May 16
ErinTop of my head, Work humor, sentiments, Work
I am cleaning up my work inbox to free up some space and came across an email from the “enthusiastic” events committee of the UPEM team. This was about the awards they give out during the year-end party. Guess which one is perennially mine. 🙂
- Banksy Award – lives up freedom of expression via whiteboard graffiti
- Bleep Award – for having the most “colorful” vocabulary in the team
- Bully Award – do we even have to define this?
- Caffeine Addict Award – for someone who drinks the most coffee in a day even if not collecting stickers for a Starbucks Planner
- Call of Duty: Ghost Ops – for the one who stays longer than our core hours to fulfill duties
- Could Have Been Sweethearts – their chemistry is palpable that in another time, place, and lifetime they could have been… We can rename this to Popoy and Basha Award? May second chance! =))
- Duct Tape Award – for being able to fix issues, resourcefully
- Early Bird Award – for consistently being early in the office
- Fitness First Award – for someone who hits the gym regularly
- Food Basket Award – for being a saint in providing nutrition to the team
- Human Vulture Award – for eating anything found lying around
- Iron Chef Award – for the person who always packs a delicious looking lunch while everyone else gets Ministop’s Nuclear Chicken
- Keep Calm and Carry On Award – for being calm, cool, and collected on the highest severity of issues
- Man of Steel Award – for being thoroughly dedicated to his work that no disaster can stop him . This is given to the teammate who had no or the least number of SL’s/EL’s for the year.
- Megaphone Award – for actively voicing out (sometimes louder than necessary) his opinions to the team
- Most Bromantic Couple – for living up The Bro Code
- Mr./Ms.Seenzone Award – for someone who turns the Lync taskbar icon into a blinking light, and prefers the old fashioned way of one on one interaction
- Neatest Nook Award – for having the cleanest cube in the office
- One More Thing Award – most likely to extend meetings
- Papa/Mama Bear Award – for someone who takes care of the team
- Pig Pen Award – for someone who has the messiest cube in the office
- Six-pack Award – for someone so funny, he can give you a six-pack just by laughing
- Social Butterfly Award – for someone you are always up to date with due to his/her social media posts
- Stuck Thread King/Queen – for consistently causing downtime in any of our environments
- TMNT Award – for the one who demonstrates proficiency and skill in the art of stealth
- UPEM Fashionista (female) – for consistently dressing extraordinary in an ordinary day in the office
- UPEM Fashionisto (male) – for consistently dressing extraordinary in an ordinary day in the office
Quoting Robert: “Good Times!”
ciao!
Jun 12
ErinTop of my head emo, musings, sentiments
Ito ay kwento ng isang batang matigas ang ulo.
Nangarap, naghirap, bumuo ng mga plano.
Nagsimula sa baba, nagtyaga sa trabaho
Nagsunog ng kilay; puyat at pagod ay inilako.
Di pagmamayabang, may angking kagalingan
May tereng ang isip kung ano-ano ang napagbalingan
Pero ang di maatim ay ang sumunod sa lakaran
Iwanan ang nakagisnan, sa agos ay magpatianuran.
Sa pagdaan ng panahon, binantayan ang sariling pwesto.
Sa mga paanyayang umakyat di laging umaamo.
“Kayo na lang, masaya na ako dito
Di naman ako sasaya sa iyong mga pangako.”
Ngunit di namalayan na sa oras na tumatakbo
Ang sistemang hinindian ay di naman humihinto
Unti-unting nilulukuban ang kanyang pagkatao.
Isang umaga ay nagising na lang ang batang katoto
Tumingin sa nadaanan,nagiisip kung nasaan na ako.
Di naman dito nagtatapos ang kwento
Pero kung ano kakahitnan, di ko pa napagtatanto.
Bitin. 🙂
Mar 13
ErinTop of my head housebandry, sentiments
Lumipas na pala ang dalawang dekada
Na ikaw ang aking laging kasama
Anim na taon na magkasintahan
Labing apat na taon na kasagutan.
Mga nagdaang taon na puno ng pagkukunyari
Teka, ibig ko palang sabihin ay pagpupunyagi.
Ikaw lamang ang aking kanlungan at bato
Ang aking kinontratang ipukpok sa aking ulo.
Sa aking paboritong asawa, kaibigan, kaaway at kabit.
Heto pa sa susunod na dalawampung taon
Tayo ay parang bigas at alak, mas mainam kapag laon.
Nung panahong masaya kami ;P
Jul 17
ErinRubbish, Top of my head life, sentiments, shithappens, Work
In a nutshell, Murphy’s law states that whatever can go wrong will go wrong and at the most inopportune time. This day for me seems to to be the most literal example of that law and it seems to crown a really crappy week:
- My “so called” team has never been complete the whole week.
- Nothing seems get to the state that can be called as “done”.
- Screening of the “fit to contribute” recruits across the company isn’t going well.
- Issues germinate like dormant spores and each one comes unwrapped with a tag of “URGENT: RESOLVE IMMEDIATELY OR GLOBAL MELTDOWN IMMINENT”
- I have had the introduction to the project incident report template and mastery of accomplishing one in a single week.
- I got tagged for not finishing the work I wasn’t even scheduled to do on time even if it would supposedly only take a few hours (and which task isn’t supposed to get done in a few hours?)
- A little storm called “Basyang” decided to kill the power and water supply in our area w/c forced us to stay in an overpriced hotel-esque place. This reminds me that I need to create a mini-review for that place.
Those are just some examples for the week and just for today:
- My “change” can’t be completed because it hasn’t passed UAT execution because…
- The environment decided to crap out the whole week and be excessively stubbon today that no requested build from me ever finishes successfully. It doesn’t matter that I went to the office earlier than usual to get the testing done.
- I got tagged for not being prepared to present items in a meeting attended by the client. It doesn’t matter that the list items magically appeared in the list and it hasn’t really come into my attention.
- My change suddenly had a twin ticket that I wasn’t aware of, and the approach is still dubious as it smells of too much patch-me solution.
- Everybody is too busy to submit admin requirements. And that is because I really don’t do anything each day but be a PHB and think of useless things to assign to my team.
- I said I will leave at 7:30PM, announced to the powers-that-be that I will leave at 7:30PM, and then get stuck in ten thousand little important tasks that made me walk the hallway with the powers-that-be at 8:15PM. The powers-that-be are on their way to a meeting that I declined because I need to go leave at 7:30PM!
And to top it all off, I still don’t feel like I am contributing anything. This is the feeling that I really, really hate. Life is getting consumed by work that is starting to leave a bad taste in my mouth because I don’t feel empowered nor ingenious enough to really make a difference.
Oh life… I just need to accept that this is one of my “Shit Happens days & it will keep on pouring”.
ciao!
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