Thursday, October 4, 2007

INTEL - pulling out???

This week we'r learning about Customer Relationship Management (CRM) which is sub-topic or part of Supply Chain Management. During my uni day, this supply chain things n CRM were da' most vital part since I was majoring (n still am) in Operation Management. However, I wasn't really into books n stuff, so, things didn't really work out 4 me n tadaaaa, I'm stranded in Pearl of d-orient with a mission to accomplish my new target on completing n attending this so-called INSEP programme.

Our speaker 4 this subject is Mr Teoh. He's born in Penang n resides in Singapore. Prior to join SYNERFLEX as a consultant ( current job ) , he was also a consultant at, mmmm i've forgotten already, at somewhere-which require him to travel a lot. He claimed that he only managed to spend time with his family, like, 4 days a month or something. His previous job was so demanding n stressfull. In fact he's wife wanted to divorce him bcos of his workload rite b4 he got heart attack due to blockage in one of the arteries that supply blood and also less exercises. Now everythings back to normal where he can spend at least 2 weeks with his family.

He's been consulting numerous company from MNC, local company to small and medium enterprises (SME). He told us that he noticed d-scenario of more company especially in Penang Island are pulling out than coming in. There are also rumours telling that INTEL in Bayan Lepas, might fire or axe or wuteva it's employee due to it's expansion or new plant that being built in Veitnam. Meaning that they'r moving out n d-new plant would be d-Largest n d-Biggest INTEL's plant n da' 2nd largest is in China. Malaysia is either in fouth or fifth largest Intel's plant in d-world. Then he stress about d-important of mastering 2nd language and he was refering to english language.

Plus, he did tell us about graduates from
Vietnam are fluent in English, in fact most of 'em speak with d-accent. It's not like speak-english-with-russian-accent kinda things but they'r speak with Queen's English accent. Besides, if we look back at d-history, Vietnam was under colonial rule of France b4. In a way, some of them can speak French n this abso-fucking-lutely make them more marketable than us ( Malaysian graduates ). Well, he didn't mean to scare us, he just want to show us d-reality or what's happening in d-world rite now. Anyhow d-scenario of more n more MNC pulling out their operation in Penang Island somewhat freaking me out.

So, to u guys outhere especially Malaysian graduates, PREPARE urself.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i belief it's good to have British-Queen-Victorian-Colonial-whatever accent to the perfection, but in some 'different' situation/moment, i do think yet we have to reserve our Malaysian-English not-so-aristocratic accent. it's our own unique secret weapon. (yes I did mean 'weapon').