Yeah, got a job through Emerio also, was desperate since already 4 months tanam anggur since I finished my contract job overseas. I can say that the term is very lousy. Anyway, since the project is a good one (SAP implementation), I decided to just bear with it. And I am under the impression that Emerio makan a lot from what the client pay for me monthly.

I've never work in a project implementation for an MNC in Malaysia before, but I think that the sum of 2500/mth is too small, isn't it ? Especially for contract jobs where u have zero long term job security.

Not HP but ACS. Hah hah, will only start this monday. The lady who will be my boss said that the "waktu masuk kerja" is flexible, so don't always have to fight the clock to be there exactly at 8:30, which is good enough for me. To have people give you the face cause you'll always 5 mins or 10 mins late sucks. So I guess that's a boon for me.

Work wise I don't know yet, my brother works there but he's a permanent staff already (3 years). It's an SAP project, so for me this is really THE chance to get out of the sinking telco ship. At least later I can do IT and Telco.

E***** keep asking me to refer my friends to them and get the referral bounty, as if rm300 is high enough to sell my friends . Hah hah.

Anyway, some of the terms that irk me are the

- 2 months notice period (most contract usually specify one month, some even put one week, especially for such a short contract),
- the paid by the month instead or per hour (obviously no OT, harder to get leave since they have to pay you)
- 12 days annual leave for completed 12 months of service (not 1 day of AL for 1 month of service) so with an 8 months contract basically I have no leave even for Hari Raya.

As for the benefit
- Usual EPF/SOCSO
- Group Insurance (how often you demam meh, and working in office the worst is you get hempap by some xerox machine)
- The contract is only for 8 months (short but long enough to cover the 2007 slot in your resume)

So as my boss said, contract job = cheap labor (in Malaysia at least)

Was interviewed by another company, (why this stuff always happened AFTER you signed a contract with somebody??!!). So there is some chance of a better opportunity elsewhere, IF it goes in the very near future (emphasized on IF). I'm not really hoping on it but I do like to keep my options open.

The problem is, if that happened, I still have to give E***** a 2 month's notice or compensate them with two month's pay. Imagine after working for only one week or so (hypothetical) then handing a notice to quit in 2 months. Ridiculous! My friend in HP said that his notice with E***** is only for one month!

So any of you guys have this kind of experience (or heard of it) with E ? Was wondering if they really will follow through or just let go?

After a few days in ACS I chose the latter , yeah, the money is nothing to shout about really (because of E), but the working environment is really nice, and all those people working there really pro at what they do, so it's more like work and training at the same time, cause at other company, they take you in and throw you to the sharks and ask you to swim to the other side.

In one week already learn a lot of stuff about SAP and all around you people are like walking SAP help page so that's a definite plus. I took the LRT there so alright la so far, don't have to fight the traffic with my rusty modenas. But if you don't have transport there lunch could be quite expensive (4-5 ringgit for nasi campur) cause there's only one food court at menara lien hoe for all the offices there.