A Getaway

Finally…
Last night I said to my boss that I was quitting in 2-week time. No matter how nice or how bad your boss is, it’s always difficult to throw a bad news. There’ll never be a good time for bad news. Hmmm…bad news?!?! May be I was "sok iye" to think of it as a bad news =) This may also be what they’ve longed for for ages!! We’ve reached a mutual agreement then, if that’s the case ^^

I’d asked many people whether I should quit or not before I eventually made my mind, as though it were a tough decision to make. It may actually be, as the job I’m  currently doing is not simply a matter of income to me. It certainly gives me more money which I can spend deliberately on movie, shopping, dine n out, travelling, etc. etc. But it’s once worth much more to me. It has been a distraction from checking my email and my mobiles too frequently. It has forced me to be more focused whenever I got time to read things before class. It has been a seri of anger management sessions where your boss(es) can always say something wrong about your work and you’re only entitled to say "Yes" or forever hold your peace. It has been a class for socializing. It has been a gym class where you have to walk back and forth for 4 or 5 hours straight until your feet get sore and your calves get stoned, with plates and glasses as your small weights. Even when it’s a quiet night, you still need to keep yourselves look busy or you’ll get scolded -I wonder whether this is another modern packaging of slavery.

Yea, my friends here must have been very sick and tired listening to me keeping on saying, "I wanna quit my job," everytime the talk about job was brought up. Now their ears can adapt to other boring topics =)

Yesterday was our pay day. I planned to say it right after I got my salary which usually occurs towards the end of our shift. So I only let two of my friends there know that I was about to say it that night. But then, at around 9.30pm or so, my boss said that she’s going home earlier that night as she’s worked 7 days in a row. Whuaaaaa…that means a premature schedule of my monologue!! I wasn’t prepared and I was still training the new guy. After an attempt to delay the whole thing, where I only managed to give myself a few minutes extra, I said, "P…., saya mo brenti." She looked surprised and she asked me why. I said that I was bored with the job, tired, and I’d also have a class on Saturdays. I’d already prepared many reasons to list down as I was also convincing myself about my decision that whole evening. But still, I mumbled a bit. Then she asked whether it’s a notice or I wanted it to be effective immediately. "Dua minggu khan?" I asked with regards to the revised forced owner-staffs agreement. So that’s that…

I think she’d never thought that I would quit that soon. She knows I’ll go back to Indo for good, but that would be after my course finishes. Last Sunday, she even taught me how to operate the cash register when a
customer pays with cash, ie. I’m allowed to open the cash register. I
didn’t really want that privilege, anyway…coz I knew I was leaving. And perhaps among all staffs, I’m one of those who seldom, if not never, argue with the ‘mighty’ owner when he scolds me. I only said a word one time or twice about the other staffs’ performance. So in her mind, I must have been a staff with lesser frictions with anyone elses there that gives no reason for an early exit. The reason why I’ve been like that is simply because I don’t wanna be in a trouble due to talking too much. That always happens in work. If you talk too much, you may someday find your words be used against you. Besides, I didn’t see any point of doing that except of making enemies.

Anyway….I’m so relieved that it’s about to over. I feel a bit weird when I think of jobless days I’m going through. But it should be fine, I’ve been there before =)

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