Its interesting to hear that most of my friends are looking for jobs. Met some ex colleagues from SEAB for lunch and they are all looking for better prospects. Of cuz lah, how can anyone stay if the organisation gives pathetic increments and no promotions but expect staff to assume higher responsibilities??? Or is this the general trend in the public service? I have friends from other ministries facing the same issues. To me, this does not make sense at all, no matter how well they wanna sugar coat it. Whatever the PSD is reviewing, they better review properly and fast, if they wanna stop this outflow of manpower.

Take, for instance, the organisation has a vacancy. Instead of promoting from within, the organisation prefers to recruit someone new, bearing in mind that the organisation does not even know if the incumbent can perform or not whereas the exisitng staff has already proven himself/ herself.

Most absurdly, in my friend's case, they actually had the cheek to ask her to assume the position of a Head of Dept for one year on trial, before they assess her for promotion. Simi lan??? Drawing the pay of an exec but the workload of a head, and on probation lor, no guarantee one leh...

If they were to recruit someone from outside the organisation, the fella will also be on probation but drawing the pay fit for the position lor!!! Can someone pls enlighten me??? This is also one of the reason why I decide to leave Ah Geok in the first place.

And then I heard that there is one resignation from Ah Geok's Dept which doesn't come as a surprise. Just that this person joined for barely 3 mths.

In the evening, met up with Huaying and Betsy for dinner and it seems that Huaying is also desperate to leave her current organisation, and she's there for like 2 mths... Hmmm, hope all of you manage to find your dream job soon wor...

Speaking of which, I'm starting mine on Monday. Hope everything works out fine.

Anywayz... Oh this is my 200th blog post... started off blogging just to kill time (that time in Ah Geok's Dept, waiting for posting so got loads of time) but din expect I actually continued till now...

Moving on to another aspect of my random topics... Recently feeling a sense of deja vu, not sure if I had made the correct choice... Like I mentioned before in a previous post, sometimes, its harder to be objective when I'm trapped in the situation. Can't really see things as clearly as an onlooker. Well, hope things turn out ok..