Thursday, December 23, 2004
surprise
Monday night, after spending 2 hrs at the optician, i finally knew how to out on and take out my contacts lense. 1st time wearing contacts after 16 years of being friends with Specs. :P
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Surprise surpise surprise.
Today, we are required to attend a staff meeting on flexiwage payment and GVA (which is the company's bonus). It was announced taht our GVA is actually 0.85 month, based on the formula, but the "kind, generous management' had decided to take out some money from the company saving to give UP TO another 0.75 month "ex-gratia" amount to employees, so that we won't be getting less than last year. So depending on the employee's performance, he or she can can up to 1.6 month bonus. That is not acounting the MVA (merit variable amount) or so call "performance bonus', if he or she had performed well.
So after the meeting, supervisor had to give out the letters to the staff. As my supervisor is not around, it was the GM who handed me my letter.
Well, i don't really think i'll be getting much as my supervisor is know to be very "stingy" when appraising staff but what i saw on the letter caught be by surprised
1) i got the full ex-gratia amount
2) i also have a MVA amount given, becos
I was rated Band 2, which means my performance is VERY GOOD.
3) which is why I also awarded a Merit Increment, which mean my salary increase is more than the standard .
and the after the increment, my salary for next year is about just the same as the new job i had accepted!
When the GM went through this figure with me, I was like "Yah, Yah". but in my mind i was thinking " oh no, you'll kill me next week when you receive my resignation letter".
Then he asked" you are awarded MVA, and Mi, you got nothing to say?".
"Thank You." I mustered.
"Work Hard." He said.
Hmm if you ask me that If I have doubts on reigning, since I have not tendered, (though i had confirmed my date of commencement with the other side), my answer is "No!". Now, i realised that it's not the money that I cared about, though more of it will make my mum happy. It's the workscope that values more. Even though it was mentioned that the job I will be taking on will be sort of like "bao-gao-liao", at least it's some task with credits, like HR matters, policies..., unlike my present job, which I spent half of the time running up and down collecting mails, distributing mails.
Somehow I feel that this Merit Increment is "not a free lunch', i will be expect to do more nitty gritty stuff.
In terms of job prospect, the new job will be better, as it's a new division, and i 'll be one of the pioneer batch of staff there. There are more chances for development than stay on here just because they had given me pay increment, and become a coordinator cum clerk.
Yeah, I do feel a bit guilty now, sort of wasting my 3 supervisors' efforts in fighting for my MI. But if the management think that I'll be happy for the monetary rewarded given, they are wrong. I am not happy that when I first joined last year, I was told to handle 3 magazines, but then 'slowly increased' to handle 7 magazines & newletters, and being the office clerk for the new extended level -- all within one year!
I know I can risked losing all this increment when I tender my resignation next week. And if they do, it will only make me more happy to know that my decision isn't wrong.
True, i feel guility for dissappoint my supervisors by leaving at this time, but this is not I want, and it came too late. Somehow, i think it's heaven's will that lead me to where I am today. Since I 'miraculously' passed the interviewed and was offered the position, it seems I was destined to leave my current job.
Wish me luck ok?
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Yesterday was exactly a year after my grandpa's death. Wonder how's he's doing now. Hope he is well and peaceful.
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