Two of my colleagues resigned this week. One’s from my department and the other is from Booze Queen’s department. The guy from my department resigned to pursue his dream of being an entrepreneur. Nothing wrong with that except he doesn’t want to tell Bigmac what his plans are because he feels Bigmac will "poke holes" in the plan and eventually dissuade him from chasing his dream.
I find this rather weird. After all, striking out on one’s own is a risky foray and if one’s plan has certain weaknesses, isn’t it better for these weaknesses to be known as early as possible? The way this soon-to-be-ex colleague puts it makes it seem as though he has this dream and no matter how impossible it may be, he is adamant about going after it. How different then, is that, from building castles in the air?
As for the gal from Booze Queen’s department, she has been absent from work many times in the past 5-6 months, giving the reason that she’s on "medical leave". It started with a 1 day MC (Medical Certificate)… then progressed to 2 days MC – which initially got us worried because we thought her extreme obesity was causing her severe health problems. However, in the past 2 months or so, we realised that her MCs tend to coincide with her short holiday trips to Malaysia. And from 2 days, these MCs stretched to 4 days, i.e. Thurs + Fri and then Mon + Tue.
Over the last weekend, she did her Thurs + Fri, Mon + Tue MC thing again. (She went KL and Genting). This time, her boss got mad and insisted that she turned up in office on Wed. When pressed for her MCs, she claimed to have them "in her bag" but yet she could not produce them when her boss insisted. She said she couldn’t find them in her bag so they must be at home… upon which her boss asked her to return home to retrieve her MCs. Went home she did… after which she sent her boss a SMS saying that she wants to resign.
Sigh. Her boss was very kind and didn’t want to let anyone know about the rash resignation at first, thinking that she might change her mind and come back to work with a reformed attitude. However, this gal has told another senior colleague that she has resigned so it looks like there’s no turning back now.
As things have taken such an ugly turn, we’re speculating that this gal may not even want to serve out her 1 month notice. That said, I’m not sure if she has enough money to compensate the company for not serving notice… and to reimburse the company for all the unpaid leave she has taken. (She has maxed out her annual leave and if we were to take it that she was on leave for every time she couldn’t produce an MC, she would definitely have to pay back the company for all the days she was MIA).
It is really unfortunate that things have reached such a state. Employees resign from companies every day… so is there a need to burn all bridges when one leaves? There’s a Chinese saying – 好æ¥å¥½æ•£ – which loosely translates to "happy come happy go". Just as one joins a company on a positive note, I think it’s best for one to leave a company on a positive note as well. Why make things so ugly for everyone?
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