Best Boss Ever.

I 've finally told my boss that I have to leave Boost.

I am leaving not because I hate working there, but cause I got kicked out of Panda's student accommodation and have no where else to stay in Canberra. Not renting a new place cause it just isn't worth it (will incur a VERY much higher cost).

Upon telling him, his first reaction was "Where you staying now?" (he heard wrongly and thought I am homeless). After knowing the whole story, he said he will try to dig out his contacts to see if they have a place for me to rent for AUD500 a month.

In the end can't find any. Not unusual. Cheapest rent here I've heard is AUD800 a month.

So we had a chat a couple days before. He ask me what are my plans when I go back Melbourne. Considering I can't leave Australia for good yet due to my stupid visa problem (still need police check up which might take up to 2 months).

I told him I'll be rotting away, being all jobless cause no one will want to hire me as I have a possibility of not being around during summer. I jokingly said I can slim down naturally as I'll be starving myself for 2 months cause have to depend on savings.

Instead of laughing, he looked very worried. He said he will help me and he really did (have to highlight cause I've heard enough of people volunteering to help but in the end disappear/no news!).

He gave me a lot of shifts so that I can earn money from him to last me till November.

He said if I am still around during summer, I can come back Boost Canberra anytime and he will take me in.

He also said he will be my referral, and if I want to work in Boost Melbourne, he call me to get the boss there to call him so that he can try to get me a job there.

I told him to give shifts to new people to train them up as I will be leaving at the end of the day.

He replied "I can train the new people anytime, but you have only two weeks to earn enough money to survive".

All these left me TOTALLY SPEECHLESS. I was touched beyond words. Felt extremely guilty,too.

I've been sharing a lot of stuffs that are not very nice about him with other colleagues, almost threw a fit and storm out of the shop halfway working cause argued with him, and despite all these... he still cares.

I have had bosses who cut my shifts drastically from 5-6 shifts to 2 shifts weekly solely because they heard that I am going to quit, and they rather train new staff, or pay old staffs who are staying. Never even ask about my well being, future plans.etc.

Gosh, I ♥ my boss now. He's the best.

And he pays REALLY REALLY REALLY well. Next two weeks's pay can last me 1.5 months. On top of that he's very generous with gift cards, and even profit earned..10% will be given to us as "bonus/tips". Where to find bosses like this?!  A lot of bosses I know of, would rather keep their profits to themselves.

I really want to stay now. sigh.


Glad I did him proud :

My manager and I got our shop's first 100% when HQ (headquarters) sent a spy to rate our shop for QC (quality control) !!!! =D