Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

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Well, finally I got my rest day. Even for only two days off of work, it's worth every minute. Friday, since I arrived in the morning already from the drinking session last midnight, I was asleep the whole morning up to about early afternoon. As soon as I woke up, I went straight to my computer to break away from the work environment. I missed playing PC games that's why I browsed thru my pc games and came across Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, from the Game Boy Advance Emulator I installed last year. I was then stuck in the front of my computer until 8pm that evening. Saturday was also like that, I just went to sleep on that day then played GBA again. I just remembered, this kinds of games are my usual stress-busters. When I play and surf about anything that interests me on the computer, I get to "not" think of things that I should be doing. Which is good. Because you cannot indulge yourself into working and working without rest. Your body will just grow tired of it. It's good that the word "recreation" was invented. (^_^)


----------Robb----------

Sunday, October 26, 2008

1st week on Lean Shift

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It could not get any better. First day, I met up with all of my teammates and we were all 'somehow' exhausted since we're doing 8 days of work straight with no rest days due to our schedule shifting from 6:30am-3:30pm TO 6:30pm-3:30am. It's all work up to Thursday that week. Calls here and there, break, lunch, break. The perks. But all throughout the week, I am very much satisfied with my performance when it comes to my metrics.. My iAHT dropped to about 23minutes only! (^_^)

Sunday, we met up with our newest team member - Jennyllyn Codilla. She just passed the TQ and she was assigned on our team. She's quite a pretty lass, nice looks, and quite sossy. She was introduced to the team and we got some bonding times with each other at times (especially when we're having some smokes :p ). I believe she also got the immunity from team penalties for two weeks for being the newest member, which I got when I was the new one.

About Tuesday that week, TL and the others talked about getting some drinks during shift since it's not queuing and there is a hig level of avail (or available agents on the floor). Everyone was encouraged by Loki, one of my teammates to do an ATO (or early leave since there are no calls) and there we went. The next minute, I just found myself drinking along with my teammates and having some fun at Molokai, a drinking spot somewhere in the Alabang beer gardens :) . There we got some good laughs and jokes placed on the sides.

Thursday was the last day of the week for our schedule and our mini team Poison Ivy was still pursuing to get some sales and luckily we tied up with our closest mini team competitor, the team Sephiroth. When the sales were measured by close rate, we won by 10% to 6% (^_^). After shift, we got engaged once again on a drinking session at Molokai which Weng was the chief initiator. He treated us on 3 rounds of beer along with Elai, Tom, Pam, Jane, and Honeylet. We went home at about 6am in the morning already.

Overall, it was a fun, productive week. I was very much enjoying handling and transferring calls. Starfish was right, I'm getting quite busy that I might need to slow down. As long as I'm not stressed, I think I can handle myself. (^_^) Thanks for the reminder though.

And Lhandz, yeah, it's the best shift ever. No calls for about 1 hour in betweens. But as soon as 9-10pm comes, there the calls downpour.


----------Robb----------

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Bonding

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I woke up early today and didn't bother opening up my computer. I went straight to preparing the things I'm going to use for work. I arrived early to work, of course. As soon as I pulled up my tools, I prepared myself for another batch of calls for the day.

I got some of the weirdest, first time calls today. One was with a very irate customer that asks for a supervisor but I didn't have the chance to escalate the call because my first line supervisors weren't around. Another was with a Filipino guy (Greg Nelson), the first time I talked in Tagalog with a caller! It was amusing, he's calling from the US Embassy, slang and all that, but the problem is, he hung up the call, just as I was very interested to help him with his issue. I tried calling him back (which is possible for disconnected calls). Then, I had several dispatches of media cd's for OSRI's. Damn. But anyway, my iAHT at one point dropped to 9:53mins. only! (^_^).

After shift, I went along with some of my teammates to have some drinks at Manongs, a well-ventilated drinking spot somewhere in Alabang. The place was awesome, we didn't even notice the time passing by. We had some serious, not-so-serious, work-related, out-of-this world talks along with the overflowing beer. Now I can say that I'm very much contented with my teammates and I feel that I am really a part of the team now. (^_^)

We all went home at about 8pm already and STL drove us and dropped us on the way home. I was so drowsy that I didn't manage to go to a friend's house where I promised I'll go after the drinking. I went straight to sleep.

I woke up the same time I usually wake up, turned on my PC and tried playing some games. I had my breakfast, still having some headache from the hangover. I went back to sleep and woke up at 10. I tried getting some sleep again, but I just couldn't, so by 3pm I immediately prepared going to work and here I am posting this. (^_^) Hopefully I can get to adapt easily on the Lean Shift I have now.



----------Robb----------

Friday, October 17, 2008

Still... No Internet?!

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Since yesterday was very much embarrassing, I went to work on time and I'm not late. The calls I had for that day were quite ok. The updates of our iAHT were not available yet up until now. So I wasn't able to track down if I'm doing great on the Stats Tracker. After work, I went to SM Southmall to buy an SD Memory Card Reader/USB Connector in one and tried putting my new pics on my computer. Problem is, our internet's still not operating very well. I contacted our Internet Service Provider (Globe Broadband) and informed them about our issue. Since we're both technical support reps, I was able to convey to the agent that the external modem needs to be replaced because it's overheating even if it's only turned on for about 10 minutes. He verified tha tthru some steps and came up with replacing the modem. He said it's going to take about 5 days turnaround time for an onsite tech to replace the modem. Anyway, that's good. Better late than never. I met up with my classmate Mark later in the evening for him to give my payment for the iPod shuffle I purchased from our former teammate Jeff.

The next day (Friday), I was sooper early at work. About 5:15 am I was already at the operations floor. I pulled up my tools early and reviewed some existing cases that I have that needs to be called back. The calls I had for the day were quite long. I had 3 OS reinstallations and good thing the last one only took 15 minutes! (^_^) I went home along with my usual teammates and Dad drove us all the way to SM Southmall. I got home at about 5:30 and played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon immediately. As soon as I finished resting, I was already very tired to move that I didn't notice I was already asleep and woke up at midnight. I went to sleep back again and onwards to another day at work. It's our last day on the morning shift. Tomorrow, I'm back on graveyard shift for out new schedule 6:30pm - 3:30am. Whew.



----------Robb----------

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Lateness

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My dad woke me up a bit later than I'm supposed to wake up - 5am! I sooper hurriedly went straight to bath and prepared going to work. I left the house about 10 minutes before 6am and man, was I soo very late. I met up with my teammate Tom on a jeepney ride to office from Moonwalk. I was able to login at about 6:38am and auto-in at my Avaya phone at 6:40am already. I was bombarded with chuckles and reactions from my fellow teammates and obviously, I was somehow ashamed that I came in late. Especially that I'm still probee, the performance expected of me is beyond that tardiness. Haha.
The calls were quite ok, just trying to figure out some things, but overall, they went very well. Total calls I had today was about 10 only but my AHT was only 20minutes ++. It was a fun and ok day especially that it's Pay Day today. I withdrew my my money along with Elai, Jane and Honeylet on the bank near SM Southmall. Then we all went inside the mall except for Jane who went home immediately. We strolled for a bit and found ourselves inside the department store. We then bid farewell to Honeylet because Elai and I are going home. We bought some nice brownies on the way back home and I got to our house at about 5:30 pm already. Bad side of the day - no internet! So obviously this journal is a late log. But anyway, that's the main purpose of this journal - to remember everything that happened to me everyday. (^_^)



----------Robb----------

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

From Pimples to Cellphone

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As soon as I had my breakfast, I went straight to my computer and surfed the net to no limits. I checked on every online accounts I do check everyday as well as my inbox on our office outlook. I indulged myself into playing AdventureQuest and DragonFable because Mom left the house in the morning, and of course, no one would stop me. Haha...

I am very much disappointed, however, on my cellphone, actually to the Sun Cellular Network. My cellphone was able to receive like all of the messages sent to me but surprisingly cannot send any message nor make even a single phone call. It will automatically say failed, or drop the call when in fact it has a full bar of signal! That's awfully weird. I just loaded my cellphone prepaid last Sunday and since then I wasn't able to send messages like normally. I think it has something to do with my previous loads getting stacked up to each other (and I now have 198 minutes of free calls!) and maybe Sun doesn't permit things like that to happen. But why would they disrupt the signal just because of that? Is it bad to NOT use up the free calls? Then why did the thing like that "free call stacking up" happening? Abnormally weird. Very weird.

Anyway, Mom arrived in the afternoon, just in time for me to take a bath and good thing I just turned off the computer and she didn't notice it. She brought us some afternoon snacks and man, were they soo yummy. They were rice cakes and I love these kind of food. One is "nilupak" - cassava rice cake, and the other one is "puto bumbong" - coconut rice cake. I gobbled up as much as I could before taking a bath.

Also, before going to the shower, I noticed there was a big zit on my face that is very much noticeable. I hated it. I hope by the end of the week this will be gone already. Owww, if only I could afford my own dermatologist.

I washed my clothes after and yeah, it took me up to 11pm to finish all of my dirty clothes in the hamper. I then remembered it was soo two weeks ago since I last washed my clothes so it got piled up just like that. I still had my PC on for the time being I'm washing - addict!

Meanwhile, the highlight of my day was when Mom finally decided to give me the new cellphone she bought from my sister's friend (actually I'm going to buy it from her, haha). It was a Metallic Green Samsung E250 Phone. Here's how it looks like:
http://www.welectronics.com/gsm/Samsung/SAMSUNG-E250-GREEN.jpg

I've always wanted to change my almost-primitive Nokia phone. But the good thing I loved about it was how fast it can send messages. I've always utilized the features of that Nokia (I don't remember the model, it's colored, but no camera) and kept it handy most of the times. But now, time to change, here comes my new phone. Haha, hopefully I can utilize the features too, I've already configured the settings and copied the contacts on my phone book. Nice look, sleek and stylish. I think I'm going to stick to this for quite some time.

Well, gotta go. It's work again tomorrow. Early at 6:30am. Don't want to be late.


----------Robb----------

Monday, October 13, 2008

So You Think You Can Dance?

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Monday. Start of the week for most people. But for me today, it's rest day.

I woke up early at 6am because of a call of nature. Then went to take a nap again. Breakfast was ready at 7:40 am and that's when I really got out of bed and started the day from there. After breakfast, I just checked on my cellphone for unread messages (and it shows no space for new messages so I had to wait for a while to keep them coming) and afterwards turned on the computer.

As soon as my system went straight to the desktop (and believe me, it takes like 5 minutes or more for it to fully start), I opened up Mozilla Firefox (my default browser) and updated my blogs and online accounts. Of course it would not be interesting if I'm going to reiterate everything that happened during my online surfing. But to mention some, I tried to tweak in some changes with my blogger site but I was having problems making it work. I was astounded when I came across the Aspire Template for the design and layout of the blog page. Aside from the slow loading of my system (it only has 128MB of memory), opening up multiple windows/tabs open slows it up even more. Good thing there was an option to save the previous template and I just loaded it back when I couldn't figure out anymore how to use the Aspire template.

I also tried to play some online flash games I usually check out, such as DragonFable and MechQuest. Neopets, of course, came in between logs. OneManga also caught my attention, specifically Flame of Recca, when I had my lunch in front of the computer. I read some chapters of the manga I haven't read yet until now.

From 8am to about 3:15pm I'm stuck in front of my PC. The only thing I think I did around the house was to sweep the floor (helpful much?!), haha. At least I'm happy I get to update my online accounts especially on times like this, I mean, in looong times like this :).

In the afternoon, I got to watch "So You Think You Can Dance" Season 3 on Velvet, the channel that I know that is very late on showing their programs, datewise. I just found out on Wikipedia that the current season that is airing on the channel is the 3rd one, when in fact the current season airing on the US is Season 4 already! Well, anyway, I'm still amazed and liked the performances of the Top 6:
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/Image/SYTYCD-Top6.JPG

Everyone did well, gathering high praises and comments. My favorites are... all of them, haha, no seriously, because all of them were awesome with about no missed steps whatsoever. Neil was awesome with his solo and his Pasa Doble with Sabra, not to mention having a nice face. Sabra did great along with Neil on their duo performance. Lacey with his solo, nice legs and behind. Danny, awesome smile, body and extensions. Pasha was unique on his solo performance, he used a mannequin! Lauren was oh-so-great on her performance along with Danny, the technicality was extreme!

Anyway, I dig up some photos of them from one of my friendly tools on the floor, google images. (^_^)

Neil Haskell
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1164/1132272920_b7e9c023f2.jpg

Sabra Johnson (the season's winner)
http://www.usmagazine.com/files/Sabra-Johnson-b_0.jpg

Danny Tidwell
The image “http://www.buddytv.com/articles/so-you-think-you-can-dance/images/danny-tidwell.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

Lacey Schwimmer
http://www.fansofrealitytv.com/bb8caps/images/lacey_schwimmer.jpg

Pasha Kovalev
http://www.tvfunspot.com/forums/images/realityshows/sytycd3/pasha.jpg

Lauren Gottlieb
http://www.tvfunspot.com/forums/images/realityshows/sytycd3/lauren.jpg

Well, there, I can't help but to post them. I am a fan of reality shows, after all.


----------Robb----------

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Robb's ABC

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Amidst the gaze of trapped emotion
Bundled thoughts go on without motion
Creeping noisily as a trotting horse
Daunted to speak as if under a curse
Emerging from clasped, blameworthy belief
Far from what could possibly induce relief
Growing trends, maybe yours, or mine
Hazy essence of the eras of the time line
Initiating ties, whoever goes his way
Joining societies fit for the astray
Keeping the faith of deliverance from pain
Longing to seek good fortitude for mundane
Mark of succession, unbound from tradition
Niche steps that "rocked" the nation
Over multitudes of resistance
Prayers made at an instance
Questions that blocked the way
Reality still swayed them away
Secrets abound most of their legion
Trust became their closest companion
Undoubted experience made him soar high
Vigor and self-esteem backed his thigh
Wandering through thick and thin
Xylophonic sounds raised his chin
Yearned wisdom he carries around
Zeal and knowledge he's willing to expound.

----------Robb----------

Catch up

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My mother woke me up at about 3:20 am in the morning. I was surprised to see that she's the one who did that because it was my father who usually do that. I headed straight to my computer and surfed for a while. Then I prepared going to work, and it was about 5am already. By 5:45am I left the house. I arrived about 6:15am and went straight to pulling up my tools. I am very much excited to take in calls today because last Sunday I was able to handle 18 calls.

Well, since it's the first day of a new week ending for our shift, I tried my best to accommodate as much calls as I can. What's weird today was my break-lunch-break schedule. Lunch was first on the schedule assigned to me, it was at 8:30am. I bought a regular call card of Sun and reloaded my cellphone prepaid. I hit some smokes for a while then went back to taking calls. What seemed like forever after lunch (and I had 5 calls by that time), became worse when DellServ, one of our main tools for profiling callers, became down for about 4 hours! It was my first time to experience that. I usually relied most of the time to that tool. So for the next 5-6 calls I had, I tried my best to do what must be done and, I think, I did minimal errors. My first break came in at 12:30 pm and my second break at 2:15pm. I did not receive a call when DellServ became ok again. I just scrubbed of my cases and finished logging them back to DellServ. All in all, I handled about 17 calls today, with an iAHT of 22 minutes.

About 15 minutes before our shift ends, our Senior Team Leader called for an Aux5 (Meeting, Coaching Break) for everyone. We talked about the target BSC's and the former grades of my teammates. All of us did some minor reporting and all the metrics were elaborated. We also talked about some best practices and action plan for the current Q4.
We filed an overtime for that and afterwards went home immediately. Some smokes outside the office then I went along Elai and Jane and rode Dad's van up to Alabang Medical Center. I got home at about 7pm already.



----------Robb----------

Saturday, October 11, 2008

A Man's Greatest Struggle...

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...is his own identity. Nothing else.



----------Robb----------

Just take the calls

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Week ending: Oct. 5 - Oct. 11

- Sunday - Today I had the most number of calls received. My internal Average Handling Time (iAHT) dropped to only about 22 minutes! I handled about 18 calls today, they just seem to pour on me. I think about a quarter of them were transfers, and some others are expired warranties.
After the shift, we all got ready to go to Pansol as today was also our team's General Assembly (a swimming party). I rode Dad's van along with Elai, Bhudz, Honeylet, Mira and Weng onwards to Pansol, but we went first to the South Supermarket where we spent about 1 1/2 hours shopping for food and ingredients!
We arrived at Laguna at about 7 pm already (or was it 8pm?). Everybody who's already there seems to be enjoying themselves very well. Songs can be heard from the videoke coming from the drinking sessions already started as well. I got dressed and impressed everyone with the length of my shorts. And it was really short. Haha. And of course, there began the swimming, drinking, singing, picture-taking and all that. We had dinner and man, was Dad an awesome cook! The food was magnificent. I got drowsy by 11pm and went to take a nap. When I woke up (about 12:15am), some of my teammates were talking about me. I probed further and discovered that pictures were taken when I was asleep! Anyway, the pics were not that harsh... haha. I continued the drinking sessions along with Honeylet, Rose and Leops. We went to sleep at about 1 am already.

- Monday - We all woke up about 6am in the morning and had our awesome breakfast. We reminisced the things that happened last night. Of course, every thing has to end so we all prepared going home. I still rode on Dad's van along with Bhudz, Elai, Ian, Pam, Weng, Honeylet and Mira going home. They dropped me at Northgate and I went straight home. As soon as I arrived home, I went straight to my PC and surfed as much as can. Until I felt sleepy and went straight to sleep after taking a bath.

- Tuesday - Rest day still. But I think what I just did today was to play my computer games (Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Version) and check on my online accounts. Nothing much.

- Wednesday - Back to my working shift. My calls today were great, I think I was able to handle 14. My AHT for today was about 25mins. Not bad. I also received my Dell T-Shirt today. I am most proud of getting that one 'coz in my opinion, it shows that you belong to the Dell SMB Queue, hahaha. (^_^)

- Thursday - Not a great day of handling calls, though I wore my Dell Shirt today and everyone else noticed it. My calls today were about 8 only. I didn't like it that much. It was more on OSRI (Operating System Re-Installation), which usually takes about an hour or so.

- Friday - Good thing it's dress-down today. I was able to wear my 'now'-favorite first hooded jacket. It was quite fun today. It was like queuing, which is weird for morning shifters. My first call was the most interesting because the customer was literally crying and I did all that I can to calm her up, of course with the help of escalation thru Dad.
It rained very hard today, and little do I know that classes were suspended until I heard it from the news later in the evening.

- Saturday - I woke up kinda late today. It was about 5am already and my shift starts at 6:30am! I quickly took a bath, got dressed, ate about 2 sandwich slices, then rushed to the end of our village. Good thing I arrived 15 minutes earlier than 6:30am. I then went on and handled calls throughout the day. I had the funniest day in the floor today. Everyone of us were joking on each other. I was even the object of some jokes at some point. Jewel was being kinda harsh-joking-sarcastic-funny at the same time. Marvin, as usual, sent my picture all over my wave-mates' emails. I got 12 calls today and 1 OSRI which was about to continue even after my shift but I got an adlib and went on finishing the call in 26 minutes.


----------Robb----------

Friday, October 10, 2008

EYES SHUT

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----------Robb----------

GOALS

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Gazing at the sun
Forever taking the path
To beauty and love
From within the heart
But cautious one must be
A deceiver always play
Designed to ruin
Hopes and dreams away.


----------Robb----------

MOMENTS

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Minutes spent for so many days
Over the hills all by yourself
Memories kept you remembering
Every single detail of yesterday
Nurturing the things that taught you
Times when your down and blue
Shivering in the cold night breeze...


----------Robb----------

Thursday, October 9, 2008

commendation

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2nd week of regular shift.

Week ending : Sept. 28 - Oct. 4

- Sunday - end of my shift for the week. My schedule's Wednesday to Sunday. I'm quite getting the hang of everything. I'm enjoying every moment of every calls I'm handling.

- Monday - Rest Day. Just stayed at home and went online because my internet's ok again. Now I am able to check up everyday on my online accounts. Great.

- Tuesday - Pay Day. Had my haircut early in the morning and withdrew my salary after that. It's a bit back to how much it was when I had my first payout. I went to PLM and gave my teammates a treat to McDonald's after a bit of volleyball playing. I then went along with Jay-R to James' house for Mr.Gamus' birthday celebration. It was sooo much fun! I wasted like about 2k that night. But anyway, I had a blast from drinking along with my former classmates and friends. Paul was even there who came a bit late about 2 hours before I went home (3 kisses to Paul! Mwah, mwah mwah! (^_^).

- Wednesday - After going straight home from partying and drinking, I didn't have a time for a nap so I went straight to work. It was nice and ok, had some nice bonding along with my new found smoke-mates with the team.

-Thursday - I can now send spam messages to the team. Everyone's entertaining what I am saying on my messages during the shift. It's dress-down day today because of the Signal #1 raised on Manila so STL advised us on what to wear thru a text message sent yesterday.

- Friday - Longest AHT (Average Handling Time) I think I got was today because I did like two OSRI (Operating System Re-Installation) to two callers. I'm calling them back again and again and the total inbound calls I got today was only about 8 calls!

- Saturday - COMMENDATION! I was just handling my calls that day when suddenly Marvin stepped up behind me and told me that one of the callers that I helped yesterday (Sheng Zhang) gave me a commendation after Marvin finished the call for me! It was a very nice feeling excpet that the announcement sent to the whole floor was with my ID picture taken las July when I was still in training and I was stll looking "lousy"! Hated it. But anyway, it's nice to be commended. I was there very much excited to take in phone calls.

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Robb----------

been busy the past few days... part 2


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The week after TQ was nothing more but nerve-wracking and exciting rolled into one. I don’t know about my TQ-mates but I am definitely enjoying myself adapting to the technician world of Dell SMB.

Week ending: September 21 - 27

- It’s the first week of our full deployment to the Operations Floor. Sunday I had a shift right away, along with Choi and Matt. Mommy A, I believe, also had at 6pm that day. Since I came from work directly from a party, I was a bit groggy but I think I did well. My first call I remember, is to perform a dispatch to a Canadian caller. Good thing, Marvin was able to help me thru email (coz I was about to continue with the dispatch!) and said that I need to transfer the caller to the Canada queue. STL Alain Guinmapang introduced me to the whole team and they introduced themselves one by one to me. I also experienced one on one talk with STL and he introduced himself as well.

- The following days were quite fun. I'm on the stage of adapting. I'm starting to get acquainted to everyone on the team. I'm always askig questions to Christian as well as Jewel. But at times to Jomel as well. Of course to Marvin if I got a chance. STL's being very nice and guides me through all the walkthroughs that I'm ever going to need. CC Nowell Macatangay's started a discussion about case ownership as well. RS Rommel Capati (we call him Dad) also helps me at times.

- They were all talking about the swimming for next week. I'm also excited for that one as it is our Team's General Assembly. The other days were just work, work, work.

- Prospect's been showing up on my way very much on this week. Nice inspiration for the start of my regular shift week. (^_^)


----------Robb----------

Been Busy the past few days...

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Week ending: September 14 - 20

- It's the last week for our Transition Queue. I remember I am really enjoying calls at these times.

- I was able to sell a $349.99 worth of memory module to a caller (whose purpose initially was to buy a memory for his system) on our last day of the TQ. Sales Coach Gerald Gomez gave me a treat because of that - a large pack of Tortillos Cheese, yeah!

- Tuesday of this week was the time I got the most number of calls and had my AHT (Average Handling Time) lowered to the standard rate. (^_^)

- This week we were all really focused. But of course, with *prospects* around, we can't help but go look sideways. But we still manage to really focus when calls came.

- The last day of TQ (September 25) was a very crucial day for us. Our TQ trainers didn't give us any hint of who will pass and who will not. When the time of the announcement came, Daddy Vin was the first one to be called. He had a pep talk with Boss Vince Lukban along with our trainers and afterwards came back to our group and said he didn't make it. How sad...

Almond called the rest of us and we all gathered up on the elevated part of the floor to go on the same talk process with Boss Vince and our trainers. I thought we're going to be talked in whole batch now because timewise, it's pretty much time-consuming. But no. He announced that everyone of us, except for Daddy Vin, PASSED! Woah! We passed!
I am very much pleased and happy and excited when he announced it. He gave us directions on our schedules, our teams, and our Team Leaders. Everyone was so overhelmed but felt sorry for Daddy Vin, because he was so techie-techie and all that, but it's just the QA (Quality Assurance) Evaluations that failed him. By the way, my very own QA Evals were awesome on the second week. If on my first week I got 85-80-85 grades (and 90 is passing), the second week I got 95-95-95! It was great! 2 Evals were to be passed to pass TQ so eventually I passed already, yoohoo! What's more, is that our TQ trainers requested to lower the passing grade for our QA Evals. If 90% is passing, I think Fern, Momo, Choi and Me were the only ones who will pass (and we do not want to carry that in our burdens!). Then they lowered it to 85% and most of us passed. Daddy Vin, I believe, only got 83.33% and our trainers couldn't do anything about it anymore.

- We planned a celebration earlier that week and we went to Vince's house after the last day of TQ, actually immediately after shift (technically it was Friday already, September 26). We stayed there the whole day bonding, reminiscing, watching movie, eating lunch cooked by Mommy A, Vince and Vince's Mom, and of course, drinking... a LOT. Vince setup the videoke later and we sang songs there. I belted out any song I know I can (of course! It's a videoke, like hello, haha). We went home at about 6pm already and I we were all sleepyheads on travel. I got to a van along with Momo, Maycel, and Fern on the way to Cavite from Alabang. It was sooo much fun.


- Saturday was the day of our mothly BL Convention. It was the formal launching of BL Gabay, Yffar's idea of a standard community for the LGBT society. It was fun and enjoyable. I met up with a lot of old acquaintances in the organization. It made me awake up to morning the next day even though my first day of regular shift on the Operations Floor is the next day. Imagine how I looked liked at work.

----------Robb----------