empty wallets, offline ATMs and weird conversations

as of the time on my phone here at the office, its 4:38 friday morning, 20th of january. ack. 10 more days to go before payday. double ack. not that i absolutely have nothing on my wallet anymore, i just can’t help to see my payslip for the end of the month because 1] i had a number of overtime work put in and 2] i only had 1 absence! so if for the past month, i had at least 5 absences but still got something around 6k, then maybe…just maybe… aaacckkkk! im so darn excited! imma buy myself a book. i haven’t bought myself a book in months. and a new muffler. ooohhh. this is bad. spending my salary even before receiving it. maybe il just treat geebee to a dinner. and movies. gah.

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well having an empty wallet and offline ATM is something to thank for sometimes. in my case, i just saw somebody here at the office wearing the same SAME pale blue and lime green with baby pink stripes slingback sandals ive been salivating over with at Celine a few months back. its just plain luck that the reason I was at the mall was to meet somebody and return a couple of books, so i don’t have any cash with me except my card whereas the nearest back machine is offline and i absolutely am so tamad that day to walk a couple extra miles to withdraw. i promised myself id go back and buy a pair. i think i got wiped out by a car and bumped my head on the pavement on my way home that day because i completely, completely forgot about it. until today. whew. it would have been a bad day for me to be wearing the same fuckin’ pair of slingbacks as somebody working in the same office as me. thank god for inefficient Automated Teller Machines that should be online 24/7.

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on my way to work last night, the cab driver started a convo with me that seem typical at first…then became weird…then utterly hilarious i had to fight a snort:

cab driver: may lumalabas ba ng ganitong oras sa opisina nyo? (its 10pm)

me: wala po. mga 12, 1 at 3 ng umaga meron.

silence. and then…

cab driver: mahirap ba trabaho nyo?

me: okay lang. mahirap lang siguro dahil iba yung oras.

okay. this is still typical. until…

cab driver: mag aapply sana ako eh. marunong kasi ako mag french at spanish.

me: errmm…ah ok..

whoa! last i checked, our client is based in atlanta, gerogia and that is in the United States of America. our customers are scattered within the nine-state southern region namely and specifically: alabama. georgia. florida. tennessee. kentucky. louisiana. mississippi. north carolina. south carolina. i don’t see paris or spain. and last i checked, the main language used here is English, except maybe for the Florida Keys where some of our customers require to be transferred to our Spanish Helpdesk which is located in atlanta. so to you manong who boasts that he is qualified to work here in our company because he can speak french and spanish, ummm…i think you do great as a cabbie driver! have a safe trip!

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one of my customers opening spill when i received her call:

me: thank you for calling tech suppo.. 

customer (cuts in): i have a MAC, can you help me?

whoa (again). not because you’re using the Macintosh means you can intimidate me. and just because you have the mighty mac, it doesn’t mean that only a 10th level computer technician can help you. i always get that i-have-the-best-computer-called-macintosh whenever i receive calls like this. what’s with mac? just because your equipment is a lot more expensive doesn’t mean its way better. so there.