Home-Based No More
POSTED AT 11:20 AM in My Life and what's left of it..., Writing for sanity's sake, Technology Slumbook (Life Made Simplier), My Little Nicholas, People

 I'm working in the office nowadays. It feels strange to be back in the office after almost a year of working telecommute. I have been used to being in my room the whole day, wearing my house dress, not combing my hair even (LOL!), doing house chores when there's nothing left to do for my job, exercising/dancing while waiting for blog submissions (ooppsss!)... but the most important thing I miss is being there with my baby -- No more playing with Nico when I'm taking a break from work, no more talking to him while working, no more eating lunch with him... Sigh.. I feel like I'm missing so much of my baby's growth.

Honestly, I feel cheated. Don't get me wrong. I am thankful that the Human Resource Department decided to map a career path for me and put me in the department where I should be. It actually felt good that they saw my potentials and decided that it will do me good if I am put in a more challenging position. I have nothing against that. What I didn't like was the fact that I seem to lose privileges instead of gaining some as I moved on to a higher position.

When I said privileges, I meant the convenience that was brought about by working at home. This is very important to me since I have a 10-month old baby at home who is used to seeing me everyday. Another thing is that I get to travel everyday -- I'm talking about additional expenses and time adjustment. All these are compounded with the fact that I have greater responsibilities here in the office. Sure I only have 10 workstations and 2 servers to monitor daily but I am fairly new in this kind of work and aside from monitoring the network and all the computer equipment installed herein, I am also doing PHP programming -- which I am yet to learned since I've only done VB.NET and C# programming before.

I accepted the job because it was indeed something I wanted to do. I am a technical person, a hardware techie by education and a software geek by experience. But I wuld have appreciated a formal training along with a formal transition, complete with a new contract that details all the changes in my tasks as well as privileges. My! I didn't even have an increase in my salary when I transferred to this position and they didn't hear me complain! I just hope they'll give me what I am worth, what I deserved. I mean, they took away my telecommute preivileges, they could have easily replaced that with another privilige or compensate it with an increase or just a daily allowance for travel expenses.

And now, after what, a week or so in this position, without a formal training whatsoever, I was already given a project -- a program that should be written in PHP. And it was assigned to me verbally! You see, I came from a corporate setup where every tool and application to be developed must go through a thorough system analysis to save cost and speed up the programming process. But they don't practice SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) here! I don't know if I can do the project. I really have no idea what to do, where to start... I feel like crying and quitting.

But I've never been a quitter. I've always been a fighter all my life. Thank God for inspirations like my little Nicholas and my wonderful friend and sweetheart Mark, I think I can go through this. I mean, Mark is right, I'll just have to do the best that I can do. Whatever the result is, I must be ready to face the consequences. And so, I think, instead of coding, I'll make a system analysis this week. I'll submit it to my Manager on Saturday for my progress report. Yup, instead of PHP scripts, I'll give him System Requirements. I do believe in the power of system analysis and it's high time for this company to follow an effective process rather than wasting time and money into programming systems that go on for months and months without the expected result just because it never went through a system analysis.

Ok. I feel ok now. I have ranted about this new job. It's time to do some work... Wish me luck!

Listening to: This Is How You Remind Me of Nickelback
Feeling: determined

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