I was offered to join a company in the F&B industry. Spoiler: I quit in a few months.
The boss spoke greatly of his company and said that he will take over the food industry in Singapore. The interview was quite weird as it took place at a Coffeeshop.
He proudly flaunts his wealth and said that he runs the coffee shop blah blah, (You know old people can go on and on).
Shortly after I joined the company I was brought to the office and I thought that I was in a third-world country or a homeless shelter. The boss said that his office is grand and has the “flavours” of a traditional office.
Yeah right, crawling with rats and cockroaches.
There were regular meetings at this company that accomplishes absolutely nothing, the boss of the company will spend 90% of the time telling us about his dream but he is literally one step into the coffin while the other leg is at a retirement home.
The meetings goes on for hours and hours and we accomplished nothing. Literally, a broken radio which repeats itself every 15mins.
We can literally spend 4-6 hours wasting time with this senile old man and he leaves us with less than 2 hours to finish the job.
Leaving us with so little time to complete our work, we can barely make it or complete sub-par standard work for him. Yet he has the audacity to complain and wanted us to work overtime.
So most of the staff was getting kind of sick of the old man’s worth ethics, The moment he starts saying a few words we will complete his story for him so that we can move on.
He knew that we were mocking him but he was still happy to hear his own stories.
The old man had a pipe dream of dominating the F&B industry in Singapore but he was just paying young people like me to listen to his grandfather’s story.
I hope I don’t become like him when I get older.