Whipping

We are going to whip a Muslim lady that drank alcohol soon.

Read here.

It took us awhile to reach this milestone, the Islamist is very determine and they got what they want.

Anyway, elsewhere in Somalia, model shining example of Shariah Land, we have this very enlightening news.

Somali hardliners whip women wear bras

Judging by the rate of how things go, we will be there in not too distance future !!!

-woody

Skill

Oh ya,

In the previous blog entry, I complete left out the skillset even till the end.

For a simple reason, normally , staff with integrity will hold themselves accountable to deliverable. They are likely to learn on the job and pick up the skillset as they go. Though, one must be mindful of the fact, if you want a nuclear scientist, a physics degree is a must have, it will be completely not fit to hire genetic engineer to run a particle collider like those is CERN.

In Malaysia, to demand a very strong technical person is hard to come by, most engineer only works 3-5 years, they are already hoping to be managing leader, but actually some were not even fit to be technician in both their thinking and behavior. Worst still, there are some school of thought (by some incompetent manager) that, one needs not to know well about the nature of the job to manage the team of specialist, thus , giving some of this half baked “experts” justification to sit on area of critical decision making.

Some like to think of themselves as young rising star . But to me, yes, there are only very few truly good ones, but majority are just  so so. Once my brother said that

.. in Malaysia, there are more opportunities than expertise, but in other places, normally there are more expertise than opportunities, thus creating an even more competitive environments.

Now back to skills. Many staffs do not seek to upgrade what they know in the field, a few years, they went on to grab an MBA and that’s it, the rest is politics. In the state where I am living, we had many multinationals since 70s came here for manufacturing activities, as of today, we are still competing with country like China and Vietnam for the same manufacturing activities, but we need to import workforce from Myanmar , Bangladesh and Indonesia.

Why is that ?

Hiring

Lately, I got a few questions about what quality I  looked for when hiring someone, is skill important ?

For me, in priority ..

Integrity,Skill.

Integrity for me is the single most important factor of my hiring , anything else, is secondary.

A person with integrity will hold himself accountable to fulfill its duty & obligation to the company, its job function he is set out to do. With integrity, you can be sure the person will do the right thing even when on one is watching.

On another hand, without integrity, the person is likely to steal when no one is watching. He is likely to blame someone for his own wrongdoings, he is not likely to admit it but past the bug conveniently to someone else.

Having just one person without integrity is likely to bring down a whole team pf productive and innovative talents. Here is how to spot one, (No gender preference, I used “he”, but it does not mean all female workforce has 100% integrity)

• The person is not likely to keep up with the skills, he felt he is the best and above the rest, because he felt he can get away with it even for a few silly mistakes. Also, an over confidence and octane boosted ego is normal the thread of incompetency.
• The person is likely to be on sick leave quite often, especially critical timing, there is always something else.
• The person always lowered other people to his own standard of mediocrity. Example is when he is caught being late to work, he immediately pointed other people in the group also do the same, why he is the only penalized ?
• The do not make disclosure until last minute before the “bomb” about to go off. Yes, such people will keep crisis under wrapped as long as possible. When others started probing into his affair, he is fast to claim others violated his privacy and invaded his personal territory.
• The person talks a lot his human right and his entitlement, yes, they do, such people normally steals time off, even though they stayed back late to claim overtime, but normally ended doing own things, abusing company provided convenient. In addition, when they are caught going home earlier than stated in company rule book, they are quick to point out how much they spent on this and that project, normally they probably helped filled the shipping form and nothing more.
• Such people has a strong tendency to look for free goodies whenever there is one, free food , free seminar and all kinds of free gift, they may even fight for your share to show their nobleness. Do watch out if they fought for your share, there maybe something in future he wants from you.
• Such people also keeps high emphasis the importance of relationship, on who they know to use backdoor method when there is one. While we know the importance of respect for individual as way to maintain good relationship, but we should not confuse that quality with sycophantic and appeasement behavior, like he can pull some string with little favor in return.
• They tend to aim pretty high, in career term, even to the extent that do to tally with their own experience. They aim high for other reason, not because they want to lead the company to a new level, but they aiming to loot the goodies and entitlement, rub shoulder with the who and who . They like to play the same kind of game what the executives play and of course, they know someone (backdoor) that can get good bargains on the supply.
• Another simple thing like going out for lunch, such people are least likely to bring their key along, they expect someone to drive them, yes, they always do. In Carpool, such people always on the look out for someone to exploit.

Well, that’s all I have for the short working life experience . Any thoughtful reader, feel free to add more.

woody

Asylum

This is a rather interesting piece of news.

Hate British and want Asylum in Britain

To me, if the countries that so hated the west with their theocratic zealots, why the people still want to seek political asylum in the west. Want to enjoy the good social security handout of western governments.

-woody

Sick

This is a piece of rather sickening news.

The three jihadist convicted of trying to bring down the civilian aircraft.One of them was planning to bring a foster baby on board the plane for their suicide mission to distract security, so that they can bypass security.

Amazing.

jihadist trying to carry foster baby on board to conceal bomb making material

Steven Weinberg once quoted.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

-woody