JOBDANCY: EMPLOYMENT AND RESIGNATION

Earlier in the week I wrote about how I had very little to do at work and my fear that I would soon be made redundant (a state which I am now calling jobdancy). I also started to write about how it all began.

As I said earlier this week that I wish that "I can turn back the hands of time", why? it might be asked, what is in that employment letter that is so bad? ....nothing at all, everybody has the write to protect their own interest,(at least that is what I now believe). The only bad thing there is that I naively signed a letter, while I had reservations about the contents and did not give myself a chance to digest the content properly.....

So what was in this letter ........that is making me write this long Epistle..............., well Ego limited told me in the letter that (this are the things that i would advise anybody who has gotten an employment offer to watch out for and ensure that they have clarity on before signing on the dotted lines ..and believe me the lines are dotted...):

A) I would be earning a gross salary of 100,000 per month (tax inclusive) ..... so that was the meaning of the Base (for further clarification on the difference between Basic and Base please follow this link http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/69070-multi-part-verbs-base-basic-salary.html or google it) imagine a dreamer's suprise, me that I was already dreaming of something in the region of 300,000.....;

B) I am only entitled to two weeks leave, ..... as opposed to the four weeks that i was getting where i was before..,

C) I would be on probation for 1 whole year before confirmation, ......imagine my shock who has ever heard of 1 year of probation before enh?.......

D) My closing time although slated for 5pm, would be solely determined by the volume of work given to me ..... as explained by the other admin officer, that means if I am about closing at quarter past 5 and a senior colleague wants me to do an assignment no matter how irrelevant I am to sit my ass down and get to it until I finish and then wait for a response, ( digressing: I never Knew that it was a crime to go home at you closing time even if you were not doing anything until Igot to Ego Limited)..... I of course asked the admin person when they normally closed for the they and I was told that they closed "pretty early".

E) Yes!, less I forget I was to work as a graduate trainee ... No comment...

F) Benefits include: one gets to attend lots of training ....practically every week (i was told ooo!!!)...., both in house and outside ....... I never knew that weekly lecture in the office taken by senior colleagues with whole lot of delays and cancellation, was what was termed "training"........; a health insurance; and traveling ........ if you can call attending a conference where you are used as secretary to book rooms and flights, carry banners and fliers, take notes, delivering messages and sending reminders to the MD; and going for compulsory retreat in Ajah, while you had a family function where you are needed, traveling then i guess that pat of the contract is being fulfilled...........

As you all know by now, I signed the contract, .......... before you all say that I should have known better, I would have you all know that at that particular time Ihadn't reviewed the contract up to a thousand times in my head so was unable to break it down like I am doing now...... Although (I would have you know that), I was hesitant and I even asked the admin officer if I could take the contract with me to review and the bring back a signed copy, the answer was a capital NO. ........ I should have guessed that the admin officer would turn out to be a serious "thorn" in mu flesh later on (a story for another day)........

Besides I was very excited about the prospect of starting a new job in my field, in a place where I could get a chance to grow, apply what I have spent my whole life learning and learn new things. Also I thought once I got confirmed the annual leave period would be increased, ....this was my major concern at the time, (that the leave period was too short can you just imagine ... didn't know I had more fishes to fry) not the fact that i would be earning far less than what I was earning before..... At the time, it had yet to register to me that I was accepting a position far lower than the position that I was before, ......... this one is pure ignorance on my part, no justification at all.....

So I signed the contract got my copy and got out of there, to resume in two weeks, by then (to Myne Whitman) I had given my two weeks notice to the company I was working with.

How did they take it? On giving my resignation, everyone was sad, ... but it was well understood that it was just a matter of time before I left, as it was no place for someone planning to grow and develop. Also as the position that I was in would be the highest I would ever go to within the organisation..... The office was just dull that day, but they wished me well and immediately we started to search for my replacement, ........that is the thing that I miss most about working there, the pace, you just do not stop working, I remember when I resumed there I already had work waiting for me, I loved it every minute of it ( except when the owner wants you to do things that are professionally wrong and could ruin your career, which was the main reason that I left, but of course I could not write that in my resignation letter)....

We found my replacement, negotiated the pay (......good negotiation skill on my replacement's part, got more than twice of what am earning now...........) and the replacement resumed for handing over, this did not take long.

On the day my resignation was effected the owner called me and told me to stay that my pay would be increased and I would be trained by the best in the industry, I said no thank you ....... this is because it wasn't about the money for me and the owner tends to stretch the truth at times to get a favourable result.. (at least I was wanted, that is more than I can say for my present situation)....., I was wished well and off I went for a few days break before I resumed work.

On resuming at Ego limited I was asked by a friend (someone who was then working with the firm) that who was I reporting to?, .... Imagine the pity i received when i mentioned my senior collegues' name, but it wasn't the pity that worried me it was the fear and horror the name provoked............

And All I Wanted to do Was Learn and Grow

What have I gotten myself into???????????

More next week ....as I have already said too much and my blog is refusing to save. For those who managed to finish reading this ranting of mine thank you.