Life’s Lessons

Got a call last Thursday telling me that MacPlas’ (the company I worked for before URC) will be having their Christmas Party the next day and they are getting us (me and Ace) to be their official photographers. What a super short notice! After being their official photographers during their Family Day last May, they are hiring us again. Since MacPlas is like a family to me and Ace, I couldn’t just say no. So even if I don’t know how much they are paying us, I said YES to the invitation.

Macondray Plastics is a great place to work with because the management, most especially the CEO and President is always thinking of the manpower as their top priority among others. I saw how people were taken cared of, how the management thought of ways to make sure the people are happy even providing the best material handling machines and equipments so they may be productive with their work, how the management thought of employee relations activities to strengthen the bond between the management and employees, how the company is taking care of their clients and their stake holders.

I do hope this certain connection between me and Ace and the people of my first corporate family will continue to grow…and someday, we will become business partners as we offer our services to them.

Note: photos to follow. I am too busy to resize some of the photos now.

I love it that I can now work with the iPad. That means, I can now go online without bringing my laptop in our trips! Yay! That’s a relief. The usual scenario when we’re travelling – Me with my handbag, tripod, and a weekend bag while Ace with the laptop bag, camera bag, and his backpack. So now we can go away with the laptop that’s heavy for me and not worry about work because I can go online with my iPad. Thanks to brilliant minds for inventing the internet, wifi, and tablet PCs!

It’s supposed to be holiday but I am talking about work. Sad to say, we follow the US calendar so I NEED to work even if it’s declared a non-working holiday in this part of the globe. The consolation is, I don’t need to be sitting in front of the computer for 8 straight hours. Hence, we can travel to Kabacan later! I’ll just check work emails along the way, or if the boss needs something to be faxed to her, I can send through email fax services later. With Metrofax (that allows people to send and receive fax through email), we can definitely work remotely! Metrofax sends and delivers fax in a pdf format so I or the boss can easily print it whenever needed. Love the idea! So convenient for us – especially me who’s always out for a quick trip and others who are always on a business trips. This email fax service is definitely a huge help!

One task pending for my fulltime job. It’s been pending for more than a month now and I don’t know how could I ever accomplish it when the person I needed to have a short meeting isn’t showing up in YM or replies to my mails. I wonder if he is still connected with the company. Since there are no announcement that he isn’t working with us anymore, I presume is he still working for the company. So anyway, I have to go on with my other task and prepare my marketing pitch to the prospect clients and be able to send it weeks before one of the sales team will prepare the materials that he will be needing to fill the trade show booths in one of the trade shows that he will be attending next month. Sales and Marketing strategies has changed over the month and the sales people are into joining trade shows now unlike before.

Though one task down, I am still unaccomplished. I really hope that certain sales person will add me in YM and reply to my emails.