James Chan

I had this meeting with a client few weeks back and during the meeting, someone came in the meeting room and he is the global leader at some job function. When we talked he asked questions almost right the second after each of my sentence, like why? What? Who told you that? What is that? Instantly I told to myself “he is tough and arrogant.” It’s like almost hard to communicate with him.
For me personally I don’t know why but when I hear a question after another asking from top management “why? Is there a time problem or something?” I don’t know what to answer but to make up some excuses, I feel like I am being accused of something and it makes me feel bad. I think that kind of questioning technique can be very well used in job interview.
Can we change it to “can you make it up now? Please remember to do it next time, it’s important!” if it is important. How does this sound to you guys?
It is much better to me and I’d love to accept.
I hope I am right! Let me know your thoughts!

It has been 3 tiring days from 4th to 6th, I was with the technical guys from Petronas in the workshop all day long from 9 to 7, to do pressure tests on these valves that they bought for a tie-in project in Myanmar.

We had a tight plan for each day, however there was not enough time for the tests because it took longer time than the standard to make sure there was no leakage and the performance is satisfactory to customer, in addition, we measure every valves and kept records. We also disassembled some valves to see the inner structure and how was it. Everything was good except some miner deviation from the drawings.

The most important things for us are safety measures in the worksite, to be exactly HSE (Health, Safety and Environment), and documentations. We have a lot to do towards these two aspects. But anyway, overall, the customers were satisfied with the quality except the 6 pcs ball valves with SW ends + nipples.

Although I felt very tired, I mean physically, I learned a lot from them and from the inspection. It is good to communicate with these technical experts, you learn a lot by talking to them.

One more day to go, see how it will end up!