19 more days

I've finally handed my resignation in yesterday and what a day yesterday was.

There are many reactions to an action, and actions are formed from reactions. My resignation was due to many negative feelings towards the company, the management and even Mumbai was burrowing it's way through my head. So this was an action. My reaction was handing in my resignation. This reaction in turn caused a reaction.

Initially my main worry was that they would be very angry about the resignation and tell me to leave straight away, which wouldn't be good for my self confidence and the motivation of the others who would have witnessed this act of unprofessionalism.

My worries actually shifted to the fact that the silly HR manager (who has no idea on how to help the employees but actually does a wonderful job of making lives harder) wasn't in, so i left my letter on her desk and waited. To my annoyance, she wondered in late at around 12pm. This is where the "fun" started. I had told a few of my colleges that i had handed in the letter so they, like me, were taking quick glances at the HR managers cubicle. I got tired of waiting and plus my lunch had arrived in a M branded brown paper bag, yum!

As i left the eating area (pantry as it is called in the office) i was told that the HR manager was looking for me. I went to her office, politely knocked on her door and walked in. What i find sitting opposite the HR manager is the TANK. If you have played Left for Dead then you'll know the TANK as a big, ugly, misshaped triangle who is very annoying. This is the same guy but he likes to dress up to make it seem that he's actually more important then he really is. Honestly, it's horrible! The guy is about 50 and he chats up all the girls in the office, except the fat girl. Anyway, so i was told that she'll ring me when she's free (from this evil abomination).

I waited and waited, then finally i was told to go and see the CEO in his office. Remember when you were a kid and you were told to go and see the headmaster when you were naughty? That's what it felt like; in fact, i've never actually been called into the headmaster's office so it's what i assume it would feel like. I walk into his office and see that the three most senior people in the games division are sitting there waiting for my arrival.

I was nicely asked to sit down on what i must admit was a very comfortable chair. Then he told me that i they had accepted my resignation and that i would have to stay until the 20th of September so that i could be there to help finish the milestone. I agreed, of course. They also asked me what was good and what was bad, which i felt was an odd thing to ask during a meeting like this. I told them that the bad part was the overtime and the good part was the team. The team being mainly the programmers but then i changed to the whole games division team. This was all the truth. If the development people weren't so good with me then i'd have left the next day after arriving in this company!

So i wondered back to my desk and along the way telling the programmers that my final day is the 20th. Then, one by one three programmers get called in to get a nice motivational speech so that the team would work harder and (unfortuneatly longer hours. It worked though but it was unavoidable since we had a large amount of work to do in a very short time.

I'll miss the programming team and many of the other people from the departments who i've talked to. It was a fun, exciting roller coaster of a time but only at office. I didn't travel much because it was a bit of pain to travel on the worlds most crowded trains!