Yes, my company had declared new benefit to the staff. It was declared few months ago. It was Birthday leave. Why declared few months ago and now only I want to talk about it? The story is like this.

This month is my birthday, so I apply Birthday leave. Before apply, I asked someone how to apply it. Very simple, just wrote an email to your boss and forward his/her reply to floor representative.

I followed her instruction but I got rejected from my boss. The reason was I still have many leave on hand. So he wants me to clear it first because starting this year we can’t carry our balance leave to next year.

And he told me this is not a valid benefit because it subject to your boss to approve or not approve. If is like that, then HR shouldn’t declare it as a benefit. For me benefits mean everyone will have it without any objection. And this Birthday leave not everyone will get it, it depends on your boss.

Sigh, really have no idea on what HR trying to do. For me , this HR can be having and can be not. They do not really benefit us.

No wonder I did not receive the email that they mentioned these few days. After checking on the email group, only realize my name is not there, my name still in the old group that had expired long time ago. The I.T. team did not update my group information and I am the only person in my floor is excluded. How come they are so careless?

Today I had sent out an email and request them to include my name into the group. So I should be receiving the same information in future.

Yesterday attended the talk from HR regarding the new bonus payout system. It was presented by local HR manager. They split it into few groups and I believe I am in the last group as I knew my other department colleagues had attended it.

Currently our bonus payout is depends on personal performance which we called PPR and company performance. Each employee will have their own base figure. But this figure has not change since 2 years ago. So the formula is like this PPR (%) X BASE X Company (%) => bonus. The BASE is fixed.

Now they came out this system. The formula still the same but the BASE will change every year. Our BASE will be our last year bonus figure. So, if you didn’t perform last year plus the company performance is bad, then your bonus will be screw up. You need few years to build back the base, and are not easy to do it in real life. And in future, our bonus base will be smaller and smaller.

But our HR manager is saying different from what we think. She always looks at the good side and ignores the bad side. In real life, it is not saying we want to get it means we can get it, there are many other issues on behind. So we ended up with not satisfy, but we can’t do anything, we just need to follow.

Today will be my first day of HTML5 training. The training will take 2 days. I missed the last month training so I have to join this month training. Last month was held in Asia time zone, but this month will be UK time zone. The training will be whole day training so it will be Malaysia time starting from 3:30pm till 11:30pm.

I think it will be tough time for me as the last time I picked out HTML was many years ago. So I believe there will be many question marks in my mind. But it is good to learn it as now the direction are in web based, so it will be a good future with this knowledge.

My company had changed the below policy.

It is sad that I am not allowed to carry forward my leave for next year Chinese New Year. Is their reason really the truth? For me, I don’t think that’s the reason. I guess it is because people resigned with many annual leave left, so it is not enough time for them to hands on the work to others and they had to pay for their annual leave to make them stayed for 2 months. I think this company is getting worst and worst.