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At 30 where did all the time go?

I can make an epic if only I had the time, but then again everyone can make something special if only they had the time. I guess that is the lesson of growing up. When young and stupid, there is a lot of time, but when a certain phase of one's life. There is no time anymore. I thought, maybe I should be a writer or possibly go back into 3d Graphics. After stomaching this many criminals (and I really mean criminals) I think I have finally reached the edge of my patience. Any further and I would change and be very different from who I think I am. I'm here to learn, but I'm also here to grow. I can learn, but I can forget those lessons. When I grow, I incorporate those lessons into my perspective and in the way I do things. Learning may be knowing what to do or experiencing things, but growing is accommodating all these into who we are. Its hard to grow when there is no time to reflect and strategize. Every Day being Violated . Today is an experience of how bribery is used aga

Some Calculations: If I ever go back to 3d Graphics

Doing all these research and downloading all these tools. There is a chance I can probably go back to 3d Graphics. As an apprentice 3d Artist I earned about Php15k (13+2). I think if I go back to 3d graphics with maybe 6 months of retraining, I can hit 18k. One interesting thing I can probably offer a company is the ability to train and move their entire 3d Division to Open source (freeing from all those expensive licenses; ex. Php200k per 3ds Max Seat) and allowing Older computers to be part of a render farm. I think I can pull that off, but it will take a year or so for me to develop the process, and access to several late 2010s computers (1G Ram with 2GHz ram). Its not really being an artist, but its taking the performance obsesive BPO industry in call centers and bringing it to 3d Graphics to the Artistic Production Floors. A 3d Graphics Artist with Management Experience in BPOs and the Ability to shift entire production to low end computers. I've been checking out Openstack

Explaining how complicated life is

I had to explain to my brother why we cannot just force people and take stuff that is rightfully ours. He was not happy about the explanation and resents me for it. He clearly hates these peoples who have stolen from the company, worse is the how they manipulated people to get what they wanted. ex. is how someone used cleaning cost of up to 150k and 24k, made someone in Finance as the payee and pocketed the money. Since the finance head was out to get what she wanted he got into the action by pocketing poorly documented transactions. So my brother is pissed and can't do anything about it because the underlying problem is poor documentation. When the Finance head is in on it, its fairly easy to get away with the crimes. He has frustrations to channel and nothing much to channel it to except to forget everything or inaction. I asked him to Imagine what will happen with the course of action he wanted to take: making enemies/ pissing-off people. I highlighted the prospect of getting

So Much Work to do, this is getting old.

I'm exhausted. I feel mentally fatigued and I'm at the end of my wits. Around this time I should be "reformating" my brain drive and writing down everything I experience and reflecting on all of it, while formulating a "best practice" a better way to approach events. I realized it was an intense effort of fire-fighting since Feb and now I'm exhausted. All those long hours, me with my slightly poorer than average health is showing. HT9 is HT9. Since I'm not that smart and can't really learn like some genius in those stories, I need to document and take a step back to look at everything. Passing the Buck . Difficult tenants tend to Pass the Buck a lot. Basically to skimp on costs they require us to do the proposals and reports they would otherwise should be doing. Of course, there are no consequences for us no to do the report, so we are inclined to drag our feet. If they want it done ASAP they better do it themselves or hire someone to do it. Wh

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Long Night Work and realizations

Moving towards Separations. Our sister company was charging us Php1500 per manhour services for 2 trainers who are doing documentation. Currently they have racked up 48 hours. I did calculations for Manhour based on our HR and Services cost (we do such) and it is based on (((Monthly Salary x 13)/261 days)/8 hours)x (1.3 for overtime through a rest period, and +0.2 for company resource and somewhere there is a profit margin). So a level 1 technician 15k would cost about php140ish and a 25k technician would cost Php230ish. This is used to calculate also if there is a need for a Full-time employee. I didn't know all these facts PRIOR to signing of the Php1500 per hour. in fact, I was lead to believe they can accomplish the job in 24 manhours (8 days, 4 days a week, 3 hours per day). But they failed to produce the results, and even with documentation coming AFTER the failure to justify the outrageous costs, the bottom line is that they are a sister company and they used ambush tactics

Idealists in Business

Idealists in Business I sat in a meeting where the business proposition sounded very Idealistic. It had all the key words: relationships, uplifting people, mutual growth etc... If you know me, I sound like that... but I talk to people who really know me about things like that. I don't talk to people who don't know me that well. The Idealistic Spiel is a business move and practice. An indicator of how a person is really idealistic and altruistic is how conservative and how very down to earth the expectations they provide. They don't say much of anything useful, in fact they sound like a dead end. It appears like they have more to say but they don't say anything till what should happen happens. Now that kind a person is Idealistic for sticking to a path few tread, their honor and image of themselves as not being tainted by the "game". Exaggeration is a way to get people moving, unfortunately it slips to easily like a lie. I like using the Framing Technique, wher

I dream of work

In a SMBC comic, it makes sense that dreams are merely ourselves observing our mental RAM being defragmented and our natural mindset to make a story out of all the images randomly flashing before us. I've began to dream of work to a point that I have gaps in my memory of whether I sent an email or did something already, but I've been visualizing to do but have no time for. And in my understanding being able to remember a dream means, my sleep was not deep and restful enough. Well given the baby sleeping with us, I don't think I have anyway out of it.

How I feel about some people

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“You know, I don’t have many enemies in life. I get along with Republicans, Protestants, Catholics, even a few reporters. But one thing I hate is amateurs.” Worse is they admit they dont know what YOU DO or the business and they still make these moves independent of everyone else's awareness.

So Much to Do

So Much to Do I got home from work at 4:15am, got to sleep at around 4:45am. Record latest I've come from work, but there are some real milestones to be had. I have a long list of things to do. bit of more than I can chew. Other than key stuff to do, we have little "side quests". These are matters of investigation and PR. An example is an agent tells us that she's has not been regularized for 9 months. Upon regularization there is a pay increase, but HR had her going around in circles. Noticing her pregnancy, I commented about having signed off some HMO reimbursement for several pregnant agents. Then she tells me she wasn't to get her medical reimbursed and HR had her going around in circles. Currently HR has been caught trying to skimp on work at the expense of the agents. They would rather fight and argue with agents about last pay, benefits, and information than help. This side quest, illuminated a kind of abuse that there was no way for us to know unless you