Thursday, May 22, 2008

AN INCONSIDERATE BOSS

How can this boss is inconsiderate to his employees? He should at least give chances to employees who don't have sufficient funds for their food and take their meals at the office. He's not giving exact benefits and salary to them. How can he will be very inconsiderate with this matter? He's so mad when he found out that his employees will take their food inside the office. He told them of being irresponsible of not putting up something to get out the smell on the sorroundings. Actually, the employees are in fact doing this of having the air freshener to take out the smell of the food. Well, the food is not actually smelling bad, with the power of air freshener, all the smell will be taken out. Considering the expensive food outside, the employees are forced to bring some food from home at the office to save something so there's still few amount from them left for the next salary day.
This is what employees are just trying to beg, at least they can save a few amount of money in a daily work by bringing some food inside without any worry of buying things from outside. Maybe this will help them in some way at least they are not really oblige to buy expensive food outside for their meals.
It's just they are murmuring for this. At least they should have a little freedom of this little thing. Maybe, this is one thing that will help them save and at least they can feel the comfort of the company if the boss is going to consider this small thing that employees were actually doing, at the same time this will make them happy.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU, MOM

I can say that my mom is the perfect mother all over the world. She is there always to strive hard for her kids. When she's still young, she's tasked from her parents to look for any means of livelihood to save the family. She is not the eldest of the family and she was required to work hard for her sisters and brothers. I could not imagine her parents who passes this heavy responsibility to her. She got this very strict parents, she feels like she is not their daughter because she's the only one to look for job and nothing else. She don't even finish her education because her parents are always there to ask money for the family.
One time, she was so stressed and got collapsed in the street. Somebody sees her and help her with God's help. She's feed up already with her parents and she feels like she don't have any freedom at all. She has a lot of suitors and later realized that the best solution of her problem is marriage. She finally decided to marry the man who is older of 10 years than her and he is my father.
When mom got married, she and my father help each to earn a living. I was the eldest in the family and a very sickly child. My mother used to cry almost every night because i was ill and there's no doctor available at night bec. its too late already.
She's blessed with 4 kids. Her sacrifices from her younger years until she's married was still there. She never stop earning a living bec. my father is jobless. He's just there to assist mom whatever she needs but everything is planned by my mother. She's again very pressured to look for money bec. she has kids who are in college and college education is so expensive. She uses all the means just to give us the best education that we must have. She put God the center of everything that she is doing. She's always calling God and pray to be with her to raised us and give us education. With all the effort that she did, we all graduated with a degree with God's blessing.
Year 2005 comes, my brother got married and we found something unusual from my mother. Most days in a week, she got fever and colds and we give her medicines to ease the sickness. The next week comes, again her body is so hot and she's so sick and we decided to bring her in the hospital. In the hospital, we found out that she brings her sickness since before and trying not to tell us. Her illnesses complicates all over her body. The doctor did not tell us really what's her illness. After the first hospitalization, the doctor advised my mom to be outpatient. So we come there for a check up as scheduled. The second time around, she's sick again and got the highest fever and again we bring her to the hospital. The doctor advised us for all the check-ups, the bone marrow and everything. My mom receives all the heavy injections in her body and she can't almost take the pain, she cried hard for the injections because she's full of injections already and she can't almost face the pain. She has liver cirrhosis, goiter and her uterus prolapsed. We all cried for this illnesses that mom got. The doctor told us that there are still hopes but in my heart i know that they deny the whole truth to my family. What hurts me is her uterus prolapsed, i find it hard to believe that she has it and the prolapsed is bigger that time, its always bleeding and she needs to wear the napkin all the time. Almost every single minute passed, tears are there falling from my eyes. I don't know what to do and where to ask help. I was the one in-charge in the hospital because all my brods and sis were working. They were there usually at night to take charge. I was the sole witness of the hurts that mom was facing. The doctor told us that her uterus can be operated but the possibility is, the higher the chances that she can't wake up anymore. My goodness, this really hurts, but we did not tell mom the real score. We just encouraged her that there are chances of operation and she can be healed. She stayed in the hospital for 1 week and she's outpatient again as per doctor's advise.
At home, her long distance sister called up and tried to talk to her about her situation, mom told her sis that soon she'll be operated because the doctor told her the chance. Mom was so happy that she got the chance to talked to her and she missed her sis so much because it's a very long time that they haven't seen and communicated. I was there listening, i cried so hard because i know the real situation. It's actually the last time for mom to talk to her sister.
After 1 month, again shes sick with high fever and colds. She can't almost breath and we called the ambulance in our place. That moment, there's no ambulance available, the only choice is the police car. We bring her there and the sad thing is that, the police car is open in each 2 sides. The heavy rain is there and we got wet inside, my mom in her beddings got wet in the rain with the heavy fever. She finds it hard to breath holding us inside the car.
In my heart i know there's no hope anymore for mom but we were all praying and wishing for miracle to happen to mom. Again, the same procedure were given from the doctors, all the medicines are the same and we spent thousands of money and even borrowed to people just to save mom's life. We find it very hard to look for money and there's no neighbor we can ran off to help us. My sister's health card really helps, so mom got the chance to use it. It's God's blessings that the health card is still have the allowable maximum coverage amount for her hospitalization. No relatives did help us financially, we all brothers and sisters helps each other to cover all the expenses for mom. The doctor told us that mom in her previous time was making her body so stressed with so much work and carries heavy things which makes her uterus prolapsed. She even advised us not to carry heavy things because women's nature in themselves are weak on carrying things, so tendencies are when they give birth, their uterus will go down. Mom even advised us not to do the same as what she did before.
It was November and we stayed at the hospital for 1 week and mom's health was just the same. Those medicines that mom's doctor's prescribed were just pain relievers just to help ease the pain. Those medicines that was taken during the previous hospitalization are just the same. Actually, she's not cured. The doctor told us to be again outpatient and has given us the needed medicines for mom at home to be maintained.
It was December of first week that mom's body will not accept any medicines anymore. We were all worried because she will not take the medicines anymore but we can do nothing about it. We give her all the needed food prescribed but she only eats small food for her. She walks slowly and still ease the pain of her uterus and body. We don't have enough sleep usually at night taking care of her because she needs to be feed and dressed. She cried and asked God to get her because she can't take the pain anymore. We were there to talked and inspire her for everything. I make myself to always be there for her because i want to pay off what mom has been given to me. Christmas season is fast approaching, and i bought a christmas tree from which mom helped me in the decoration. We decorated it both and tears were falling from my eyes because i know where her situation ends. I tried not to let her see but my heart is aching so much for her. I want to shout and i don't know where to ask help about her. Only God is my sole comforter that time, I need Him to be there for us. I was the one and my father to take care of her because my sister and brothers were working. Last december 12, mom will not take the food anymore in her body, she lied in her bed the whole day, she's there crying the pain calling her mother and she can't anymore distinguished us. This hurts me so much and i am helpless. Night of december 12, mom's breath is getting harder and she shouted because of the pain and we don't know how to comfort her. We were all crying and calling God for a miracle. We did not sleep and that night i was planning to take an off from work on the 13th of december because i have this bad feeling for mom that night. I was planning to toke care of her until the next day because i want to be there for her and so afraid the next day. December 13 comes, i was there beside her and so my sister in law comforting her. She don't want to see us, she lies her body back to us, she don't want us to see all the pains she feels. I hold her so tight and crying so hard holding her hands. She takes away my hand and shouting for pain. We give her water and put something in her mouth. She finds it hard to breath anymore. She's catching her very fast breath. Few minutes, we were shocked when she had the last deep breath and not holding me anymore. I was shocked and so with my sister in law. I tried to press her pulse and nothing was there. I shouted so hard and so with my sister in law. My father outside heard our voices and he tried to be at home faster and asked what happened. We told him that mom did not breath anymore. My father got her pulse and he told us that mom was died. We all shouted and don't know what to do. We burried her the next day because she don't want to reserved her body longer with all the medicines and big injections. We don't want to give her the pain anymore because she all got them and died for the pains.
It was my manager whom i called first and informed her what happened. I cried so hard and she tried to calm me down telling me that life is always like that. She told me that God just ended mom's pain by getting her because it's very painful already. We all can't take this because mom is everything for us. We find it hard to move on without her. My works were affected and i can't concentrate. Everything takes time to heal all the wounds. We believe that as time goes by, we can stand this and face what's there for us without her. We know that though she's not around for us, we know that she's there upstairs looking us and is always there to guide us in the right direction. We had black christmas and it's hard to face christmas when my family is not complete anymore. This is the worst thing that happens to my life and to my family. This time, still the memories and pains are there. We can't get back time, i don't have comforted mom financially but at least at her darkness times, i was always there to comfort and toke care of her. To those who have moms at home still, this is a lesson for all of us. As long as there's a time for us for our mother, please don't hesitate to give time to them because they are so precious and need to be taken care of. Time comes soon that we got to have a family, we can figure out and try to realize that being parents are not easy. We need to help them in times that they needed our help because when they give birth to us, there's no amount of money that can replace in taking care of us. They experienced all the sleepless nights just to make us sleep and take care. They don't feel tired and will always be there to be with us always as long as they are still alive...

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

A WORKAHOLIC GUY

There was this workaholic guy who is always very early in coming to the office. Not even a single day that he is absent or taking any leaves for some personal reason. He is working in a progressive company where employees efforts are counted and rewarded. He works very effectively and is very good in customer service. All the people really appreciates with his motivations towards his work. He even makes his double effort to make all things done at at time. He got the very terror boss and he doesn't mind it. He takes it as an inspiration of everything.
One day after all the years of his great service, he was rewarded as the most outstanding employee of the year towards all the branches of the company. His name and pic were posted in all branches of the company. This time, he was transferred to a higher position with a higher pay. He's the boss of the few employees now. But aside of the fact of being the boss, he did not changed and remain still that someone who is humble and hardworking.
I can really figure out that after all, he reaps what he sow. All the struggles and hardworks bears the fruit and he is reaping it now. Hardworks have always have the great result after all and is very worthy in this company.
But being workaholic in one of the company which is not progressive is not worthy. Take this case of my friend who is working in a small company. She's very workaholic but all her efforts are not being pleased by the company. There's no such thing as giving rewards or appreciation from the top management. All the efforts seemed to be useless and she will not grow emotionally. There's no support and motivation factor given from the top management and so the people around her are lazy and not motivated to do their work assignments.
So i think, hardworks are only good and applicable to progressive companies because how come all the efforts are useless in this type of company my friend have.

Friday, May 2, 2008

AN IMPERFECT BOSS

Do you think that all bosses' are perfect enough? Do you think that they all have the gold ideas to all his people in the organization? How do you appreciate an authoritative boss? Are you going to be happy with this kind of behavior that your boss have? Can u stay longer in this kind of environment?
There was this one workaholic employee who approached his boss about something and her boss got so mad at her. She just gives a little idea of what to do and her boss raised his voice and got so angry from which was the reason of her termination. Why the boss don't have little time to listen to his employee and weigh things if the idea is helpful enough for the benefit of the organization? Who knows, that employee's idea is brilliant and can really help such project. They think that they are always right and they knows everything what's needed to do to run the company they are in to. For sure, they are not perfect enough, its just that they strongly believe in their own opinions and think that it's really right. They will not accept defeats and failures. Why the boss can't realize and can't lower his pride sometimes and be friend to his employee once in a while.? I think this way because there are chances that employees can feel the comfort of the environment that they are in and they will be motivated to work effectively on their jobs.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

A LAZY FATHER

Can u imagine a lazy father who is not motivated to work for his family? What should the kids and wife do for having this kind of father? Can they rest assure themselves that they can be given the good future if the father is lazy and just let the wife do all the needed job just to survive and to support the kids? This happens to one family to whom i've heard. The father can get the job easily but can't survive the pressure of job that he is always into. He resigned from time to time and can't stay long in the company without looking forward what will happen to his family if he's jobless. He has this attitude that he believe that the company doesn't have the proper policies that's why he don't want to stay working long and quit immediately. This time, he is not looking for any job and just let the wife to work hard to daily save the family's needs. All he do is sleep and rest and nothing else. He even told his wife that he is not interested to work anymore and let his wife to look for somebody else who can provide all her needs. The wife has nothing to do and they quarrel most of the time because of financial problem. The wife is forced to work hard to keep them survive. One time, his youngest son collapsed because he doesn't have the food to eat in the morning and good thing that somebody helps and give his son the food. I just can't realize of having a father like this. Can i grow professionally if i have a family like this? What happen to his kids in the future if he's going to continue with his behavior being like this. His eldest son even told his mother that he don't want to go to school anymore because they don't have money for this school year. His eldest son got the mature mind and decissions because of what has happening in his surroundings. He cooks the food for the family and let his brothers have the food to eat. I hope and pray that this father will change for the better. I hope he can realized soon that he needs to work hard to save his family. He needs to educate his kids to get the right jobs in the future. Marrying is facing the responsibility of a marriage life and its a lifetime commitment. You cannot escape it, you have to face your responsibility being the head of the family.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

MULTI-TASKING JOB

It has been known to most companies who requires to have multi-tasking jobs to their employees to save time and money. Most companies posted their ads most in the newspaper clearly stated the statement like: "Performs multi-tasking jobs if necessary". This is really a great advantage to most companies who adopted this kind of policy. Instead of paying and hiring another person to perform the needed job, the present employee can work such needed tasks without additional salary on his part. This is as part of the standard operating procedure of the organization that they are implementing. This additional workload is to be given to such employee which is of course an additional burden on his part because he might be doing 2 to 3 jobs at the same time in a given day without any additional salary on his part. Well, most employer offer additional amount on the salary but not all are doing this. This only refers to employer who has the kind heart and willing to give this additional pay to an employee. This is really risky on the part of the employee who will be doing the multi-tasking job but he needs to accept it otherwise he needs to look for other jobs outside which is so hard to find nowadays considering the competing applicants around.
These multi-tasking jobs were adopted to some smaller companies, wholy owned and family business companies. For sure, larger companies prefers to have other person to perform such tasks because they will be needing the desired output urgently, it could be on the production side or on the other areas of jobs. Smaller companies prefers smaller number of people to avoid the risks of having the higher salary they will be spending during payday. They tried to minimize cost because of the type of business they have. This is really a great disadvantage on the employee's part who is experiencing multi-tasking job for a long time without any additional pay on his salary. Did the company tried to weigh things and think of the employee's concern? Can't the company feel of what the employee really feel in his heart the loaded jobs that he is doing everyday? Can't the company feel the pressure of the pressured employee? Or it is just the system itself that the company is having without looking at the side of the employee. Do you think that the employee really feel the comfort of this company? Does the company think of the other side of it, what if that employee will end his work and will tender a resignation from his job? Will the management see and feel the additional effort that the employee has been doing if he is already gone in the company? I think, these things should be weighed by the company and maybe take actions to it of what is needed to do.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

GOD KNOWS AND SEES OUR NEEDS

God really knows every need that we are aiming to have. People even think of settling into marriage as earlier as they can but God has plan for all of His people. He knows the best thing for us and He will give it to us at the proper time. We cannot plan ahead and expect more of it because if God will not allow it, then nothing happens. It is really said that, If it's God's plan then everything will come to its place to it's proper time.We even rush on such things like having a nice job or having a nice and wonderful life partner. Well, everybody aims to have that, dreaming of having the goods things in our lives. It's just that we want our wishes and dreams to happen in just an instant without the behavior of being patient of waiting.
It has always been said that people are not contented of what they have. They tried to aim for more without looking on the things they currently have now, they dont even realized that they almost have all the things they wanted. While poor people simply dreamed to eat food 3 times a day. That is a very simple wish that they have everyday. For sure they think that life for them is so unfair because of the difficult situations that they experience. Can we compare our situation to these poor people who cannot feed their stomach 3 times a day? They even sleep at night without the food, they tried to escape the hunger and just let themselves sleep during night time. Can we just be satisfied enough with what we have now? Can we just be patient and have the courage to strive and work hard for our future? For sure, God sees it. He is always there to help if we will just let time provide it to us. It's just that we need to be patient and be helpful to those who needs our help because God is a cheerful giver.