“There are two types of evil people in the world, the one who do evil stuffs, and the one who sees evil stuffs and doesn’t do anything” – Mean Girls (Movie)
The institution that I’m working for right now is a normal work place. As I classified it normal: it has politics, gossiping, mud-slinging, and factions. Upon entering in the corporate world, I had realized that these disgusting actions are normal.
Last week Wednesday, our company president called to set-up a staff meeting in 9:00 in the morning. It’s quite unusual for us, because it’s been a long time since our president meet us or even visit his office. At first, I thought that the meeting is all about our appointment. Prior to that day, we can hear hearsays about our regularization, and that meeting is supposed to be the official announcement of our appointment, but we were all wrong.
After giving a little hint on our regularization issues, our president brought out papers. He said that the paper is a hard copy of an e-mail sent to him. We all wondered about the subject of that e-mail. Then he spilled it out.
Surprisingly, the e-mail is all about our institution and the issues that circulated it before and to date. We were all surprised. Corruption, unfairness, and inefficiency of some employees are just some of the topic of the e-mail. Apparently, most of the topics mentioned were true and can be justified.
We don’t saw that e-mail coming, and we were all caught off-guard. The sender of the e-mail was unidentified, but anyway, it’s not that important to find out who it was. The point is that, after a long time of this issues being ignored, finally, they were all brought up in front of our president.
That incident leads our president to talk to us one to one, on the day after tomorrow. Before that one to one talk, we all listed our concerns and the changes we want to suggest to the administration.
Friday last week, our president meets us individually for our concerns. After we’re all done with the meeting, we had a feeling that one of us will be fired because of the confessions we spilled. Some of us got a little bit guilty, but I don’t. Simple rule of the society: commit a crime, get punished. Justice will prevail, even at a workplace.
Now we’re all still waiting for the confirmation of our regularization, appointments, and the verdict on our laid-down issues.
Funny how it seems that after a long time of silence, one of us stood-up to fight for the things he/she believes to be righteous, no matter what’s his/her interest behind it, or even his/her motivation, the important part is that, it create an impact and a change for all of us. In this sense, the actions I tagged as "normal" in a work place, will all seem to be taboo because of the e-mail and courage of that sender.
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