Siriporn:
Monday 8 AM in RPTA I am going to talk to the folks and I need your help interpreting.
It seems some production people, incorrectly, got upset that Piya has an assigned parking spot. Production floor people don’t seem to understand what an important job it is that Piya has. In the end, I might even take my parking sign down (I have a driver, he brings the car in to get me, so I don’t really need it) but not before I correct their understanding of the importance of the top financial guy. If he doesn’t keep us safe with the revenue department, we’ll have no jobs here. If he doesn’t keep our financial picture straight, we’ll make no money and if we make no money, again no jobs here. They also probably don’t understand that things that Piya does affects them dramatically, for example, benefits and annual bonuses, those are decided in a very small group of top management (guys like me, and Piya and Amnuay decide those things with Mai facilitating with us).
The top financial guy is an important position, but typically, production people don’t have that business perspective. I want them to understand that before we decide to do ANYTHING about the parking signs -- leave them, remove them, it doesn’t matter to me. But the perceptions on the production floor about the importance of the financials – THAT DOES matter to me.
It’s all so hard to write in an e-mail, I hope this is expressed clearly. Anyway Siriporn if you could meet me at RPTA at 8:05-8:10 or so on Monday morning I will address this. Hopefully, sometime this weekend I will write up a short text to make it easier for you to translate.