Not quitting!

So I have decided not to resign..yet. Actually, I've already tendered my resignation wef 2nd April and was already looking forward to my 'long holiday.' As usual, I talked to my stupid District Manager and I told him that I will only consider staying on if I'm transferred to an internal dept. After our talk, he had the cheek to ask if it was because of my just-as-stupid in-charge that I'm resigning and I told him it's partly the reason. I would have loved to say that it was also because of him straight to his face but since they were still looking at my options, I decided to keep mum.

A few days after, I met up with my HOD for another meeting. I was glad that it was a meeting only between the two of us and that my District Manager, aka butthole was not around. At first, I just told her that the reason I wanna quit was because I wanted to gain more exposure outside working in a different environment. It wasn't until we got deeper into the conversation that I told her the truth - I couldn't stand working under my manager and my in-charge. As usual, she was nice enough to listen to my woes and even promised to talk to my manger about his work attitude and even asked me to email her if I find my manager's attitude to be 'funny'. She even shared with me about her own working experience, some of which are confidential. She actually started out as an admin, and worked her way up to where she is now, a Head of Dept.

Since she was really sincere in helping me out, I decided to stay on. And maybe follow her advise to attain a few certificates available while I'm with the company so that if I really wanna leave one day, at least I wouldn't be leaving empty-handed. I feel a little inspired after talking to her and though I'm not interested in the types of certificates that my company have to offer, I'm going to give it a go, as a favour to my HOD and of course, to myself. And I do feel a little more appreciated. I mean, if I'm really a poor performing staff, I don't think she would try to convince me to stay right? I wasn't feeling motivated enough to go to work for the past few months and would report to work late almost everyday and I really thought she wasn't going to ask me to stay. The fact that she did, makes me feel good.

Some of my colleagues were happy to learn that I will not be resigning. When they knew of my intention to hand in my resignation letter, they tried to convinced me to stay but I was adamant. Well..I hope my decision to stay will be a blessing. I'll have to make an effort to come to work early though since I no longer am counting down to my final days in my company. Oh well..at least, I'll be counting down to my birthday and a getaway to Bintan again! :D More of that, in my next blog...:)