If I pay someone S$1800 to do a 1 hour corporate presentation on a specific topic, I will not dispute his expertise. However, I expect him be a decent presenter and deliver sterling insights.
Instead, they sent me an engineer who couldn't even speak proper English. He talked to the floor the whole time. I had to step in to facilitate the session and cover for his utter lack of situational awareness that his information was too technical and bored everyone to tears. That was completely opposite to my initial instructions. This engineer (true to his job stereotype) couldn't relate his content knowledge back to the topic of discussion at all.
S$1800 leh! You might as well pay me or any other colleague in the office?! We could have done the research and delivered the session way better than this speaker ever could.
My (international) audience said, "He isn't very good. You guys are always efficient, to the point and speak well. Are you sure he's Singaporean?"
I could only cringe.
I silently bit my tongue, "You don't know that our personality types are divided by job categories of lawyers, doctors and engineers. All others are civil servants and teachers. The fun ones are creatives."
Instead, they sent me an engineer who couldn't even speak proper English. He talked to the floor the whole time. I had to step in to facilitate the session and cover for his utter lack of situational awareness that his information was too technical and bored everyone to tears. That was completely opposite to my initial instructions. This engineer (true to his job stereotype) couldn't relate his content knowledge back to the topic of discussion at all.
S$1800 leh! You might as well pay me or any other colleague in the office?! We could have done the research and delivered the session way better than this speaker ever could.
My (international) audience said, "He isn't very good. You guys are always efficient, to the point and speak well. Are you sure he's Singaporean?"
I could only cringe.
I silently bit my tongue, "You don't know that our personality types are divided by job categories of lawyers, doctors and engineers. All others are civil servants and teachers. The fun ones are creatives."
12 comments:
Thanks hor.
HAhahahaha.
you missed out bankers.
haha... like your explanation!
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OEH! you DID NOT say that out aloud!
the fun ones are gay. haha...that's good.
hey! i resent being put into the category. do i seem like a typical lawyer to yoU?!
haha where do i fall in? hehhe
WAHAHA.. I like your categorisation!
And I like it even better that I'm uncategorised. :D
JM: HAHAHAH!
seth: oh. that's a brand new categories in the current climate.
dee + sinlady: :p
gerbera: of course not lah.
natasha: ummm....YES.
nuttyjas: me too. i dunno where i fall into!
vale: heh. i used to belong to 'FUN'! take it in the most innocent of meanings.
HAHAHAHAHA.....You are so farneeee. I had a good laugh here at work. Called hub and read your entry to him. Yes, he roared with laughter too!
ermm...engineer? opss! =p
supercoati: hehehehe. hope you're having an okay day at work!
elaine: hehehehhe.
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