I witnessed today.. what is so called playing with office politics..I was having lunch with two of my colleagues, one is my mentor. They were telling me about my partner not looking at the leave planner again before she decides to take leave. She is taking leave on 26 Nov and I think one of the colleagues have actually blocked that day on the leave planner, meaning she wants to take too. Well.. actually I am covering for my partner and this colleague.. so when both of them are not around.. I will be very busy. So the colleagues said why she never go see planner one before she decided to take leave. My take on this is she doesn't care who else is taking leave as long as the person is not me. Then they said may be she has forgotten she needs to come back on 27 Nov 09.. Hari Raya. Well.. my partner has not forgotten that someone needs to come back on 27 Nov 09 but she thought naively that it is still not confirmed who is coming back to work this time.. so she decided to take. I asked her.. who came back the last time? She replied' You la".. then I asked her" Then who should be coming back this time since the last time is me right?"She said "i thought not confirm yet who is coming back... ok I can come back"Seriously I know she dun meant any malice.. she just thinks so naively.. it is quite obvious we are partners and should always take turns to come back, just like the other team. This kind of thing dun need people to say.. =P Then she suddenly remembered she needs to cover the admin guy on 26 Nov 09. Oh oh! Finally she said she will cancel her leave on 26 Nov 09, this is just as what the other two colleagues expected. They concluded during lunch that she has forgotten she needs to come back on 27 Nov 09 and will probably cancel her leave on 26 Nov 09 when she realised. Then my blur partner told me she already took leave on 2 Dec 09 but I dun see any marking on my calendar regarding her leave. Thus I went e-portal and checked.. no leave approval for her yet . I told her go see the leave calendar on e-portal.." You have not apply leave on 2 Dec 09!" My goodness.. dunno how she can be so blur!
During lunch the two colleagues were discussing about the previous ' leave saga'. They said our team lead is so shewd to throw the ball back to us.. and I actually fell into their so called trap. What happened was my teamlead and another colleague took leave during the same period of time. My dear partner happily went to apply the same period.. trying her luck to see if she can take the same period too. My head was unhappy because now there are three people applying for the same stretch.. he questioned why we never go see leave planner before applying. My partner was the last to apply leave.. and it is quite obvious the fault is hers. Anyway my team lead decided to throw the ball at me and my mentor.. she sent us an email whether we are ok with the three of them on leave. I did not think so much about it and replied ok.. because they are taking in Dec and it is supposedly a super lull period. The colleagues commented I should not reply that way because if anything happens and I can't cope.. she can shoot me because I said ok. Wah.. seriously I din think that much. I realised how naive I am.. must learn how to protect myself in office. I believe my partner is as naive in her thinking like me.. may be we haven't work in society for long. our 3 years compared to their 10-20 years? Gulpss.. we are small frys waiting to be eaten up.
I am quite sian of my colleagues complaining to me about my partner. I know they want me to talk to her because sometimes she did not realise the consequences of her actions. She is the same age as me and I can't be mentoring her throughout right? I am not a mother hen..
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