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it’s a happy happy day!
Sep. 19th, 2013 10:01 pmYes... this afternoon, i finally got a reply from the HR. Offer of employment!!!!!!!!!! yayyyyyyyyyyyy! happy happy day! all i have to do now is...
1) read, print, fill up, scan, and email back the forms
2) go for a medical check up and pass the check up
3) decide on the date that i'll start on my new job... and resign from my current job
that's it!
yup, it’s a happy happy day! finally, the list of good news is completed.
2.5k... the amt i asked for... not very high but it’s a perfectly reasonable request, and its on par with the average market rate... and i have stuff like medical benefits, medical leave, 21 days of annual leave... compared the the absolute bare minimum of 7 days annual leave that i have currently. a whole world of difference really. structure and order VS disorder and chaos.
what i can't stand abt my current boss is... quite a few things...
one of the worst would have to be the blame game that she likes to play. blaming us for things that we carried out under her orders. or worst still, things that she did herself. its not like she stands to benefit from any of that, now like i'll end up getting fired and she will save her own ass as is the case in other companies or institutes. its HER own company for goodness sake. and she doesn’t want to take up responsibility for her own actions.
and her lack of business sense... she is just playing pretend, pretending to do business, pretending to be an entrepreneur. she can't even estimate the profit margins properly when she charged the client for a particular study... so many steps and common sense things that she cannot get right and then when it didn’t go well, she pushes the blame to us. how convenient it is to forget that she was the one who 'planned' and did those things in the first place. we were merely her followers, her slaves... oh well. whatever that suits her.
now even the students are afraid of asking her anything. so much so for all her talks about 'clarifying if in doubt', or 'seeking help from seniors and mentors'. because she still has not hired any staff since the last phd guy left, I'm like the only scientific staff on board now, and since I'm but a fresh grad with a mere degree, my knowledge is pretty limited and there's a lot of things in the student Final Year projects that i have no idea about. So who else can the students ask but my boss? So they asked her and... immediately got a terrible scolding about how they shd read up on their own, how they've not even gotten the 1st part right and already thinking abt the next part (so much so for all her talk about planning ahead), blah blah blah blah blah....
really. pathetic. the way she treats the students as her slaves. the students are like... the only reason why i still go for work kinda thing. the students are really gonna suffer when I'm gone. she says I'm not supposed to do planning for the students. oh so? who plans? she? yeah right. she just shoots of whatever idea she has in mind (and she changes her mind multiple times a day)... feasibility? she doesn’t give a shit about it. she wants the students to do like 3 cells lines each, and a ton of stuff... and with much thanks to her dragging, its almost 2 months into the term and the students have barely started their project proper. so yeah, i was telling the students which parts of the project seems more feasible, which parts they could probably finish before their term ends, and which parts to do so that they will have enough to write up their thesis. really, they have to protect themselves against this Dr. that has no concerns over their welfare whatsoever. it’s a hell lot different from the few profs i've met, they are actually concerned over their fyp students, whether the project will be good, whether they will learn stuff, whether they can get an A... pfft. none of that in my boss' mind at all. I'm the one who had to sit down and tell the students what they shd do and what they CAN do with their limited time. or how to tweak things such that it CAN be done. they don't have much time really... just till ard march next year PLUS they still have classes, so they're not here on a full time basis. just their luck that they chose such a horrid prof.
on a separate note. my dad says he'll pay for my new phone for the last time. yay! well tbh i was prepared to pay for my own phone, AND one for my sis too... but if he offers... :P but i'll be sure to repay the $ back to my family one way or another. ah i still have not treated my family to a meal yet ><
but yup, with my dad's bless, i'll be getting an iphone 5s, 64GB WHOOOOHOOO!!!! YESH YESH YESH! I was debating 32 or 64, but i dad decided it for us. but yeah its true, i used my 3gs for 3 years, and i'll stick with the 5s or at least 2 years - the contract is 2 years anyway... so i guess it'll be worth the buck? its freaking expensive in sg tho. the 16gb iphone 5s is like 500++ with 2 years plan. compared to $199 in US. what a ripoff sheesh! those telcos are too much! >< over 800 bucks for the 64gb version... freaking expensive! looking forward to iOS 7 though! and a properly working phone that wont take like 1 min to take a photo haha.
gonna help my dad with his iOS upgrade now. hopefully they wont complain abt the mem space by upgrading through itunes. he tried to do it from the iphone itself, but it complained of not having the 3+gb needed to download the iOS :P
alrights. enough ranting for now. i'll try and work on the fics now that i've confirmed my new job. well almost confirmed? really don't think the medical would be a problem tho.
1) read, print, fill up, scan, and email back the forms
2) go for a medical check up and pass the check up
3) decide on the date that i'll start on my new job... and resign from my current job
that's it!
yup, it’s a happy happy day! finally, the list of good news is completed.
2.5k... the amt i asked for... not very high but it’s a perfectly reasonable request, and its on par with the average market rate... and i have stuff like medical benefits, medical leave, 21 days of annual leave... compared the the absolute bare minimum of 7 days annual leave that i have currently. a whole world of difference really. structure and order VS disorder and chaos.
what i can't stand abt my current boss is... quite a few things...
one of the worst would have to be the blame game that she likes to play. blaming us for things that we carried out under her orders. or worst still, things that she did herself. its not like she stands to benefit from any of that, now like i'll end up getting fired and she will save her own ass as is the case in other companies or institutes. its HER own company for goodness sake. and she doesn’t want to take up responsibility for her own actions.
and her lack of business sense... she is just playing pretend, pretending to do business, pretending to be an entrepreneur. she can't even estimate the profit margins properly when she charged the client for a particular study... so many steps and common sense things that she cannot get right and then when it didn’t go well, she pushes the blame to us. how convenient it is to forget that she was the one who 'planned' and did those things in the first place. we were merely her followers, her slaves... oh well. whatever that suits her.
now even the students are afraid of asking her anything. so much so for all her talks about 'clarifying if in doubt', or 'seeking help from seniors and mentors'. because she still has not hired any staff since the last phd guy left, I'm like the only scientific staff on board now, and since I'm but a fresh grad with a mere degree, my knowledge is pretty limited and there's a lot of things in the student Final Year projects that i have no idea about. So who else can the students ask but my boss? So they asked her and... immediately got a terrible scolding about how they shd read up on their own, how they've not even gotten the 1st part right and already thinking abt the next part (so much so for all her talk about planning ahead), blah blah blah blah blah....
really. pathetic. the way she treats the students as her slaves. the students are like... the only reason why i still go for work kinda thing. the students are really gonna suffer when I'm gone. she says I'm not supposed to do planning for the students. oh so? who plans? she? yeah right. she just shoots of whatever idea she has in mind (and she changes her mind multiple times a day)... feasibility? she doesn’t give a shit about it. she wants the students to do like 3 cells lines each, and a ton of stuff... and with much thanks to her dragging, its almost 2 months into the term and the students have barely started their project proper. so yeah, i was telling the students which parts of the project seems more feasible, which parts they could probably finish before their term ends, and which parts to do so that they will have enough to write up their thesis. really, they have to protect themselves against this Dr. that has no concerns over their welfare whatsoever. it’s a hell lot different from the few profs i've met, they are actually concerned over their fyp students, whether the project will be good, whether they will learn stuff, whether they can get an A... pfft. none of that in my boss' mind at all. I'm the one who had to sit down and tell the students what they shd do and what they CAN do with their limited time. or how to tweak things such that it CAN be done. they don't have much time really... just till ard march next year PLUS they still have classes, so they're not here on a full time basis. just their luck that they chose such a horrid prof.
on a separate note. my dad says he'll pay for my new phone for the last time. yay! well tbh i was prepared to pay for my own phone, AND one for my sis too... but if he offers... :P but i'll be sure to repay the $ back to my family one way or another. ah i still have not treated my family to a meal yet ><
but yup, with my dad's bless, i'll be getting an iphone 5s, 64GB WHOOOOHOOO!!!! YESH YESH YESH! I was debating 32 or 64, but i dad decided it for us. but yeah its true, i used my 3gs for 3 years, and i'll stick with the 5s or at least 2 years - the contract is 2 years anyway... so i guess it'll be worth the buck? its freaking expensive in sg tho. the 16gb iphone 5s is like 500++ with 2 years plan. compared to $199 in US. what a ripoff sheesh! those telcos are too much! >< over 800 bucks for the 64gb version... freaking expensive! looking forward to iOS 7 though! and a properly working phone that wont take like 1 min to take a photo haha.
gonna help my dad with his iOS upgrade now. hopefully they wont complain abt the mem space by upgrading through itunes. he tried to do it from the iphone itself, but it complained of not having the 3+gb needed to download the iOS :P
alrights. enough ranting for now. i'll try and work on the fics now that i've confirmed my new job. well almost confirmed? really don't think the medical would be a problem tho.
