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segamatboy
post Aug 27 2014, 01:13 AM

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Ask your friend how did a Malaysian girl ended up as Westpac head of finance??? My cousin who also works at Westpac also said she is also the branch's head of PMO. Racism??? Glass ceiling??? Sure doesnt hold water.

QUOTE(manickam123 @ Aug 26 2014, 07:28 PM)
no idea, thats what i got from her story.
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segamatboy
post Aug 27 2014, 01:49 AM

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Asians were brought up to study hard and work hard. Study smart and work smart are alien concept.Got the degree and work hard after a few years and cant get promotion...must be us vs them. In OZ, it is the orang putih vs the Asians. So must be racial discrimination. Put the same Malaysian in Singapore. cant get a promotion after a few years...again it us vs them. Cant be racial discrimination since have the same skin colour. Find another excuse. eg degree/diploma discrimination


QUOTE(frontierzone @ Aug 26 2014, 11:20 PM)
On the other hand, we also hear of people often quoting this 'Penny Wong' the Finance Minister under Gillard, as an example to counter the so-called glass ceiling faced by Asians. And also use that to strengthen the argument that Malaysians can succeed anywhere.
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segamatboy
post Aug 31 2014, 08:37 PM

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The reality is that in many parts of Asia, the system allows people to steal other people's idea and get away with it. This could be the primary reason why Chinese are 'kiasu'.Eg. Several years ago, my cousin did the donkey work...research and type up the report. Her supervisor read it, erased my cousin name, put his name on the report, signed it and passed it off as his own. My cousin was livid. It was between her vs the supervisor . Guess who the senior managers sided with and who was shown the door for being the trouble maker??? Cousins working in Singapore are also saying the same thing



QUOTE(maxmillion @ Aug 30 2014, 09:09 PM)


If you did the most brilliant piece of analysis at work, and only you knew about it, did you actually do the work? Answer: The answer is no you didn’t. If no one knows about your work, if you don’t share it, tell people about it, no matter how technically brilliant you are, in everyone’s mind, you and your work don’t exist. This isn’t about shameless self-promotion which I know is what the majority of you are thinking, this is about communicating. I was hired for this function, I did this work, and it probably is valuable. Now I need to be proactive about sharing that work, rather than just sending an email to my boss, or waiting for my boss to tell me what do . The reality is, culture and the Malaysian education system brought most of you up to obedient followers and not question anything. Just do you work and speak when i tell you to speak.

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