Top Ten Signs You Should Start Updating Your Resume (…and Consider Quitting Your Job)
Another year end. Time to start doing all the work you were supposed to have done in the past 10 months, review coming up… Another year of hoping for a non-existent bonus, another year of promises by the management.
Where’s that floppy with your resume, then?
Top Ten Signs You Should Start Updating Your Resume (…and Consider Quitting Your Job)
- Every morning, in order to get into your office, you have to dodge the chettiars and money collector thugs banging down the front door looking for your boss.
- Company has reported a RM4million pre-tax loss for the 3rd consecutive, while all your boss has just upgraded his brand new Lexus Harrier to the an even newer E-Class Merc.
- Every Friday evening after work, instead of having drinks together at the pub, the company accountants spend the whole night shredding documents. They call it a ‘good housekeeping practice’.
- Analysts have downgraded your company’s stock from a call of ‘hold‘ to ‘sell‘ to ‘sell immediately‘ to “OMG, get the hell out NOW“.
- You joined the company 5 months ago as a junior exec. Yesterday they just promoted you to the CFO – the 7th one in the company this year.
- Every time you ask your Financial Controller “How’s the SC investigation coming along?” he inadvertently runs off and curls under his desk in a foetal position, bawling “I don’t know anything about it…!” like a baby.
- One fine day, while reading in the toilet, you realize that your company’s business plan, mission statement, 5-year strategy and SOP were all copied entirely from old Dilbert comic strips.
- The last time you’re the server crashed, the office computer guy valiantly saved all the data – after getting serious help from the tea lady, the garbage collector and an imaginary friend called ‘Skippy‘.
- In order to get past the first round of interview of this job, your GM required you to beat him at online Texas Hold ‘Em.
- At the Google and Microsoft offices, they have machines dispensing free soft drinks and candy for the staff. Your office has vending machines dispensing Prozac, Maalox and legalized weed.
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November 13th, 2006 at 6:12 am
For the last two I WOULD work in that company. can play games and smoke weed..cool.
November 13th, 2006 at 6:29 am
This is really good stuff. I’ve written a somewhat related article called “Avoid these companies at all cost” that can be found at: http://radicalhop.com/blog/2006/07/24/avoid-these-companies-at-all-costs/
November 13th, 2006 at 11:34 am
Free legalised weed. In this country. Getoutahere! LOL!
November 13th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
gahaha, I like the junior exec to CFO one. :D:D
And bah, we’ll get you at Anfield yet…
November 13th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
I’ll add one more:
- Your company issued contruction of a secret exit door labeled ‘In case of IRS visitations’
November 13th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
Here’s another - you find out that your EPF account has not been credited in the past one year.
November 14th, 2006 at 9:48 am
All the companiy’s top execs suddenly are on leave to the Switz or Philipenes or China…
btw, hi simon, i’m back! :p
November 14th, 2006 at 12:53 pm
Peter Kua - whoa, serious stuff man.
Hui Sen - ‘Weed’ is something like lalang, isn’t it? :0
eyeris - for the Anfield return game, we count aggregate score, ok?
Pat - that actually happened to my friend. he’s still there.
Ken - you’re back!
November 14th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Trust Simon to always remind us what time of the year it is. Looking forward to your top ten signs it is Christmas.
November 14th, 2006 at 3:58 pm
Add this: -
11) You work in a bank…
November 15th, 2006 at 7:06 am
You mean we have Prozac here?