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Today I attended a talk on Volunteerism. It was delivered by some GE director (electric company worldwide), mr. Roshan, if I’m not mistaken his name is. I guess from all the taks I’ve ettended it was one of the session that I gave my attention. I dont really know hy I paid attention on whether cause it hits the spot, or I was impressed by the way the presentation was delivered. Most likely it has to be a blend between that.  I do note some important point in the talk, in which one of it is  Q x  A = E. He doesn’t really tell me what is the meaning of each word, but what I know is Q is the system, planning or something we put in place as a control measure, A is the acceptance of people who are using it and E is the success rate.
I have to agree with him that most people only stress on the first point which is the technical know how, but we alnost totally forgotten the second important point which is as important as the first point. Since it is a multiplication, eventhough you’ve reach perfection in the technical know how, but u get 0 in the acceptance or only the higher ups did agree on the point, it is most likely the system will soon fail to sustain its existance. Its all logic. If u build a system that people at large doesnt want to accept it, why bother thinking about it will success. It can be implemented but the success of it is certainly minimal. How do you measure people acceptance?? that is what we should be questioning ourselves.
Today, I believe we are no longer in a system whereby boss have all the power in his hands. Its up to them how to create the company the way they want it to be. People nowadays have realized their importance in the company. When given under circumstances whereby they have to obey something that they dont like, they can always back off. Resign from the company. Who is at loss now?? The employee?? The company?? Well the company can always hire a new employee but the cost to hire new employee which have zero experience on how to go about in the business is damn expensive. If they hire experience people, the pay would be high and still these experience people has to go through some step before they could be familiar with their role in the company. In the end the company end up losing money and also an experience worker.
The employees are the asset to the company. Without the employee, the company will not sustain. It is the people in the company that does all the job not the company using its name can do the job. Thus, in order to sustain this asset, we need to develop these employees not only things with regard to their job but also to develop the attitude of the employees. They have to be trained in such a way that they feel that they belong to the company.
Why volunteerism?
There are my friends who questioned the reason why I joined all the volunteerism work. For me its just as simple as I want to contribute. There are many people who are in need of our help, that can be help if we are willing to do it. If we cannot contribute monetary value, spend your time and energy to help those in need. There are reasons why Allah gave us wealth, healthy body or good brain. Its not solely for ours to be used. In everyting that we have there are potions in which it belongs to others. We have to utilised this sort of gift the best we can. Otherwise we are going to be questioned later, what has we done with all the gifts given to us. Well, thats my answer, but I know that its not limited to that.
What does it has anything to do with the company growth?? just like I mention before employees are the assets of the company in which the success of the employess will determine the success of the company. For instance let us think for one second. Its not like every employee in the company would have the chance to become a leader in a project. The company cannot afford to do that. But volunteerism will enable those who did not have the chance to do the leader job inside the company, to do the leader job for this volunteerism job. It can be as simple as arranging a visit to orphanage. Looks small but the job which comprises, organizing who will come, what activity, who will be involved, logistics, venue, gifts, souvenir and etc. is a complete package that teaches the employees the skills to lead events. This can happen if and only volunteerism is encourage in the company.
And surely this is what happen in the GE company and luckily I really hope that PETRONAS in its own way are moving to achieve that. I always hope that this mission of energy receive, energy return can be fulfilled in the direct way. Not in term of money but the time and energy spent by PETRONAS staff. But certainly money is needed to achieve that but lets not make it a reason of why we cannot contribute.
Anyway Allah has long said this in the Al-Quran in surah Al-Ra’d ayat 11. 13:11, "Sesungguhnya Allah tidak merubah nasib sesuatu kaum muslimin sehingga mereka merubah keadaan yang ada pada diri mereka sendiri.’
It is obviously stated there that we need to be willingly to change ourselves before we could hope Allah will do it for us. We need to change ourselves to a be a better person. We need to volunteer ourselves and lets not hope others will do it for us cause if they are doing it for us, where are we in the picture. We will always be in the old position, while other people are already a step ahead for us.

"There are reasons why we can sustain our company for more than 140 years and still able to sustain and diverse it business in many areas. That is because we are looking at business ahead of our time and do something to capture the market"
Quoted from Mr. Roshan.

"sekiranya kamu ingin lihat masa depan, lihatlah pemuda masa kini"
Quoted from Profesor Hamka(if I’m Not mistaken).

So, let us take our time and think about this. Thats all.

Dah lama agaknya aku tak menulis blog nie.
Banyak faktornya, antaranya sebab dah keje, takde ineternet connection, malas
dan macam2 lagi. Ada gak nak try tulis, tapi baru sepatah dua, idea dah kering, terus stop. Malas gila lah sejak dah keje nie. huhuhu.
Aku baru jek tukar section tempat keje, barulah ade keje skrg nie.
Baru lah tau nak rajin2 bila kerje nie.
kalo tak lepak2 jek makan gaji buta.
Tahlah tak tau kenapa bila aku masuk keje nie, mentaliti aku dah berubah kot.
Tapi I guess there still left some strong principal in my way of perceiving thing.
Anyway macam yang aku pernah cakap dulu, anybody has the right to give opinion,
but we cannot push others to accept our opinion. At the least we must be
courage enough to voice out our opinion, otherwise nothing gonna happen.
It start from the heart, goes to the mouth and translated into the action.
Kadang-kadang aku rasa pelik tgk camne org dengan mudah boleh express
what he feels about others publicly (in a disgraceful manner but not in the direct way) face to face, selamba jek. As a rational person, I wont be giving back what I had gone through but I’ll try as much as possible to be positive about it. I’ll still answer in a way that it wont hurt others.  Bende nie jadi lagi teruk kalo kita ade dalam satu team. and aku bukan nak jadi sexist tapi sepanjang aku join projek, wat projek, and macam2 lagi, aku mmg nampak perempuan banyak beremosi dalam melakukan pekerjaan diorang. Aku tak kata sume, at the least perempuan2 yang pernah satu team ngan aku, banyak yang camtue. And aku rasa yang paling problem ialah bila orang yang camnie, diberi kuasa untuk menetapkan keputusan.  Banyak keputusan adalah berdasarkan pada pertimbangan emosi diorang and bila ditanya rasional nye, tahlah tak nampak kepentingan keputusan tu di buat. And then banyak bende yang tak teratur. tak organize sampai delegation of work to tak smooth. Ade org kene wat kerje yang lebih. payah lah camtue.
Lagi satu aku nie jenis yang suka provoke org yang kadang2 sampai aku pun diprovoke sama oleh orang. Memang aku selalu cakap kasar. Tapi takde niat jahat pun. Aku saja jek nak tgk reaksi org camne. I dont really like the idea of being the center of attention but if that is one of the way of how I could know many other people in this world why should I give in. Kadang2 org yang kita sangka kita dah kenal pun sebenarnya there’s a lot of other thing yang kita tak tahu psl die. Selalu bende2 camni org cakap suka mencapap la. Aku pedulik hape, as long as aku pikir bende yang aku cakap and buat adalah something yang meaningful. Ade setengah org suka mencapap sampai cakap bende yang tah hape2 asalkan org boleh kenal die tapi aku bukan jenis camtue. I’ll talk when it is needed. Thats all.