Back Stabbed!

Last week, my colleagues and I received a sudden e-mail from our Executive Director, saying that one department colleague will be transferred to another department with effect from 1:30pm that day, when that e-mail was sent. All of us were utterly shocked at this sudden news…

Soon after lunch, my Dept Head brought us into one of the training rooms to share with us what happened because he didn’t want us to keep guessing and affect the morale of the team.

It turned out that this colleague spoke badly about me to other colleagues from another department! Apparently, this colleague bad-mouthed that I am a sex pervert and look at women’s breasts when I go for meetings with them! What the $$#%%? I was just stunned when I heard this news! What kind of nonsense is this? By far, he has only gone for a meeting with me ONCE and my other lady colleague was there too! And she did not witness any such thing happening!

I’m glad that I’m not implicated in any way, but I seriously do not know why he did such a thing against me. According to my Dept Head, he really picked the wrong person to accuse. But seriously, this is indeed the first time that such a thing has happened in my life. It really made an impression…

Up till now, I’m still half guessing why he wanted to back stab me in this manner and accuse me of such ‘blasphemy’. As far as I checked myself and asked my Dept Head and colleagues, I did no such thing. Thus, my conscience is clear and my colleagues have vouched for me. My Dept Head vowed that he will get to the end of this manner, if not he deems himself not fit for me to report to him as my Dept Head.

Since I heard that news, my mind just couldn’t focus on doing any work for the whole afternoon! I just couldn’t believe that this had happened! My Dept Head sent me an SMS to encourage me to look beyond this issue, not to be discouraged and move on, continuing to do my best in my job.