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Monday, September 26, 2005

business ethics

this is being the second time i type about a bad incident that i’m going to tell it off here. i already wrote about the whole thing last saturday evening but unfortunately my broadband was dc just after I click ‘publish post’. grr… maybe because of the bad weather that evening.

anyhow here’s the story like.

i was sitting quietly in my office, finishing my paper works. suddenly i saw my former cashier W came in (my office full of glass wall). at first her appearance didn’t surprise me at all because her bf M has just been promoted as a cashier here. but then i suspected that there must be something wrong as she was sobbing through. so i asked her from my office itself. she pushed my office door while peeking thru and said that there was nothing wrong. within seconds, she already sits in front of me. this time maybe she can’t hold it anymore that she continued crying. she has been accused of stealing!

she slept in the workplace’s hostel on friday night together with two assistant manager’s S1 and S2. she went to sleep only after +/- 3am. according to her, their personal belongings were placed in the same room that the three of them slept. as soon as they woke-up the next day, one of them realized that a camera and some monies were missing. besides that, they also found out that their bags already been moved out to the next room. W wanted to view at the time on her bf’s handphone (she borrowed M’s because hers is not working) that was placed in her bag. to everybody’s surprised, W’s bf’s handphone also missing. one of the assistant managers S1 tried to call the number but failed. the worst thing here was that no thorough investigations done but S simply accused W who was the master mind behind all this. the way S1 work was not professional at all. the company is such a well-known one in the country but it was not professionally managed. it seems the manager K said that they have reported this case to the other area’s police station. why there and not here, as though here do not have one.

W asked for my opinion. so i asked her to make a police report too about her missing fon also on another issue that the management whose simply accused her of stealing. its not a matter of the material stuff here but through the people’s eyes who would look bad on W and her image too. i asked my cashier F to accompany her. when I called F later in the evening to find out about it, F said that the police officers asked him to go back and they would bring W later that evening to her workplace as they need to questioned other people involved too. amazingly W’s colleaugues including S1 and S2 were surprised when they saw W came that evening accompanied by some police officers. the truth turned out that the management actually haven’t make any report yet. thus they also went to the police station to make their reports too. another worst thing here was that K (the manager) was already been M.I.A. from 4pm that evening until to-date.

this morning W dropped-by to see me here on her way to the police station with her parents. i could see her face so calm and happy. she told me that her uncle and her brother are going to help her through this case, no matter what. her uncle even wanna bring her to the utusan malaysia’s office tomorrow so that the whole nation would know about the company’s bad management and let them faced the bad situation later on. way to go W! we are all on your side. well this morning W also thanked me for advising her to make the police report asap that day. i just smiled. as usual we salam and she kissed my hands before she went off.

i got a call from ASP N in the afternoon, asking about W. before that one of his officer came here to bring M to the police station, that they questioned M too. they tried to twist and turn their questions so that M would say that W was the ONE!