Since when does helping becomes insubordinate
When it's not your job.
Actually I only coined this phrase when I got here, and it's the weirdest thing I've ever thought of 'cause it's not my way of doing things. It becomes the way of living in Qatar.
Ever had an encounter where you wanted to help somebody or anybody in your office just to either win more contracts, reorganize the planning, speed up the accounting procedures so that you can get the salary on-time, etcetera, but all they tell you, or rather 'give you a memo', is that it's not part of your job?
Sometimes there's an urge inside you that you wanted to push things up for the enjoyment of working and to keep up to the quality the reputation of your company deserves, and it hassles you that some of your co-workers are not comprehensive enough to live up to the reputation. Reasons like "we're just following procedures". And where does somebody else's incompetitiveness get up to the procedures they're following? A snail-pace conduct so slow that salaries are delayed by months, losing good contracts, poor sales, material delivery delays, wrong orders, unplanned supervisions, lack of coordination of each employees, corruption, laziness, blaming who's doing who, mismanagement of the company as a whole.
So much of this...system they wanted to convey.
Helping is a thing in oneself that doesn't need a reward in return but is for the best of the goal...so how does a sudden law prevents you from doing charitable actions? When they take advantage of the law as a means to prevent you from speaking up and to keep one's hidden agenda or lack of competitiveness under closed or limited knowledge.
Somehow it also lessens my spirit and knowledge with this type of unpleasant attitude in this place, and I hope I can survive this one in the coming years of continuous stay in Qatar.
