Today was not the day to file for resignation.
I want to talk to my team leader about it first before submitting the letter of resignation but he was not able to make it to work today. Maybe he'd be around tomorrow. It's not like he and other team members at work have no idea about this but I'd mostly joke about it before. Time to make it final I guess.
I have a bad feeling though that I may have to work a few days at the start of 2007 as I doubt they would give me less than the 30 day notice normally applied. Well, as long as I am out of there by mid-January of 2007. I am actually looking forward to this and a bit excited as well, compared to a few weeks back when I was so unsure whether I wanted to go or not.
Let's talk more about this once it is official, okay?
Still playing with my new phone, but I can't seem to setup GPRS/WAP on it. I don't remember setting up anything when I was using the Nokia phone. Oh well, it's still a fun phone.
Finally, some good news. You had me worried for a few days now.
I am so glad I waited (was forced to) for my 13th month pay.
I forgot that it was non-taxable if below 30000 clams. Even thought it would be pro-rated since I my salary changed due to a promotion last August. So I assumed I would be lucky if it would reach 20K.
Anyway, I spent all of it already.
Bought a new mobile phone (SE K800i), an external HDD enclosure, and a 200 GB HDD. Also treated my mom out for lunch and paid for groceries which is mostly yogurt and fresh milk for me.
I just happened to be in Megamall and based on the computations I have made, I now have enough money for new clothes, shoes, and a one-way ticket out of here with enough money to spare to keep my bank account open.
Well, it's payday again in a few days.
In the next couple of days, I will submit my letter of resignation (which I have yet to write) and this means I'll be out of eTelecare before 2007 starts, that is if there would be no mix up.
It seems I ruined another good thing over the past two weeks and would now need to fix it (hopefully) next year. Oh boy, I really can't be trusted with anything.
I am still not done with playing Final Fantasy XII as I am spending too much time running all over the place so I decided to give it a little break and watched Prison Break instead. I was hoping I'd squeeze a few episodes in between long pay runs of Final Fantasy XII.
The opposite happened.
Prison Break is awesome. Ignored it mostly whenever I saw it on Crime And Suspense before but I got my hands on a DVD for season 1 and spent the last 3 days watching the whole thing. It's quite good and it real leaves you wanting for more. Sometimes, you could not leave it after one episode, as you would want to know what would happen next.
It's just sad that Season 2 is just being aired in the US and I have no means of downloading the show. Bummer. I have no choice but to wait until the season is complete. Stupid dialup connection. Added to the list of reasons why we need to go.
Logged online a few hours ago, started playing old Typecast songs and while looking for a specific conversation from the Yahoo Messenger archives, I came across year old conversations from her.
I miss her. Those conversations were nice and sweet plus quite full of hope. All of a sudden I feel sad. Oh boy, I should have cleaned those things up months ago. It's hard to be too attached to someone who really made a big difference in your life (or so you thought). Plus this is someone whom you have not really seen or talked to in more than a year already. Things are just silly sometimes.
If you ever come across this, I just want to know that I miss you.
Anyway, the conversation I was looking for was for someone else. Someone new.
Things are real confusing right now. Everything was lovely before, but now I am freaking doubtful, scared and paranoid.
Shit. I am so going to ruin things all over again. Ack! I hope things would be different tomorrow.
I was late by one minute today. Stupid bloody traffic.
I spent one hour on a stretch of road which usually takes 15 minutes tops.
This is too silly.
The change in schedule from 6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. into 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. has added one whole hour to the already exorbitant time I spend traveling to and from work. From a previous record of 4 horrendous hours , it now totals to 5 sick hours. Nice. This is so not going to help.
I am only putting up with this because I do not have enough money yet to buy a new mobile phone (SE K800), an external hdd, new clothes, and a one-way ticket out of here with enough money to spare to keep my bank account open.
If my calculations are correct, I just need the PA bonus from last quarter, the 13th month pay and two more pay checks.
Oh, I forgot. A number of people (aside from my mom) owe me money, an amount which would be enough to buy me this phone I want and a nice 512MB memory stick along with it.
Now, how do I get hold of these people. Hmmmm.
Ah, bugger. I need to play more Final Fantasy.
I said this once before (around 2 years ago), but what the hell is up with me and girls with braces?
An amazing thing happened yesterday. Actually, I am still short of speechless about the whole thing.
Received a message from my TL indicating changes in our schedules. This was expected since they did change our day offs last week much to my disappointment.
According to the new schedule, which would most likely be good for until the end of November (seems like eternity), I do not have work on Monday and Tuesday.
I am already on off right now, Friday-Saturday, and this means I'd go to work tomorrow then am on off again. Amazing, ain't it?
Add the change in the time we need to be at work and everything is fine and dandy. From 6:30 in the morning it has now been moved to 7:30 in the morning.
This does not mean an additional hour in sleep. It simply means more hours to be spent in traffic during rush hours (morning and afternoon), inhaling deadly fumes and depositing lead in my lungs. Nothing better to keep you happy than wasting more bloody hours to the already horrendously long trips to and from work.
But wait there's more!
Like I said, this would very likely be the schedule until the end of November, unless they pull another freaking Houdini, as they have proven to at least be consistent during the 2nd and 3rd weeks of the month.
Now, let's go back to the leaves I requested for November. I applied for 11 days in November, 12-14 (3 days) and 17-24 (8 days).
As per a month ago, all were successfully plotted. As per a WEEK ago, 5 were successfully plotted with the other 6 being waitlisted. This pissed me off, but what could I do but hope things would turn out for the best. This means day offs falling on days were I am waitlisted which isn't really too much to hope for, right? Right!?
Apparently not, since as of yesterday and after meticulous checking, the new days off now fall on 4 out of the 5 successful leaves I applied for rendering them totally worthless as they were not even fucking useful in the first fucking place by themselves.
So now, from 11 successful ones a MONTH ago, they have been reduce to 5 WEEK ago, and to a nice simple number of 1 in a day. Did you even notice the number of successful leaves left in the last sentence?
1 out of 11 days. 9.09% freaking percent. How's that for a batting average!
It's not like these leaves are gone forever. In the event I do resign without using them, they are convertible to cash, which I would receive in my last paycheck 3 months from now if I am lucky. The thing is, I FUCKING NEED THEM NOW!
Plus, there is always the minute possibility of those wait listed ones going in since the sked changes did affect everyone, but how the fuck can anyone plan anything as these changes are given at the very last freaking minute.
This is so fucking frustrating. I guess this is the final straw. Right. Like it would make a freaking difference there is the 30-day notice we have to go through.
Whew! I'll just cool myself with the nice sounds of Ivalice.