Meetings are usually for mgt to establish their existence, its the platform for them to profile, to showcase to everyone all these wonderful ideas on how to make the world a better place. Everyone will try to state their case in an attempt to impress and its also usually a platform to generate more work for those at the lower end of the foodchain.
Unfortunately Lim Peh is at that lower end -_-

And it never fails to amaze me that during meeting, the same idea will be heard differently, coming from people residing at different ends of that chain.

If the idea comes from someone at the lower end of the foodchain, it becomes a barely audible buzz much like that of an annoying stray mosquito. A few minutes and a few rounds of beating the bush later, sometimes even a few rounds of similiar meetings later, someone from the higher end of the foodchain suddenly repeats the idea and ooooo, it suddenly becomes deafeningly clear to everyone that the world is gonna be saved by the genius.

Generally frustrated that I'm asked to sit in such long boring meetings (these ppl actually have the stamina to last 4 hrs!) cuz I'm the 'most seasoned'. Lim Peh has learnt eons ago that when you are at the lower end, always let those at the higher end do the talking and let them get the credit, becuz firstly, watever ideas you have will eventually become theirs (refer to above if you have missed that part) and secondly, you will always end up doing the shit work and then the credit will still go to them, and therefore, the more you try to suggest, the more you have to do while getting little, if any at all, your due recognition...

So well anyways, after wasting my time attending such meaningless meetings, I still have to clear my backlog in addition to the shit work that I got. And that's not all, it seems that being 大师兄 gives people the false impression that I'm Mr Know-It-All.

Half the time, these people will ask me stuff that is beyond my job scope and still, being the nice guy that I am (pls do not try to barf, those who received my grace will know), I still try to help. I mean I'm generally ok if I'm available, but you know, after a while, it simply irritates the hell out of me, especially if I'm already up to my neck with my own stuff. I mean why can't these people try to find the answers for a change???
Its not that I dun wanna help but I mean, sometimes these things just get to you after a while, know wat I mean?