Last year, I resigned and joined this transportation company that I thought I would work for till I pensioned. This year, I resigned. Yes, that fast. I guess I should have learned more about working for companies that offers 'free' stuff to people before I joined.
When I first joined, I received two Kilometrico pens and a stapler without bullets. There's no coffee, tea or Milo in the pantry. They only supply you with water. Need a cuppa? Get it from the other office that you're sharing space with.
They said I have annual leaves but I cannot use it until I get my confirmation in six months. I have to use unpaid leaves if I needed to take any. And what happens? The calculation of unpaid leave is very expensive which by Labour Law is wrong and should be the lesser amount deducted.
I cannot claim if I travel for a seminar, to see clients or anything that I do for the company unless the destination is more than 80km away. I cannot claim for the trip to the airport even if it is during wee hours in the morning when I need to travel overseas for work.
The 'free' tickets for staff travel cannot be used during weekends, public holidays, school holidays, etc etc....You can only travel during off peak periods. Infant below 2 years of age can travel for free BUT you have to pay the administrative charge to add an infant name onto the travel ticket and the charge is more than what you have to pay for the staff ticket.
You can only nominate 10 people to use your staff ticket once a year on 31st December. If you had an additional family member in the middle of the year, sorry, you'd have to pay full price for this person.
On the employee handbook, it says the notice period you have to serve when you resign is 1 month but when you sign your offer letter, it says 3 months.
Your boss can only approve an early release in terms of the number of days. No matter what, you'll still have to pay for early release. Although the company handbook says there's such a thing as an early release, don't bet on it because the HR policy says there's no such practice.
As soon as you resign, you cannot use your remaining annual leaves anymore. If you have an emergency, you'll have to take unpaid leave that, again, costs more than an annual leave. The calculation is such that when you are paid, it is the least amount and when you have to pay back, it's the most amount. Nevermind the Labour Law because their interchangeable company policy is more important.
Your last salary will be paid upon the company's terms and it can be a few months late even if Labour Law says it shall be paid on the last day. This is because HR makes you sign a clearance form that says they have to check from their insurance company on any excess on outpatient treatment or hospitalisation even if you've given them all the receipts and have not gone to the hospital or even if you've not visited any doctor in the year. And the insurance company may take few months to reply, which you have no say and control of.
Their salary slip is computerised and you can only view yours through the intranet every month. This means you have no access of your last salary slip since your login ID will be terminated on your last working day and it is in their hands to give you a copy or not. This also mean that you cannot check if their calculation on your last salary is correct.
Can I also say that the newspaper reports are wrong? The CEO declared bonus last year which came out in the newspapers but I haven't seen a single cent of it till today.
And what about the free tickets that they give away? Well, it's easy because the zero price flights will be the ones that you won't want to take, say 6.30am in the morning that you have to get to the airport by 4.30am which only means waking up at 2am to take a cab or the bus to the airport. Or, the 8pm flight that arrives at sleeping time at your destination. How do they cover the profits on these zero priced seats? The prices on the peak period flights are increased of course so make sure you book the peak period flights before they have their zero priced tickets.
You've got the zero priced tickets? That's really great! But you know if you cannot travel on the far into the future dates, you better be prepared to lose whatever airport tax that is refundable because the administrative charge to refund you the airport tax will definitely be more than the airport tax itself.
Although I did not receive much increments and bonuses in my previous company, I didn't write about them when I left because at least they were genuine and had good practice. Many people would have trusted this recent company that I just left but it's just too bad that they make their staff feel cheated.
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