Something happened at the work place recently and I started to wonder, how does one define ‘back-stabbing’?
One fine weekend, when one of my colleagues, C, was left with some other people’s job, me and another colleague A, were also in the office doing our work. When me and A were waiting for C to finish stock arrangements to leave, several customers walked in to inquire and do some purchasing. As the place was supposed to be closed on weekend, we didn’t have other colleagues to take care of the customers. So C had to put his rushing work aside and attended the customers.
After all customers left, C returned to his work, hoping to complete the about-to-complete-work ASAP and leave the place. At this time, a colleague taking care of account, Y, called. Me and A were chatting beside to wait for C.
Immediately after C hung up the phone, he stood up and said:
“Wahlau! I told her to double check on her side last week, she didn’t wanna do it. Now only call me and said yeah the slip is at her place!”
Me and A looked at C, not knowing what happened. C then told us about the story behind. Apparently Y, being the one taking care of the account, couldn’t find some banking slips (or something, I could be wrong as I didn’t really hear it properly) last week and said C didn’t pass it to her. C on the other hand was very sure and insisted that she checked on her records but she refused to. It turned out C was right.
