what’s up with the world?
August 25, 2006i have not been updating for a few weeks and its because of the following reasons:
a) ive been sick. seriously, really sick. not sick of my job sick or sick of this world sick but really, really and genuinely sick. sick as in bronchial asthma. ive been coming to work every other day and ive been downing inhaling powder-like medicine to ease my lungs and make me breathe better. and its not a pretty sight. its gross and very wa-poise. ugh.
b) there’s just nothing. nada. zero. zilch. empty, boring life. you don’t wanna read me ranting out how tired i am and how sick i am and how suicidal ive been. anyway, there’s just nothing interesting. so everytime i indulge myself in the internet, i just pass time browsing from one blog to another, one shopping site to another, one movie site to another until my eyes are too tired and red to take the glare of the monitor screen. so there.
but the purpose of this post is not to rant, but to update. so here goes:
* the guimaras oil spill. i don’t really buy or read any of the national broadsheets unless im forced to (when i was in school). but last sunday as i was walking home, i picked up my weekly copy of the Midland Courier (baguio’s local paper) and inquirer’s cover picture caught my attention. without even reading the headline or even cover story, i added it to my local paper and went straight for a Mcdonald’s fix. the moment ive settled myself and stared at the broadsheet’s cover story, i was stunned. i felt sorry. i was thinking, what a shame it is to lose all that ecological treasure. then out of the blue, i felt a familiar sensation creep down my spine: anger. how can they be that irresponsible? and why is Petron so insensitive about it? and how can the government just shrug it off? and now i felt helpless…because im miles away…so the least i can do now is inform everyone about it and pray for the people of the region affected…and that hopefully the people responsible would do something about it…
*it was geebee’s birthday last tuesday. he’s turned 25. good thing his mom came over from manila so we were able to atleast prepare something for him. judging from my schedule at work, it would have been impossible for me to cook up anything, even if i wanted to. anyway, happy birthday again, bebe! muaaaahhh! you’re the craziest but i love you like effing hell!
*2 weeks of being on night shift. well my team actually calls it being on night shit. we were supposed to have a training on wireless networking that’s why we were assigned on that schedule for the meantime. but it was cancelled. then they moved it again for next week, same shitty and crappy schedule, then i just found out awhile ago that it was cancelled again. wa the the fuck?! i mean, look, will you be even ethusiastic to come to work when your schedule is split like this: 2am-12pm then you immediately come back to work at 11pm-8am!!! i hate the world! okay, not the whole world but our company scheduler, for the meantime, until they fix our fucked up schedules! we’re humans, not a bunch of robots, goddammit!
well not much to add here. im swamped. and exhausted. so ta-da!
the attack of the flipflop/hoodie monster
August 10, 2006i try my best not to be a biatch at the office, even if there are a lot of people here i would have loved to spat with due to many, many mindless reasons.
and this incident happened like 3 mins ago at the girl’s restroom. maybe im just having a bad day, maybe im just so sleepy right now…but im just so infuriated i need to get this out of my chest!
here’s the story: you know how i come to the office sometimes wearing nothing but flip flops, drawstring pants and hoodies? like im just hanging out at the mall or at one of my friends’ houses? like i just got out of bed, except that i smell bagong ligo…wakokoko…anyway, im on that get-up today…except that im wearing a really slouchy looking jacket instead of my usual hoodies (blame it to cranky mornings). so long story short, i just finished a call with a frustrated customer, went on a break and ran to the restroom. the moment i pushed open the door, i heard somebody say “aaawww” in a very maarte way and then i realized i just slammed the door into some girl’s right side of her body. now, our restrooms here at the office are the mall-type-like restrooms with that long marble sink and large mirrors. this girl along with her other friends are glamming it up in front of the mirrors and it just so happened that she’s like located at the edge of the sink near the door. so who’s fault is it? of course not me! i don’t have x-ray vision, godammit! yeah but i still said sorry ( i think 2x…blech). and this girl does not even acknowledge the fact that i apologized! they just gave me this knowing look, even looking at me from head to toe! just because im on flip flops and they’re wearing stilettos and mascara does not give them the right to be so effing biatches! aarrghhh!!!!! seriously, if i was not that tired, i would’ve scoffed at them, like i usually do…but im currently nurturing a migraine and i have no time to catfight with anybody. besides, they don’t deserve an ounce of my attention. wait till tomorrow. il make sure i wake up with a fesh start (and not in a lousy mood) so that il have the zest to dress up! stilettos, mascara and all! then il run to the restroom at exactly the same time i did awhile ago and slam the door open with all my might and hopefully she’s be standing there and that ive opened the door with such force that she gets slammed into a toilet booth and cracks her head wide open…uhmmm..yeah pretty violent…this is scary, i think i have some kind of a split personality or something…naaahhh…im just stressed…crazy stressed. period.
okay, crazeee moment over….time to deal with these rednecks and have their dsl going. ugh, i hate this day. really, really do….*yawn*
from cyborg to human
August 9, 2006finally!
after almost 3 months of harrowing overtime work…finally our schedule (our team’s, that is…im not sure about the others) is back to happiness normal. meaning, no more day-off overtimes…no more post-shift overtimes…no more breaks not taken…no more, no more….we’re back to 5 days a week, at 9 hours a day with all breaks taken, which should have been in the first place! we were a bunch of angsty-looking teens, ranting and raving hour after hour because we felt like we were treated like f*ckin’ cyborgs! y’all know how i hate my job sometimes…but ever since i moved to day shift, ive been lovin’ my job until this “mandatory overtimes” they bestowed unto us started to get into my nerves.
yes, bestowed is such a mild word to describe the eye-strain and migraines and sore-throats we had to go through. well yeah, its not the company’s fault that we are being bombarded with a million calls per minute (yeah, yeah that’s an exaggeration) because according to the info given by one of our Senior Operations Managers, one of the call centers handling the same account/client as ours has closed down. and the worst part is, that center has 500+ seats (meaning, they had 500+ agents).
so, if 1 agent takes in atleast 22 calls/day, multiply that by 500 and the end result is the mountain of calls we’ve been receiving for the past 3 months! horror of horrors!
so, even if we flood our Communication Centre boxes (that’s our sosyal way of calling our comment/ suggestion boxes littered around the office) with countless complaints and uber-violent reactions and even if we go drama queens and let it be known to our supervisors that we’re dying out here taking in a huge number of calls from irate/frustrated/stupid/ possibly senile/100% positive jerks/crappy a*holes who can’t seem to understand how broadband DSL works in real life, our supervisors are helpless as well.
but then i can’t deny that we also sometimes get the ever thankful/ever sweet/ ever willing to learn/ever patient customers, but that’s like a ratio of 1:20…1 super patient and thankful customer to 20 super a*holes.
i guess you get the picture.
so you can’t blame me if im just so ecstatic right now being spared a day and an additional 6 hours to deal with these kind of people.
i can’t wait for my next off! 2-day off, that is!
im human again in 3 days!
wooooohoooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sadako move over, here comes the new queen of scary movies!
August 6, 2006
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yesterday was my off, but instead of feeling miserable because of the effing fact that i only have 1 day off, i opted to shove my heavy ass out the door and watch a movie with geebee. it was a war between Nacho Libre and Sukob. ive been feeling depressed for the past weeks, im in such a bad mood and currently on a i-hate-the-world mode so Nacho Libre should have been a great choice. but we decided otherwise. we braved the impending long line of eager movie-goers and by quater to 3, we’re waiting on the line for a movie that will start at 3:50pm. its a good thing we decided to check the time earlier than we meant to because 15 minutes later, there were atleast 30 or more people waiting on line behind us already! but all in all, it was worth it. im not one to judge a movie just because one of the lead characters is being portrayed by none other than kris aquino (like what some people i know do…wahahaha). indeed, the movie scared me out of my wits. i was not disappointed. its not your typical pinoy horror movie that relies mainly on gulat factor to scare its audience, you know the typical multo popping out of nowhere which causes shrieking and screaming due to its sudden apparition. with Sukob, there’s this scary character (which is the bidang multo in the movie) who not appears out of nowhere but is just so freakingly morbid-looking that i had to close my eyes as she attempts to get closer to one of the characters. honestly, nobody scared the crap out of me like Sadako did before on The Ring…not until i watched Sukob. ugh, i sound so patronizing but i can’t help it. chito s. ronio indeed delivered. can’t wait to get my own copy.
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im on a 2-hour call right now. my head spinning. manual install USB on windows ME, anyone?
