Leave immediately

I was asked to leave immediately when I tendered my resignation.

I panicked. I had to delete my emails. There were some personal ones there.

Oh no!

I quickly packed my bag and said my hurried goodbyes to everyone.

"You kept it so quiet," one of them said.

Not exactly. I just quit 2 hours ago.

"Is there a place that is better than here?" He asked. "Where are you going?"

"XXX"

He kept quiet.

G (one of the chiefs) called me into the room and asked me to call him after two years. There will be something for me on his team.

I plan to stay there (new place) forever actually. But who knows. Thanks G.

My company director called me to apologise for having to ask me to leave immediately. It is the company's policy for employees to leave immediately if he/she is joining the competitor. He did not for once ask me why I was leaving as if he knew already why. He knew that the current position was undermining my talents and my immediate supervisor was struggling to keep me on his team. I could sense it in his voice that he was already expecting this. He was gentle. He told me he was happy for me and I will do well at my new place.

A banker called when he heard the news and he said, "Ya, silly woman. I told you to leave right from the beginning. I told you you are good and you deserve much better. Doesn't matter what you choose, you will do well."

"I wanted to leave but I couldn't find a job." I explained.

"You can find anything you want. You did not look." He reprimanded. He had been reprimanding me for last two years.

To be honest, I did look for a job. I just couldn't find anything. Everything time a job came close to being offered, it fell through.

A flood of well wishes came in when the news broke.

"Ya. waste time doing what you are doing. waste your talents." another banker called to say.

"What? Why?" I said and frowned.

I know why. I was put there for two years to learn meekness and humility, to learn that you can't always get what you want.

However, I did enjoyed my last one year. It was a job that require 10% of my intellectual capacity which leave me with a lot of capacity to do different things - surf the net, read, meet NP for pratas and for lunch and to talk rubbish, irritate NP, read lots of annual reports and trade stocks, made some and went out to spend those, attend cooking classes, have tennis lessons, .....

I started a blog because I was bored too. I started writing short stories because I was bored.

I did so much outside of work. My after-work activities became my full-time job. All that is going to change in a month's time.

Everything that had happened were all timed properly. When I looked back and reflected, I realised I was really in God's hands. He had been in control and I know He will continue to be in control. Tommorrow, my first copy of IHT, which I subscribed last week, will arrive as if someone knows by tommorrow, I won't have papers to read. I won't have access to the company's subscribed papers. Everything is in order, right to the smallest details - whether D will have papers to read or not from tommorrow onwards.

It is totally divine.