Mood

(This dream was recorded on 21 November 2004)

(Background: Hubby learned that his company laid off forty-eight staff while he was on a work trip in Thailand. At the moment he hasn‘t been back to work yet. So he knows nothing more than that. I had the following dream in my afternoon nap.)

Hubby returns to work after three weeks away.

He goes to the Human Resource Department where he sees Antonia, the Human Resource Manager, and another new face, male.

He has been given a booklet about the company’s recent restructuring. But he wants to find out a bit more about it and has some questions on employment relationship.

Apparently part of the new structuring rules include that, if an employee has an employment relationship enquiry, he/she must first go to see the company’s new Senior Legal Executive (whose salary is $57,000), the new face in Antonia’s office. In the past, the company had a Junior Legal Executive to handle these enquiries, who has now been replaced by this Senior Legal Executive.

Hubby asks a few questions. Antonia says that she has already explained things at the company meeting in detail and that if he reads the booklet he was given, the answers are pretty much there. There is a piece of transparency (one of the transparencies she used for the presentation at the company meeting) on top of everything on her desk, on which a few key words are written. One word which is circled and emphasised is the word mood. She explains to hubby that, sometimes a seemingly serious or big matter is actually a small matter, and needs not be attended to immediately because it occurs when people are in a bad mood. When people sort out their mood, so is the matter concerned.

The whole time the Senior Legal Executive didn't say a word.