Eye Power

Today, I would like to introduce a term..."Eye Power"

This term was a singaporean term, but then, this term is even more suitable in shanghai.

"Eye power" is a sacarstic term describing the effort someone contribute by ONLY looking at somebody esle doing a job that is obviously under manpowered. It can also be used to describe people who simply prefer to supervise you and ask you to do something faster when the work can be faster if he joins in the work.

In shanghai, the "power" is so much stronger.

Now, let me introduce another term..."Chained eye power"

If you ever worked in shanghai long enough, you may or may not encounter really efficient shanghainese workers.

But you will have a higher chance to experience this "Chained eye power"

In a team of 10 people, A's job is to supervise B. B's job is to supervise C, who job is to supervise D...etc etc...

The only guy who is actually doing the job is J, the lowest rank guy in the team of 10.

That's why I always tell me friends who needs something to be done in shanghai, to work directly with the lowest rank people.

First, you save time on communicating through the hierachy, secoond, you save money paying people to supervise each other and lastly, you feel much better.

How do you feel much better? you may asked.

I for once, witnessed 1 man carrying 4 x 20kg boxes from Point A to Point B, with 7 people watching him do it. Of course, they don't look at him do it all the time, they are also chatting and smoking.

You would think to yourself, why the hell wont 3 more guys just each make 1 trip and the 4 boxes can be carried in 1/4 of the time? (We were in a rush by the way)

This is a very small working unit..of only a total of 8 person.

I can't imagine how its like in those so called big chinese companies.