Brenda’s Departure

Tomorrow will be my colleague Brenda’s last day working at SNEF. It has been about 9 months of having her around and I know its going to be odd, now that one of our team members is missing.

I recalled that when Brenda first joined the project team, my HOD assigned me to team up with her as Team B… and plan to achieve our KPI together as a team. It was an interesting start-off, as it was my first time leading and teaming up with a colleague at work.

There were occasional chats and discussions about work in the small meeting room next to the CareerLink Centre. What’s more, she is a female, so that gave much of a challenge to me; noting the last workplace that I came from.

In the later months, Brenda became more independent (Yes, she is indeed a very independent worker) and I was unofficially no longer leading her in the same team. After all, we had each taken on tasks which are different from each other.

Since then, my interaction with her started to lessen, except for occasional chats, especially when we are working on the same Saturday shift with me and those assigned to Group C on the Saturday duty roster.

I am not sure what is her reason for leaving (after all, every workplace has its own politics and other matters), but I sincerely wish her all the best… and I am just glad to have met such an independent, committed and efficient colleague!