Human Rights? yea yea..

Last Saturday, I have an ethic class with the guest speaker is Mr. Hermien R. Sarengat at Prof. Dr. Djayusman auditorium. She’s the CEO or GE (General Electric) Technology Indonesia. She was talking about the GE’s system, from all the system she told; there is one thing that really makes me love to hear her. She told us that GE never underestimate people, it may even exist when they try to hire an employee. They are not even mention trash like this:

• Female, single, max 25 years old.
• Bachelor s1
• Experienced in Marketing at least 1 year
• Able to work under pressure, hard worker, aggressive
• Attractive, Communicative, and good manner
• Minimum height 165cm

For some point, maybe people think that those requirements are working. But have you ever think before that is it not fair enough for others?

By put female or male requirements, it means that you are already underestimate people which people think that you separated the job desk based on the gender.

By put the age you also close the opportunity for ages above 25 to not have chance to have a job, you never know human’s brain and people’s ability. You cannot measure people maturity based on their age.

Bachelor or education level is quite helpful when you apply for a job. Then again, you cannot guarantee that that person is capable for the job. There are a lot of talented people out there that never experiencing school but they have abilities and skills that can produce something and earn much money.

Your experiences is also needed as an assets for your CV but sometimes what we learn in school is very far from the reality. I always said to my friends; don’t be afraid to try something new because there’s always a first time for everything.

I have no problem with point number four, but they don’t have to put it anyway. People already should know that there is no job without a pain.

Communicative and aggressive are okay with me, because we have to communicate our job nicely and aggressive with your job because it is related to your salary. But attractive and your high? It sounds ridiculous; does a human’s height affect your brain’s work? Huff... how can people live with those stupid rules?

Mrs. Hermien told us that in GE, they hired a man on a wheel chair and he can do his job perfectly (remembering that in GE everything should be following the system). This is what Indonesian people MUST learn, that they cannot alienated people by gender and freakish requirements. Do you realize that woman is a super multitasking creature? Have you ever watch “little people, big world”?

HAVE YOU EVER LEARN RESPECTING OTHERS?

It also happens with my boo’s daughter, she’ll be five in five days. She’s very smart, her teacher told us that she can jump into a bigger class, but then again, Indonesian regulation is very useless and stupid. They made an obligation for kids whose on 6 years old are able to enter the elementary school, beside that, what they do is waiting until next year. How many people born 6 months ahead in one year? Why they should wait until their age is 6 or 6, 5 when they are able to absorb the knowledge that they get? When the children have a good improvement, why the government is on the downgrade? This is getting under control.