Between my Righteous and Inequity

It's been 13 days i didn't go to my office, since i have my liver problem, i think so many things about my future career on my current workplace. It has been 1 year and 2 months i join the company and honestly i couldn't do more. It goes like this, it's a family company. Built based on trust between the employees for about 23 years and i admit it become the basic core of this company culture.

I didn't say it was bad thing but what i'm trying to explain is, it becomes the "predator" for the company itself. For what i saw and what observe, this company could grow up more bigger and could be an independent company that produce it's own product. There are 780 employees and based on what i see, the company hire too many worker. If i was the owner, i should put my money in buying new machines, replace the old ones and train the potential worker in my company.

I hate to say that our quality reject is too high and it keep going higher month by month. The owner has his own policy in running the company, "it is prohibit to reject customers order, whatever it takes we should produce and produce". I could agree with his policy if he invest his money for buying new machines, measurement tools, replace the old machines and build a new place for a specific production line. The truth is, from what i heard, last time the company bought machines was in 2006 and since then stood still.

We have to fulfill 4 million items production in a month. The fact is, with our current tools and machines we only can meet 2 million items and the ridiculous part is the owner and board of directors knew about the problem but didn't take a countermeasure to solve it. My colleage, Production Manager, Product Support Manager, Quality Manager, always tells me that this year is the worst year for this company. We keep on accepting new orders instead fixing quality rejects problem first, they regret why this company keep pursuing in quantity not quality. I agree with them and when i asked them if they have report this issue to the owner, what would he said about this. They answered the owner never give the solutions, he just need us to fulfill the customer demand whatever it takes.

Last time i checked, my company were in financial trouble. I just found out that after all this time, we never had a profit from each of our production. Apparently, the owner knew about this and from what i observe he didn't do anything. There are too many problems in the company right now. What i hate most is i have two superior, one of them is very cool person know lots of technical things and have a potential become a great leader in the future and one is very irritating me all the time.

I manage three subjects there are Quality Management System, Occupational Health and Safety Aspects and Research & Development. Big responsibility i have around my shoulder but i try to keep it up, but what happen is she keep filling me with insignificant issue and force me to do beyond my job authority. If only she has a sense of curiousity, sense of team work and sense of good leadership i would do what she wants to. She's the most stubborn, irritating, annoying and selfish person i ever know. Maybe i should give her a psychological tests and assess her personality so that i know how i suppose to behave in front of her.

She is the reason, my biggest reason, why i keep thinking i should resign and leave this company and seek another career on another place. I could not bear the pressure that she gives me every second without a proper judgement why she order something to do.

But beside her, what i really think is this company should grow bigger and should start thinking about quality not quantity. I strongly believe if the owner's policy still a ravenous policy the company will be like this forever and never expand to a much establish company. It is a pity if the owner and board of directors not taking any kind of act to develop the company.

Another part that i hate in this company is, there are no "entrepreneur mental" among the owner and board of directors. I have a job to audit our supplier and our sub contractor, from what i've seen the board of director or maybe just the owner were present at time i was auditing. Almost 34 suppliers and sub contractors i visited, the board of director or the owner always present. Once i told them that it was an honor that board of director or the owner present and follow the audit process they said.. "it is very important for us to know what we can do to fulfill our customer's will and to take an appropriate act to correct our non conformities that our customer's found. We have the authority to make a decision in a minute, so we hope that we could fix whatever at our fastest time".

I was amazed that 90% of our supplier and sub contractors highest management said the same thing!. In the contrary, it never happen in my company. Our board of directors and the owner are seldom or never want to present at the time when the our customer visit our plant. The most ridiculous is our board of director doesn't even have a guts to say something even i wrote them the speech note!.

There are lots of funny and ridiculous part happened in my company, but in the meantime i have to be more patience and more enthusiast applying another job. I hope what i wrote here won't hurts someone's feeling.