Sorry for the confusion, a clearer picture:
Main players are the FTs Mr I, Mr K and my friend, Mr M who is a local
A personal story of my colleague:
We had a FT colleague, Mr I who was nice at first, the minute he became our manager, restricted us on timing, need to be punctual, etc. Always politicking and always on his guard, quick to claim credit and likes to put down others.
This is the same guy who always comes in at 10am seldom before 9am, leaves early and works at home sometimes. Now suddenly he is always punctual everything cannot and he cites management everytime he wants someone to work on a public holiday. People still treat him nice and my friend, Mr M still treated him as a friend as Mr I kept using the fact that both of them are "Christians" to bind Mr M to him.
Always saying one thing and then doing another, expecting Mr M to keep his end of the bargain but never kept his.
Turned out so bad that his most loyal colleague, Mr M eventually went to HR, in the end Mr I requested for a transfer. Unbeknownst to him, Mr M got so disappointed with Mr I that he asked for a transfer as well. Mr M never meant to get him into trouble, just wanted to defend himself, he told me all this at a pantry last week.
Even then, shockingly, Mr M told me he actually had a chance to become the manager as management asked him but he passed it on to the Indon FT Mr I as he felt the FT work harder and besides this FT told him he will keep the culture in SG intact. Mr M trusted him but in the end felt very betrayed.
After Mr I got transferred, one of the guys, another FT, Mr K also who always curry favour with Mr I suddenly said to their top boss, this guy(Mr I) must also do weekend duty, etc and said a lot of bad stuff about him. Man this world is so realistic. The poor Mr I didn't know he got betrayed and continued to tell the other Mr K things which is shared to all.
The world is round i would say, both my friend(Mr M) and this Mr I got transferred out and to the SAME DEPARTMENT!! Mr M became this FT's boss and even though he didn't take revenge on Mr I (which is surprising to me), Mr I is still uncooperative and still tries to play politics.
Mr M told me because he considered this Mr I had many kids and is a Christian so he never meant to get him into trouble. He also said he got disillusioned with his religion because of people like that who misused HIS name to get ahead. I felt sad but such is life, i am just glad i wasn't in their deparment.
Mr M is a kind soul but i agree with some of the remarks here that he shouldn't have let their friendship and fellowship with Christ to be too kind to Mr I. I guess his friendship is one sided from day one.
