Yesterday we went to watch Up in the Air, a film starring "women killer" George Clooney. The movie was funny sometimes, the tone was however hypocritical in general.
The theme of this light-hearted comedy was on how to treat lay-off staff in a humane way. George Clooney, being an old school, opted for the traditional face-to-face channel. However, his protege, Anna Kendrick, developed a system to conduct exit interview through video conferencing. Of course, there is no way the computer could outgun we human-beings.
Americans' attitude towards counselling is comparable to Hong Kong doctors' prescription of antibiotics. Uncle Sam is entrusted that everybody would feel better via counselling and every problem would then be solved. Superficial. Like Clooney, by merely reading the resume of one of the downsized, persuaded the unhappy one to pursue his "dream" of opening a French culinary. How shallow it was. Thus, Clooney got his karma at the end of the film, being played and dumped by Vera Farmiga, an incarnation of the real-life George Clooney.
At the end of the film, it reminded us that a genuine reference letter should be a sealed one. In Hong Kong, on the contrary, we see reference letter in any nonchalance forms. A draft prepared by the requester, a template downloaded from the internet etc. I guess most of my colleagues are foot soldiers with rank too rudimentary that an accurate reference letter is unnecessary.
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