Tuesday, October 28, 2008
b i r t h d a y
27th October 2008.
The day Silent_One turns 24.
Activities :
- Send away sis who came all the way from KL to Ipoh to visit me during my birthday, to the bus station at 9am.
- Went to work AS USUAL from 11am - 7pm.
- Had a very filling dinner alone at Yeolde English restaurant near my office in Greentown to pay off for a 'great birthday dinner'.
- Bought myself a birthday slice cake at the same place : Coffee Cheesecake, and sadly can't find any candle to blow off.
- Called a junior & his bf (who is coincidentally my ex-coursemate in university) for a short drink in McD's Gopeng.
- Send them home straight after that.
- Called several close friends who are using Maxis due to the fact that I get unlimited Maxis-Maxis calls on my birthday.
11.59am, 27th October 2008.
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12.00am, 28th October 2008.
End of birthday.
Summary : I enjoyed the loneliness & sorrow.
Friday, October 10, 2008
j o b . . . A G A I N.
1 month.
It's been almost a month already since I last started work here in this company in Ipoh, and as time passes me by slowly, I realize that my future isn't here at ALL. Yes, I know, despite tons of advices & disagreement that I've received previously before I've decided to work in Ipoh, I ignored everything and dissappointed everyone by working in Ipoh and not in PJ as expected. Nevertheless, I never felt regret working here as I feel that this major step I took clearly taught me a very important lesson I will never learn should I ever decide to stay & work in PJ instead.
During this period I've been here in Ipoh, all I can say is I love this place. Most of the food sold here are so much cheaper than in PJ, people here are so much polite and take things easy on life and also on the road, and the place I'm currently staying now is a very nice place with a quiet and peaceful neighbourhood. Ipoh kind of remind me of my good ol' Terengganu I always love. So, what's bothering me, you ask?
Very easy question.
The JOB.
AGAIN.
Yes, I know,it's the same ol' boring sh*t I'm blabbering again & again about my job. About how bad is my job, how lousy is the pay, how poor is the management and the boss. But this job isn't it. There are simply too many things I'm not satisfied with my current job, from the tight rules & regulations to the insane & abnormal working hours per week as proportionate to its salary. Which kind of explain the reason I'm blogging lesser & lesser by day. And yes, I still owe my dai kah cher the article on turtles. I remember that, dai kah cher, really sorry bout the delay. Can't avoid it.
Let me make a brief summary of my current job. I'm basically doing some crappy 'so-called-customer-service' job where I'm supposed to pick up calls from the company's customers, while assisting them with billing, troubleshooting and stuffs like that. The nice name for my job is 'Customer Service Officer', but the ugly name for it is as a bl**dy receptionist cum phone picker who works like a cow 6 days a week. Yeah, it is THAT ugly. Initially, I thought their definition of Customer Service is the job where I'm suppose to do documentation and minor phone picking or stuffs like that, but I was just too naive to believe that. Now that I'm 'conned', I have no other choice than to get another better job and get my @$$ out of here before I turn into some crazy overworked b*st**d who whines alot on his job. Oh, did I forgot about the working hours? Yes, 8 hours per day INCLUDING Saturdays and public holidays (no half days on that), shift rotation up to 12am, and you will have to cope up with your performance and time manning or you're out to no man's land. And guess what? I'm not allowed to use my handphone at ALL during working hours. WTF IS THAT?
SH*T.
As for now, as day by day passes me by, I went through several other interviews for other jobs more related to IT and the field I've studied during my university days. Besides that, come to think of it, what the heck is an IT degree graduate doing in some st*pid @$$ call center, picking up calls? Unreasonable, yes, but it's the fact. I've thought of it, if I ever decided to just call it quit and throw the resignation letter on the spot, how do I pay for my living over here? My parents are not here, I have no other side income, it's not easy to get a job over here, and my bank account is going dry real soon. I guess I will just have to bear with my current job until there is any other better offer out there which can save me from this living hell. Wait, let's rephrase that, not just any better offer, I'll accept ANY OFFER out there which I'll receive from now on. I just don't want to pick up calls anymore.
Save me please, oh job offers!
On another note, yesterday, I receive a surprise call from my previous boss asking me to return to his company and help him out, as he said that the guy who replaced my previous position is really screwing up his company & stuffs like that. I told off my previous boss by telling him straight that I've already got another job in Ipoh and will call him for a drink when I get back to PJ. With a dissappointed tone, my boss said OK. Well, although I've said earlier that I'll accept ANY OFFER out there now, but that doesn't mean I'll return to my lousy previous company! It's just the same ol' crap, grrr!!
Decisions....
It's been almost a month already since I last started work here in this company in Ipoh, and as time passes me by slowly, I realize that my future isn't here at ALL. Yes, I know, despite tons of advices & disagreement that I've received previously before I've decided to work in Ipoh, I ignored everything and dissappointed everyone by working in Ipoh and not in PJ as expected. Nevertheless, I never felt regret working here as I feel that this major step I took clearly taught me a very important lesson I will never learn should I ever decide to stay & work in PJ instead.
During this period I've been here in Ipoh, all I can say is I love this place. Most of the food sold here are so much cheaper than in PJ, people here are so much polite and take things easy on life and also on the road, and the place I'm currently staying now is a very nice place with a quiet and peaceful neighbourhood. Ipoh kind of remind me of my good ol' Terengganu I always love. So, what's bothering me, you ask?
Very easy question.
The JOB.
AGAIN.
Yes, I know,it's the same ol' boring sh*t I'm blabbering again & again about my job. About how bad is my job, how lousy is the pay, how poor is the management and the boss. But this job isn't it. There are simply too many things I'm not satisfied with my current job, from the tight rules & regulations to the insane & abnormal working hours per week as proportionate to its salary. Which kind of explain the reason I'm blogging lesser & lesser by day. And yes, I still owe my dai kah cher the article on turtles. I remember that, dai kah cher, really sorry bout the delay. Can't avoid it.
Let me make a brief summary of my current job. I'm basically doing some crappy 'so-called-customer-service' job where I'm supposed to pick up calls from the company's customers, while assisting them with billing, troubleshooting and stuffs like that. The nice name for my job is 'Customer Service Officer', but the ugly name for it is as a bl**dy receptionist cum phone picker who works like a cow 6 days a week. Yeah, it is THAT ugly. Initially, I thought their definition of Customer Service is the job where I'm suppose to do documentation and minor phone picking or stuffs like that, but I was just too naive to believe that. Now that I'm 'conned', I have no other choice than to get another better job and get my @$$ out of here before I turn into some crazy overworked b*st**d who whines alot on his job. Oh, did I forgot about the working hours? Yes, 8 hours per day INCLUDING Saturdays and public holidays (no half days on that), shift rotation up to 12am, and you will have to cope up with your performance and time manning or you're out to no man's land. And guess what? I'm not allowed to use my handphone at ALL during working hours. WTF IS THAT?
SH*T.
As for now, as day by day passes me by, I went through several other interviews for other jobs more related to IT and the field I've studied during my university days. Besides that, come to think of it, what the heck is an IT degree graduate doing in some st*pid @$$ call center, picking up calls? Unreasonable, yes, but it's the fact. I've thought of it, if I ever decided to just call it quit and throw the resignation letter on the spot, how do I pay for my living over here? My parents are not here, I have no other side income, it's not easy to get a job over here, and my bank account is going dry real soon. I guess I will just have to bear with my current job until there is any other better offer out there which can save me from this living hell. Wait, let's rephrase that, not just any better offer, I'll accept ANY OFFER out there which I'll receive from now on. I just don't want to pick up calls anymore.
Save me please, oh job offers!
On another note, yesterday, I receive a surprise call from my previous boss asking me to return to his company and help him out, as he said that the guy who replaced my previous position is really screwing up his company & stuffs like that. I told off my previous boss by telling him straight that I've already got another job in Ipoh and will call him for a drink when I get back to PJ. With a dissappointed tone, my boss said OK. Well, although I've said earlier that I'll accept ANY OFFER out there now, but that doesn't mean I'll return to my lousy previous company! It's just the same ol' crap, grrr!!
Decisions....
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