Woke up at 4 in the morning, not because I am nervous about the interview, it’s because I’ve been living in a different time zone this past month.

Ken came to pick me up at about 8.30am, went to Phileo, met up with the rest of the “team” and started our journey to Rawang, the suburb of KL.

The “new boss” wanted to base the office in Rawang and everyone is against it.

It was a freaking 32 kilometers from Phileo Damansara to Rawang, where the “new boss” of my “new company” is situated. I didn’t know places like this existed in KL, I don’t recall the last time I see mist and mountains in my working clothes. We reached at about 9.30am.

After we got our visitor’s pass, we have to TAKE OF OUR SHOES before entering the building!! What the..nevermind…

We were all in Conference 1, where I was introduced to the rest of the team. Then the “new boss” came in, talked a bit, handed out some forms to fill out and went to the other room with the MD…

After 1 freaking hour, they came out and the “new boss” wanted to meet us one by one. I was last to go in, it was about 12.45pm and I still haven’t had my breakfast..jeez…

I went in, asked me some usual questions and I went out. The “new boss” followed me out to Conference 1 and asked us to follow him upstairs in to another room. What’s wrong with Conference 1?

In the room, he said that he is still in the process of negotiating the franchise from Germany, which means he is NOT THE BOSS…yet….(that explains the quotations above)…..Why is he asking the whole team to go interview if he is not the boss? Nevermind, it’s not that I have tons of stuff on my hands right now.

After a bit of talking, he came to the point where it matters the most, the location of the new office, IF he gets the franchise. He said things like this:

“Willey is one of the worlds largest publishing house and they deal with billions of ‘paunds’ and they are situated in Chichester, about 2 hours drive from London.”

“Their sales people travel everywhere to get sales and it is not a problem because they plan their journey so no time is wasted.”

“A house in PJ, KL, Damansara is about RM500k, but a semi-d in Rawang is only about RM300k.”

“I come from Selayang and my house is only RM270k.”

“You will find quality of life in Rawang.”

And the one i like best is:
“Afterwards when we go out for lunch, I am not paying, you guys pay yourself, see how cheap the food here is.”

He is talking like everyone who wants to work with him should get a property in Rawang because the cost of living is low compared to KL, quality of life is high, and Mid Valley is only 2 hours away.

Everyone fought back saying it’s hard to go to events, client’s and also hard for the clients to come over. He accepted and decided he’ll get an office in the Klang Valley, IF he gets the franchise.

According to the “new boss”, we will start working on 1st December 2006, IF he gets the franchise.

We went for lunch after the meeting, the “new boss” didn’t join us as he had another appointment. We had yong tau foo. It is freaking expensive, KL price, in Rawang. So much for paying ourselves. Thanks Liau for the lunch.

Went back to Phileo at about 3pm. Ken gave me a tour of the closing office.

I have to start looking for other alternatives as I am seriously broke. I’ll see how it goes. I think I can manage…..I hope…

Went back to my ex-company this afternoon to give all the DV tapes and VCDs to my ex-boss, Mr. Chin, and to wish him Happy Birthday as well. 

Some of you might know, there’s been a slight problem with my future company.  They are closing down before my commencement date…..yeah I know, tough luck. 

So my ex-boss got the news from “someone” and asked me to consider going back to work with him.  “You are always welcomed here, but let me know fast lah….” was his exact words.

I went visiting my ex-colleagues, all of them wanted me to go back and work with them.  I really hope that I can but I don’t really want to work under a management like that. (Long story, I’ll blog about it when I feel like it).

I’ll think very seriously about my ex-boss’s offer. 

I went to sleep very early at about 11.00pm, then Ken called at 12.22am, waking me up.  Conversation goes like this:

Ken: Dude, Wednesday interview, the new boss wanna interview everyone that is still interested
Me: Yeah ok..What time?
Ken: We’ll be meeting in Phileo at 8am then we’ll go to Rawang where the new boss’s company is..
Me: Rawang??!! I hope he won’t setup the company there…
Ken: Most probably not….anyways, I’ll update you…Just be there at 8 on Wednesday…
Me: ok…bye…

8 in the morning???? That’s like the time I supposed to sleep, but I’ll be there.

To be honest, I don’t really have what it takes to take up this job.  I need to be very good in English and also very well versed in computing hardware and software, both of it I am half tank water…..

I guess life’s without a challenge….

Hi….I am Justin…just an average guy from Malaysia. I have this domain for 1 year and I’ve been using it for it’s email….I guess I’ll be updating my stuff here…

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