昨天的培訓為的是今天的比賽，公司希望我們分組，一起製作一個迷你版產品。組員以營業部、設計部和編輯部組成，所有人會被編到與不同市場的同事同組，即是說不會和日常合作的人拍檔，例如香港營業員 x 倫敦編輯 x 開普敦設計師或巴林營業員 x 新加坡編輯 x 杜拜設計師。新穎的組合，但工作仍然是平日做的事，我一心想應該不難應付。我算是幸運中的不幸，幸運因為其中一個營業員就是香港的同事，不幸是另有杜拜和馬來西亞的同事。問題在於有的是新同事，未理解應該做什麼，對一切的程序比較陌生，感到壓力；另一位杜拜同事雖然不是新人，但她不是負責公司這個產品，所以不是太熟產品細節，自薦做指揮工作；至於馬來西亞同事也是比較新，但她表現冷靜，處變不驚，沒有大呼小叫。過程中那個指揮官令我十分反感，她沒有貢獻之餘，就只懂把「怎麼樣? 我們完成了未?」、「進度如何?」、「為什麼你坐著甚麼都不幹?」等等問題掛在口邊，只顧結果！又不停催促同事快一點，說沒有時間，如果你沒用幫不了手，她的話裡聽不出一點尊重。另一位杜拜同事她很想出一分力，但沒有人有空給講解，她感到無助，硬著頭皮做起來，遇到疑問便大叫，說她感到很大壓力，差點要哭出來。我心情被一切亂局影響，令我也堅張起來，聽見其他團伍已經完成，令我更加急起來，最後我們雖然在限時內完成產品，但我並不滿意。
The training yesterday is for the competition today. It is the company’s idea. They want us from different departments divided into small teams to work on a mini-product together. The teams combined with staff from sales, design and content departments. We were randomly allocated to ensure you will not work with your local based colleagues; in another words, you will have to work with someone you never met before, for example, the sales from Hong Kong x the editor in London x the designer from Cape Town or the sales from Bahrain x the editor in Singapore x the designer in Dubai. What would it be to work with a new team while doing your daily routine? At first I was thinking it would not be hard to deal with because I will do my job as usual and I was lucky that one of the sales in my team is also my teammate in Hong Kong. However, the other two sales were from Malaysia and Dubai who are new to the company. They do not know how to start and do not familiar with the procedure. Another lady, based in Dubai, was from another production line, that’s why she is not familiar with the details of the product we were working on, however, she is well experience in management and nominated herself as the leading role. The Malaysian sales was quite calm and rest assure. In the whole process, the self-nominated leader annoyed me. She did not have any contribution and the only thing she did was keep asking as questions like “How is it go? Are we done yet?”, “How’s the progress?”or “Why are you sitting here with nothing to do?”These kind of questions and her attitude are really a pain in my ass. She is so result-oriented. She also urged us to act quickly and beat the time. If she thinks that you have no value in the task, she did not respect you and gave you a bitch face. Another new Dubai sales was willing to help, but no one was free to guide her what to do. When she faced some error and helpless, she yelled and almost cry. This competition really stressed her out. I was also tense with stressful circumstances, I felt extra stress when I learnt that the other teams have completed their products. Although we completed our product before the deadline, I am not satisfied.
