Resigned the other day

Well the ball is in play now. I showed up to work at 8am on the dot on Friday. Was a bit later than I wanted to be because I drove Marshall's car in and had to drop it at St Leonards and train the rest of the way in...but at any rate was there right on the mark of 8.

The boss was furious. With the LW in town from London he wanted to show how hard we all worked and had instructed us to essentially be at work no later than 7.45 and leave no earlier than 6.15. Anyway I figured if he made a scene I'd just give him my notice to save myself the hassle of getting a dressing down. He took me outside the office and had a go and I started telling him I thought it was slightly ridiculous getting worked up about a minute here or there, then thought bugger it and told him i was pulling the pin.

To his credit he took it very well. He said he understood and thought it was great that I was going to Haiti etc (I should point out that I've volunteered to work with a group called Hands On Disaster Response http://hodr.org/ for three months-found out they'd accepted my offer on Wednesday last week). He also said he'd pay me to the end of the month and I said I'd be happy to work if required, or at least hand over all my clients and pipeline etc. So in essence it was pretty amicable.

Then Angus McStaunchie, the company 2IC in Singapore stepped in and said I could get lost, take my notice period and shove it and no we aren't paying you any more mate. Basically, nothing I shouldn't have expected from a rancid firepouch based out of Singapore. So I thought about this for an hour and made a few phone calls and chatted about it with Scotty who also thought it was pretty rubbish. I also emailed myself all my work files, then deleted them all off my work computer.

I had a quick chat to Alex and basically explained that I was now unable to cooperate in any way with the handover. He seemed a bit put out that my attitude had changed since the morning, but was more put out when he found out I had nothing to hand over because I'd removed all my work files from the hard drive. Oh, and my blackberry is at home, sorry mate, forgot to bring it in today.

I also explained that as soon as I left the room, I was going to tell the other sales guys what the company policy was regarding notice periods and that it would therefore be in their best interests, if they were to quit, to not give any notice and just not show up, as they are in fact entitled to do. This all comes about by the way, because we don't have contracts, so we are relying on national awards.

So basically I got marched that afternoon and went to the pub with Babs, who told me he broke up with Jesse again the night before. Seems Babs and I have our drama schedule synchronised...it's good to have a mate like that because he always knows what your going through, because he's either had the same issue, is having it, or will have it very soon.

Long story short I was at the gym after four or five beers (bizarrely it actually seemed to help with my training) and Alex called saying he'd had a chat to Angus and they were going to pay me to the end of the month, which is a great outcome. They still owe me expenses but only $600-700 or so.

Next week I'll put together a list of things I need to sort out before I go. Top of the pile will be buying a new G-Shock, like the original dad bought me 20 years ago. There's some great looking watches out there and it'll be handy to have on in Haiti.

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