And so the last day at work was like that
I woke up happy that day, I don't know why. Maybe it's final freedom from my energy vampire (EV or TDO - The Disgusting One), or maybe the reality of unemployment has yet to set in. Hurhur. My family wished me a great last day at work that morning! Haha. So cute.
Many thoughts went through my mind that morning, while commuting to work. Should I be nice to TDO so as to bring a professional wholesome end to this whole shebang or should I just ignore him and leave like that? Well he gave me the answer 1 hour into my last day at work.
He was god-damn rude - kicking me out of the room because I was talking on the phone, at a volume marginally louder than a whisper. "CAN YOU TAKE YOUR CALL OUTSIDE? I AM ON AN IMPORTANT CALL." Yes dude, heard you loud and clear, including the ladies sitting outside my door who commented that he's so bloody rude. Oh that's actually rather civil of him already, I replied in jest and took my phone elsewhere. The HR lady dropped me a call later that day as well that he was being an ass by demanding that the message of "Please get her to remove all the papers and files on her table, I don't want to see anything related to her on the table" be passed back to me via third party because "I don't want to talk to her". Hello dude, I took the effort to file those notes ok!
So naturally after all that, I dropped the idea of being professional/nice on my last day, it's clearly irrelevant and unnecessary.
The rest of the office were very nice to me, and I got so many presents! :-
(1) Hand-woven shawl (because I was always so cold in office that I'm always remembered as the one cocooned in 2 layers of shawl)
(2) A hand-made crystal angel figurine with 22K gold halo
(3) A Kindle e-book! (I've always wanted one but decided to delay the purchase due to unexpected resignation!)
(4) Loads of chocolates
(5) A big Conrad bear
(6) Many more dinner and lunch appointments to catch..
Had a fascinating lunch with the 2 directors I spoke of earlier, and had a even more interesting 45 minutes of conversation about BGRs (Boy-Girl-Relationship for the uninitiated lol) with the male director after his cousin (Director #1) left. Never had to answer so many questions about myself, my perception of the other half, whether my BF will propose and how I think of it (?) and how many guys I have rejected before. A full 45 minutes of it! We didn't even cover any other topics, besides a minor digress to FIFA 2012 and Liverpool while queuing up for Starbucks. He managed to get back to BGR again by posing a "If your BF wants to lunch with a girl, will you be okay with it?" question. All in all, it was a bizarre, yet hilarious conversation. His response to my farewell email included a line of "don't break too many hearts!" Meh, I hope I didn't give off some bad-ass chick/female Casanova-ish vibe. Don't make me sound like a serial heartbreaker leh! was my response.
I've been reading up a lot on my desired career path (I know what I want to do, thank god), and have been speaking to loads of people about how to go about it.
Cross your fingers and keep me in your powerful prayers that I will get it soon! =))
I've been reading up a lot on my desired career path (I know what I want to do, thank god), and have been speaking to loads of people about how to go about it.
Cross your fingers and keep me in your powerful prayers that I will get it soon! =))
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I think that male director likes you. Just saying ;)
ReplyDeleteMatt
:)
ReplyDeleteYou are free!
ReplyDeleteLynn
Good to know it is all officially over =)
ReplyDeleteDD
Time to start anew! - Lina
ReplyDeleteAgrees with Matt. Haha. Let's lunch again soon.
ReplyDeleteSam