Oh, So Random

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Got my new phone finally today!! Have actually been talking and thinking about getting my new phone for ages but have been really unsure of what model to buy. After months of dragging on my feet I went out to get my phone today. Am taking it as a happy purchase in light of all the news I've received recently.

Just found out that the long anticipated and prayed for bonus will not come. While it was sort of expected given the track record of this place I work in, it still created sour feelings. What does a token of appreciation entail actually?

Being a virgin employee I have never come across situations as such and really don't know what to expect. I grew up thinking AWS is something standard for all companies, and that bonuses came at the end of the year. How naive right?

Sigh... I can just anticipate the "I told you so" response when I break this to my mother and my brothers. She's been encouraging me to leave forever and I'm the who's stubborn enough to stick on. When am I ever going to find the rational being that I know is in me somewhere?

On a brighter note though, am really glad they have finally promoted some of my colleagues. Am so happy for the few of them, it's been so long coming and they really deserve the promotion. Congratulations Fadhilah!!!

On another note, my transition to the night team seems to have gone on quite well. Love my teammates in Titan and am really grateful for all their support. Can you believe that by now I have been in the night team for more than a month officially? Wow, time really flies. It seemed like only yesterday that it was announced and here we are, more than one month in the team.

Am still trying my best to adjust in the night though. It's just really different. There aren't so many teams so it's not very often someone would come up and ask a question but then again I could tell that my concentration level for the day and the night is not the same. At night I have my good days and bad days. Sometimes I can choo choo like a train, sometimes I am like a sampan with no oar on it.

I think what I miss most about the day would be the people. All the colleagues in voice and non voice and even the clients. I loved running around you know, getting the answers to the questions posed to me if I didn't immediately have the answers myself. Now running around at night will just be either 1)creepy cause someone might think I'm a ghost 2)completely pointless cause there's no one to run to anyway.

Am now trying to focus on the positive and am trying to resolve as many leave issues as I could for my teammates. It's tough cos we don't have enough teammates to go around as it is, but there are always still people who would like to go on leave. We can't tell the staff that they can't take leave since it's an entitlement, so I'm now spending quite a proportion of my time dealing with the leave issues. Hopefully most, if not all, get a happy ending. =)

Don't think I'll ever be as happening a TL as BC but here's hoping that Titan will still embrace me as a TL they like.

I scribbled at ;; 7:51 PM