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I have not decided what to name this post yet. Somehow I feel like rambling about things in my head. I do not have an artistic way to convey it yet. Not yet. I will just pour it out as the FB status space is too small for this. I've only been transferred to KL over a month. I'm already doing a task that started off as an on-job training. I was just thinking about how being in operations, you are the client. Well, let's start off with working for PETRONAS. Working with PETRONAS you get to call the shots as the end-user. You will have vendors and contractors to serve you as the resources belong to you (the oil and gas). Going a bit deeper, to Carigali Level. When you work for Carigali, you are the ones who absolutely control the output of our resources as you are the one digging out the resources from earth. Working for Carigali central, you get to call the shots as you would be managing new resources and here, I am reaching a point, who the clients are.

I used to work for Regional Operations, as in Peninsular Malaysia Operations. There I served as a maintenance engineer, serving our 'operations' people, who are those managing the plant and platform. The operations people are my clients. Now, that I have been transferred to the centre, I find, now, I am serving the regional people, I have to do everything within my means to satisfy them. I have been attached to a project that is reaching its end. I can see the number of problems that has risen, and people talk about how the problems came about in the first place. My main task here is to close up on documentations and drawings. Which means, the job has to close first before my task can be closed. I was just thinking, how when working in regions, people blame central people for being incompetent and have set wrong priorities. But now that I am one of the central people, I am finding, regional people are setting impossibly high expectations and I felt like saying, would you have done a better job yourself?

I am talking in the perspective of a person who has turned sides. Central people have worked to their best to accomplish something large, and yet, the end user, the clients, keep complaining. All I hear throughout this trip, is complaints here and there. This is me, one of the central people. With the limited resources that I have I feel the regional people are setting targets that are too high for me. Can you imagine being a vendor or contractor of PETRONAS?

Just perspective. At the end of the day, we are all humans, no matter what positions we hold. The lesson I have learnt here, is that, don't condemn, or condone too easily. Accept that humans make mistakes, and everyone should work together to make things happen. Know your own role and responsibilities, and eliminate the attitude and thinking that, if you don't do it, somebody else will do it.

 

Fening mode @_@~~