She wants to go on leaves

Gal gal told me that she wants to take urgent leaves from 11-17 December, and she asked whether she should take unpaid or advanced leaves from next year; she only has 2.5 days annual leaves till end of the year. I told her to quickly apply for unpaid leaves, as it's not the company policy to grant advanced leaves.

She will be going back to her hometown, but the flight tickets are sold out during that period, if there's still available, she wants to book it fast. I checked out the airlines' online ticketing website, really, either sold out or no more cheaper deals, after all, it's end of year's holiday season. For those 'non-saver' flights, with return, costs about 1000++, wow, that's not cheap!

Going on leaves

I will be clearing my leaves for the whole of next week, having informed my backup that I will not be contactable, whether via email or phone, I am serious to say that "I'm going on leaves!". Oh yeah, no more work...ha ha ha...

I hope gal gal will not call or email me, she likes to do that, whenever I go on leaves. Sometimes I think that I'm just too "soft-hearted" when I see her emails or messages, and then I replied her, this time, no way!

My backup has much more experience than me, so, I think she (not dear gal gal, another lady) can managed the project and the team well. The other day, she told me that Boss wants to know whether I'm interested to do a job scheduler migration project, which is going to last about 6 months. Well, I told her, "let me think about it, I may have other plan.". What I want is to let me get out of this project first, I told her boss agreed to let her take over from me starting Jan-10, I'm counting down now...YES!

Phew...been there, done it!

Finally, the disaster recovery exercise was completed yesterday. What a relief for everybody, it was only once a year thing, but so much things to do.

This time round, gal gal was tasked to coordinate the exercise (used to be me!), I can see that she had a hard time. She called me a couple of times to complain about problems with the work.

Well, I think this exercise was a good test for her, even though she had told me that she wanted to quit after all this, because this job is not suitable for her. She wanted to venture into business, so that she can help her parents run their rice sale and export business in their hometown.

Hmm...when she just joined our team, she told me she wanted to do SAP just like her friends, but now...