#personal: work

so after almost two years of working at my current office it’s time to say goodbye. almost. i’m currently wanting it to end sooner rather than later.

basically the last two years of employment has been contractual, and by the indonesian labour law if the program wants to continue to employ me, they’ll have to make me a permanent staff. i have notified my boss in december that i am withdrawing from that as i’m planning to work for the family company.

anyway, my boss asked me to stay past the contract end date so there can be a smooth handover. i said to him i can do so until the end of march, and he insisted that i could at least stretch it until april. i reluctantly said that we’ll see.

fast forward to today - where my manager was asking the hr person about the consultant fee formulation so she can put forward a request to get me in as a consultant for the rest of march. the hr person - who by the way spread rumours about a fellow colleague committing adultery with another colleague - asked my manager if it was in fact necessary to keep me as a consultant. UMM. what? (my manager said yes.)

i don’t know the exact chronology but basically the hr person refused to let my manager propose a certain amount as my consultancy fee and suggested that the current daily rate + 20% is enough of a raise. (a colleague was in the same situation as me and she was paid almost double her daily rate. considering they had to bring in an expert to help her do her job, and i don’t, i don’t think it’s too much of an ask to give me the same courtesy?)

my manager: ‘if she became permanent maybe. but not as a short term employee.’

hr: ‘she’s the one who needs the job anyway.’ (as if that’s ever a ground for underpaying someone.)

my manager: ‘no, we’re the ones who need her. she’s doing us a favour. the team leader asked her to extend, so she’s extending out of courtesy.’

hr: ‘well, that’s what ~she claims.’

hold up.

lol. what?

and i would make something like that up for what purpose exactly? i’d be thrilled to get some extra money, sure, but i’m not that hard up for it. i’d be more thrilled if i can leave this junk hole full of liars and overpaid tools who care more about playing politics and saving their own sorry asses rather than doing the right thing as soon as my contract finishes! i mean, i’ve had enough of the unnecessary drama in this place to last me a lifetime - and if i had to deal with that kind of crap, i would rather do that in my family business. plenty of junk there too, i’m sure, but damn at least i’ll be tidying up in my own house right?

sigh. and now i’m really not sure if i even want to do the consultancy at all.

first of all, the person i’m supposed to hand over the work to? yeah, they’re not hired yet. because the guy took another offer (a.k.a. hr sabotaged the offer by delaying it. and then refused to counter-offer because she ‘had a bad feeling about the person’. okay dude), and told the head of operations and anyone that would listen that they ‘missed out’ on the guy. so really, that beats the purpose of me wasting more time here and not starting at my family company sooner.

and second of all, after that kind of comment? i don’t think i want to work in a place where they think i’m so hard up for extra cash so they think they can stomp all over my professional worth.