Short Stories

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Dilemma

I'm supposed to be happy right now, right? Ecstatic even! But then I'm NOT!!! If it came a month earlier or so, it would have been different. I might even look past the waiting-for-several-hours-but-was-eventually-neglected. Now, If I ever get that call, I must make a decision.. a tough decision. I already thought about the pros and cons yesterday but still can't come up with a decision so I thought maybe putting it into writing might help.

Management Trainee or Accounting Staff? Which is which....

Accounting Staff:
Pros:
  1. In line with my course
  2. In 2 yrs, I can already take up my masters as planned
  3. I can put my knowledge into practice and learn some accounting database
  4. Dili kaayo expose akong dagway
  5. Very Challenging in terms of pag.sayo and the bosses 
Cons:
  1. BAWAL LATE.... if ma.late, broadcast lamang
  2. Salary
  3. That thing they did... (I might be forgetful, but things as heavy as that?!? Asa ka pa!!!)


Notes: 
* My Friends might kill me if I don't accept it
*If I accept it, what if pumalpak ako



Management Trainee:
Pros:
  1. Every establishment has accounting staffs, but not all have Management Trainees or Managers in Training
  2. Benefits/ Salary
  3. Okay lang ma.late (They even PASS me sa OJE bisan late ko sa 2nd day) and wala daw deduction sa late (according sa dating worker didto)
  4. Super Friendly the Managers
  5. I'll get the chance to develop my verbal communication and relational skill
  6. Hello Ayala
  7. DAVAO and other places XD

Cons:
  1. Exposed my face
  2. Matatagalan pa my Masters
  3. Have to speak to strangers

Notes:
* No pressure nga from everyone pero exposed naman my face


~~ Now I can totally post this... ayoko kasing mag.fineeling na matatanggap ako... pero ayun... tada

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

randomssss

What's new? Oh I'll tell you what's new! New is the fact that I still don't have a job considering it's ENROLLMENT time already! New is when I'm still at home planning to watch a few series after I'm done reading this book written by Gemma Burgess, who I find surprisingly witty, which I doubt I could apply all those stuffs written there except for the "Congratulations you just won a dinner with *insert your name here*!!" New is I still don't care!! wait... those aren't new!! Exactly!!! Nothing is new!!! and Nothing will ever be!!!

Thanks to the internet, laptop, a couple of dvds, and my portable I was able to waste my summer fantastically without ever thinking that 2 months has already passed. Very productive I'd say.

Randomnesssss.... randomness is when in the middle of reading a book or watching an episode of a series, you would blog something. Randomness is when you're friend sent you a message about a post she just saw which you happen to see several months ago then thinking thoughtfully in search for the answer which might seem apparent. Randomnessss is when you had a very very very long intellectually life-fulfilling conversation with two of your friends and a random person your friends knew over a bottle of rhum... ok, maybe 2 bottles,, regardless if you'll get the chance to apply if not all, some of them, some time. Who would've thought that the funniest and at the same time most serious discourses happen when people are semi-wasted, or prolly wasted! crash prolly! darn! I must stick with probably! it's PROBABLY you effin-- ok! whatever-- like what the book said, play it cool. Fake it until you feel it.

4am?!? 4AM I tell you!!! I was out till 4AM!!! can you believe that!!! The last time I was out was when the time the evil witch appeared in my life in the form of, yep! an evil witch!!! She made my life --no! not my life!-- she made my afternoon, and maybe the rest of the evening a total nightmare!!! ok! enough with the evil bitch! I mean witch! and did I mention she has this tattooed red-ish eyebrows which emphasizes her inquisitive deadly stare as if she were a cannibal eyeing her prey. well, she might be. enough said about the witch! She's gonna be popular!!

As much as I would love to share and tell you about stuffs I vaguely remember before memory loss hits me and forget all of them, I can't.... or maybe... just maybe....

Part-time

At around 11:30PM, I am finally done with the said training... or just the Q & A portion,.. together with 6 other people... Trainings are mostly done through videos and reading materials. I was surprised to see that I think, I am the only one who have actually read and have actually watched those videos beforehand. There were gazillions of them I tell you!! The instruction was to check the vids, I did not expect that the reading material is an assignment that's good for a week.. I've read and watch those for what? almost a day!!!

The first part. The signing of contract and the reading of terms and conditions took me roughly around 2 hours. Since it's already 3PM, plus it's raining wild cats and wild dogs making the videos barely audible, I decided to  get the 9PM training schedule. Ok. so it could only take a few minutes to sign-download-fill up-scan-save the 2 documents, but I want to know what I am about to enter into. My name's at stake here, I might get imprisoned just by signing; as they say -- Better be safe than sorry.-- Paranoid? nah! Just being cautious.

After sending the signed documents, at around five in the afternoon, I received another email from them. It's a training reading material to get me started. The first part of the video was composed of almost an hour of brief introduction explaining how things work. Then a few other vids. The vids would sum up around 3hours. Plus the reading materials which, in my opinion, take forever to read from cover to cover. It's like reading a novel. An audio-book novel to be exact.

I was tensed for a while as the clock approached 9PM. It will be my second time to actually use skype. Well, my first time to use it at home. Would you believe that my first time to use skype was last Friday?!? Yes! and it was a job interview. Ok moving on. let's not touch that subject! I was curious to meet these other people and to hear their voices. What it's like to group video-call on skype? The thought sends butterflies fluttering in my stomach. Finally the most awaited call came... and WOW!!! A group call with no camera and we're all on mute except for the trainer, or should I say - the call center agent. The poor call center agent whom I took the time to actually google for his background and find the time to explore his facebook, which I didn't quite succeed thanks to the privacy setting on facebook. The same call center agent, if I'm not mistaken, who was demonstrating on the vids. gawd! Talk about wearing several hats. I didn't know whether to laugh or admire his dedication and perseverance towards work. I can sense by his constant sniffing that he's not feeling well, however his voice leaves no trace of colds or sickness (aside from the sniffing). My guess is that he starts work at 3pm and ends at around 11pm there in Cebu. He probably even have other jobs for all I know. Now that's really something. I have to admire him for this.

While he was talking, I sensed that he is a filipino because of his accent. I mean, it's not SLANG enough. hahahahaha. but still, do I really have to communicate with him in english?!? I mean, cmon!! Let's love our language (yet I'm writing in English)!! Kelan kaya matututong mahalin ng mga pinoy ang sariling wika natin?

Tomorrow I'll officially start TRANSCRIBING!!!!