inside the boardroom...

today i got a feeling of what it was like to be in Donald Trump's boardroom.. or at least something like that...

cos today was where we appealed/deliberated on the inspection results with the inspectorates. so we each put on our masks of friendliness and understandingness as we acted out this masquerade, or at least that was how i saw it.

it's always the inspectorates claiming they are here to help us and we are their customers and deserve their utmost attention.

and it's always us claiming that it is indeed very important to listen to such suggestions and learn from them. that each observation has much value and can get things done, so, no harm done man. i'm glad for observations.

yah rite.

honestly, when it comes to the crunch, who the heck would want a demerit point slammed on his face? or a dismal grading in several aspects? who would want the inspectorates to find anything!?

and well, you can see that the inspectorates must have suffered quite a bit at every LRI, having to battle the strong wills of COs and S4s alike, with their cries of appeals and unfairness. they were ULTRA defensive about their report, always referring back to the checklist, always assuring us it was not due to personal reasons, and always deploring us to understand the rationale of the inspections, the "help us help u" concept.

wadeva. ultimately, these pitiful people remind me of the heyday tax collectors in Rome, as depicted in the bible.

oh well.. aniwez, the bitter argument today first surfaced over the demerit point, which honestly, we couldn't really argue. so after much indignant exclaimations (which faded to desperate begging), we lost the case. US 0 - Inspectorate 1

then came the volcano eruption, when one inspector mentioned we had no "system" to monitor some particular work process, due to the fact that we lacked certain charts and the personnels didn't know much about the process.

at that, he was straight away jumped at by our side, sternly criticising him for his choice of words, whereby he was indicating a complete lapse of system due to a mere lack of clear documents - which clearly couldn't be the case as all our jobs WERE done well.

so with much finesse and skill, our speaker battled off whatever pathetic attempts the other side made, and forced the inspector to admit, albeit very grudgingly, that there WAS a system.

poor thing. but i really admire the speaker from our side. he was darn "seh", and forcefully got his point through. I guess the rest of the inspectors were also pretty glad it wasn't them receiving the barrage of objections. which reminded me of The Apprentice.. haha

some people can pretty much KILL during boardroom meetings. and today i met one.

frank