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| Sunday, February 11, 2007 |
| Stand-in Malaysian .. |
I was at the eASIA2007 Conference in Putrajaya from 6-8 February 2007 as one of the Invited Speakers. My presentation was scheduled for the third and final day (the before lunch session). This is not about me. Second Day - digital learning track - first session of the day, at 9.30 am - and it happened!! This particulay Deputy Vice Chancellor from a local university stood at the podium as the first speaker of the morning. He went on to proudly announce that he was just a stand-in for the original speaker. He went on to detail that he got a call from the original presenter asking him to do the speaker a favour by delivering a presentation in his spot. So the stand-in related that the original speaker had a prior engagement.
Sigh .. I can't stand this kind of behaviour. It is pathetic. You don't really have to tell that you are a stand-in as it is a bad reflection on the original speaker. It also shows how much respect we pay to the organising party who have taken the trouble to invite us. It is also a bad reflection on Malaysia, as it was an International Conference. When exactly did the original speaker know he had a prior engagement?? It just goes to show our attitude, the classical Malaysian attitude.
This is also the same for bosses who like to pass the meeting file at the last minute to the stand-in who will say at the meeting that he doesn't actually know what is going on as he just got the file this morning. Pathetic!! ... aiyaaa .. tak tau lah ...
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posted by Rozhan @ 2/11/2007 09:20:00 PM   |
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