Great Bonanza!
5th May 2008, Monday
I stared at my first complete 5 days work week for the first time in a month, with a tingling feeling of anticipation.
With the biannual employee appraisal done up by late February, and the HR staff from the Headquarters evaluating the thousands of employees under the main parent network, every single of us were looking forward to a handsome bonus come April and for my company it's delayed till May.
While news of employees from sister companies getting burgeoning bonus package even the hellhole known as my previous company were spreading like wild bush fire in the States, we were hoping the unexpected market adjustment we enjoyed last year didn't bite back on us.
Unlike last year when we went down to the HR at their beck and call from individual email sent to collect that "sacred" letter, this year they just sent the entire batch of letters to P.Is of individual group and let them do the distribution.
So our favorite shitty green shirt wearing postman went around his call of duty, with that smug on his face as if he was Santa Claus or something.
It was indeed good news on my side. I got the promotion as promised, a double promotion instead and perhaps the biggest bonus package in my 6 years of employment.
After relishing my "dream come true", I started to reflect on the fact that this bonanza ain't that great afterall.
Despite having a two-stepped promotion, my pay increment seems to be only that of a single promotion but it would be asking too much for them to up my pay to 20% or something.
Then the bonus package was barely higher than the average rate dished out to the entire network of research institutes for the last fiscal year, so nothing too outstanding.
At the end of it, I was too overjoyed by the letter but meekly satisfied for the work I had put in the last year and perhaps I should be a bit more appreciative as next year's would be another tale altogether as we braced for a lousy year ahead as we would first see the sign of it when the government announced the average bonus package for their civil servants and since we are a statutory board, we would be affected more or less.
Soon after we received the letter, our French boss came scurrying towards BY to check on whether she had gotten the promotion as promised.
It seems like my long-time colleague did got promoted but it is unlikely to deter her from moving on and she would be finishing up her final 2 weeks here after tendering in her resignation and clearing her annual leave accumulated from last year after the 15th.
Her absence would surely be missed by some individuals in this faction-segregated workplace.
As for myself, I am now doing some budgeting on my head on what novelty items I am going to reward myself with as well as giving the folks some extra money the next month and saving up for more overseas trips in the near future...
It seems like my wrecking buddies had to celebrate Mother's Day on coming weekend, so our highly-anticipated gaming session is off for this week.
I had requested the lads to push to Vesak Day on the Monday after, so one more week to endure for that...
I stared at my first complete 5 days work week for the first time in a month, with a tingling feeling of anticipation.
With the biannual employee appraisal done up by late February, and the HR staff from the Headquarters evaluating the thousands of employees under the main parent network, every single of us were looking forward to a handsome bonus come April and for my company it's delayed till May.
While news of employees from sister companies getting burgeoning bonus package even the hellhole known as my previous company were spreading like wild bush fire in the States, we were hoping the unexpected market adjustment we enjoyed last year didn't bite back on us.
Unlike last year when we went down to the HR at their beck and call from individual email sent to collect that "sacred" letter, this year they just sent the entire batch of letters to P.Is of individual group and let them do the distribution.
So our favorite shitty green shirt wearing postman went around his call of duty, with that smug on his face as if he was Santa Claus or something.
It was indeed good news on my side. I got the promotion as promised, a double promotion instead and perhaps the biggest bonus package in my 6 years of employment.
After relishing my "dream come true", I started to reflect on the fact that this bonanza ain't that great afterall.
Despite having a two-stepped promotion, my pay increment seems to be only that of a single promotion but it would be asking too much for them to up my pay to 20% or something.
Then the bonus package was barely higher than the average rate dished out to the entire network of research institutes for the last fiscal year, so nothing too outstanding.
At the end of it, I was too overjoyed by the letter but meekly satisfied for the work I had put in the last year and perhaps I should be a bit more appreciative as next year's would be another tale altogether as we braced for a lousy year ahead as we would first see the sign of it when the government announced the average bonus package for their civil servants and since we are a statutory board, we would be affected more or less.
Soon after we received the letter, our French boss came scurrying towards BY to check on whether she had gotten the promotion as promised.
It seems like my long-time colleague did got promoted but it is unlikely to deter her from moving on and she would be finishing up her final 2 weeks here after tendering in her resignation and clearing her annual leave accumulated from last year after the 15th.
Her absence would surely be missed by some individuals in this faction-segregated workplace.
As for myself, I am now doing some budgeting on my head on what novelty items I am going to reward myself with as well as giving the folks some extra money the next month and saving up for more overseas trips in the near future...
It seems like my wrecking buddies had to celebrate Mother's Day on coming weekend, so our highly-anticipated gaming session is off for this week.
I had requested the lads to push to Vesak Day on the Monday after, so one more week to endure for that...
Japanese word of the day: どん欲 (Greedy) Man is a greedy creature afterall...give you a dollar you surely want 5...
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