have to make sacrifices working in the healthcare line, because you cannot tell the patients not to fall sick on public hols. It is not something they can control. So when we have public hols, we take turns to go off; that is playing fair and nice. When I turned this into a rhetorical question for her asking what she is going to do if the whole department is run by Malaysians and everybody wants to go back during CNY, she just kept quiet. I do not know what her silence meant, but it felt good to pour out my frustrations... and anger at her.
I've yet to give her my answer as to whether I will be helping her do the standby duty, but I know I will end up doing the duty. Why? Because I am a sucker for sob stories such as "It is the only time we get to meet up with all our family for a reunion."
Yamosh felt frustrated @ 9:03 AM
2 Comments:
been busy and haven't kept up with the posts. suddenly there's a flood of them.
firstly, no gunpowder in the post abt choices. just only remarks. nvm.
secondly, i can totally empathasise with you on the m'sians issue. cos me mgr also m'sian and she has moved back to jb since last yr.
but just cos she chose to move to jb just so she can enjoy a bigger house etc doesn't mean that she can use distance as an excuse. since she moved there, she should be prepared for the longer travelling. and even though technically you're in a foreign country doesn't mean that at times you can off your s'pore phone. blah...
we need to meet up soon.
Yah, we got to meet up soon.
Actually, I've sort of calmed down and was actually okay with doing the standby provided somebody else takes my oncall duties for the period that I was on standby, but me boss was not agreeable. He felt that my colleague needs to be disciplined.
His rationale: if she can do this to me, she can do it to the next pharmacist who will take over me as her cover. And of course I was "scolded" for being too obliging in the first place.
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