Ice Cream Resignation

I didn't want this to happen. I wanted to get fired and then I'd say that cliche line overused in movies set in offices: "I resign!" If I felt like it, I would even have said, "You can't fire me," before I finally resigned.

Oh, well. You can't have everything. Well, you can't have everything you want. I've been expecting--hoping for, actually--some kind of warning from the office when I extended my three-day leave to two and a half weeks, but no such thing came. Things just sort of moved on.

I didn't even have the chance to resign. I figured this part myself. I just don't renew my contract which expires April 30. There goes my 14-month dive into the corporate world. Goodbye. Good riddance.

Office jobs suck.

Althought, among office jobs, mine is the best! No office attire, wear anything you want. You can come in in shorts and slippers if you want, which I frequently did. And free meals and coffee. And frequent out-of-town company trips. Nothing beats that. Plus, you get to watch TV all day; and you get to watch things you normally don't have the chance to watch anywhere, let alone for 4 hours a day. An office job dream come true.

If I had stayed there, I'd have gone mad. Any office job will drive anyone mad, given a long enough timeline. I only kept the job because of the pay and fast promotion and the job title (vaguely named TQA Audit Team) and what I call the no-strings-attached clause in my contract which can be translated simply to: "I'll come in when I want, but I'll try to come in 30 hours a week."

I only came an average of 18 hours a week. And not a single warning from the boss.

I bought three tubs of ice cream and told them I was graduating and I was going into med school and I wasn't renewing my contract just when I had finished training TQA Auditing (a month ago). They kept saying "congratulations!," and "we'll miss you," and "thanks for the ice cream." Not a single word about that clause that states that I have to work for two months after I tell them I'm leaving, whether the period is within the contract or without. You'd think that a contract that's full of traps and potholes would get you in the end. They're too nice with me.

The wonders of ice cream.