Last Call For That Overtime

Tonight's going to be the official end to our language enhancement class, which means we won't be going to the office early next week, thankfully.  However, the evaluation will happen on Friday, and a random call from the Thursday-Friday period from folk already talking calls will be used to judge whether or not we passed the …

Not Without Instances Of Panic

It was the continuation of the usual CompAss last night, except with the added wrinkle that Kooh, who was our proxy-coach and source of processing knowledge, had to be sent home by the clinic due to having a bad case of Sore Eyes (which I might add can be contagious).  This more or less takes …

Abbreviated Starts, Again

Here I am, awake early again at the start of the week because of the pre-shift training... though I would have gotten up early regardless, as we had to drop by the market again to restock the fridge with the food I needed for my viands for the next week.  Just kind of wish that …

Taking Some Of That Pressure Off

I can't say that I was able to use today to the fullest, because in all honesty I slept through most of it.  This was partly due to the fact that I woke up ridiculously early -- around one-thirty in the morning -- and then proceeded to play through the World of Warships special access weekend.   …

Taking Advantage Of The Cool While It’s Here

And by that, I mean the cool weather, which makes for good napping, so that's exactly what I did.  After I got back from work, I watched the baby for a bit, as his minder was doing the laundry, my sister was asleep, and my father was apparently out to the market.  As soon as …

The Night Still Felt Long

Last night's shift was somewhat better.  Took comparatively less calls -- twenty compared to twenty-five from the day before -- but the shift still felt ridiculously long.  Makes me curious now at the aggregate stats though, which I suppose we'll get later on during tonight's shift. The breaks really need getting used to though.  Thirty …

Objects Of Interest

Yesterday's day at work didn't start really well.  I was greeted by the news that the MRT service had stopped temporarily due to an accident that had happened in the Ayala area (a bus caught fire, and some debris from it fell unto the tracks), which meant that I had to head to the EDSA …

Quite An Experience, As Expected

It was definitely different, having to do system prep and logging in during what could very well be our work schedules for the next two years and more.  The number of calls we took sure came as a shock to my companions as well, but that's more due to the fact that we grew fat and …

Bit Premature, But Got It Right This Time

Of course the fact that it was Martin Luther King day yesterday had to slip my mind.  This meant that it wasn't the start of Comp-Ass after all, and in fact we spent the whole shift just trying to find use of the time we had that day.  While the intent was we were supposed …

One More Step To The Real Deal

It's Monday, meaning that not only is it time for the usual pre-shift language training, but it's also the start of Competency Assurance.  All of a sudden, Phone Lab doesn't seem so bad, compared to what we're going to experience from tonight onward, which is more or less a dry-run of an actual full-hour shift. …