What an attitude!!

I really felt like strangling someone yesterday. Arrgh! This friend of mine at the office will never fail to amaze me when I am rushing for some important datelines. I have known him for many years and his attitude can be very frustrating at times. Whenever my boss is not around, he always tries to avoid taking up responsibilities. Just like yesterday, he refused to help, he was giving excuses all the way through.

I believe that one has to earn the respect by taking up the responsibilities entrusted to him/her. Only then would others learn to respect him or her. All this frustration I was feeling brought me back to a situation many years ago involving this same annoying friend of mine (friend A) when our office was located at a different floor. I still remember how he abandoned me and my other colleague (friend B) when three gigantic cabinets were toppling on us.

It all happened when friend B and I were checking out some info from the old files stacked in the three high cabinets. The cabinets stood close to each other and had many drawers attached to it and in those drawers we kept thick files for our reference. Those drawers were normally not locked and due to their heaviness, the drawers are normally ajar. So as I was standing next to my colleague looking at one particular file, all the heavy drawers were out of tangent and started to move towards us, they were too heavy to be in their respective slots. With them moving outwards, the high cabinets swayed towards us, it caught me off guard and I was too shocked to alarm the others while friend B screamed as loud and she could, trying her best to help me to stop the cabinets from toppling and that “friend” (friend A) of ours ran as fast as he could from the toppling cabinets. He stood there doing nothing.

The other guys I know from another department heard the commotion and they all ran as fast as they could to help. They managed to salvage the cabinets and supported the cabinets all the way through. Friend B and myself were left speechless. While that “friend “ (friend A) of mine looked from a far. All the guys were screaming at him for abandoning his female colleagues. After that incident I just knew how self centered he can be!

And yesterday he did it again. I felt like strangling him! Orang macam ni pun ada. Loong *sigh*...