Thoughts from Home

We heard there’s a part time job available in DWC and Ace would love to try it. I will still confirm the information with the department concerned but Ace really wanted to grab the opportunity. After all, it’s not too technical so I am sure he can make it. I tried doing the task before when I am still under training and it’s pretty simple. It doesn’t require technical skills (except for typing of course) unlike making cad drawings that requires extensive knowledge and experience in AutoCAD. Anyway, I hope the job is still available so Ace could apply for part-time job for at least two hours a day.

Our youngest is officially working (after her underpaid and tiring work at a restaurant)! Yay! I am sure Mamang and Daddy are happy that their youngest found a good job that would be her stepping stone to a better work opportunity in the future. Che2x just signed her employment contract last Tuesday (if I remember it right) meaning, she’s not a trainee anymore. This means, in a few months she’ll be independent from us(?). I don’t think so. Now we are waiting for her to receive her first salary so she may treat us with my homemade Buko Pandan. She promised that during her short stint in a restaurant but it wasn’t pushed through. I hope this time we could have unlimited Buko Pandan!LOL

Oh, forgot to blog about my youngest sister who landed a restaurant job last month. She was too excited about it that she doesn’t seem to care about how underpayed she was. Before she received her first salary, she’s so excited planning what to do with that meager amount. And when payday came, she shopped for her things and asked allowance from me the next day. Turned out, she is working with salary not enough for her shopping spree and I still have to give her allowance so she may be able to go to work. Unfair! So I’ve been bugging her to resign since she’s not getting anything from that work. Her salary would not be enough if she gets sick because she’s been working on graveyard shift. She wouldn’t resign at first because she claims she’s enjoying the experience of being in the limelight especially that her immediate superior involves her in initial employee screening. Another thing is, she claims she’ll get a raise from PhP120 to PhP150. Is that what you call a raise? Later on she realized it’s not worth the effort working in that 24-hour restaurant with a salary that could not even sustain her personal needs. When she told her employer she will resign, they won’t allow her telling her that they will have a hard time finding a replacement. Hey, aren’t they using their coconut shells? Who would want to work 8 hours a day on a graveyard shift with a salary just twice the regular rate of a househelp? If it was me, I would rather stay at home and receive nothing than by risking my health. After all, there are better things to do than rendering labor of love to that restaurant owned by a Chinese citizen.

I was actually telling her that I would call her workplace and tell the management how they have violated the labor code. Imagine paying an employee who is working 8-hours a day (not including meal breaks) on a graveyard shift receiving only PhP150 (less that $4) a day without night differential? Where on earth do you find that employer? Aren’t they aware of the minimum salary mandated by the government?

Done with my first article in my writing project. After days postponing it, I urged myself to finish it so I could start working on a new project that will bring in another opportunity. When it was offered to me, I was in doubt if I can make it. But Ace said I should grab it because I am so lucky to have been offered a writing opportunity. I just hope I made the right thing so my article will pass the publisher’s standard. Anyway, after hours of squeezing my creative juice, I finally come up with my first article. So now I need to go back to bed and catch some sleep for I will be going out this afternoon for the holiday shopping. What a procastinator! But before I hit the bed, I’ll check about adipex review first. I know many people would also like to read reviews of this weight loss supplement because it is just time for “eating” season. Everybody has the reason now to eat, eat and eat and will worry about losing weight after the holidays.LOL

Goodness, I am working on a weekend! Opportunities are piling up and I need to do it! Who doesn’t want it anyway? So to make sure that I can concentrate with work on weekdays, I need to do my online tasks as much as I could on weekends. Need to do this before Ace will tell me that I need to prepare ‘coz we’re heading downtown. He makes sure that I get a breather every weekend so we don’t miss going out even though I am still sleepy or I am exhausted. He says I need to see other faces because I’ve been stuck here at home on weekdays. Gotta go and finish my last task before the man of the house will tell me we’re going out in an hour.