29.8.05

Nuts...

I've met someone. Now I'm not very good at describing stuff so you'll just have to take my word for it when I say that she is just absolutely adorable.

I met her about a week and a half ago and ever since then I always try to find excuses to drop by her area at the office. It's totally pathetic, I know. But I just don't consider my day complete until I see her smile. Corny no? I don't care all I know is that I LIKE HER. SOBRA.

Yesterday my friend had to pass her requirements so I went with her to "someone's" area. For some bizzare reason only 2 people were there (as opposed to the usual 2 dozen) so I had a front row seat, so to speak. While my friend was waiting for her turn, the phone rang so she answered it and it was somebody who had a question about applying or something. Apparently the person on the other end was kinda slow and I noticed that she was always repeating what she was saying. I coudn't help but chuckle and when I did she looked and smiled at me and did that thing with her index finger as if to say that she thought that the person that she was talking to on the phone was nuts and after that she jokingly rolled her eyes. My gulay... If I was fair skinned I would've turned bright red. I left with a huge smile on my face that I couldn't get rid of no matter what I did. I was walking (or should I say gliding?) around (or above.. hehe) Ortigas smiling at nothing looking like a total idiot for the rest of the afternoon. hehe.

"Wait a minute and hold the phone!!! Is this the same Jeanne who's been saying that she doesn't mind being single forever? What about all those speeches about being better off alone?" Well..

Sorry to disappoint you but I haven't changed my mind. I still don't want a relationship and I sooo don't want to fall in love. The only thing I like about falling in love is that it reminds me of the reasons why I don't want to be "in love". Coz for the most part it just involves me squirming in excruciating emotional agony. To be honest I'm a little ticked off about this happening. I was so darn happy not having someone to think about and now this comes along and I'm going nuts again. I don't like it at all but seeing her smile just totally makes my day...what can i say? (Dammit! see... I told you... I AM going nuts)

But so what If I like her? I find it highly unlikely that she doesn't have somebody else already and even if she didn't I still don't think that i stand a chance in hell with her becuase whenever I'm around her I become even dorkier than usual (I couldn't even construct a single sentence to ask her if our IDs were ready for God's sake!!!). I just as look at this situation as God making my forced 6-month stay in this call center a little bit easier. But Lord, a better salary would've been perfectly fine with me. I think I really would've preferred that over this. Sana lang balato mo nalang saken tong isang to. hehe. Like ko talaga siya. Promise!!!

posted by jeanne @ 09:24 0 comments

19.8.05

C*&#^$%ys SUCKS!!!! ("EPILOGUE" KUNO)

A week has passed since that whole "barok ako" fiasco. It was around 630p.m. and I was sleeping in my room because I would have to get up at 10p.m. to go to a friend's house so that I won't have to travel from Marikina to Makati by myself at 3a.m. so that I can make it to work on time. The phone rings, my bro, Josh, answers it and then wakes me up to tell me that it’s for me. Sy$%s (another call center) daw, I picked up the phone. The girl on the other end proceeds to ask me if I'm still interested in the position and then tells me that I am scheduled for a final interview the next day at 3p.m. I thank her and put down the phone.

I arrive at the 48th floor (side kwento: this was the worst elevator experience of my life. I'm not at all claustrophobic but that elevator was slow. It took 6 mins. to reach the floor that I had to go to and it kept on stopping without the door opening -- something about servicing the lower levels or something -- and I was by myself inside the elevator for the last 10 floors. Aaaargh.)of the building where their office is located at around 215p.m. so I have to wait at the pantry. While I was waiting, I was thinking why was I even wasting my time doing this since the only openings that they have were for full time TSRs and chances are that they would not at all be flexible with the schedule so I probably won't accept the job anyway since the M.T. course that I will be taking is my top priority. But then I figured I should at least try to make some kind of deal and I had nothing better to do at the time anyway so might as well show up.

My interview started 15 mins. before it was supposed to because the girl who was supposed to be interviewed before me was missing (probably stuck in that stupid elevator!!!). So there I was doing another final interview, Everything was pretty much routine, it started with the "tell me about yourself" question again and then went on to "why did you leave your last job" and so on.. I was already thinking about how to bring up my issue with the schedule when she said "So, I can see here that you were a student teacher"? "Yup." I said. She then said "So I guess you're really comfortable when it comes to training." At this point I didn't know what to think.. Of course I was comfortable with training. I love training. It's like getting paid to study. I was thinking that she was referring to how I felt about being trained but then she asked me "How would you feel if we asked you to be a trainer?” I almost fainted. What? Me? A trainer? But I quickly regained my composure because I figured once she gets to my educational background and realizes that I don't have a degree that this would pretty much be the end of this trainer thing. I just told her that I'll be ecstatic if I were given the opportunity to train (pero syempre "ecstatic" pa rin yung word na gimamit ko hindi lang "happy"). We eventually got to my educational background and I told her that that's why I never applied as a trainer before. She then said the most wonderful thing that any H.R. person has ever told me she said that she knew of some people who never graduated but are doing well now so that shouldn't be a problem. Wow. Where have you been all my life, girl?

Wala lang. Chances are I wouldn't get to be a trainer anyway. She never said that it was a guaranteed thing. There are still a lot of applicants and there's a huge possibility that there is someone there with a degree in Computer Science or IT who speaks decent English and they'll probably hire him or her as trainer instead of me. It was just nice to be considered (If you had my luck, you'd learn to take what little you can get. hehe). It would just be so great if I ended up being a trainer and then I get to meet that H.R. girl from C*&#^$%ys again. Mwahahaha. Failed pa la ha.

posted by jeanne @ 15:23 0 comments

12.8.05

C*&#^$%ys SUCKS!!!!

I applied at a certain call center about a month and a half ago. Everything went well. Nothing special at all. Went through all the motions: initial interview (with this very cute, "hulog panty ikot bra" guy. haay...), went to Philamlife Tower for lunch and to wait for our 3p.m. test, took the test, passed every stage of the test(because I got to the very last stage and by the way their test took 4 hours to finish!!!), got asked if I was interested in the TSR position, given a slip of paper congratulating me on passing the test and was told to wait for a call regarding my final interview schedule and that there is no need to follow up because they assure me that they will call me for my final interview schedule.

Tell you what, whoever invented this hiring practice of telling people that you will call them and just not call when you aren't gonna hire them should be skinned alive. If he or she is dead, his or her soul should be burning in the lowest depths of hell. I mean how rude is that? Telling people that you are going to call and then not call. Talk about total lack of courtesy. I suppose this saves them money because they don't have to hire someone to make the phone calls but how long does it take to say or send out an e-mail saying that "you didn't get the job."? It's as if they expect your world to stop revolving once you've applied to them. Do they expect you to sit by the phone and wait for an entire week. What If you have to pee? What if Angelina Jolie suddenly calls you and profusely apologizes about the "Brad Pitt issue", tells you that it was all a big mistake and that she can't live another day on this earth with the two of you a thousand miles apart? What then? Was I supposed to interrupt her to answer the call waiting?(HUH???).....

So anyway, I was really busy at the time so I was always out of the house and did not get home until about 9p.m. (everyone else in the house had their own thing going on so I couldn't depend on them to stay home either) and me being the genius that I am, had the wrong cell number on my resume so needless to say I had no idea whether they called me or not.

Since I couldn't follow up, my friend and I figured that the only way that we could get to talk to someone was if we reapplied. This time we decided to apply at the location where our papers were supposed to be forwarded to. That way there would be no need to forward our papers this time.

So we went to their Ortigas center. Waited for about 30mins again and finally got to the H.R. person who was going to do our initial interview. So my friend told her that she was called a couple of times but she wasn't able to answer the phone. And then she got to me and I told her that I was sort of in the same situation except that I had no idea whether they called me or not because I wasn't home most of the time. She, the H.R. girl, then told me that maybe its because I failed and that she can't process my application because I would have to wait 6 months before I can reapply (WHAT????????). I then calmly asked her which part of the test did she think I failed since everyone else got asked to leave if they failed a portion of the test. And she answered "I don't know. Ganun yata talaga yun eh". "YATA???" (Again, WHAT?????????????). Yata, so you mean that you're not exactly sure so you just automatically assume that I failed?

Here's my beef with this stupid situation:

1. If I knew for sure that they didn't call me then I wouldn't have wasted my time reapplying.
2. They were the ones who offered me the TSR position saying that I passed their diagnostic test. I was only applying as a CSR. If i said that I wasn't interested. then there would not have been a need to forward my papers and I would've been scheduled for a final interview right after the test.
3. So far the only difference between me and my friend was that she said she was called and I said that I wasn't sure if I got called since this H.R. girl didn't ask for proof of how my friend was certain that she was called. What if I said that I got a call but wasn't able to answer it? Was she going to waste another 4 hours of my time making me take that test again? My point is if she couldn't be sure if I was called or not then why doesn't she go check?

Come to think of it, the fact that I'm not working there has actually worked to my advantage because I don't really need to get a job anymore. I already have one right now but I can quit it anytime I want because I don't have to worry about my medical transcription thing anymore because I got a "full scholarship" from the Prof. Hilda Foundation. hehe. So everythings fine. I don't have to work at a call center if I don't want to. I probably won't be able to go out for 6 months but I can live with that. It's certainly easier than having to talk for hours and hours. So everything is fine. Well.. almost everything...

My friend told me that she saw the girl write the word "failed" on my paper after I left. I have no issues about failing stuff. Its like that line in that John Mayer song that says "I quit every game I play" but with me its more like I lose every game I play so I have no issues with losing, failing, being rejected, and so on.. but the thing that ticks me off about her writing "failed" on my paper is that she was only handling initial interviews that day.

You see, most people think that you have to have a great accent(must have an american "twang") to be able to get past the initial interview stage but I know for a fact that this is not true. You just have to be "trainable". So people who don't get past the initial interview are the ones who cannot form a single coherent sentence in english. In filipino colloquial terms this is called "BAROK". So if someone sees this paper they are going to assume that this Jeanne person was so "BAROK". So barok ako?!? harhar...

It's such a shame that I don't really care what these people think about me. Because if I did, I should have the oppurtunity to lose some sleep over this which should help me lose a few pounds. darn!!!!

posted by jeanne @ 14:23 0 comments

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