Category Archives: In The Office

HR Mindset

Today I got a call from a recruitment agent during lunch hour. It was a total waste of my time.

#1 – He did not know where he had gotten my profile.

#2 – He did not check the company background of where I am working now. He couldn’t wait to reveal the company searching for talent, probably thinking it is a some big name. By telling me how good the new company is, he is indirectly telling me my current company is bad.

#3 – He did not ask me what will be my major consideration for switching jobs.

#4 – He asked me to put my expected salary lower but insisted that the new company can afford to pay more than what I’ve asked for. His reasoning was HR department are conservative about salary jump.

If the “Big Name” is going to have such conservative HR department, what is the difference between that company and my current company?

Is it worth it to jump to another company just for that couple of hundred extra? After EPF and Tax deduction, how much is left?

I know what they’re looking for and I know my capabilities. I am also aware of the current market rate for such position. He himself said that I am a good match. He also agreed that what I am getting now is below market average.

So why ask me to lower my salary expectation? What I am asking is not even double my current salary?

Is this what talent search is about? I doubt so because previously I had a good experience with some other head hunting company. It’s just that timing wasn’t right and the job scopes didn’t quite fit at that time.

Please drop some light and share with me your views on talent search.

Pain in the ass

The more you find out what others are doing in the office, the more fire burns inside.

I do not understand why some people let others step all over them. Sometimes it does not pay to be nice. There has to be some professionalism in the office so that everybody gets treated like a professional.

Being in the IT department is especially true. where I work. I feel that those in the service line like customer service will share similar pain as well.

But IT? How is it so?

People treat us like dirt. When something is wrong, they call and scream on the phone sometimes. They demand immediate attention and does not even bother to ask nicely.

You know why? They see us as a bunch of useless people who stays in the same position year after year.

Why is that? Our managemen restricts the budget and does not allow promotion which will result in increment of salary.

So you can say fixing computers are all the same.

Hello?? A server is no where near a personal PC. Doing programming and designing for applications is no easy job and they are not repeated work at all.

I am sick and tired of all this not because I hate my job. I have an understanding immediate superior and you know what? I am here more like a pity to him because no one else cares.

Who cares when they’re not being treated with respect?

Others got promoted year after year. They have time for games and fun with tonnes of photos choking the office servers.

Our guys is doing the sweeping. We don’t have fun not because we don’t want to. It is because we are too damn poor to even have a cup of Starbucks after work.

Do others know? They probably think that we’re getting what they’re getting and we’re so bad in our work that none of us deserve recognition and stay in the same job forever.