End of An Era
8th February 2006, Wednesday
Today marks the end of an era known as the "Power of Three" once quoted by a attachment student in our workplace.
After serving 7 good (or maybe not so good) years since her graduation from polytechnic, YM would be saying her swan song to the company where she laughed alot, cried a lot, made some good colleagues, cursed some lousy ones, wretched about the poor wage & benefits packages, picked up skills she had never even heard of since she is from Chemical Engineering side rather than Life Science to begin with.
Since the famous confrontation broke up mid last year, it is inevitable that the dynamic trio would find the workplace suffocating and took turns to make their departures.
LF headed to another lab within our vicinity, despite having to work overtime (without extra pay of course) and even demanded to serve even on weekends, she seemed happy to be able to command the running of the lab since she is the most senior staff there.
BY was snatched over to a rival institute and found work much more refreshing from the mundane, routine stuff we had here.
However in both cases above, there wasn't much change to the renumeration package and only BY had got a $500 per annum welfare fund which she could spend on virtually anything instead of the rigid holiday package of $300 offered over here.
Meanwhile YM who all of us assumed would be a long-serving member of the lab (taking JxMMy as an exception) had surprised many when she had been actively looking for greener pastures and Singhealth at Singapore General Hospital managed to find her work experience and her sustantial CV essential for their I-supposed bioinformatics job and even recognised her part-time degree in Information Technology which she clinched in 2004 from Informatics and offered her a lucrative contract she could not refused.
Despite the fact that her actual final day is on coming Friday, our supervisor was kind enough to reward her off-in lieu for those been "gobbled" by our unscruplous admin.
So it seems the final point of support for the "Down with JxMMy" association has now broken as well, leaving me fighting a lone battle...
Beside that, YM and I had been building a rapport over the past half a year since BY has left or even before that in regards to some work matters which I'm skeptical I could relish that with the likes of Triana and Iris.
Then of course the colorful commentary about the various characters at work would be sorely missed as I doubt I could share those codenames with the younger brood.
However I might be the one who would missed YM the most as there would be BY who had treated her as a soul mate for the last half a decade and despite been working in a new environment (which is just across the road) would always keep in contact with her, lunch and head for gym sessions together.
YM once cried in fustration for missing her old war-mate by her side at work; I'm surely BY would too for not having something to talk to daily as she could not find the same camaraderie again.
Then there would be YM's eldest sister who is working in our same workplace and without her sister around, she would seem to lack an able aid for her to pick her daughter from her child care center in her absence.
There is also Liz, from the neighboring Seban lab who always find opportunities to chat and complain with YM whenever possible.
YM, who is the belle of our lab had seemed like nectarines that enticed the wrath of many admirers in the past ; and despite the fact the adoration sort of died down in the past few years, I am sure those "band of brothers" would be astonished that their "One-time Goddess" is gone from their sight forever.
Last but not least, JxMMy who we assumed was "eyeing" on her when she first joined the lab and was devastated to hear that she had a boyfriend might actually be affected about her resignation as he could not send irritating e-mails to her anymore to ask for replendishment of consumables.
Well all in all, despite not strong in the theoratical side of our work, YM has been a meticulous worker and her ethics and experience is at times irreplacable and at the end of the day, if our company could reward us better for the years of slogging and loyalty, the turnover rate wouldn't be that high and many good workers might still be around...
So long to the power of 3..thanks for the memories, and I have to prepare to forge on to a brand new era at work....
Today marks the end of an era known as the "Power of Three" once quoted by a attachment student in our workplace.
After serving 7 good (or maybe not so good) years since her graduation from polytechnic, YM would be saying her swan song to the company where she laughed alot, cried a lot, made some good colleagues, cursed some lousy ones, wretched about the poor wage & benefits packages, picked up skills she had never even heard of since she is from Chemical Engineering side rather than Life Science to begin with.
Since the famous confrontation broke up mid last year, it is inevitable that the dynamic trio would find the workplace suffocating and took turns to make their departures.
LF headed to another lab within our vicinity, despite having to work overtime (without extra pay of course) and even demanded to serve even on weekends, she seemed happy to be able to command the running of the lab since she is the most senior staff there.
BY was snatched over to a rival institute and found work much more refreshing from the mundane, routine stuff we had here.
However in both cases above, there wasn't much change to the renumeration package and only BY had got a $500 per annum welfare fund which she could spend on virtually anything instead of the rigid holiday package of $300 offered over here.
Meanwhile YM who all of us assumed would be a long-serving member of the lab (taking JxMMy as an exception) had surprised many when she had been actively looking for greener pastures and Singhealth at Singapore General Hospital managed to find her work experience and her sustantial CV essential for their I-supposed bioinformatics job and even recognised her part-time degree in Information Technology which she clinched in 2004 from Informatics and offered her a lucrative contract she could not refused.
Despite the fact that her actual final day is on coming Friday, our supervisor was kind enough to reward her off-in lieu for those been "gobbled" by our unscruplous admin.
So it seems the final point of support for the "Down with JxMMy" association has now broken as well, leaving me fighting a lone battle...
Beside that, YM and I had been building a rapport over the past half a year since BY has left or even before that in regards to some work matters which I'm skeptical I could relish that with the likes of Triana and Iris.
Then of course the colorful commentary about the various characters at work would be sorely missed as I doubt I could share those codenames with the younger brood.
However I might be the one who would missed YM the most as there would be BY who had treated her as a soul mate for the last half a decade and despite been working in a new environment (which is just across the road) would always keep in contact with her, lunch and head for gym sessions together.
YM once cried in fustration for missing her old war-mate by her side at work; I'm surely BY would too for not having something to talk to daily as she could not find the same camaraderie again.
Then there would be YM's eldest sister who is working in our same workplace and without her sister around, she would seem to lack an able aid for her to pick her daughter from her child care center in her absence.
There is also Liz, from the neighboring Seban lab who always find opportunities to chat and complain with YM whenever possible.
YM, who is the belle of our lab had seemed like nectarines that enticed the wrath of many admirers in the past ; and despite the fact the adoration sort of died down in the past few years, I am sure those "band of brothers" would be astonished that their "One-time Goddess" is gone from their sight forever.
Last but not least, JxMMy who we assumed was "eyeing" on her when she first joined the lab and was devastated to hear that she had a boyfriend might actually be affected about her resignation as he could not send irritating e-mails to her anymore to ask for replendishment of consumables.
Well all in all, despite not strong in the theoratical side of our work, YM has been a meticulous worker and her ethics and experience is at times irreplacable and at the end of the day, if our company could reward us better for the years of slogging and loyalty, the turnover rate wouldn't be that high and many good workers might still be around...
So long to the power of 3..thanks for the memories, and I have to prepare to forge on to a brand new era at work....
Japanese word of the day: 三つ~mi-tsu~(Three) Let's welcome the arrival of the "Holy Trinity" of Bobby-Triana-Iris who at least are not affected by JxMMy's presence
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