After about two weeks of sleepless nights, long hours at work and short-circuiting brains, we were able to deliver – as a team – and present our project in an excellent manner. Whew! All I can say now is this: I can sleep peacefully now without data hounding my mind and presentation materials flashing through my subconscious as I sleep. I can now concentrate on my tasks which has been piling up and needs to be completed within the week. I will still be spending long hours at work because of this but I think I can manage it more than […]
It’s a Win-Win Situation Afterall…
I mentioned yesterday about a job opportunity that came knocking. I’ve agreed to have a call with the Talent Acquisition Advisor, the one who contacted me via LinkedIn and we had the call about an hour ago. Their operations here in the Philippines is consolidated in one location only and their facility is in Batangas. The job requires someone very similar to what I am currently doing and one of the reasons that I fit their requirement, I learned, was my background on the business systems used. Apparently, they are having a hard time looking for someone with similar background that I […]
No Goodbyes, Just See You Around…
Today was the farewell party for our boss. Everybody was emotional, a lot of tears were shed. I myself had a hard time stopping myself from crying. The Friday before last, our boss had a big announcement where our director and general manager attended. He announced that he was leaving the company because of a better opportunity. While I already anticipated that one day, he will have to leave, the announcement came as a shock as I was thinking that this would be his last company before he retires. But then, I guess, fate had other ideas. He was given […]
When Vanity Strikes: Service Awards Banquet
I’m actually turning 10 years with the company on December 27. However, given that my 10th year is within the calendar year, I have been included in the more than 100 awardees for this year within the company. The awardees were the ones who have rendered 2, 5, 10, 15 and 20 years within the company. But that is not what I wanted to talk about. For every event that I am invited to that requires me to dress up, I need to allot about 2 months to find the right dress. Yep, you read it right – 2 months, at […]
Midnight Babbles: The Day shift…
It’s already the 14th of March this side of the world. Where did half of the month go? It seems like yesterday and I was thanking the heavens that February is over and here we are, already halfway through the next month. Sheesh! Since last week, I have been on the morning shift. In other words, I work like the rest of the normal people – 9AM-6PM shift. Traffic in the mornings is really bad but I have been enjoying the morning commute, for some twisted reason. LOL! I take the tricycle then I take the bus then walk the […]
Still Alive…
I haven’t been blogging as frequently as I wanted to these past few weeks because I have been very busy with work lately. One issue after another, all piling up and resolution is not as quick as we have wanted it to be. Sometimes, that is the dilemma that I encounter with working with people in different time zones all at time. Anyway, it is already February, the shortest month of the year and yet, almost always, feels like the longest month ever. We are already in the second week so far and I am so wanting this month to […]
Weekend Work
Weekend work, corporate life, corporate slave
12 Days of Gratitude – Day 4
Today is my last day of work for this year. I start my 2-week vacation next week and will be reporting back to work on the 5th of January. Weeee! 😀 Early this afternoon, my team went out for lunch. We didn’t talk about work but just had sort of spontaneous conversations. It was laid-back and it was fun. I really had a great time. I wish we could have extended our time but then duty calls and we had to get back to the office. As soon as we got back to the office, I picked up my laptop […]
#RandomThoughts: Friday Madness…
Warning: this is a rant post because I just want to rant. It is quite depressing to say the least. I just needed to get these things out of my system before I start exploding. I’ll try to keep it as tame as possible, though. Consider yourself warned. It’s payday Friday for most of us corporate slaves and some have already got their bonuses. All I can say when I when I saw my payslip is: “#$(%&^@#*!@+!@$# tax!!!!”. Yeah, I hate this time of the year when I get to open my payslip and see my year-to-date tax payment and […]
What Weekend?
It’s the weekend. Yes, I just wrote that as a statement. Yay? Nay? It’s nay for me. I am so not looking forward to this weekend but I have no choice. We need to get things done so we can move on with the schedule. In other words, I have to report for work. So, if someone says, “Happy weekend!”, I’d say, “What weekend?” This is the second weekend that I will have to work. I haven’t had any decent sleep since last week, worked last weekend, rendered long hours at work this week and now another weekend support. To […]