Do Not Study ….. to be JUST an Employee
Many times, I know, we have realized that the orientation of a common college student here in the Philippines is studying to be an employee. Not the boss, not the owner, but the employee. Although our teachers try not to get us pretty comfortable with the idea of being a rank & file employee, nonetheless, they are unknowingly training every student here in our archipelago to be one of the majority – the currently worrying employee who is wondering and praying to all the saints and all the known gods not to make his job disappear into the history of today’s financial crisis.
Big companies have closed down, some are in the process of filing for bankruptcy. Others are giving off whiffs of the scent of a future factory close down. Tragic, isn’t it?
Yesterday’s Lunch Among THEM
Or maybe not.
Yesterday’s lunch was a bit…well…disturbing. Just imagine feeling 5 sets of eyes staring at you while you move along the way, peering through the plates debating with yourself whether to take that slice or not. Aside from staring, they were more talented this time, they were talking – and between several paragraphs, I imagine, they glance towards our table.
Hmmm… Games that people play. Didn’t they realize that we were younger than any of them and that we may have more experience playing these kinds of “war” games in our youth? {which was of course, not so long ago…} So what we did was, I told X & Y that we were being talked about in the other table and about what I was about to do which was….
Resolving the Case of the Unapproved Purchase Request
So what really happened?
The purchase request was for 3 units of UPS. Not the ordinary UPS for computers, but the bigger UPS used for something else, like several emergency lights. More like an emergency generator.
The request was submitted for approval to Mr West on the 3rd of September, but the canvassed prices were obtained from the suppliers January of this year. So many months have passed before asking for approval. And I thought these were URGENT. {Continue reading HERE.}
‘Ber Months?! Can We Really Do That?
At last, we have finished our presentation to the renowned ManCom (Management Commitee) last night. After almost having a heart attack due to the nervousness that me and my colleague were feeling because the first scheduled meeting was actually postponed – it was actually the fault of the BigBoss since he missed his flight. Nonetheless, the prolonged agony, I think, was worth it.
We got ready a good 30 minutes before we were scheduled to talk in front of the ManCom. But instead of just waiting, RB and I decided to have dinner first before killing ourselves with monstrous heartbeats. A few more bites before the last bit of meat from our pizza disappears, Ms Pots [not her real name] called us up and instructed us to go immediately to the conference room.
{Read the rest of this amusing experience in The Office Chronicles…}
