Job hop + retrenchment

I had a late dinner cum supper with my hostel mate/course mate at blk 85 (ba cho mee, yeah). The last time i met up with him was also eating ba cho mee at blk 85, which was 1 yr ago. It was then 2 days before he s gonna start work at AFPD. Coincidently, this evening wud be 2 days prior to my first day at HP. I remembered during the last meet up, he was then v excited abt his new found job, but this evening, he sounded super sian with it. .. sighz

Just received a msg from a lecture mate tat she has resigned her job at STmicro and is heading for panasonic. She is already the 3rd person i know who have quitted from that company. Seems tat job hopping is getting quite prevalent for ppl from my batch.

3 days ago, i visited my prev work place and received some bad news that 4 senior managers + 4 executives were retrenched in our head company. Thats very depressing, esp for those new managers and exec who have jus joined the group not long ago. But a couple of the snr managers were very pleased witht the outcome cos they had a very handsome sum of compensation ie. work for 30 yrs means getting 30 x monthly salary. One of them was a GM somemore, meaning he is getting at least 300K at one shot. .. *drool*

After the ba cho mee, i drove my fren to changi beach and we had a very nice and long chat, abt life and career. I guess i am much more fortunate than him, cos he has to share his bedroom with his sister and brother. Jus like me, he has been away from home for at least 6yrs during NUS and army, and shifting back home to stay with his family is not something he can accept easily. Its such an irony, i also know of some foreign students who yearn to stay with their parents and siblings, and singaporeans like us like to shift out and stay alone.

Just like jobs, there is this trend that i see-your-job-is-better and you-see-my-job-is-better, meaning i see u good, u see me good kinda situation. Can be easily explained by the Dharma, but i shall not preach too much as there r a few non buddhist frens reading my blog too :D