{"id":5438,"date":"2009-08-19T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T01:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=5438"},"modified":"2009-08-19T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T01:00:28","slug":"employer-and-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/08\/19\/employer-and-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Employer and Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nope this is not some salacious romance story, folks.\u00a0 Sorry to disappoint \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I wonder if anyone have experienced situations where your organisation (the Employer) decides to hold a meeting\/talk\/discussion etc on the Eve (I bet you guys thought of a lady, eh?) of an important date or public holiday or long weekends. And this meeting\/talk\/discussions will take place as late as possible &#8211; 5pm, 6pm or even at night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Imagine, coming Thursday is a public holiday, and a memo arrives today from your boss, saying there&#8217;s a compulsory talk on &#8220;How to save money by switching of lights&#8221; by a consultant at 6pm on the eve (Wednesday).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Or how about a meeting to discuss &#8220;company trip&#8221; on eve of first day of the fasting month?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">National Day falls on a Monday, so you&#8217;ll have a long weekend, and most of us will have planned for a trip. Imagine on Friday evening, the CEO wants to meet the employees and give his monthly talk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I guess you get the point.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If happens one time, OK la. But if all the time &#8211; Chinese New Year, Deepavali, etc pun sama.\u00a0 People want to go back and try avoid jam, but employer has other ideas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is it a rarity or normal thing that happens everywhere?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nope this is not some salacious romance story, folks.\u00a0 Sorry to disappoint \ud83d\ude42 I wonder if anyone have experienced situations where your organisation (the Employer) decides to hold a meeting\/talk\/discussion etc on the Eve (I bet you guys thought of a lady, eh?) of an important date or public holiday or long weekends. And this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[217],"class_list":["post-5438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5440,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions\/5440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}