"If you work harder, you will get luckier" per Anita Sarawak dictum.

vindication:
Dear friend, i am absolutely not "man of wisdom", i never qualify to uphold the honor and title. you just make me like a dog with two tails.

everyone do encounter a lot of hardships when come to work, everyone, including me as a minute and bitty insignificant dog.
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Disclaimer:
this entry is merely to beat around the bush, not meant to pinpoint to anybody.
no provocation, no offense, no argument should be arose, if you do encounter a hard feeling, i am sorry, but you better excuse yourself and leave. thank you.


sometimes we just cannot bear with some sagas even they have the title of Dx in front of their name. upholding the title never meant that you are "superior" and "supersede" the others. everyone is a potential Pxd to be, never judge a book from its cover and you should keep a weather eye on those bee knees who is normally very low profile and secretive. i am not referring to myself, don't get me wrong, self-praising is a sin. after all i am not as bright as a button.

i started to loss myself whenever i come to the new system that going to be implemented. making a necessary documentation is a must and a necessity, i am 100% devoted to it. on the other hand, while having all the papers ready, do we actually ask ourselves whether is it a must to do so? again, what are the rationale behind all this?

the new system, will it be fair and just for our precious customers?

the evaluation system, is it impartially conducted without any prejudice and bias?

the evaluators, are they sworn to oath to bulwark the neutrality and impersonal?

the grading system, only the superior possesses the authority to adjudicate the performance, the subordinate lost their rights to do the same as to evaluate the superior, are we practicing "democracy"?

the system apply "one way assessment", is it just to do so? isn't it lead to conspiracy as this is totally against the basic principle of "integrity, transparency and accountability"? why the rights as to assess and appraise the superior be denied?

the system itself, do it provide any check and balance to combat the misuse and abuse of power and position?

there is never a clear provisions regarding the issue as to promote or demote. as far as i can tell, some authorities just enjoy too much of discretionary power, and exercise it to make arbitrary rules and regulations, which is sometimes for me it is truly insane.

Lord Wilberforce once said "justice delay is justice denied", then how about "rights denied is rights discriminated"?

every system definitely vested with the reasonable logic excuses. i do believe the evaluation is meant to make oneself detect his own weakness and anon make a self improvement and development. contradictory, evaluation can also be manipulated as a weapon to rage against the "misbehavior" opponent, and to penalize the disobedient.

what make you so special to judge on others?
(1)your position as a superior?
but can you make no wrong? convince me, try me, prove to me.

(2)your knowledge?
but what is your specialty? and my expertise? can you challenge my professionalism? simple as: can a cook judge an engineer on how he design a circuit board? can he comment on the design? i am doubt if the cook know what is a circuit board at the first place.

(3)your experience?
seniority is not everything. even you devote your whole life in the profession, it never guarantee that you are the best in the field. the longer you stay in the metier, passion will fade and boredom will grows by day.

(4)your qualification?
stop the nonsense please. even you are Pxd holder, so what? it doesn't mean you don't have to eat or feces, in the end of the day you are still a human. i do admit you have a special skill and expertise, but that is only in your own field, it does not equal to the quality of your performance as well.

(5)your skill?
what kind of skill you referring to?
management skill? can you manage EVERYONE? if you can, then only you come and talk to me.
technical skill? can you do all the jobs by yourself? one man show? prove it.
soft skill? how "soft" is your skill? i don't believe in all rounder.

i made no argument or comment doesn't mean that i have no word to say. most of the time i just felt like i am wasting my life to comment. why want to cast a pearl to swine? at the end i will just get annoy and pique. i just keep my whim and caprice for better use, since there is no reward awarded.

honestly, i do not relish to evaluate anyone. i am not perfect. i would preferred to conduct it in a discussion and brain storming fashion. together we stand. why want to create a system which will lead to a authoritative dictatorship tyrant? unity and unanimous will never wave the flag. i never heeded if there were any certainty in verdict. everything is so personal. relationship is a sine qua non in your success.

nulla poena sine lege. that is the first principle of Prof. AV Dicey when come to the rule of law. even if you convict a false, but do the punishment equitable? who can make no wrong? for me only God is the ONLY ONE. i strongly hold on to everyone should be given a second chance. no one will try to make mistake when its come to metier, but sometimes we might overlook something and accident do happen.

if non of us can make any mistake, then how are we going to evolve and develop?

what make you have the power to evaluate and adjudicate others on the fact that you yourself are not perfect? what is your ground to make your stance?

to evaluate someone who is an apprentice, that is fine. through the test, examination and interview are the normal procedure to analyst someone, but this itself is not perfect in the sense that someone may be merely "study for exam", but not "study for knowledge". study shouldn't be forced, but it should be done in a willing and voluntary manner, then only one will savor the enjoyment of study.

we are so used to judge an apprentice base on his grade, do ask our selves, is this fair? he did not get the better grade never meant that he didn't put in his effort, don't you think using a grade as a yardstick to measure an apprentice is very immature and unjust? good grading never means that he has good manners and attitude as well. IQ can never be equal to EQ. personally i preferred EQ more than IQ. i am not willing to deal with straight A's but acts like a bull person. i just cannot handle animal well, except for dogs, but without the rabies.

i am still protecting my points, the evaluation should be conducted in examine their knowledge and behavior. IQ and EQ should come together. why only grade them base on examination? what is the reason to label a human as "4-flat", "middle class", "class-less", "superb senior", at hand there are more issue to handle compare to results and grading. we should strike a balance between IQ and EQ, not to weigh all the gravity on IQ and abundant EQ.

top scorer never is my favorite, unless he has the quality of EQ. anyone possessing high EQ definitely is my favorite, even he is just a middle class or lower scorer. academic result never guarantee or warrant the future, but EQ will doubtlessly carry you to achieve the crest of the wave.

we do practice "two way evaluation". we will evaluate the apprentices and they will evaluate their docent as well. my dubiety is simple and easy to comprehend, comparing our mental faculty of understanding, reasoning and memory, experience, maturity, knowledge and skill, and compare with their age, education background, maturity and the rest, do you think it is fair and just for us to evaluate each other?

when we are discussing about economy recession and political issues, they are indeed discussing about anime or porn. can you see the different?

a 3 years child will judge you base on how much money you give, or how many toys you buy, or how many times you bring him to McD or KFC, but you evaluate your child base on his mental development and physical progression. the same concept applying here as well.

back to the root and fundamental question, will it be fair and just to conduct such an evaluation?

evaluation should be repealed and replaced by discussion and motivation.

i will never compromise to the evaluation system in metier, until and unless i can see justice bulwark by impartiality, neutrality, transparency, integrity, accountability and responsibility.

i will compromise to evaluation in apprentice--docent related due to the facts that it will beneficial both parties if conducted in a proper and professional manner. the outcome should be fruitful.

anyway, everything is still rely on the facts that emerges and the circumstances.