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  • This Is Not Fan Fiction.

    Random pic ✅️⬆️ Random caption ✅️➡️ And I’d give up forever to touch you

    But first, the sidebar you didn’t ask for.

    Yesterday, I realised I was battling a silent addiction.

    I sat in the office for a good five minutes before everything started feeling deafeningly louder — the silence, the loneliness, the coldness of the room.

    Without noticing, I found myself reaching into my bag for my earphones.

    My hands trembled with an urgency that felt almost ridiculous, like a bobblehead bobbing on the dashboard of a lorry hurtling down a rocky road in Western Malaysia.

    For a fleeting moment, it genuinely felt as though I couldn’t bear another second without music.

    That’s my addiction.

    Music. Bet you were waiting for a druggy confession! Hah.

    But somewhere along the way, I had definitely forgotten how to sit alone with my own thoughts. That’s not great!

    So, here I am now, trying to sit alone with my thoughts (at least until these words get read, haha).

    Here’s the not-fan fiction you’ve been waiting for

    Someone told me I was trying to gather material to produce fan fiction for my blog.

    That seemed like a request.

    I need to please my audience, but I simply cannot come up with fan fiction out of nowhere. 

    Instead, I come bearing a poem I wrote last July about a totally fictional moment.

    I’m no Edgar Allan Poe. Enjoy, though.

    July Twenty Twenty-Five

    That’s all. Kthxbye!

  • NOT a rant, NOT an exposé

    Random Pic ✅️⬆️ Random Caption ✅️➡️ “Cash rules everything around me“

    Updated post!

    Let’s nosedive straight into it.

    Like many companies all around the world, the one I work for has been subjected to automation and restructuring.

    The good news is that the “retrenchment exercise” appears to have been kept to a minimum, with only four or five people (that we know of, at least) let go.

    So, what’s the problem, you ask?

    The lack of transparency and honesty truly stings.

    The company did not tell us about the retrenchment exercise.

    Instead, the boss skirted questions asked about it during a meeting with the employees.

    On top of that, department heads — who would ordinarily be in a position to speak up for affected employees — were themselves left out of the loop.

    The boss also did not explain why they were neither informed nor involved in the decision-making process.

    We, the employees, have been locked in confusion for the past few weeks since news of retrenchment started taking the shape of fearful whispers in the office.

    Adding to the confusion, some retrenched employees who were on holiday were left out of the loop.

    But wait, it gets weirder with the retrenched employee(s).

    I’m going to have to continue later because dinner awaits.

    Watch this space, kthxbyel8r.

    UPDATES here!

    Alright I am back, and have more to say.

    Adding another twist to the saga, at least one affected employee still does not appear to know they have been retrenched.

    We initially figured — through process of elimination — that the employee had been retrenched, since they were still away on holiday and we were told only one person had yet to be informed because they were on annual leave.

    It has been about two weeks since the first employee in this latest round of retrenchments was informed.

    This, in itself, is a problematic situation.

    I have questions.

    Here are my questions:

    ♡ Why have they not sent an email, or arranged for an online meeting, to inform the employee(s)?

    ♡ Where is the retrenched employee and why have we not heard from them, when we’ve heard from everyone else?

    Rumour has it the employee has extended their holiday, creating the rather absurd situation of someone possibly outlasting a retrenchment simply by not coming back yet.

    I’m curious and want to know what’s up.

    Okay that’s all for now, kthxbyegn ♡