Humbled

The last few weeks has been a humbling experience for me. Industrial training, while with its fun, also shows dat the actual working world is harsh, tough and even sensitive.

While working in Chilli's Midvalley, I might have faced tough, problematic customers, but everyone was in their late teens to their late 20s, making all of us stand in equal footing as colleagues working as waiters. Chilli's was fun, great, eye-opening to my abilities and gifts and finally without much of a problem.

But working in this new, small environment, where I'm just a trainee Engineer is akin to walking a minefield, as the company has had a lot of underlying currents running beneath the relationships in the workplace. Though people might seem to be cheerful and bubbly, the truth is dat perhaps they aren't.

The crux point came yesterday, amidst some casual joking with the assistant manager and a few colleagues, when one of them suddenly grabbed me by my shoulder and said, 'Remember your position as a trainee ah...'. I was stunned.

And as I went, 'Huh?', he repeated it again and threatened to do bodily harm. Even the assistant manager was surprised to see his reaction. But as the storm calmed down, we found out dat he actually did this to another staff before.

I was left thinking about it the whole day. Was it my wrong? Did I offend him (though not on purpose)? My other colleagues did say dat it wasn't my fault. But how would it affect my testimony as the only professing Christian in this workplace? I don't know. *sigh*

Humbled, dats what I called this post. Humbled to know dat the world outside there isn't as nice, friendly and perhaps as forgiving as what we know when we're still studying and in church. Humbled to know dat there are a lot of sensitive people out there dat needs to be handled with care.

Humbled to know dat there is still a long journey to go, especially in handling people, though many have said I've improved much.

God, help me please~

Amen