MAS could serve as a lesson to all

I REFER to your report “Money down the drain” (The Star, May 29), and I am beginning to like MAS chief executive officer Christoph Mueller. When I graduated back in 1988, I joined a multi-national company. My job involved travelling regularly and I stayed in hotels frequently. The company allowed us to claim in full but I found it ridiculous to pay RM1 or RM2 a piece for laundry. So I packed extra clothes, brought the dirty ones back and sent them to the typical launderette which charged only RM4 per kilo. Yes, I had to use my own money but it was better than wasting the company’s money – the organisation that provided me with a living and a great avenue to learn and better my skills.

When I was stationed at Mentakab for about a year, I called my girlfriend, who was in Kuala Lumpur, daily. In the days when there were no mobile phones or phone cards, I used to change notes to coins and use my own money to make my personal calls instead of using the company line. A few of my sales subordinates started to do the same thereafter.