| Skirmish with a Salesclerk |
Feb 14, 2008 5:56 pm
977 Views | I was browsing through the display glass of a Supplies Store looking for a couple of blank CDs. When I found what I wanted, I called the attention of the sales clerk and asked her if I could have those but instead of its usual plastic case, I wanted some sort of a paper cover. I’m even willing to pay for them on top of the CD’s cost. Guess what her reply was:
WALA NGANG COVER, EH! (I’m sorry I have to say the exact words in Filipino for emphasis! Translations sometimes do not duplicate the intensity of a certain meaning. )
In English, THEY DON’T HAVE A COVER! (Okay. Sounds harmless, right? But if you translate that again in our parlance, saying something like that tantamounts to saying, FUCK OFF IDIOT! WE DON’T SELL WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR!)
That enraged me. The nerve of this girl! I may be over-reacting but first and foremost, I AM A CUSTOMER and she is a SALESCLERK. As a salesclerk, I’m sure she has been briefed or had an orientation about Customer Handling. In my parlance, there are common rules to be followed:
No. 1. Treat your customers right. Never show your disgust to your customers even when they ask you too many questions or looked into too many merchandise at once. It’s your job to treat them well, and (read: you are paid to do that!).
No. 2. Value your customers. You need no math to figure this out: No customers, no sales. And no sales means you’re out of job, Idiot!
No. 3. The Customer is ALWAYS RIGHT. Period!
So what did I do to this salesclerk, you might wonder. After telling her how rude she was, I got out of the store. I bought the blank CDs in another store beside it and went back to the previous store to see the Manager/Proprietor. I had to report the incident. I don’t want that salesclerk to have the last laugh on this one. But that’s beside the point. She really needs to be checked. The proprietor happens to know me. His store is one of the biggest in town and he’s a client of ours. After hearing me say my piece (I even showed him the CDs I bought in another store), he sent someone to get the erring salesclerk and you guess it right. The salesclerk got a reprimand, of course. No, I don’t want her out of the job. She just needs to know what the nature of her job really is.
I wasn’t able to do this at that time so I would like to do this now. BLEH  in her direction. | |
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| Microwave Tragedy |
Feb 13, 2008 7:17 pm
1173 Views | The following information culled from an email is worth sharing. This concerns about a video footage of boiling water in a microwave oven. A mother tells about her son’s experience in heating up a cup of water in a microwave and how this seemingly simple procedure brought horrible (read: lifetime) impact on the boy’s life. But, yes, every thing on earth has a lesson to it and definitely adds up to man’s great reservoir of knowledge and wisdom. Read on and be informed and saved from a lot of pain and suffering.
“My 26-year old son decided to have a cup of coffee. He took a cup of water and put it in the microwave to heat it up (something that he had done numerous times before). I am not sure how long he set the timer for, but he told me he wanted to bring the water to a boil. When the timer shut the oven off, he removed the cup from the oven.”
“As he looked into the cup, he noted that the water was not boiling, but instantly the water in the cup “blew up” into his face. The cup remained intact until he threw it out of his hand but all the water had flown out into his face due to the build up of energy. His whole face is blistered and he has 1st and 2nd degree burns to his face which may leave scarring!”
“He also may have lost partial sight in his left eye. While at the hospital, the doctor who was attending to him stated that this is fairly common occurrence and water (alone) should never be heated in a microwave oven.” “If water is heated in this manner, something should be placed in the cup to diffuse the energy such as a wooden stir stick, teabag, etc. It is however a much safer choice to boil the water in a teakettle,” the doctor said.
General Electric’s response:
“The email that you received is correct. Microwaved water and other liquids do not always bubble when they reach the boiling point. They can actually get superheated and not bubble at all. The superheated liquid will bubble up out of the cup when it is moved or when something like a spoon or teabag is put into it.”
Explanation:
“What happens is that the water heats faster than the vapor bubbles can form. If the cup is very new then it is unlikely to have small surface scratches inside it that provide a place for the bubbles to form. As the bubbles cannot form and release some of the heat that has built up, the liquid does not boil, and the liquid continues to heat up well past its boiling point. What then usually happens is that the liquid is bumped or jarred, which is just enough of a shock to cause the bubbles to rapidly form and expel the hot liquid. The rapid formation of bubbles is also why a carbonated beverage spews when opened after having been shaken.” | |
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| Stuck in the office for lunch |
Feb 12, 2008 9:12 pm
958 Views | It's raining hard for the past 4 days now. My officemates and i decided to stay in the office during lunch break because it's really a mess soaking up your garb in the rain especially we still have 4 hours left of work to do. Needless to say, we ate our lunch in the office. We cleared one table of documents and supplies, then laid down our foods. More like a potluck. As we were not prepared for such an eventuality, our food consists of instant noodles and corn beefs and just about anything we managed to pull out of our drawers. Some guys have brave the rain to get some items, though.
This is most filling for me. We ate our food and shared laughters with my colleagues. It's a cozy feeling to have a sharing moments like this with them. Happy to note that we get along well. And i so much treasure the experience. | |
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| The Quiddity of Conversation |
Feb 12, 2008 7:25 pm
781 Views | The following conversation are extracted from the dvd “Scary Movie 3” I watched last night. I was amused by the exchanges of words of these characters that I specially paid attention to their conversation and wrote them down here.
(A white-ass and a nigga. These are not my own words, swear. These terms are used in the movie)
George: You ever wonder when it’s time to stop living up here and start living down here?
Mahalik: No, but what if we stop living over here and move over there
(Read the following conversation in a rap manner. Picture out our coloured friends, yeah? Now, that’s what I’m really talking. Give it up for these two. Yeah, yeah, a-come on, Yo!)
Mahalik: Mice? I thought she had rats.
Friend (forgot the character’s name. Sorry): No man. Rats are outside. Mice are inside.
Mahalik: What if a mouse goes outside? Does it become a rat? And if a rat is in the house, is it a mouse?
Friend: I ain’t never seen no mouse outside.
Mahalik: That’s because it’s a rat, fool!
Friend: Damn, you might have just made a fact just now.
(uh, a continuation, but of a different scene)
M : This morning he woke up dead.
F : How in the hell do you wake up dead?
M : ‘Cause you’re alive when you go to sleep.
F : You’re telling me you can go to bed dead and wake up alive?
M : You can’t go to bed dead? That s*** would be redundant!
F : No, it wouldn’t. ‘Cause you can go to bed and not be dead. And you can die but not in the bed.
M : But you are in a bed, man. That’s how you wake up dead in the first place, fool!
F : Damn, that’s some quantum s*** right there, man! You ought to be teaching some classes. | |
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| Gnawing Question |
Feb 8, 2008 12:40 am
1076 Views |  | ...Why every politicians justify their actions like they commit such for the interest of the people?
Happy Weekend, everyone! |
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| Damn all these Beautiful Girls |
Jan 29, 2008 5:24 pm
878 Views |  | Beauty envy is the not-so-secret underside to our cult of appearances. Don’t even pretend you haven’t felt it. Even in this supposedly enlightened age, the sight of a gorgeous girl can turn smart, funny women who should know better into a pathetic bunch of insecure wrecks.
Consider yourself strolling through the mall, walking into a meeting or even on a date. You've got on your best gear and you feel great. Just about when you think you stand out above the rest, you see HER. Whatever it is, she’s perfect. You don’t even know her, but you hate her.
Here’s the deal: we hate gorgeous girls, because they make us feel like dirt.
Of course this is dumb, not to mention wrong, and we know it. In the first place, it has very little to do with the woman herself—the subject of our envy. What we feel about her has nothing to do with who she is, what she thinks and feels but everything to do with our own feelings and our own projections.
REALITY CHECK: We hate it when men make snap judgments about women because of the way they look—how dare we do the same? Being a woman is infinitely more than what meets the eye, that apart from a body, we all have a mind, heart, and spirit to offer the world, and all of these buoy our bodies, infusing the energy that can, in fact, make us more beautiful than we are.
We shouldn’t be so quick to forget this. In fact, we should know this by heart and most days, we believe it. Why do we backslide so easily?
Woman Chant:
I AM BEAUTIFUL! I AM BEAUTIFUL! I AM BEAUTIFUL! I AM BEAUTIFUL! I AM BEAUTIFUL!
Let's do that one more time. We might convince ourselves if we repeat it much. 
P.S
This blog isn't for girls alone. A man's view on the topic is highly sought  |
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