I am not a magician

Be it private or public, be it big or small, organisations nowadays are expecting a lot from their employees. Employees are expected to multi-task and multiple-task, whatever you call it.

What I cannot tolerate is when employees are expected to perform magics. You are expected to do things way out of your control, you are expected to deviate from policies, you are expected to deliver things with super duper speed (better still, no lead time needed)! Come on, how to work like that?

Requestors are never realistic, some even unreasonable. But we are just normal human beings getting a paid job trying to achieve realistic things. My job title is not Magician, or Santa Claus for that matter.

Actually, magic can be performed more easily by the 'ones up there' (I mean the more or most senior people in the organisation). They need no magic wands, but just their mouths, but they are one of those who create the magical problem questions!

I am just a paid worker holding pens and not magic wands. And I don't specialised in magics. And I am not paid a magician's salary.

So, wake up, requestors, and talk like humans, for I can't handle your godly needs and wants. If you want me to do that, wait till I have migrated to heaven!

20 Oct 2008 (9.23pm)