“Wow, congrats!” My voice is louder than usual when it’s tinged with excitement. It’s two months ago, and my housemate Ronald has just told me and our other housemate Maya that he had decided to accept the job offer extended by this other company, after almost 5 years of working in SGV.
“Do you want to see the job offer?” He asks. When I nod, he hands it over to me and Maya before going up to his bedroom to collect his things for a shower. While he is busy upstairs, I peruse the thick document to check if he was getting a good deal. By the time he comes back down, Maya and I had a verdict.
“We now know why you decided to accept this offer,” I tell Nald when he ambled downstairs. He looked at me expectantly.
“I guess it’s because of the best benefit stated on this contract – the birthday cake.”
It was actually written on the contract that the employees have a birthday benefit – a birthday cake to be bought by the company for them on their birthdays. Did that really have to be mentioned on the contract? Hahaha.