Office Boy Syndrome

Purnomo, who is an office boy, was working with a decent salary of Rp 300.000,00. After one year he had an increase of 10% that would be Rp 330.000,00. The second year he had another 10% increase doing as expected job no additional job, learning, skills or knowledge outside office boy speciality. At 10Th year he was happy earning Rp 770.000,00 while he was doing the same old job. Until one day when all office boy are outsourced, poor Purnomo had to find another job but he didn't have any other skills. "No worries I have 10 years experience as an office boy, I should be able to find another job", he comforted himself. Unfortunately most company do not have permanent office boy anymore, all office boy are outsourced. He had to apply to one of outsource company. Alas! Nobody would hire him with the same salary he had before. All outsource company can only offer him Rp 250.000,00 because he is old and his productivity is lower then a young man. This is an example of "office boy syndrome".

Do we enrich ourselves with knowledge and skills? Are we prepare to move to other company at any given time? Remember there are no lifetime job guarantee even the biggest company can collapse or downsizing. So whenever you feel comfortable with your life, it's time to do a reality check. Is it time to move? Is it time to learn something new? By not taking a decision is a decision in itself. Don't let another office boy syndrome ever happen again let poor Purnomo's experience be our lesson.