Bad week or a tale of bad co-workers

*sigh* a totally bad week for me this week. but, i'm glad its friday now. work has been atrocious. i don't mean the work, but, more of the people involved.

one of my analyst just tendered her resignation last week - most of us didn't take it too well, cz we know that she's leaving not in the best interest in terms of her career well-being. To make matters worst, we felt that there were alot of things that the management could have done to train her up proper, as a full-fledge analyst. But, even with so much after thought and discussions, the cold hard fact remains, she's leaving. We will miss her. We usually talk over msn (ya! even if we are in the same room) to de-stress - those sessions were fun and really do make coming to work attractive.

next, comes the unveiling of the truth. That is the off-setthing of her leave against her service notification. It was given to her. Not as an option. She didn't know her rights then, so she took it willingly. When we found out about that, we look through the Employment Act - and it reads that it was an option that is available to employees. To offset their leaves, and serve a shorter notice, or, serve the entire one month notice and convert the remaining leave into monetary compensation. HR didn't give her a choice, but literally force it down !

feeling pretty repulsive at what was being done in the company. there are alot of unpleasantaries that happen. For instance, i was to take hours off for a personal matter that i need to attend to. It was important to me - and all i asked was to leave 45min earlier then usual. I informed my CTO, he gave an expected yes. It was silly of me to go over to my colleague in HR. We have a coy practice to let that dept know our whereabouts for accountability. It was a gesture of courtesy - to inform her. I was very appalled when she questioned me the nature of this personal affair, and was near saying that i couldn't leave. What came to mind is, is she trying to over-right my boss ? Or, she doesn't trust my boss to make a sound and be discerning enough to decide whether to let his staff to leave a little earlier then usual ? She was insistant about not letting me go - but, i just responded that it was to inform her, and not asking for an agreement. Gosh! i think she literally huff and puff fumes of anger at that point of time.

Anyway, there's a lot of issues with this hr lady - my boss brand her "the difficult lady". my coy is a small one - so, she's admin, a/c, hr all rolled into one. She's no higher in terms of seniority nor hierarchial status, and to pull such a stunt - that was totally uncalled for. She's making too many enemies for her own good.

Its sad to say - she was the very same colleague that i thought my working relationship has improved on. I guess, it was good, cz i never did really turn down any of her suggestions and requests for my help then. Well, its heart-stopping to see how fast one's attitude changes when things are not to her advantage isn't it?

anyway, i think its time - its a near 3 years since i hopped on the bandwagon. I have never complaint nor expect anything in return except for the due monetary suppliment in return for my labour, the whole time. I have never demanded anything from them, yet, this is how the whole policy is made up to be - to our disadvantage. I made a mental note to at least know what my rights are as an employee, thus, an Employment Act FAQs is highly necessary at this stage.

i begin to miss my own industry - IT .. be it SI or IEEE802.11.. I've enough of the finance industry. It was fun while it lasted..all those equities and IPOs, results and briefing - hearing millions of dollars sweeping in and out of people's accounts, and with an up-to-date bloomberg machine for access at anytime of the day. but, its time to go back "home". Place whereby IT plays the main role instead of just supporting a company.

I've learned in uni-days that IT should be working hand in hand in establishing and expanding the coy business. That IT will be a turn-key to many coys, but, apparently, there's theory only. That subject was touched on so many years ago, but in reality, it still lags behind. . . anyway, for me now - its job hunting expedition.

KiN