It's final

My accusations in my resignation letter have been confirmed this morning. The company indeed does not promote project management. My resignation was accepted via my supervisor who called to ask if I can make my last day sooner than I planned. The conversation he had with the boss totally baffled me because it referenced something I USED to do three years ago, and no longer do (developing databases), and somehow this was inserted into the conversation as if I were quitting because the company does not recognize this type of work as project management. I swear I made absolutely no mention of IT work, and somehow this was interpreted as my definition of project management.

I'm beginning to realise that no matter how long I would have stayed with the company I would have always been seen as a database developer rather than a project manager who just happens to know which tools to use in management and how to actually use them (MS Access, MS Project, MS Excel, Prolog, etc). Apparently, it's undesirable for a project manager to also have technical skills.

Sigh.

Yeah, whatever. Obviously the boss did not understand the entire point behind my resignation. And obviously he has reached the conclusion that within the company's screwed up priorities he cannot offer me the promotion I want. (Notice how I never even mentioned a raise? Because that wasn't the point behind my resignation!).

My last day is July 20th.

I shall remind everyone that I resigned without a job lined up.

But as a strong believer in "things happen for a reason" - a minute after I logged on the computer this morning, I received an email from my future employer that the RFQ I've been waiting for since April 1st, has come out, and the proposal is due tomorrow! This means, a decision about the winning company will be made shortly after (a week or so).

In this strange turn of events it means I may not get the vacation I planned - sitting at home in August and September.

I have to consider negotiating this into my new contract considering the circumstances.

Amazing how things happen all at once and never trickle.

Now I'm under tremendous amount of stress to transfer my work to someone else and remove every porn file off my work laptop before returning it. Don't want anyone jumping into conclusions. And boy am I glad that the former IT guy reading my blog is not going to tell the new IT guy to look for it. (HINT, HINT!)

I'm feeling relieved to be free of the company's bonds, knowing that this is definitely not the right company for me considering how they've dealt with me so far. But I'm also feeling frustrated and disappointed that they didn't get my point which I thought I was very clear about in my resignation letter (right, anonymous?).

I don't know when I'll write the next post, but I'm really hoping it'll be to break the news about my new job. But then again, my new job is with one of those agencies I cannot mention in a blog. So you may all have to figure it out on your own.