Archive for August, 2010
Look Boss, I Can’t Need More Money When I Don’t Want to be Rich
Finding Meaning in the Pursuit of Happiness By MIKA SANTOS DISCUSSED: Athletes Trading Stocks, Athletes Quitting “You know why I like hiring athletes? Because THEY DON’T QUIT.” These were the words my first boss would repeatedly tell me when he first hired me. And there I was, at my first week of work, flashing a [...]
The Gentle Art of Making Petiks
By ALICE SARMIENTO The term petiks was derived from “pipitik-pitik”. Directly translated, this means to snap one’s fingers, but in the more familiar territory of slacking off, it can be better understood as the “thumb twiddle”, a.k.a. that thing you do when you sit back and wait for something to happen. Which is highly unlikely [...]
The Economic and Psychosocial Merits of Working Seven Minutes Away From Home (And Why We Measure Distance in Units of Time)
By BOBBIE STA. MARIA Faulty title, minutes do not measure distance. But we get what I mean: How far is the airport from your house? One hour. How far is Cebu from Manila? One hour. Distance is only as relevant as the time it takes to get us there. I hope that appeases our intellectual [...]
The Early Stages of Late Puberty
By REDRUM DISCUSSED: puberty part 2, that thing called a “career,” learning by doing, periods Whenever I look at myself in the mirror before I head off to work, I see a young woman with a promising future ahead –carefully combed hair, crisp blouse, ironed-out slacks, hardly-used leather bag, pearl earrings, optimism. Giving my full [...]
Here’s Your Coffee Motherfucker!
By SOPHIA FISH To Whom It May Concern (you know who you are, you soulless bastard): Please, please, please accept this letter as resignation of my position as fashion assistant, effective as soon as motherfucking possible. I am offering you two weeks’ notice that will hopefully, by some way of miracle, be enough time for [...]
When the Workplace is Full of Teacup Humans
By NICE BUENAVENTURA In case True Blood has not reached where you live (under a rock), teacup human means small human or child. In season one, it was said that children’s blood tastes best, followed by virgins’. I doubt that. If children’s blood had a taste, it would be like sparkling water to the fizz [...]
Re: TOXIC Manong Guard @ Employee’s Entrance
By MARGUERITE ALCAZAREN DE LEON DISCUSSED: Unnecessary Security Measures, Not-Actually-Very-Questionable Clothing Choices, Life Compromises Sent: 7/20/2010 8:19 AM To: ALL Re: TOXIC Manong Guard @ Employee’s Entrance ___________________________________________________________________________ Dear All – Today marks the 365th day since I began employment as copywriter for this institution’s Corporate Communications Department. I confess that this is quite a [...]
What Do You Do With “What Do You Do?”?
By MELANIE LEE DISCUSSED: The Existential Angst that Comes About From Trying To Tell People What You Do The worst party I’ve ever been to happened just after I graduated from university. I found myself sitting in a circle of mostly strangers and we had to go round introducing ourselves and talking about “what we [...]
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