My grandmother never hesitates to tell me to make sure I pray for the best for those who hurt my feelings. Easier said than done. I mean, how in the world can we ever forgive others enough to be able to wish them well ‘genuinely’ when we know that they have done a lot of things to hurt our feelings? Let’s just say it’s possible and it happened today.
I am currently working on a website for my organization, “Org H”, and it has been a long time since I’ve started working on it. Last two months ago, Org A and Org M came up with the same idea but they’re linking with Org C. Org C, itself, acts as a resource bank of data from all the agencies and it has been there for quite some time. Let’s just say Org C is the bomb diggity of all information from all the humanitarian/development agencies existent in Myanmar.
Obviously, Org A and Org M have a huge advantage over us since it’s linked with something that has already existed and they were acting as ‘assisting’ or ‘revamping’ Org C’s website. I went to their workshop and found out that Org A, Org M and we can work together as one. I mean, Org C is the queen of resource pool and we have the interactivity advantage. So, we working together would be just perfect.
I was given a ‘verbal’ invite to the meeting today by Org A, claiming they needed me there to back them up on our collaboration. The dude from Org A asked me for a presentation that I gave last Friday for reference yesterday and I gave it to him because I was gonna give it to the other agencies anyways. So, at the meeting today, Org A and Org M asked me to give the presentation impromptu and I wasn’t told about the existence of the Government officials in the room.
In another ‘undiplomatic’ word, I was locked down in a meeting by my so called ‘partners’, who turned out to be my ‘rivals’ intentionally. I was cornered as I was giving the presentation about how it would be better for us to delete/decrease the functions whilst I was trying my best to explain how we could collaborate.
Ignoring the unethical cornering from my frenemies, I stuck to my virtue about how we can collaborate. After my presentation, Org A and Org M gave their presentation and I guess to their surprise, I supported them from A to Z, ignoring that they have totally cornered me and tried to fuck up my presentation about my website.
Miraculously, greed got in the way for Org A while he was explaining his website revamping of Org C in such a way that he has stepped over the line of their abilities. Now, I’ve never asked for competition and I genuinely offered to help them since I was gonna get the data they wanted anyways. I even offered to give them the credit. I was glad when Org C decided to agree that we, Org H, was needed indeed to help these two frenemies of mine.
As my grandma has taught me, I stuck to my beliefs and I believed for the best. Win win at its best, I’ve managed to get out of a meeting where they tried to corner me and get me down unprofessionally with pride, faith and hope while grabbing my balls I’ve built to last any incoming unprofessional immature traits from other agencies in the future. The morale of this story is not to be fooled by so called ‘professional’ agencies directors or leads no matter how they have been working for a long time in this industry. It’s only been a year for me and I guess sticking to the actual win win has caused me to think that monopolizing and manipulating others as an advantage to oneself while trying to make others believe that one is doing for the advantage of saving other lives does not last long. Karma’s a bad motherfucker! Want a tissue?
I am currently working on a website for my organization, “Org H”, and it has been a long time since I’ve started working on it. Last two months ago, Org A and Org M came up with the same idea but they’re linking with Org C. Org C, itself, acts as a resource bank of data from all the agencies and it has been there for quite some time. Let’s just say Org C is the bomb diggity of all information from all the humanitarian/development agencies existent in Myanmar.
Obviously, Org A and Org M have a huge advantage over us since it’s linked with something that has already existed and they were acting as ‘assisting’ or ‘revamping’ Org C’s website. I went to their workshop and found out that Org A, Org M and we can work together as one. I mean, Org C is the queen of resource pool and we have the interactivity advantage. So, we working together would be just perfect.
I was given a ‘verbal’ invite to the meeting today by Org A, claiming they needed me there to back them up on our collaboration. The dude from Org A asked me for a presentation that I gave last Friday for reference yesterday and I gave it to him because I was gonna give it to the other agencies anyways. So, at the meeting today, Org A and Org M asked me to give the presentation impromptu and I wasn’t told about the existence of the Government officials in the room.
In another ‘undiplomatic’ word, I was locked down in a meeting by my so called ‘partners’, who turned out to be my ‘rivals’ intentionally. I was cornered as I was giving the presentation about how it would be better for us to delete/decrease the functions whilst I was trying my best to explain how we could collaborate.
Ignoring the unethical cornering from my frenemies, I stuck to my virtue about how we can collaborate. After my presentation, Org A and Org M gave their presentation and I guess to their surprise, I supported them from A to Z, ignoring that they have totally cornered me and tried to fuck up my presentation about my website.
Miraculously, greed got in the way for Org A while he was explaining his website revamping of Org C in such a way that he has stepped over the line of their abilities. Now, I’ve never asked for competition and I genuinely offered to help them since I was gonna get the data they wanted anyways. I even offered to give them the credit. I was glad when Org C decided to agree that we, Org H, was needed indeed to help these two frenemies of mine.
As my grandma has taught me, I stuck to my beliefs and I believed for the best. Win win at its best, I’ve managed to get out of a meeting where they tried to corner me and get me down unprofessionally with pride, faith and hope while grabbing my balls I’ve built to last any incoming unprofessional immature traits from other agencies in the future. The morale of this story is not to be fooled by so called ‘professional’ agencies directors or leads no matter how they have been working for a long time in this industry. It’s only been a year for me and I guess sticking to the actual win win has caused me to think that monopolizing and manipulating others as an advantage to oneself while trying to make others believe that one is doing for the advantage of saving other lives does not last long. Karma’s a bad motherfucker! Want a tissue?
Listening to: The Beautiful South – Dream a little dream
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