Saturday, June 23, 2007
Sucky Day
Today was an extremely sucky day.. Not only did i screw up something at work (which I am still desperately trying to cover up.. so gonna get it on Monday)... my good colleague and counterpart in HK told me she resigned.
I was stunned. I mean, I knew that things in HK were not that rosy in recent months, but... i didn't know it was this bad. There have been new recruits, and unfortunately, things have not been the same before. These new staff are of higher post than her, and being new, they all just want to shine. So they propose something and she does the dirty work. This has made her life much more miserable, and i guess she couldn't take it anymore and decided to resign. cos she resigned without a job in hand...
That also means bad news for me. Because while they are trying to find a suitable candidate to replace her, I will be the one doing the work. And very likely I have to help out the new candidate too. Shit.. as if things are not busy enough for me right now after the launch of the new product. As it is, I'm busy to the extent that I cannot breathe... And I so want to just take a day off to relax.. nuah... do nothing....
Next week would mark my 3 years working for the company. Even till this day, it baffles me on how i managed to survive in the company so long. What i initially thought would be a 3 month stint has stretched to 3 years.... And I have literally seen the HK team change totally (well almost totally). In the past 3 years, I have seen... 7 people come and go.. the longest being 2 years and the shortest being 2 months in the company... wow... talk about being senior!
A check with my peers also show that 3 years in the same company is like a shooting star.. few and far in between. Some of them are already in their 5th job, while most of them have already changed 2 to 3 jobs, on average...
It's really time to leave. But unfortunately I am being tied down by personal committments.... I love my working environment (where else can u shower in the office after a gym session, have friends come over to sing song talk cock with u in the meeting room?) and the people i work with generally, but its just the job and the stress that comes with it. How to cope? How to cope?
I was stunned. I mean, I knew that things in HK were not that rosy in recent months, but... i didn't know it was this bad. There have been new recruits, and unfortunately, things have not been the same before. These new staff are of higher post than her, and being new, they all just want to shine. So they propose something and she does the dirty work. This has made her life much more miserable, and i guess she couldn't take it anymore and decided to resign. cos she resigned without a job in hand...
That also means bad news for me. Because while they are trying to find a suitable candidate to replace her, I will be the one doing the work. And very likely I have to help out the new candidate too. Shit.. as if things are not busy enough for me right now after the launch of the new product. As it is, I'm busy to the extent that I cannot breathe... And I so want to just take a day off to relax.. nuah... do nothing....
Next week would mark my 3 years working for the company. Even till this day, it baffles me on how i managed to survive in the company so long. What i initially thought would be a 3 month stint has stretched to 3 years.... And I have literally seen the HK team change totally (well almost totally). In the past 3 years, I have seen... 7 people come and go.. the longest being 2 years and the shortest being 2 months in the company... wow... talk about being senior!
A check with my peers also show that 3 years in the same company is like a shooting star.. few and far in between. Some of them are already in their 5th job, while most of them have already changed 2 to 3 jobs, on average...
It's really time to leave. But unfortunately I am being tied down by personal committments.... I love my working environment (where else can u shower in the office after a gym session, have friends come over to sing song talk cock with u in the meeting room?) and the people i work with generally, but its just the job and the stress that comes with it. How to cope? How to cope?
# posted by Xallista @ 12:45 AM 
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why not share your thoughts with a close friend who has been working in the same company for 6yrs, love what he does and the people he meets, and is still contemplating leaving? :)
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