I am a teacher. I love my job. I see myself passing on the knowledge to young children and knowing that I nurture our next generation makes me feel happy and purposeful. But my father hates my job. Please allow me to rant here because I have nowhere else to burst out. Advertisements
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For every employee, business owner, or head officials, work can stress you out; especially on instances where you are trying to meet a target or you are going to close an important deal.
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Work depression can hit anyone at any given moment. Recently, one of my friends was diagnosed with depression derived from work-related stress. Fortunately for him, his employers were alerted to his displayed signs of depression and managed to convince him to seek help immediately.
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Throughout my career, I am blessed with wonderful bosses that taught me so much about life and business. Many of them became personal friends as well as mentors. But the ones I learned the most from are the bosses from hell. For one, I learned to grit my teeth, simmer my anger, prolong my patience…
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Hello Kally, I wished I have contacted you for different reasons other than I no longer can put up the shit one of my co-workers have been giving me for the past few months.
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I love your column Whisper and I hope by sharing my story, perhaps some young girl out there will learn from my mistakes and maybe save herself from evil.
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When I published the piece on workplace abuse, I did not expect so much sharing in the comments. One of the shares is by a talented author, Arwen and I have invited her to share her experiences in detail which she graciously and generously did so and here is her story. I have a longstanding…
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There are far too many people I have spoken with during my corporate days that are not able to identify that they are actually being bullied. No harm no foul, isn’t it?
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As you all may have read that I have been entering in and out of my home country Singapore for my driving lessons, one of the prominent news have been making rounds on the newspaper as well as social media.
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Hi Kally! How have you been? Let me jump right into my problem. You see, a new manager has just joined the company and he has been assigned to lead my team. While under his leadership, we are able to work effectively and efficiently and our productivity numbers are up. That’s really great! Our management…
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When you are not careful in protecting your image, you will find yourself having to do damage control to protect your career life. Everyone has a reputation that goes with you in all places you got to.
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Many of us voice out that female employees are often paid lesser, offer lesser promotions than our male counterparts. We fight and voice out on gender inequality in the workforce. In Ted talks, in social media, in the news but what I feel that we should start off with is gender education for our young…
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This guest post is written by a good friend in the blogosphere after I invited him to share his wealth of experiences with us. I enjoyed reading this article and even more so, his blog. His words, the willingness to admit his flaws in this post, touched a raw nerve in me. How many of…
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Many of us here are bloggers or writers. With the availability of the internet, we can easily write our heart out for the whole world to read.
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*As told to Kally from someone who wishes to be anonymous I came from nothing. My father is a failed farmer and a drunkard. My mother passed away after giving birth to my third sister. We were lucky enough to have a rich relative that saw through all of our education but I was the…
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One of the pushing factors that kept me going on publishing useful articles in MiddleMe is that I get to be in the midst of the many talented writers in the blogosphere. Many of these talented writers have a story to tell. My friend aka fellow writer, Annette Rochelle Aben shared a heartfelt experience with us…
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I‘ve been wanting to write this post for the longest time but didn’t find the emotional energy to do so. 8 months ago I gave birth to a little cute diva and as Chinese traditional rules that I will have to spend one month (28 days to be exact) doing my confinement. For those who…
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*As told to Kally by someone who wishes to be anonymous Or you can call me the office bitch. I’ve been in my company for 10 years and I’m loving every single minute of my work. In fact, I relish my working hours and I always miss my company when I’m on a long holiday.…
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There is so much discrimination in this world, let’s not add another in our workplace. A place where we work 9 hours a day, where equality should exist and promotions and opportunities should be presented to anyone because of his capabilities, not skin colour, not gender and definitely not sexual preference.
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As I am edging towards my 40 years old (shocking, I know!), I wonder will it be too late or will I be phased out of the employable age when I decide to rejoin the workforce.
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