I am giving suggestion on the part of people keep pushing you.

When I was fresh graduate, my knowledge on the product, process flow and sensitive cross-departmental relations were very very limited. In a work place, there will always be some people trying to push the responsibilities and unnecessary jobs to you for their own benefits such as buying them extra time, making their jobs easier by pushing the tough one onto you, etc, etc. The workplace is like a madhouse whether it is cinapek or MNC company. I suffered a lot initially being spinned so much because I wasn't equipped with necessary knowledge to defend myself.

To survive in workplace, you need to learn a lot about the technical knowledge, process flows, and company systems either by time or by working really hard. Knowledge is the best defensive weapon you can have to protect yourself against such people. For example, someone come to you with some unreasonable requests, you ask him by doing these stuff, will it serve the purpose or solve the problem? You then bombard them with your knowledge stating why you think so, that's where knowledge comes in. Always QUESTION their requests in depth so they can't take advantage of you.

Also, stand tough on your position until boss steps in. People will tend to bully people with no knowledge. Speaking about boss, you need to establish certain credibility to him, else he won't trust you. You have to show some results and acheivements to him, then when he has confidence in you, he will trust you.

Else, well, really sorry for you, but no worry, we all have the same problem, Malaysian workplaces are full of lousy bosses. They are just task masters, not leaders.

This post has been edited by TYK: May 24 2006, 07:20 PM