Working Woes ......

Bosses are human and are often afflicted to stress, frustration and work pressures. In the process they take it out on those nearest them. Like everyone else, they do carry with them a baggage from the past. Their life experiences, failures and  difficulties encountered, influence their behaviour and how they communicate with others. It is believed that managers who lack self-esteem, confidence or have an inferiority complex usually are prime candidates to becoming an employee's nightmare. Very often, the problem of difficult bosses stem from those managers having poor communication or people management skills.

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The top management team of a very big corporation was discussing on the appointment of one of their senior vice-presidents; who was invited to act as chairman of a Domestic Inquiry panel set up by their competitor.

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Yes, the Government had announced the good news last week. Our civil servants can now retire from work at fifty-eight years of age. Congratulations, I am really happy for them. That piece of very positive news will certainly be well received by our civil servants. I personally find retiring from work at fifty-eight years of age as reasonably acceptable for now. I must say that they have a very compassionate employer who was prepared to listen and wise enough to agree that their retirement age should be raised.

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A Meeting between my ex-colleague and his former employer was held early this week at the Labour Department.

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Our civil servants in this part of the world are pushing the Government to extend their retirement to 60 years of age.

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A recent headline in our local English newspapers, "Harun: Legal or Illegal" attracted me to read that news. What immediately comes to my mind is that some employers are really capable of doing terrible things to their own employees.

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