Spell E-X-P-L-O-I-T-A-T-I-O-N

I cannnot entirely explain why Filipinos get an unusually unfair deal when it comes to saying NO to people. The word is just comprised of two letters and a split second to say. But for us, we'd rather sugarcoat it in multilayers of Godiva chocolate than say it directly. It may be good at times especially in dealing with sensitive people but in most cases, the inability for us to say no is what gets us in trouble. Or in worst cases, exploited.

Exploitation is prevalent everywhere. This is a term not foreign to sales people. They use it to their advantage to convince and tap into the impulsive buying energy to milk out numbers from them. Imagine us going to malls surrounded by a lot of sales people that we cannot say no to. It's just like robbery with consent.

In the workplace, it's the exact scenario as well. Us incapable of saying no makes vulnerable to higher workloads as we could not say NO right away. And it ends up piling the workloads to us even before we can say "I have to think about it!"

I have to do something about this. Let's keep it real. Higher workloads do not really merit my pockets but my job description only, which clearly says MULTITASKER smeared all over the pages of my CV. And it does not obviously help save money as well.

Jack Of All Trades and Master Of None. I really have to seriously ponder on this.