Monday, April 10, 2006

Pulsating My Tenure - Part II

Who can survive months of feeling oppressed and belittled? Who can accept being servants of uncouth and ill-mannered employees who are labeled as the "money makers" of the company? Who can last months of being attacked by UFI and UCI (Unidentified Flying Insects & Unidentified Crawling Insect)?

I've been pretending that I'm fine even though I know hundreds of whatever-insects are crawling all over me for the past 10 month, 8 hours a day, 6 days a week. I've already disciplined myself to accept that it's part of my job to get used to that itchy feeling while doing my working. It's the nature of the company. I rant but people seem not to care. The don't listen, they don't respond. They neglect.

They have plans and promises. But there's no action.

Imagine small insects crawling into your clothes, to your neck, arms even in your undies, rimming your privates!

This is too much. People expect me to do my job and finish it within the allotted time. But I'm sorry. I cannot take this anymore. I already lost everything I had especially my patience.

I've always been dedicated to do my tasks when I was in college. My friends would ask me to create a Flash presentation for a group report. In weeks or even days, I could finish one, prepare for our report and do the spiels with them.

It wasn't impossible if you have the interest and the enthusiasm to make things happen. That was the power the pushed me to my own limits.

But what happens when you don't have that kind of power? You wake up each morning, thinking about work. Work becomes an obligation for money. Yes, we work for money. But the difference now is that I lost the excitement to do more work for my professional development. I lost the anticipation of a brighter future with the company. I lost my chances of being promoted. In the Ladder of ePacific Success, I've already reached the topmost step. Nothing's up there but air - a vaccum that pulls me out of this place I once thought would compensate me well.

Now, I have bigger plans. It is no longer boxed here in the office because life is my workplace now. ¿?

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