Black Monday

Last week was a terrible week.

Sad # 1
Due to restructuring, some of our colleagues were affected.
Theyn were told to go in a month or two months' time.

One out of each team was asked to leave and we were puzzled how they were chosen.
All these staff are good staff. But sad....

I personally felt one of the guys got the worst hit.
He was away on vacation back to his hometown for 2 weeks.
Monday was his first day back to work and yet got the news.
Worst he need to leave immediately without serving notice.

Sad #2
Then Tues one of my colleague from previous company tender her resignation.
She just joined our bank for less than a month and now she left immediately.
I remembered the day when I see her.
After back from Pune and a little break during National Day, I get back to office.
When she waved to me, I returned a courtesy smile.
Not only minutes later, I realised that she was my former colleague.
Catching up with her for a while after days later.
When I have not really sit down for a longer conversation, she now is longer a colleague of us.
She claimed that the job does not suit her and not to waste the time on other staff having to guide her longer peruiod, she choose to leave immediately.

Sad #3
As the job function was deployed to India last August, some of the staff was kept and retained during the tranisition period. The rest was gradually lay off or managed to get transferred to another department.

At the end of March, the team was left with myself and another colleague staying back to clear the backlog. I was actually reporting to another department but job nature somehow does not change much. Mainly I am still supporting the India deployed team.

Then after the function remained in India but transferred to another vendor team.
Our colleague was still retained to help out.
But finally at the end of Sep she needs to go off.
So last Thurs was her last day.
She had been a good fren and colleague.
We helped each other during work.
Outside work, she is a good listener to my personal problems.
Now I am a lonely soul with my committee getting smaller & smaller...
I am so alone with a reporting manager only.

Well this is life and we still need to move on.