Monday, November 10, 2008

Back stab

I am sure that after 6 months of our graduation, many of us follow into different path of life. No matter it is heading to academic field, research, public relation, or business line. We often can see it's a much complicated human relationship is challenging us when we tend to meet and network with more people.

While i still consider myself as to having a new truly friend maybe is still as simple as how we made friend when we in school year, it is not all correct in a real working world. Sometimes we just can't differentiate who is your true friend or who is your enemy.

If we consider the backstabbing phenomenon only happen to politician or businessmen, we're wrong! Even we maybe just a researcher, with no name in the list of publications, we still are the targets to be attack by this backstabbing act.

Just take it as example, you're preparing the proposal to work on an interesting project, and you mention about it to a friend that you believe or respect. It might still happen, if one day you just realize your idea of research is being stolen, and all the efforts you make is gone. How will you feel?

I came across with similar scenario, in which a managing director in top management of board stole the idea of his member to step over him on doing the same thing. He sees the opportunity, yet he is not the person to generate the idea. He is a typical copy cat, with no planning at all compared to the idea inventor himself. We consider this is another act of backstabbing in real world.

How evil of human

This let me understand that why we cannot trust the people as the way how we trust during our school years. Human is the most dangerous living thing in this world, to avoid yourself from backstabbing, all you have to do is protect your own intellectual property. Think well before speak.

I won't back stab people, neither to stole a people's idea. If someone is willing to share their idea, just to respect and be accept, or help if he needs helps. What for to back stab people to benefit yourself? You may win the world, but you lose your respects from others.

4 comments:

sUsAn said...

Ya. I agree "Human is the most dangerous living thing in this world, to avoid yourself from backstabbing, all you have to do is protect your own intellectual property." haha.. I think the most people we can trust was our family members..haha..and the most importantly was ourself..If u not trust urself who can u trust for??hehe..

The M said...

hmm.. i think this is like the natural behavior of organism. Being too afraid of losing.
after get to know reality is like this, we have to be more careful.
Cheers!

wen ni said...

Susan: Yea, build our own confidence to safeguard ourselves!

Marccus: It's always good to make yourself in competitive mode, and we can learn during process. But i believe we can make it in a more positive way, rather than to harm others to let yourself more happily.

cklim said...

yup, in this competitive enviroment, we have to keep ourselves in competitive mode, we had a talk about this issue last month, about the origin of idea.

jz bear in mind, what shud say and what not to reveal.:-)