Today I felt so sad that I won't be attending my Graduation ceremony at the Royal Albert hall. I had to postpone it to next year due to some unavoidable circumstances....
And today also marked the last day our department clerk tenure with us. She was instructed to be transferred to the main university administration building with a new post as the employment clerk officer....So it seemed like she got promoted to a better position, but it was really hard on both the department staff and her to accept this transfer. Apparently, this is part of the (weird maybe) university admin policy to deploy their non-academic staff once in every 10 years into some sort of a rotation. It was supposed to give them opportunities to work in a different environment as well as job protocol. However, as educative and beneficial as it appears to be, this transfer process was done without giving any choice whatsoever. They just send you this letter saying that from this date so and so, you will be effectively transferred to another division/job at another office/building so and so and your replacement have been pre-arranged prior to the transitional process which is less than TWO month. In other words, they did not provide any memo in advance asking whether you agree or not to partake in the new job arrangement process.
They should've asked her, my clerk that is, whether she would want it or not...They should not allow this "veto" type of policy to be imposed...this is a little bit too dictatorial! Our head of the dept has tried his best to use his influence on trying to persuade the higher admin board to rule her out for the time being, not especially this year since we gonna be the host for our coming faculty annual dinner in August as well as our chemical engineering colloquium later this year. She has done her job so well that we have been depending on her to materialize those procurement jobs appropriately besides managing her duty in our general office.
This incident reminds me of what had occurred at my old department in my previous college. At one time, those secretaries and clerks were reshuffled around our dept to work for different people at different offices given only 7 working days notice! Many were very upset with this new "harsh" system that seemed to force people off their own will to do whatever "shit" job deemed appropriate by those people at the "higher" place. That was so imperialist of them to exercise such a totalitarian, a bit draconian system. Imagine someone who has been working for 3 lecturers for the past 15 years and suddenly she has to slave for another lecturer who also force her to work for her team-mates, who in turn, are delegating different jobs to her and at the same time expecting her to present the desired format once she commence the job? I bet they presumed that she has been doing her job day in day out for so long already, hence she should not have any problem tackling any new assignment, etc etc.... One of these poor ladies has retired before her supposedly (by union law) retirement time. She was treated rather poorly by her new ladyboss who apparently was a former undergraduate student in the same dept. By the end of last year, this ladyboss tendered her resign letter to pursue with other things away from the college. She probably had a bright future ahead of her...She couldve been promoted to a much higher position had she not practised the superpower attitude to that poor old secretary. Was it karma or perhaps some other reasons beyond our human knowledge that did it.
That "relentless" order was extended to the other "lower rank" lecturers as well. Apparently, those "top" fellas seemed to be well off in their comfort zone...not shaken, not stirred...possibly fortifying their throne being a "full" professor and all...or perhaps too old to be bothered because they have already cemented their ultra-influence in my old department...who knows....Don't you think it's rather funny? Memo could be some kinda "writing on the wall" to those who mattered a little relative to those who are at the higher level.
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