Letter to the boss

Dear Boss,


I know you are busy - caught up in your work and personal schedule. I am writing you this letter to remind you to look up from your busy schedule and look at me the employee you hired four years ago.


Do you remember when you first hired me, you had told me of what you expectations of me were? Do you recall if I had delivered on those expectations on these last four years? I am still waiting for you to acknowledge that I have done a good job and what I had instilled in the organisation has improved its policies and processes and most importantly, this has allowed the organisation to continue to be recognised in the industry as a leader and industry-setter.


I watch you from the sidelines how you continually reward those who speak more than actually deliver on their work, how you seem to prefer the non-yellow skins to us Chinese because we are perceived not to be as eloquent in how we speak and how you use very "stringent" criteria to hire friends into the company. 


Like technology which is constantly improved over the years, employees are also getting smarter - gone are the days where employees accept a story from their bosses on why things are done a certain way. Instead, employees these days trust their bosses who really know their work and do the talk. Employees do their 360-degree assessment of their superiors using their eyes and ears and heart - just like how recruitment specialists hire the best candidate for their organisations.


Hopefully, these letters to you may help highlight some of the blindspots the organisation is facing and allow the other employees to feel happier in their jobs. Employees leave their bosses not the organisations.


Best wishes,
Your faithful employee