To Leave or Not to Leave...

a few months ago, our Company have declared its intention to merge with our Parent Company in the near future to cut operational cost...

merging or co-location, as they term it, would mean possible employee lay-off due to job redundancies... and if you are one of us who have been working for the Company for the past 5 to 15 years, it is normal to be shocked by the news...

we will possibly lose not just the job we have grown to love for years but also the friends we have treated as brothers and sisters here... and we dreaded the coming of each day waiting for another announcements that would definitely change our lives...

last week, the news came...

it was announced that employees can now apply for a Special Early Retirement Offer that would give the approved employee the benefit of receiving a generous amount computed as
"basic salary X 200% X years of service"...

BUT there were conditions attached to the offer...

first, you can apply but there's no guarantee that you will be chosen... and those chosen ones but do not want the offer can still decline (we love our work!!!)...

second, our respective Managers/Dept. Head will choose who will qualify for the the Benefits ... they said these are the non-performing employees, whose absence will not be felt much by the Company... i bet anyone chosen will be insulted, rather than delighted...

third, even if you want to avail of the offer but you were identified as a critical employee, meaning they can't survive without you, you cannot avail of the offer... sadly, i belong here and i realized that being good at work does not really pays off all the time... remember my "Im Confused" post?... they never allowed me to move to the other department where i know i could grow... and it really makes me sad until now... (k, so much for that)...

fourth, the list of the chosen ones should be submitted this Friday, barely two weeks after the announcement... and you must leave the Company by the closing hour of September 30... (wow, that was too fast)...

from being sad, employees are now confused... that was a big amount to begin a new life with, anyway... but the million dollar decision to make is whether:

TO LEAVE OR NOT TO LEAVE

3 more days to go before we know the final verdict...