Sunday, May 27, 2007

office hotelling

my desk measures less than the length from the tips of my fingers when my arms are outstretched while other folks have spaces that can fit 3 grazing cows. It's all a mix in this new area they renovated to allow for more people to fit. I, along with some other new folks, have been lodged in the third world 2-star accomodations. My team sits in the back corner which I realized is not too bad because we have a view of the outside woods.

They put up 15 of these desks against the wall that lined the best route to the restroom. Those are now fully occupied by Indian contractors.

I think one or 2 might not have showered.

It is no longer the best route to the restroom.

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Re: Spaces for PR team

[an email correspondence]

Jose Manuel:
Hi Guys,
Finally! Here are the office spaces available for PR Team… they don’t look that nice, but at least you can have your own place and phone! These places are located along the wall next to the FSS team, I have assigned them according to your role and interaction among yourself… let me know ASAP if you would like to get GH1YD-00S instead.
GH1YD-00S Spare
GH1YD-00T Diane
GH1YD-00U Sofia
GH1YD-00V Cristhian
GH1YD-00W Miguel Angel
Additionally, please let me know if you would like to have rolling file cabinets or any other special need

Me:
Hi Jose Manuel, we lack chairs and telephones at T and U. If they can provide, that would be great. Thanks

Me again:
Andy told me he had a kiddie pool in his cubicle; can we have one too? Hehe just kidding. Thank you for the accomodations

Andy:
I saw you trying to steal that chair today – if you deserved a chair, they would’ve put one at your desk.

Monday, May 14, 2007

ola from a vroadvand vaca

haloooooooo! how r u? m fine thank you! I cant wait for our ohoi-an vaca to ve vack in the vilivins so we can have a vaca vacay (pronounced vacae as choob's friend would say). anyway, i just wanted to tell all of you friends that i am officially part of the broadband family! we just got our DSL last weekend and i immediately bought a wi-fi router para sosyal. hahaha. anyway, hope you guys are all doing ok. zee ya zoon!

Friday, May 11, 2007

9-to-5-er for a week

Hola vacitos and vacitas! :) Now that the week has come to an end, I finally have the time to make a post! I've been a 9-to-5-er the past week, you see, conducting whole day seminars for students who wish to learn HTML and Flash. My oh my how I've forgotten what it's like to work on a fixed whole-day schedule. It was quite the rude awakening. And the fact that I even managed to awaken in the morning was quite a momentous achievement. So now I feel like my weekend is much more special, as the days that have gone by had given me very little time to relax. I kind of liked it actually - this whole working 9 to 5 thing that you corporate vacas have been so accustomed to (although I have this feeling that you want to drop a large, heavy stoned cow on my head for saying that). I shall surely miss it, for next week, I am back to my regular routine. But in the meantime, I feel a sense of oneness with the corporatarians (I just made a word up) of the world who spend long working days and drink copious amounts of coffee.