Lower Pay
Sometimes, the best things in life are not that great after all !
Because the greatest things in life do not belong to me !
I went for the interview after work today.
As luck would have it, I was being interviewed by the same manager who interviewed me somewhere in late March or April this year for another position in the same company.
When she first stepped into the meeting room where I was, she seemed a little shocked and asked me whether had she interviewed me before.
I said yes.
And she managed a little smile.
Almost immediately, she came straight towards the point, to the job and the pay and lamented that she cannot afford to pay me my expected salary.
But she did enquire whether I am interested in another position that pays almost the same pay as my current one. The other job with the lower pay might require me to travel !! Seems interesting ! But the monthly pay is pathetic. And still have to don a uniform ! I guess I can't have both cakes and eat them together ! (What an idiom !)
Anyway, I am not even sure I might get the job or not.
My current job seems better now. The higher pay, more relaxed job (but I guess it is because I have gotten used to my job already, so I have gotten to the lax mode), equally good staff benefits though they dun seem many.
The minus points are : 1) the environment sux big time, the work I do every day is a day-to-day, same old routine and kinda boring thingy, 2) my office is full of married and mature staff, hence we dun really have the same wave length 3) I desperately need to get away from this office to escape from the crutches of my mad lady boss who thinks she is Empress Dowager ! We, the small fries, suffer in silence , under her skirt most of the time :( 4) I dun think I will get any chances up the corporate ladder in this company lah, cos I dun do anything extra to boost my career here, that's what my mad lady boss said. Why should I when I am not even interested in this job and her too, in the 1st place ?
Anyway, I am just so dejected after all this fruitless interview espiode. It is either the pay is too low or they need people to start work immediately. Perhaps they dun like me? Or they found someone prettier and better ?
Only Heaven knows.
Never mind lah. Just let me strike Toto 1st prize will do.
From a poor, mentally-exhausted & weary
miss little sacred
Because the greatest things in life do not belong to me !
I went for the interview after work today.
As luck would have it, I was being interviewed by the same manager who interviewed me somewhere in late March or April this year for another position in the same company.
When she first stepped into the meeting room where I was, she seemed a little shocked and asked me whether had she interviewed me before.
I said yes.
And she managed a little smile.
Almost immediately, she came straight towards the point, to the job and the pay and lamented that she cannot afford to pay me my expected salary.
But she did enquire whether I am interested in another position that pays almost the same pay as my current one. The other job with the lower pay might require me to travel !! Seems interesting ! But the monthly pay is pathetic. And still have to don a uniform ! I guess I can't have both cakes and eat them together ! (What an idiom !)
Anyway, I am not even sure I might get the job or not.
My current job seems better now. The higher pay, more relaxed job (but I guess it is because I have gotten used to my job already, so I have gotten to the lax mode), equally good staff benefits though they dun seem many.
The minus points are : 1) the environment sux big time, the work I do every day is a day-to-day, same old routine and kinda boring thingy, 2) my office is full of married and mature staff, hence we dun really have the same wave length 3) I desperately need to get away from this office to escape from the crutches of my mad lady boss who thinks she is Empress Dowager ! We, the small fries, suffer in silence , under her skirt most of the time :( 4) I dun think I will get any chances up the corporate ladder in this company lah, cos I dun do anything extra to boost my career here, that's what my mad lady boss said. Why should I when I am not even interested in this job and her too, in the 1st place ?
Anyway, I am just so dejected after all this fruitless interview espiode. It is either the pay is too low or they need people to start work immediately. Perhaps they dun like me? Or they found someone prettier and better ?
Only Heaven knows.
Never mind lah. Just let me strike Toto 1st prize will do.
From a poor, mentally-exhausted & weary
miss little sacred
posted by lonelychinesegal at
6/02/2005 10:49:00 PM
3 Comments:
actually... what job is interesting to you?
there's nothing perfect in this world.
got gain then got lost.
got lost then will gain.
haha
only can weight see which is better.
so you deciding on the job with the uniform?
By
Hermit, at 02 June, 2005 23:49
i m not so sure...
Anyway, I might not get the job too :(
I m not so confident but hope to have a change of environment real soon
By
lonelychinesegal, at 03 June, 2005 00:10
i prefer a job that let me travel ard and being away from this sad city for the time being
By
lonelychinesegal, at 03 June, 2005 00:12
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