Bear, Diah and Pasha

Part IV – Showing Faces

Posted on the April 21st, 2009 under Life by Papa Bear

I was called for an interview with an accounting software company somewhere in Petaling Jaya. I was introduced by one of my vendors who happened to know a manager working there.

I came in about 15 minutes early as I usually did with any interview session. I was sent to a small room and asked to fill the normal form that we need to fill when applying for a job. I really hate that form since I believe that interview can be based on the resume itself and we only need to fill that form if we are accepted for the applied position. If not, it would just be a waste of paper and time. “Save the Earth!” echoed in my head for about an hour while waiting for someone to interview me…

Finally somebody came and apologized that the person who was supposed to interview me was busy with some meetings and therefore, she would be doing the so called first round interview.

After exchanging some answers and questions, she looked at the application form and look at the salary that I wanted and she gave me the Oh-My-God-face. A face showing how unbelievably high was my requested salary. Then she asked how much was I earning from my previous job and I gave her the figure. She gave me another OMG face… That didn’t feel good at all…

Part II – Shocked

Posted on the April 16th, 2009 under Life by Papa Bear

Back in July 2008, we closed our financial year with some profits that was enough to put smiles on all the shareholders. Following that the major shareholders announced that the company would be merged with a competing company that is also selling that same technologically challenged piece of program. Part of the deal was that all staffs would be re-employed by the newly merged company and to me that sounded great.

One of the reasons for the merger was that 2009 is going to be a tough year and consolidation was one of the ways to go through the hard times. That sounded convincing enough.

Then towards the end of the year, we got another message from the major shareholders and this time the plan has changed. The would not be any merger and the current company would not be bought by the competitor. However, they would just want to take over our customers at a disgustingly cheap price.