The last 2 days has been really a roller coaster.

I had lunch at a Japanese restaurant yesterday where I ordered Oyako Don, a fairly "safe" rice dish.  To my surprise, I got a bowl of Oyako "Porridge"!!  Half the rice was soaking wet!

The biggest shocker was today's tiff with Finance/HR in my company.  I started my internship on 2 Jan, for a low monthly pay of S$1000.  To my surprise at pay day today, they gave me a check for S$954.55!  I asked the Finance lady who replied me unblinkingly "that's because your contract started on 2 Jan".  

I tried to argue that 1 Jan was a PUBLIC HOLIDAY, but she said that's the policy, and it would be unfair to other employees if I was paid otherwise?!  I wonder if she had her salary pro-rated because of the public holiday as well?  And why didn't HR explain the salary policy at the start? 

Frankly, I was infuriated.  The money is really just spare change.  But I felt CHEATED and insulted.  And to think I willingly did 60-hour weeks without billing overtime hours!   If they wanted to count the beans, fine, I'll count them as well.  How did they end up paying me $954.55?  If it was 30 days, then 30/31 x $1000 = $967.74.  Even if they used a 30 day calender, then 29/30 x $1000 = $966.66.  Can somebody teach me the logic behind their computations?

My resolution is that this company is just too stingy to value its people.  Not my type.