{"id":124,"date":"2008-03-03T22:27:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T14:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=124"},"modified":"2008-03-03T22:27:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T14:27:55","slug":"cya-around-joypo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Cya around Joypo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to say a face-to-face goodbye to my &#8220;adopted&#8221; protege when she had her last day in the company since my wife and I are leaving for our annual vacation to Bohol and I was working from home the previous day. I never liked good-byes anyway and it isn&#8217;t like I will not be communicating with her after her stint with the &#8220;COMPANY&#8221;. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I have already experienced leaving a company and, many times over, have experienced being the one left in the company. Each one is hard but this one is special so I decided to write a homage to Joypo. I can&#8217;t say I am devastated since I am actually happy for her. I don&#8217;t know if its eagles or condors, but some birds teach their young how to fly by dropping them off from the safety of their nest. I won&#8217;t grab the whole credit for mentoring this specific hatchling but I think it is my due to say that I have some contribution in kicking her quiet @$$ over the edge. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>For those interested, her name is not really Joypo. I have this habit of encoding the names in my phonebook and that is the name I gave her number. It is actually my wife who coined the codename because when she first talked to Joy she said she is very respectful that she inserts &#8220;po&#8221; (the Filipino term for respect) multiple times in a sentence that she started referring to her as Joypo. We have a lot of friends named Joy so it gave an easy to recall distinction. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Enough of the segue. Let me just list down the reasons why this lone wolf has taken an interest in taking this hatchling under my spiny wing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She was my real first subordinate. My supervisor then advised that I need to learn how to manage somebody if I want to better my chances of getting promoted to a lead position. Joypo was my first victim. \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li>Since our work as all-around tech support and interim project infrastructure admins were very technical in nature and requires some hefty lifting (computer miniaturization was not that prevalent back then), I was actually expecting to get a male subordinate. Instead I got this wiry lass. But she proved me wrong by being my yardstick of what qualities a &#8220;DevArch&#8221; apprentice should have.<\/li>\n<li>She was my gender equalizer. I still laugh about the amount of flak I received when I actually made her lift and transport whole workstations from one cube to another. I just shrugged my shoulders to my &#8220;critics&#8221; and said it is part of the initiation for the team. Every devarch should experience lifting and moving workstations. Funny thing is that it became true. \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li>I vowed that any devarch apprentice should just have the technical capabilities and I will handle fitting them with horns needed when coordinating with external resources. Joypo, with her uber-religious background, gave me a challenge. I think I was able to grow her some sharp horns. Unfortunately she also uses them on me. \/lol<\/li>\n<li>I admire her guts. She actually gave me a prayer book. ME! A PRAYER BOOK! I wasn&#8217;t an agnostic back then but what the hell? I think I still have that prayer book in my cabinet. No offense Joy, I just have this habit of not being organized when it comes to my possessions. I value the thought more than the actual physical object. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>I value her honesty and inputs even if she doesn&#8217;t think so. Once I asked her if she thinks I am a good leader. She bluntly replied &#8220;Opo, kahit nakakainis na kayo minsan (Yes, even if you are sometimes irritating)&#8221;. I couldn&#8217;t feel more validated and prouder. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think I am obligated to talk her out of leaving but I don&#8217;t think that makes sense coming from somebody who has left a previous company for <b>greener<\/b> pastures. I would only do such thing if I don&#8217;t think the person has thought things through but I had no doubt Joypo has already weighed all the possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>So see you around kiddo. This industry is too small and too connected to be a stranger.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/ramfree17\/Blog\/photo#5174638597247408482\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.google.com\/ramfree17\/R9ACY0X1GWI\/AAAAAAAABmc\/zQxWWKCAeDg\/s400\/DSC02369.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Me and Joypo in her farewell libre \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to say a face-to-face goodbye to my &#8220;adopted&#8221; protege when she had her last day in the company since my wife and I are leaving for our annual vacation to Bohol and I was working from home the previous day. I never liked good-byes anyway and it isn&#8217;t like I will not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garbage","category-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}