Business trip

1, 2, 3 …. 6 business trips this year, 3 overseas + 3 local.

just came back from KL meeting, precisely, 2 days useless meeting! The meeting was hold at another big big big customer’s shah alam office. it’s a well-known MNC whom corporate’s name = furniture.

last year, this MNC decided to close down their KL trading office. all the management staff were either retrenched or re-located, giving me a chance’ to learn about how good and bad to work in a MNC. ”Good” part is, their retrenchment package is very attractive; “Bad” part is, the top top top managment doesn’t care how much effort you’ve been putting into the organization previously, they just analyse P&L statement. Once P/L shows deficit, the branch will be closed and all of you will be jobless. 

Our company’s account were firstly handled over to Thailand team and now is Vietnam team. i can say, the current trading team are not doing their job as good as the initial team. forget about yesterday “meeting”, it was just a stupid computer installation session and all of us, as suppliers, are waiting for nothing like an idiot. ha! we came all the way from JB to KL by flight just to watch people doing installation?!!! “ok, maybe tomorrow would be better” i even tried to comfort myself before i slept yesterday night.

“ooi, the training have started, have you wrongly remembered the starting time?!” colleague A asked me this morning when we reached the MNC again at 9.50am today. “no leh, i remember the starting time is 10 am leh, look, my email is here and it’s also stated the training time is from 10 am to 5 pm leh, why ha?!”  i also confused.

2 minutes later, another supplier arrived. “hi Kim, u aso just arrived ah, the training seems like started already leh, what time you are informed?!” i immediately asked the supplier if i remembered the time wrongly. ”not 10 am meh? y like this ha?!” sigh, another victim like us….. after checking and clarifying, we were advised that the meeting was started at 9.30 am and we were late…. LATE??!! again, after a series of checking and clarifying, the MNC staff told us “sorry, miscommunication!”

As a MNC whom request supplier for a series of worldwide standards, requirements, specifications, giving me a message today that they forgot to set the standard & requirement for their ELITE!