blood sucking company + grandma's story
My "grandma's" story
On the 4th week of July (it was a Friday), my boss called me into his office. as usual, i thought that he's gonna assign me to a new project (because i've been sitting at my workstation for more than a moth without anything big to do. My boss haven't supplied me with a pc. and i don't even have a chance to prove myself). I went in there. The room is so quiet, he told me to sit down before he starts talking. after i sat down, he began to talk. As he opened his mouth, he broke the news. He told he can't keep me anymore because the company was having financial difficulties. i was like blur and dumbfounded. I really don't know how to react. My face was straight and emotionless. I never encountered these kind of situations before. My reaction was...."oh...ok. i understand..." But i felt ok. No heartache, no questioning about his decision and bla..bla. I left the room. The whole scene
in the room was playing in my head. Kept on repeating itself as i walked to my room (whom i shared with Mae my colleague from my first company. We met there. Later she resigned. Then i was left alone doing design. A months later, it's turned to hand my resignation letter to the Marketing Manager (an S-hole). Later i rejoin with Mae, in this new company.) She asked me what happened? I told i was retrenched. She was surprised. Then she voiced her dissatisfaction over my retrenchment. Should it be my part to do that?? Hahah.. she also said that she might resign because she'll be lonely in the room (we're not having a serious relationship with each other, mind you). hahah..at last she didnt resign. If she resigned, she can't fund her monthly shopping spree. she's a shopaholic, you see..
A few days before the retrenchment.
Daily i walked back home from my workplace. I consider it a form of exercise. My excuse to exercise everyday. I'm lazy freak. Back to my story; one day i met a friend (now my colleague in my new company). He asked me to design a flyer for him (for the company's merdeka promotion). A few days later, i send in the thing to the office. I chatted with him for a while. As i'm leaving, he told me that the company is interested in hiring a graphic designer. He asked me whether i'm interested. I didn't reply to him immediately. I said him that i need some careful consideration. But somehow i ended up here (even though i got 2 more job offers from a printing company and a furniture company).
My new workplace.
I had just started to work in the new company for 2 weeks. I was assigned to all the graphic stuff ranging from promotional items from flyers, posters, brochures, web design, (not very good at it- need to revise more on Flash) and multimedia, technical support and data entry in case i'm needed. that's hell a lot of responsibility for someone who get paid with my kind of salary. Unfortunately, i was only paid peanuts (that's 800bucks, including 100bucks for phone allowance) comparing to all my peers who get paid for more than 1.3K and above. one of them, who was doing admin work, get paid for 1.4K. We all had a degree. But why mine always get paid wit peanuts?? Personally i think it's unfair to me. i also got a degree of Graphic Communication from a local uni, not a pasar malam degree. I'm not bragging bout my degree, because having a degree is like having a handphone nowdays. it's so common these days. What i want is only a decent salary with the qualification that i got. And one more thing, I'm not copy-and-paste designer (like some of the designers out there). Is it too much to ask for??And one more thing, my new company really sucks. The environment sucked (looks more than a garbage dump to me) and the boss was a real f**king China-man (please note: that china-man is not referring to man from China (no disrespect to the people from China, my grandma was also from China), but a boss/person that is damn old-schooled, stingy, calculative, sense of dressing worse than my grandpa.) We're required to do OT sometimes, but not much in my case (maybe i'm still new here). But the rate he paid for the extra OT is so little. And it's not worth it to do OT with the damn company. we were only paid for 15bucks/session. and we can only claim it after working for 2hours or more. even though we're working for 5 hours, the rate remains the same. just 15bucks. and we're forced to do OT. with this kind of payment, i rather confined myself in
my room and play my guitar/PS2. more satisfaction than sacrificing my precious time for
peanuts.The thing that pissed me off, one nite my boss asked me to go the office at 9pm just to do a damn NAME CARD. I was already at home at that time. If he wants me to the thing, he can directly inform me to do it a.s.a.p. Not when i'm home napping. What's wrong with these people,
man??? The "China-man" always ask us to "LOVE YOUR COMPANY!!". but if "THE-COMPANY-NEVER-LOVES-U" and
just wanted to squeeze you dry from your resources and never respect your rights and privacy, "LOVE YOU COMPANY"??? i don't think
so...i'm just waiting for the right moment to f**k off from the "China-man's" company.
On the 4th week of July (it was a Friday), my boss called me into his office. as usual, i thought that he's gonna assign me to a new project (because i've been sitting at my workstation for more than a moth without anything big to do. My boss haven't supplied me with a pc. and i don't even have a chance to prove myself). I went in there. The room is so quiet, he told me to sit down before he starts talking. after i sat down, he began to talk. As he opened his mouth, he broke the news. He told he can't keep me anymore because the company was having financial difficulties. i was like blur and dumbfounded. I really don't know how to react. My face was straight and emotionless. I never encountered these kind of situations before. My reaction was...."oh...ok. i understand..." But i felt ok. No heartache, no questioning about his decision and bla..bla. I left the room. The whole scene
in the room was playing in my head. Kept on repeating itself as i walked to my room (whom i shared with Mae my colleague from my first company. We met there. Later she resigned. Then i was left alone doing design. A months later, it's turned to hand my resignation letter to the Marketing Manager (an S-hole). Later i rejoin with Mae, in this new company.) She asked me what happened? I told i was retrenched. She was surprised. Then she voiced her dissatisfaction over my retrenchment. Should it be my part to do that?? Hahah.. she also said that she might resign because she'll be lonely in the room (we're not having a serious relationship with each other, mind you). hahah..at last she didnt resign. If she resigned, she can't fund her monthly shopping spree. she's a shopaholic, you see..
A few days before the retrenchment.
Daily i walked back home from my workplace. I consider it a form of exercise. My excuse to exercise everyday. I'm lazy freak. Back to my story; one day i met a friend (now my colleague in my new company). He asked me to design a flyer for him (for the company's merdeka promotion). A few days later, i send in the thing to the office. I chatted with him for a while. As i'm leaving, he told me that the company is interested in hiring a graphic designer. He asked me whether i'm interested. I didn't reply to him immediately. I said him that i need some careful consideration. But somehow i ended up here (even though i got 2 more job offers from a printing company and a furniture company).
My new workplace.
I had just started to work in the new company for 2 weeks. I was assigned to all the graphic stuff ranging from promotional items from flyers, posters, brochures, web design, (not very good at it- need to revise more on Flash) and multimedia, technical support and data entry in case i'm needed. that's hell a lot of responsibility for someone who get paid with my kind of salary. Unfortunately, i was only paid peanuts (that's 800bucks, including 100bucks for phone allowance) comparing to all my peers who get paid for more than 1.3K and above. one of them, who was doing admin work, get paid for 1.4K. We all had a degree. But why mine always get paid wit peanuts?? Personally i think it's unfair to me. i also got a degree of Graphic Communication from a local uni, not a pasar malam degree. I'm not bragging bout my degree, because having a degree is like having a handphone nowdays. it's so common these days. What i want is only a decent salary with the qualification that i got. And one more thing, I'm not copy-and-paste designer (like some of the designers out there). Is it too much to ask for??And one more thing, my new company really sucks. The environment sucked (looks more than a garbage dump to me) and the boss was a real f**king China-man (please note: that china-man is not referring to man from China (no disrespect to the people from China, my grandma was also from China), but a boss/person that is damn old-schooled, stingy, calculative, sense of dressing worse than my grandpa.) We're required to do OT sometimes, but not much in my case (maybe i'm still new here). But the rate he paid for the extra OT is so little. And it's not worth it to do OT with the damn company. we were only paid for 15bucks/session. and we can only claim it after working for 2hours or more. even though we're working for 5 hours, the rate remains the same. just 15bucks. and we're forced to do OT. with this kind of payment, i rather confined myself in
my room and play my guitar/PS2. more satisfaction than sacrificing my precious time for
peanuts.The thing that pissed me off, one nite my boss asked me to go the office at 9pm just to do a damn NAME CARD. I was already at home at that time. If he wants me to the thing, he can directly inform me to do it a.s.a.p. Not when i'm home napping. What's wrong with these people,
man??? The "China-man" always ask us to "LOVE YOUR COMPANY!!". but if "THE-COMPANY-NEVER-LOVES-U" and
just wanted to squeeze you dry from your resources and never respect your rights and privacy, "LOVE YOU COMPANY"??? i don't think
so...i'm just waiting for the right moment to f**k off from the "China-man's" company.
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