Some time back I met with a friend from NS who ORD and found a job in a famous local IT company in Singapore. This company made it's mark making sound cards 10 years ago but nowadays it is focus in making portable music devices. Apparently, my friend did not lose his sense of humour as he share with us some of the insider stories.

1.) During the company's annual dinner, the boss of the company made a lengthy speech on how he aim to take on his rival - Apple and it's iPod. He told his employees that he will step down as CEO of the company if he lost.

2.) He also mention that the rival company have shares in his company and vice versa. So if he loses, he wins and when he wins, he loses.

3.) That his company worth is only 1/10 of his rival.

4.) The top few prizes for the annual dinner is a chance to dip his/her hand into one of two tins full of cash (with thousand dollar notes among others) and bring home whatever amount he can take out from the small opening.

5.) The top prize, the remainder of the money in the tins, is awarded to the person who came closest to guessing how much money was left in it.

6.) SONY buys product design and parts from them for their own players

7.) That 20% of the company workforce is devoted to products yielding 80% of their revenue.

8.) That the IT company do not have sufficient computer terminals for their employees and they have to share.

9.) That the first batch of their products are made in Korea and are of good quality. Subsequent batches are mass produced in China or Malaysia. And the long queues at the Customer Service section are mainly due to MIC products.

10.) That his colleague used a $100 voucher from the annual dinner to buy the company's micro harddisk player and was spoilt after a week and told that he cannot claim from the warranty for god knows what problem.

11.) Last but not least, the company will be launching new products soon and product prices will fall...

12.) And the number 1 thing he learnt from the company is that "Mohamed do not go to the mountain, the mountain go to Mohamed." Do not understand? Ask those who are working in society now.

Ahhh... such things make me look forward to my own time working in the near future.. ORD Lor~~