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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Do All Guards Sleep in the Daytime too?

It was 3.50pm when I was walking to the community hall, the moment I reached there I could see one of the guards slumped over the table. I walked back down toward the guardhouse and the supervisor in charge tried to wake the sleeping guard up. He woke up and went back to sleep again. I asked him if he is supposed to be asleep while on duty. The supervisor replied that the guard was sick and he tried to call his headquarters to get a replacement but could not get through to anyone at all. At 4.30pm suddenly there was no guards at all in the guardhouse. I quickly called our vice chairman who immediately contacted the headquarters supervisor. The HQ supervisor arrived half an hour later complaining to us he does not know what to do as he had so many problems with his guards coverage. I told him, sorry, not our problem, we have an agreement and we expect service and responsibilities for good money paid. The HQ supervisor then had no choice but to become the guard on duty until replacement guards arrived two and a half hours later.
Can you imagine how the life of committee members are like? The other day a resident was complaining so much to our vice chairman and when we invited him to come over and help us by joining the PPTLP committee, he sang a different tune, I am busy, I have no time, I have other commitments etc. It is easy to criticize when you are not doing much. When you are doing, you will realize that you do not have much time to talk a lot.
I asked the complaining resident, what he would think happen if we all gave up and let things rot. Let the government take over because no one in the Taman Lone Pine cares. He immediately agreed that this was not a good option. I rest my case.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Do All Guards Sleep At Night

When we hired the new Security Guard company we thought things would change for the better. I am sadly disappointed. The PPTLP Team put in so much effort and so many chances and warnings were given and yet the Security company still gives us rotten guards every once so often. I can imagine how the residents might be thinking. It is not easy doing Pro Bono work that does not reward you but brings you more distress but if we do not do who will and I know things will definely get worse if let unchecked. So we must not give up ever until ...