Ok...get ready for the story of my life in the last 2 months
I actually joined this company thinking that since I love to train people, doing corporate training should be fine and told the manager that even though they have a company that teaches primary/secondary school I am not interested.
My fault for accepting their job offer and compromise when they say I need only to do some schools and will be helping out the HQ work. I should not have done that....in the end i feel that as someone who is new to the company, I am taking up a huge responsibility, getting involved in a NATIONAL competition that affects the reputation of the company and the school. In order to win, they adopt the moral standard of "the ends justify the means" Those who have eyes, can see clearly.
Cut short: What I expect to do did not materialised and furthermore, forcing me to do something I think is morally not right. Of course did not say to them it is morally wrong but use other excuses. My feeling is that the more I tell them areas I am not comfortable, the more they treat it like complain. So things got worse and I got warning letter.
Still things did not improve and after a very hectic 2 weeks that results in some very bad experiences I decided to ask for part time job instead of full time so I can just do corporate training. Instead they ask me to take no pay leave for 1 week followed by 2 weeks so a total of 3 weeks to sort of this issue. in the middle of it all, they ask me to state reasons for asking for part time in writing
Guess what...after 3 weeks, so basically month of September I have little pay, they ask me to resign and pay them 3 months salary in lieu (in the contract). Normally if company wants to terminate, they have to pay compensation to workers to leave immediately without serving notice. So in order to save money, they asking me to leave "on my own" and pay the 3 months to them by saying that I did a lot of things wrong.
I told them flat I refuse to pay and even compromise to defuse the situation by telling them I will give them 3 months notice + 3 months no pay leave and everyone would be happy since no money need to change hands. Furthermore I even offer not to look for a full time employer during the period and will work for them (effectively saying I am not being paid to do any job). My ex-boss quickly go to see his boss and come back just to say 'No'.
Ok, I then say what if this request to do part time never happened and then they show me a 'final warning' letter and in it are all the reasons for changing to part time that I WROTE + an unfortunate problem with a customer. I accept the warning and the management wants me to write a 'letter of reflection' to 'assure' them that such things never happen again.
What sick joke...I told my reasons for changing to part time and they use it against me to say these are the things I screwed up. It is because I screwed up and I know that these jobs are not what I can do (plus the morality issue) I ask for part time job. If I can do it why should I ask for part time and reduction of the job scope?
The manager told me they want the letter of reflection (basically another letter they can use against me if you think about it) by the same night (see the attitude: here is a problem, and instead of working the issue together, they start ordering people). I left the meeting promptly after.
After I finished the letter and re-read it, I find that it is not right. Basically I am taking up ALL the blame with no solution from the management and the management side all said that they did what they can do without really looking into the matter. Furthermore by writing the letter would also not give me any assurance that I will have my job in part time and instead a high probability that they will sack me using a one-sided clause in the contract.
I decided to resign and give them 3 months notice (and this in probation period mind you). The company then replied back saying that they terminate me using that one-sided clause that I shared. So in the end, what i have predicted did come true. And few days later they sent a registered mail and in it is a demand to pay 3 months salary in lieu.
This is one company that work with schools, WDA and NTUC and I am flabbergasted with their management style and mistreatment. Am I a perfect worker? No one is but we all want to work peacefully without any problems. And all the certificates and appreciation from the various ministries just hide the rot within this company.
So
- MOM refuse to see my case because of my pay scale
- NTUC took my case because I am a member
NTUC called the 'black shop' and last heard they want to engage lawyers. Now planning next steps.
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My take on all this:
This country is getting a lot of tertiary educated workforce that will be executives in the companies they work in. However because they are executives and/or their pay scale is above the threshold, they are not protected under the employment act and consequently the companies saw that and used it against executives.
Therefore these sandwiched class of workers cannot find representation and cannot afford lawyers as well (like me) and most of them did not know about NTUC (lucky me I checked my membership priviledges).
However I will be on my own if this becomes a civil case and I do need help in this.
These people at A** are really fear mongers...they basically use fear tactics through the use of contract terms to scare people into submission. They do have some foreign talents working for them and in some ways, uses work permit as a blackmail tactic.
So those who have eyes...can see really clearly
News updates
Ex-HR Manager Ms Caroyn who joined after enduring for months could not stand the torture and sufferings inflicted by ACP and finally decided to resign after being in their clutches beck and call for a few months finally broke free from them...
kudos to her wise decision made !!
Ex Sales executive joyce who joined AiMs after enduring for months could not stand sitting down on the chair and making cold calls from morning to night finally decided to call it and day and resigned as well...
Ex Accounts Exective Ms Ku Jin who join for a few months resigned as well.. there must be a reason why their executives resign one after another... counting down to the next person who resign.... who will be the next?
3 cheers to the above three for their wise decisions made !!!
hip hip hurray!!
P.S
sorry for the lack of updates.. have been pretty with work... will need everyone's contribution for any story and feel free to email any updates that you know about so we can keep everyone entertained with latest stories.
kudos to her wise decision made !!
Ex Sales executive joyce who joined AiMs after enduring for months could not stand sitting down on the chair and making cold calls from morning to night finally decided to call it and day and resigned as well...
Ex Accounts Exective Ms Ku Jin who join for a few months resigned as well.. there must be a reason why their executives resign one after another... counting down to the next person who resign.... who will be the next?
3 cheers to the above three for their wise decisions made !!!
hip hip hurray!!
P.S
sorry for the lack of updates.. have been pretty with work... will need everyone's contribution for any story and feel free to email any updates that you know about so we can keep everyone entertained with latest stories.
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My company worst of the worst lor... no bonus no increment..
den the water they have in pantry is use tap water fill up on the big mineral water container... tho outside write is buy the water one but in fact is filled up using tap water... still got records of interns peeing inside the container before due to being mistreated to do manual work when my company is actually dealing with IT educator...
den my company got conduct training one.. then the refreshment they provide to customer is so rationed that one person only allowed one siew mai. if take more den the rest will be able to eat at all...
den the sweet potato soup only got soup which has no taste.. sweet potato a few slices... not enuff to eat... end up the customer nv eat... den ask us to eat the left overs... eat liao realise inside nth one no wonder nobody one...
den they ask the pantry auntie to help ration food, in the end quarrel wif the customer coz the customer ask how come can only eat one siew mai, its the manager ownself ask the pantry lady to ration one, den in the end they fired the pantry lady for offending customer i think....
den the a4 paper every department muz draw and rationed to the extent that when you want to print something you must walk to the copier machine den put paper into the copier machine den go back to yr desk and click print. if u dun do that, ppl might sent print before you and intercept yr paper....
den in the end paper in the office is super precious, if u feed extra paper in the photocopier other ppl see liao sure tk it .. so people r trained to put correct num of paper to the tray and print fast wif no delay else no one to blame if paper get stolen..
and the computer they let those new employee use is a
Pentium III 866mhz 128 ram..
you're expected to ultilise this antique to do adobe products...i tried before.. end up i spent more time waiting den doing work.... waiting for the thing to load and process is more tiring den doing sia....when u use stil have to record down whats the purpose of using it and man hours..
our transport claim muz fill form alot fields to fill like time date how much the trip, mode of transport and time yr lesson start and supervisor singnature etc, very detailed scared u cheat them... den muz go thru detailed verification/// den every month submit once... need 1 mth to process and pay you... price is base on ezlink rate .,, u muz use own ezlink card... den if $14.95 they die die muz get 5 cent change from you kinda thing one...
den working hour is 8.30 - 5.30 den sat work for 4 hrs
den recently they improvise say what long weekend...... sat OFF but they extend working hour to 8.30 - 6.15 from mon - fri to compensate for sat off... if u calculate the hours.. its still same lor... say nice only what long weekend... pui...
den recently chinese nw yr ask ppl to go their hse... give ppl ang bao.. inside only $4... den on new yr eve... no orange no ang bao no nothing at all, work as per normal...
so this kind of company does anyone here has one that is worst den this...?
den christmas that time everyone must pay $10 each for christmas buffet... and need to pay an addition $15 for gift exchange.. if you suay suay kena cheapo gift den LL.....
den the water they have in pantry is use tap water fill up on the big mineral water container... tho outside write is buy the water one but in fact is filled up using tap water... still got records of interns peeing inside the container before due to being mistreated to do manual work when my company is actually dealing with IT educator...
den my company got conduct training one.. then the refreshment they provide to customer is so rationed that one person only allowed one siew mai. if take more den the rest will be able to eat at all...
den the sweet potato soup only got soup which has no taste.. sweet potato a few slices... not enuff to eat... end up the customer nv eat... den ask us to eat the left overs... eat liao realise inside nth one no wonder nobody one...
den they ask the pantry auntie to help ration food, in the end quarrel wif the customer coz the customer ask how come can only eat one siew mai, its the manager ownself ask the pantry lady to ration one, den in the end they fired the pantry lady for offending customer i think....
den the a4 paper every department muz draw and rationed to the extent that when you want to print something you must walk to the copier machine den put paper into the copier machine den go back to yr desk and click print. if u dun do that, ppl might sent print before you and intercept yr paper....
den in the end paper in the office is super precious, if u feed extra paper in the photocopier other ppl see liao sure tk it .. so people r trained to put correct num of paper to the tray and print fast wif no delay else no one to blame if paper get stolen..
and the computer they let those new employee use is a
Pentium III 866mhz 128 ram..
you're expected to ultilise this antique to do adobe products...i tried before.. end up i spent more time waiting den doing work.... waiting for the thing to load and process is more tiring den doing sia....when u use stil have to record down whats the purpose of using it and man hours..
our transport claim muz fill form alot fields to fill like time date how much the trip, mode of transport and time yr lesson start and supervisor singnature etc, very detailed scared u cheat them... den muz go thru detailed verification/// den every month submit once... need 1 mth to process and pay you... price is base on ezlink rate .,, u muz use own ezlink card... den if $14.95 they die die muz get 5 cent change from you kinda thing one...
den working hour is 8.30 - 5.30 den sat work for 4 hrs
den recently they improvise say what long weekend...... sat OFF but they extend working hour to 8.30 - 6.15 from mon - fri to compensate for sat off... if u calculate the hours.. its still same lor... say nice only what long weekend... pui...
den recently chinese nw yr ask ppl to go their hse... give ppl ang bao.. inside only $4... den on new yr eve... no orange no ang bao no nothing at all, work as per normal...
so this kind of company does anyone here has one that is worst den this...?
den christmas that time everyone must pay $10 each for christmas buffet... and need to pay an addition $15 for gift exchange.. if you suay suay kena cheapo gift den LL.....
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