Application to another company

Last month I applied to another company. It is a company that has a very similar environment as the one I currently work with but it supports another product.

Let me first say that I love my current company right now. I like the working environment plus I am still satisfied with the compensation that I am getting. I also like the fact that the company (especially our department) offers a lot of opportunities since it is still expanding and opening up new teams or groups.

Then why did I apply to another company? Well, you might have noticed in my other logs how QA scores conscious I am. That is because, we have been warned, time and time again to have passing QA scores or else..... To make a long story short (since I have been getting a non passing mark for sometime already), I got scared with regards to stability to retain my job in the company. So aside from praying really hard to have passing QA scores and always trying to do my best in my calls, I decided to look for my options just in case the 'or else' happened.

So I immediately thought of this other company wherein a couple of my former officemates from my former company is working. I also loved company (I worked here for 6 years) but is already closed now. They have very good feedback with their company (as I said they have the same working environment as the company I am working for with now plus according to hearsay, pay is better). It just so happens that they have my exact position posted in Jobstreet, so I applied online and after a few hours of applying online, their HR contacted me.

I was planning to go until I received news from my current company that I have Agent of the Year and Perfect attendance Awards(I do have other posts for that). So I texted the HR and said I would not be able to go since I am scared of being absent (I believe that is the # 1 reason why you would be given papers to go in our company). Plus I was thinking this was a sign that I should still be OK with my current company. HR called me up and rescheduled me. So I went and I was interviewed by 2 engineers.

Here comes the conflict....I did not tell anybody from our team that I was applying. 2 of my officemates knew because we all go home at the same time. It just so happens that one of the engineers is friends with our Department head and as the story goes, the engineer told our dept head that I was applying (Kakahiya, di ba?)

Well, Dept Head talked to me along with my supervisor and to have the gist of it assured me that my job is secured which is I guess what is really important to me.

I just hope that my applying to another company does not have an effect on my performance evaluations (success factors) since it is time for that already.

As for the other company, they have not called me back. I guess they did not find me fit for their company. I take that as a definite sign that I would be staying put in my current company. Which is actually what I had hoped for when I first became an employee here...I hoped that this would be a company I could grow old with.

Whenever I see some old friends of mine and they ask me how I am in my current company, my consistent response?
"So far, so good"
I hope it stays that way.