yabang ko, i cant even protect my weekends. but then i am in the support role and i am getting it easy right now. no more calls at 2am. hehehe.

ciao!

i can relate because my long hours are also long but i try to minimize them. i get to work at around 7AM (door-to-door shuttle service picks us up at 5:45AM, or 6AM during school breaks) and maybe spend 15 minutes to eat breakfast. then if we have a service at night I have to leave at 6PM so I can arrive at 9PM here in our home, otherwise 10:30 is going to be earliest I can arrive and get to sleep at 11:30. what a vicious cycle.

but i still believe that work-life harmony (yes, I did not say balance since that is currently impossible) is still possible. as a visiting executive stated it: **N will suck the life out of you if you let it. however i still wish somebody out there in the top management will listen that macro management does not always apply cleanly to the micro level!

i heard that the group apples is in has some great processes but she may belong to the exception since that is a large group. i had a team mate who got transferred there and she even said that people in that group are able to slack off. for me slacking off in the office means banging heads with external parties so we can implement what top management wants us to implement. *ugh* im already racking up a bad reputation as somebody hard to deal with because of being ‘sobrang makulit at demanding”.

but be thankful that apples know how to stop at 10pm. it means she still has some form of control on her life. she just needs to exert a little more force to make it better. i think she can already delegate on her own. /evil-laugh

ciao!