We can now smell the fast approaching Yuletide Season and the coming New Year. The Ber months have already started and many of us have also started making plans for the said holidays. Some may have started buying gifts for their love ones, some may have made bookings for their vacations, and some, the uber excited ones, may have started…
Category: All About Work
Notes as a worker
Nationa Health Insurance Program – Benefit Or Burden?
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation or Philhealth is the national health insurance program of the Philippines. All employees are by default members of this health insurance because the monthly premium is automatically deducted from the salary. Employers also give their share by adding an at least equal amount as the employee’s share to the total premium. The employee and employer’s shares depend…
Unique Office Setup
During college days, we had an internship program in which the graduating students were deployed to real companies to work as real software developers. One of the things I really enjoyed during my internship was doing client visits because I had the chance to travel and meet real professionals. For a college student like me who had no experience in…
Mandatory Drug Test
My three other officemates and I went to Pasig City Hall this morning to undergo a mandatory drug test as per Pasig City Ordinance. Too unfortunate because we were not able to meet the cut-off for the distribution of forms. We learned that the forms were distributed from 8 AM to 9AM only but we arrived pass 9 AM. We…
11th Year and Counting
This month marks my eleventh year in the IT industry. I started working as a junior developer in a small software company in July 1999. I graduated May of that same year. I only had almost two-month rest from the stressful college life when I started facing a more stressful and pressured milestone of my life, and that was being…