Nightshift blog

Malacañang on November 24 issued Proclamation Number 295 which lists the regular, special non-working and special holidays for 2012. So fellow members of the working class, let’s file our leaves early:
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Last week, just for the fun of it, I created a semi-mosaic image of past and present agents/managers in our account. I grayed out those who have already left while those who are still in the account remain in color. Our operations manager liked and and asked me to create another version which will be made into a tarpaulin. I have to search for old photos of the members while majority of the images came from me.
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Still from a file in my PC.
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Recently, I have been getting invites to a social networking website through my corporate email (read: email address used in the company). It’s an invite to Yammer, which describes itself as an “enterprise-class software built from the ground up to drive business objectives” and brings “together all of a company’s employees inside a private and secure enterprise social network.”
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Not that I am resigning. I just want to share an article I found in the Manila Bulletin published last Sunday.
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With very minor changes, the following article pretty much describes how my life is (the schedule included) everyday.
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Top 10 Modus Operandi of the Most Common Crimes in Manila

Crime doesn’t pay and neither should you, not with your hard-earned cash, gadgets, credit cards, and even your life. Awareness is key to everything so brush up on the M.O.s of the old-timers and newbies in the world of fast cash cons in the country.
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By November 30 and first few days of December, call center employees will get their 13th month pay and leave conversion pay. I promised myself not to purchase anything unimportant once I get my money. I plan to buy something big by March 2011.
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If you are a call center agent, and your office is in Quezon City, you’ve probably heard of Ordinance numbers SP-91 S-1993, SP-1080,S-2001 and SP-1148,S-2002. These are the ordinances passed (some are amendments to existing laws) requiring workers employed in offices within the city to secure an occupational permit.
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There is a career in RP call centers
Gina Hechanova
“Results show that 1 of 2 call center representatives is thinking of leaving within the year.”
Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 20, 2009, Page B2-3
Click here to read the story.
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