Greediness...I Hate Most...

Ever since small, parents have taught me not to be greedy. From time to time they will always tell and remind me that we should not take things from other people which are rightly not ours.

As a tour guide, I am also bound with bribes from time to time. Most of the time when I am at the North South Highways, those stall owners will not want my money for the fruits or drink. And when I am at Ah Gu's fruits stall, he will sure to offer me fruits most of time.

Its really heartache to see the drivers and tour guides to abuse this little advantage that they have. No matter how, I will not fall in the trap of greed. Recently Gu's wife visited me at Genting Highlands and she gave me an angpau which has RM600. I intend to return to her through her daughter by wrapping it up and tell her daughter the envelope is for her mom. Its been 2 to 3 years, Gu gave me angpau during CNY which contains about RM500. I have always return the money to him. Its really pity to see him working so hard. How much can he earn from the fruits? So, I will never take any money from him.

From time to time, Gu also always offered me durians or any other fruits. If at any time I do take any fruits from him, I always insist that he must take my money for at least the cost of the fruits.

Recently, I am very very angry with the greediness of the people around me. One of my Indian guests, Mr. Nagpal lost 4 of his luggages. He willing pays RM1000 for the rental of the van to take him to Genting and KL.

During this trip I encountered 2 really bad incidents which really see the ugliness of human beings. The first one was the policeman at the Genting skyway. Met me for only 5 mins and he demanded money from me. Giving me all kinds of excuses for how tired he is just to arrange to call up the manager of the store.

The second and the worst is the van driver. When we (myself and Sam Chua) know that the guests insist on going to Genting to look for the luggages, Sam immediately suggested Mr. Wong. Mr Wong is the van driver and owner of the van. We were thinking its good to let Wong to earn more money instead of the guest getting a taxi from outside.

When Sam called up Wong about the trip to Genting and asked him on how much his charges for the rental of the van. Wong said RM700. Myself and Sam were saying he can charge more because its already late night and furthermore it will be in the morning by the time we reach back to PD. But Wong said RM700 is enough and agreed.

After making the police report, the guest insist on going to Resort hotel and Dorsett hotel. Wong immediately got angry and was grumbling and making a fuss out of it. He said he agreed with Sam that he will drive the guest to Skyway and make a police report only and not to Resort and Dorsett hotel.

I was very angry because when Sam was dealing with Wong I was by Sam's side. I know what is the whole deal like. We felt that we will give RM800 and we share it out the remainder RM200. Wong was grumbling and angry and said if he knew that he has to drive here and there, he would have demanded more. I was angry because he is the one who agreed to do the job but later on grumbling on not paid enough. Later I told Wong that we infact will give him RM800. Upon knowing this, he immediately keep quiet.

I am really very angry with Wong because he didnt pity to the Indian guest and wanted to take advantage of him. From this lesson, its good also to happen in this way because I learnt my lesson well in order to know the true colour of Wong.

When I was back to the hotel and I told him about the bad incidents between me and Wong. He agreed with me that we are actually trying to help Wong hoping that he will earn more money but never reallised that he is so calculative and greedy. From here, we tell each other, should we in need of help we will never let him earn any more money.

LESSON LEARNT: If we are greedy and calculative, people will definitely afraid of us and will not let us have any more chance to earn more money. Greediness will chase away friends.