天涯沦落人

同是天涯沦落人。相逢何必曾相识,就让我们好好珍惜在文学城的相逢吧。
个人资料
yijibang (热门博主)
  • 博客访问:
正文

美国职场奋斗记 (19)

(2007-07-18 08:28:32) 下一个

可是好景不长,在公司相关的负责人先后都得到了奖赏时,唯一遗漏的就是我的老板。原来我们两人的职位差两级,现在只差一级了。眼看着,每个人高高兴兴的升了官,还加了工资。就是自己没轮到。这下子,显然老板心里开始有点滴嘀咕咕。他是个疑心病极重的人。处处就觉得我在背后戳他。其实,天地良心,我在这个公司,真是日日工作如临深渊,如履薄冰。就怕给我们中国人丢脸。再说,这是我做事以来的第一位老中老板,我的心里是更要努力。总不能撤自己人的后腿,让老美看笑话。我的确是相当尊重他的。他之所以没有被奖赏,主要的原因,就是太冲动,讲话太冲,得罪了不少周边的老美。许多其他部门的人,都知道他有这个毛病,对他就是采取敬鬼神而远之的态度。很多事情原本应该找他商量的,也都自然落到我的手上。知道老板没被擢升,我还特地跑到副总那里为老板说了一阵好话。他的意思是要等个半年,他不能一次擢升太多的人。我也把这个意思转到我的老板。但是并没有因此而取得他的谅解。

 

反正该出事儿的时候,连吃豆腐都会塞到牙缝。完成了两个新药批文,我就开始接受新的工作。这个工作是与制剂部门配合。我负责提供分析的结果报告,而制剂部门负责开发制剂的配方。当答案出来时,我说我的答案对,制剂部门一看,就说我们分析部门答案有问题。反正,不是我们对,就是他们对。为此,在两个星期之内,我用了四种不同的分析方法来证明我的答案是相符合的。这一点,决不是老王卖瓜,自卖自夸。在这个领域内,有这个本事的人,绝对的有,但是我敢说,不多。我的老板,照理,应该仔细的听听我的意见。可惜,他那时已经丧失理智,已经是对人不对事了,反正就是盯上我了,找机会整我呗。就说人家制剂部门不会错。是我们自己分析出了毛病。你看看居然还有手肘往外拐的老板。同时,制剂部门的负责人也是位老中,还是他的好朋友嘞。在这种情形下,我只有自求多幅,平心静气的接受考验。

 

之后,这两位老中老板联手先后就在美国雇了三个顾问,分别来审核我的工作。两位是从工业界退休,一位是在东部某大学药学院很有名的教授。我一个一个的讲解,对付,回答他们的问题。在那两个星期中,我获得了所有顾问们的高度赞许。我对他们唯一的要求就是写个报告给我的老板,还有我们的副总。到了这个节骨眼上,我的副总,并没有站在任何人一边。他的态度很爱昧,一副看热闹的样子,就是看我们老中如何窝里反。我也不曾一次,推心置腹的找我老板恳谈。我的意思是,应该相信数据,就是对事不对人。到了最后关头,我还很低声下气的到他办公室,希望一切到此为止。我进入后,就像往常一样,随手把门带上。这回他还居然用英文大叫,不要关门。赫,他这一遭就是打死我,我都没想到。这就意味着,我不送你到黄河,你是心不死了。从此,我告诉自己,我要开始保护自己了。以后几次和他讨论公事,他对我的态度非常恶劣。甚至冒出恐吓之言论。我告诉他,他已经算是违反了公司要老板善待员工的条款。他非常容易就激动起来对我大吼大叫。我也都一一用电子邮件把我们会议的情形描述下来,尤其是他对我的死酷润鸣,夜儿玲,发文给他同时也照会副总及人事部门。

 

因为制剂部门有我的老板撑腰,他们还是很固执的指责我的结果有问题,而不采取其它相应的措施。由于我的老板对我非常的不友善。我开始报告我们的副总。他的意思是这是我和老板之间的问题,由我们两位自己去解决。经过这一次以后,我告诉自己,这个公司没啥好呆了。那时,在这个公司也快四年了。我又开始找工作了。同时,我也计划着反攻。心里盘算着如何来为我自己争取最后的胜利。首先,我找到了人事部门。人事部门的主管是个美国中年妇女。我找她谈话的时候,她还在修她那指甲,根本就没把我放在眼里。谈完话后,不多久,她给了我一个为公司员工做心理咨询公司的电话。他要我及我的老板分别订约,找他们专门人员咨询。

[ 打印 ]
阅读 ()评论 (10)
评论
bmn66 回复 悄悄话 我可以感受到在国外跟中国同事相处的难度,这里的因素有两点。一是大家都是中国人,应该互相帮助;二是别人都说中国人不团结,好窝里斗,我千万要避免这种情况发生。在这些心理暗示下,有时你会过得很累。
我在一个大学做博士后,因为老板是中国人,所以我一直在尽心尽力地干活的,这里的驱动力就是我所说的第一种因素。但一年下来,只要有难度的活或者需要加班的活,我肯定是其中的一个,这里头有好多是技术员就可以完成的。而相应的是我老板并没有因为我的任劳任怨对我作出任何补偿。甚至形成一个局面是我只有加班才是正常的。而另一方面,我的美国同事尽管给老板添了不少麻烦,他还是很对人家。最近老板在拿给我办工作签证的事给我讨价还价,大体是在工资不变动的情况下给他做三年才可以的。
在我们这个单位里,有十来号中国人,其中有个年约50来岁的脾气特别怪,喜欢跟人冲突,而且特别喜欢占人便宜,但主要是针对中国人,他怕美国人。每次跟人冲突时,他的口头禅就是大家都是中国人,如果不团结的话,会让人笑话的。折腾几次下来,我决定就当他是美国人交往,决不再让他一步,这样一来,反倒相安无事了。
其实窝里斗不是中国人的专利,老外同样如此,只要是涉及到利益的情况下。
croupier 回复 悄悄话 嘿嘿,中国人自己踩自己人的时候好像是比外国人狠。
doublehelix 回复 悄悄话 回复yijibang的评论:
Totally agree that "we all shall be prepared for the future". One of the most important things during the current work is to build up our credentials for a step up. Thanks for your reply.
yijibang 回复 悄悄话 回复旁观者甲的评论:
I am afraid I may not have any choice doing what I did before if I ever have the similar situation. Many times you will notice that there are many bull heads around. I always say to myself that the worst thing in the world is that if I am ignorant and I don't even know it. I have no enemy in this world, if there is one, that is myself. Thank you very much for your reading and comments.
旁观者甲 回复 悄悄话 I have been following your post from beginning with great interest. What your vivid writing brought us to the scenarios as though we were through it with you and through your eyes.

I felt particular sad after reading this chapter. Two talented Chinese fought each other and there were no winner out of it and it would split the small Chinese community in your company into even smaller pieces. I can picture that VP watch you guys fighting from safe distance.

If you went through it again, were there anything different you would do?
Your Chinese boss is an retarded in terms of people skill. How could a Chinese with poor people skill climb to that position?

Thank you again for the post.I have read them several times.
yijibang 回复 悄悄话 回复doublehelix的评论:
Thank you for your comments. I personally went through big and small companies for the past 30 years. My point is to prepare yourself. No only in technical but also in managerial perspective. There are many yo yos in industry, on the other hand, there are many constructive workers and enviroment too. We always have a choice to what we shall do. Fortunately, to change jobs frequently like me, may not be an issue anymore. If we sit in comfort zone too long, it may be too late once we decide to get out. I truly appreciate that you are so positive and we shall all learn to be positive if we happen to be in a not quite friendly environment.
JanAiZhang 回复 悄悄话 好人磨难多!!!
doublehelix 回复 悄悄话 回复yang33的评论:
"Sometimes, I found that a Chinese who is a hard worker with strong work ethic is difficult to survive in the company successfully, instead, a native American who is lazy but have strong communication skills have a happy life in the company"

I can not agree with you completely. It depends on the culture of an enviroment you are in. Communication skill is very important, but the Hi-tech companies will not hire an employee merely because s/he has a good communication skill. They hire you mainly becuase they believe you can make a difference for their business. For a long run, working hard and having a good ethic to your work will evantually benefit yourself. For a matured company, the lazy people will not have a happy life at work, no matter which language s/he speaks. In a position of a manager, one will start to understand many things beyond an individual performer. You have to keep a good relationship to your direct report and your management, but for other colleagues, you don't need to worry about what they say or do to you. Sometime people are nice to you not because you are nice to them, but because they worry about the consequence if you are not nice to them.
yijibang 回复 悄悄话 Agree.It is really contradictory. On the one hand you want to be a contributor doing a good job at work, on the other hand, others are watching you and getting ready to knock you down. I think this is a general phenomenon in industry. We all have to exercise our wisdom to survive. Thank you for your reading and comment.
yang33 回复 悄悄话 I totally agree with you and had the similar experiences as you. When my performance was general, my colleagues treated me nicely, after I became proficient on the job, there were always one or two persons who had direct relationship with me and are important to my career started to treated me badly (other colleague still treated me nicely). I was not competing with him/her (I did fast only because I became proficient and get the pressure and requirements from the indirect higher level bosses), but s/he thought that I was competing with them. Sometimes, I found that a Chinese who is a hard worker with strong work ethic is difficult to survive in the company successfully, instead, a native American who is lazy but have strong communication skills have a happy life in the company. My experiences told me that communication skills are very important!! But, when your achievements let somebody feel that you are a threat to her/his personal interest or career, s/he will do whatever s/he can do to protect them and to destroy you. I thought that almost every company had such a kind of persons. I always met them, and think that they are really difficult to deal with if they are your daily direct supervisors or play an important role on your career.

登录后才可评论.