Practice what You Preach

The trip to the Mon state was awesome... only cos I got to hang out with the enumerators from work. Yes, I work with a humanitarian group where we produce reviews in order to give statistical results from surveys that these enumerators take from affected areas in burma. Well, affected from cyclone Nargis. In order to do this, they have to go through miles and miles of dangerous, risky, tiring and quite weather-unfriendly journey. I was asked to act as a focal point while they were out in the field and for them to actually accept things I said, it was more than nice to know they talk nice to me. I mean, most of these people has done these surveys before and it's nice that they actually compromise with me, who's NEVER been out in the field.

Better yet, some of them told me that they actually thought I'd be scary or just weird but they were so happy that I turned out to be fun and just clowny. And it was nice to get the 'King' award during the dinner even though it was a set up from them to make sure I get to embarass myself in front of everyone with the 'queen', who happened to be my colleague, who's gorgeous. It was also nice that I got to sing 'Especially for you' with my exboss.

But....

there's always a but. Well, I did blog about my thoughts about Moby and how I've reconciled my evil thoughts on him and actually have tried to work as hard as I can for him. Well, now it's the facilitator.

We hired this man, a great man. He's a big professor. He was also there to give us a workshop regarding 'team management' and this time round, he was there to give us a workshop on 'feedback and lesson learnt'. I loved him and I had so much respect for him... until..
it was lunch time and the place where we all holidayed in, being away from yangon, was not usually full of people. We had like forty of us and I'm sure it was a lot for this much people in one place for lunch. So, the waiters were acceptionally slow. Actually it's not acceptable but like, there's just nothing to be so angry about. Professor chucked the most ridiculous tantrum on the waiters. Now, I've been a waiter and if anyone does that to me, I'd be VERY angry. I might even cry. Professor just shouted at them and abused them verbally. Now, who would've thought a professor who lectures on 'team management' and 'respect and patience' would be so opposite in real life... He was also angry at some of our team members during the workshop as well and that totally pissed me off. I rather people practise what they preach..

I was very surprised and every drop of respect I had for professor isn't there any longer.