The title might offend some people immediately but I am just going to tell my story the way it actually happened and it is up to you to make your own judgement. Racism has been a sensitive issue in a multi-cultural and multi-racial country such as Malaysia. Most of the time it is only subdued due to certain reasons and circumstances but it is never gone. Not even with the new One Malaysia vision from the new Prime Minister.
Anyway, back to my interview session. The next interview that I went to was at a Dutch software company located at the KLCC. This is where the development requirements for Asia are done and I must say, it is not a bad company to work for.
My first interview was with two young and energetic middle management staffs and from the 2 hour session, there were two questions that caught my attention:
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Would you have any problem reporting to someone who is younger than you are?
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Would you have any problem working with staffs who are all Chinese (referring to Malaysians who are from the Chinese race and not people from China)?
Back in July 2008, we closed our financial year with some profits that was enough to put smiles on all the shareholders. Following that the major shareholders announced that the company would be merged with a competing company that is also selling that same technologically challenged piece of program. Part of the deal was that all staffs would be re-employed by the newly merged company and to me that sounded great.
One of the reasons for the merger was that 2009 is going to be a tough year and consolidation was one of the ways to go through the hard times. That sounded convincing enough.
Then towards the end of the year, we got another message from the major shareholders and this time the plan has changed. The would not be any merger and the current company would not be bought by the competitor. However, they would just want to take over our customers at a disgustingly cheap price.
After missing for more than three months, I have finally found the mood opportunity to post a new entry. May be some of would want to read about what actually happened to me.
Let me start from the beginning and that is from the time before I went missing in action and the event that took place following that so that you would have the whole picture on what happened back then.
I worked for a small IT company that had 15 staffs at the time when I joined them in 2000. Things was going fine where I worked myself up from a senior consultant to the software manager. In 2004, they had some financial crisis due to some super duper business planning where the overhead became more than the profit. Due to some pressures from the owners and other factors that I did not know, one by one started to leave the company, including the managing director, which left the company with a malnourished body, a weak tail and without a head. Just imagine that…
The owners than made an offer to a few of us to stay back and mend the sinking ship. We were offered a mall amount of shares and in return we had to patch up all the holes and ensure that it remained afloat.
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