Wah, I cannot brain this one. Just when you think you’ve seen everything in the Malaysian job market, someone drops a bomb like this.
So, it happened yesterday. My company hired this new junior—fresh grad, looking quite sharp, actually. Everything was going okay during the morning briefing. But then, lunch break comes, and I see them packing their bag. I thought maybe they just going out for a quick bite, right?
Next thing I know, they walk up to me with this “paiseh” face and say they want to resign. On the first day. I was like, “Wait, what? Work too hard ah? Or you got better offer?”
The reply really made my jaw drop: “Actually, my mom don’t allow me take public transport. She say the LRT very dangerous and crowded, and she scared I get lost or something happen to me.”
I was stunned until I couldn’t speak. I asked them, “Then how you come today?”
They said, “Today my mom drive me, but she say she cannot do it every day because she got her own Zumba class and pasar pagi schedule. If I cannot drive myself—which I don’t have license yet—then I cannot work here.”
The “Strawberry” Level is Over 9000
I am not even joking. This is real life, not some TVB drama.
- The Commute: It’s just 4 stations away, we even have a covered walkway!
- The Logic: You are 23 years old, not 3 years old. How to survive in the corporate world like this?
- The Boss’s Face: My manager was just standing there, blur like sotong.
I know, I know… the public transport in KL can be a bit manja sometimes with the delays, but quitting because Mommy said no? That is a new level of “Child of Fortune” (Fu Dai).