View Poll Results: Is Christmas more merry or less merry than before?
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More merry
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Same merry
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I don't celebrate Christmas
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December 11th, 2010 01:43 AM #31tingen ko naman *uls dami baon sa utang ngaun. sa dami ng nag-maxout ng credit cards, low downs sa condo at tsikot at yun mga discounted ensogo/gift certs,
kaya walang pera panlabas ngaun
i'm sure this will continue kasi ang forecast eh full recession ang asia in 2-3 years sa sobrang daming mababaon sa utang
pero alam ko kumbakit walang gano namimili ngaun, kasi last year hindi kami namili ng X'mas. namili kami after X'mas kasi nagsale lahat ng malls after bec. they're thinking la na pera pambili tao
imagine Dec. 23 yun hush puppies na gusto ko 4,500, December 28 nabile ko ng 3,200 san kapa hehe
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December 11th, 2010 01:46 AM #32the explanation is very much how you approach life. sabi mo ikaw kumukuha ng interest, pero ikaw never ka makukuhaan ng interest ergo you buy in cash sa big purchases
ganyan din lahat ng tao ngaun kala mo ikaw lang. di ko alam kung sa tubig na iniinom natin, pero ang lahat ng tao kasi ngaun pakabig at tuso
so there goes X'mas the spirit of giving, bec. today everybody computes. scrooge is teh man these days
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December 11th, 2010 08:11 AM #33
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December 11th, 2010 08:14 AM #34For me, I guess I really am getting older.
Take for instance my office. I work for an IT company. I'm sure all of you who work for IT companies know that a lot of deadlines occur in Q4. (Honestly, I have no idea why they want to release a product in Q4.... Feeling ko mga GAME companies lang ang may karapatan mag release sa Q4. Non-game companies? Ewan.)
Now, nagpupuyat na ang department mo fixing lots of bugs ang slugging it out with an adamant QA team, with each member having a quota of bugs to log. Hence they log walang-kwenta bugs just to meet their quota.
Fine. It's just work. That's what I'm being paid for. To push the product out by Q4, and to ensure all the bugs, both legit bugs and nuisance bugs, are fixed.
Busy, busy busy.
Enter the admin group. The admin group demands that each department send out a representative to be a member of the Christmas party committee. Okay... I sacrifice a member to join the group. That member of mine must now render extra hours of work for that stupid committee. (As if mas importante yung Christmas party na yon kesa doon sa Q4 deadline.)
Then comes the result of the committee....
Monito monita ---> Buy 50php of stupid items every week. Waste 50php on stuff that gets thrown in the waste basket.
Monito monita final --> go crazy running around the mall to search for that final gift.
Presentation --> Remember the Q4 deadlines? Now you also have to think of a stupid Christmas presentation.
Christmas Party Venue --> Siempre it has to be located in a place that FAR away from the office. Car owners are conscripted by the committee to carpool. If you don't want ot carpool, you're made to look like the Christmas Scrooge...humbug! My office is at The FORT. Ang daming magandang venue dito na pwedeng lakarin. BUT nooooooo.... the Christmas committee wants to have it in Greenbelt on a FRIDAY night. Wow...nice...sarap mag hanap ng parking!
ME I'm not excited. Naiinis ako. IN fact, I really want to catch the flu next friday para lang may excuse ako not to attend. I just want to push the Q4 deadline so the company earns its money.
The ADMIN group? Excited like teenagers waiting for prom night.
Yep... I am getting old. I don't deny it.
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December 11th, 2010 08:41 AM #35Take for instance my office. I work for an IT company. I'm sure all of you who work for IT companies know that a lot of deadlines occur in Q4. (Honestly, I have no idea why they want to release a product in Q4.... Feeling ko mga GAME companies lang ang may karapatan mag release sa Q4. Non-game companies? Ewan.)
Now, nagpupuyat na ang department mo fixing lots of bugs ang slugging it out with an adamant QA team, with each member having a quota of bugs to log. Hence they log walang-kwenta bugs just to meet their quota.
Fine. It's just work. That's what I'm being paid for. To push the product out by Q4, and to ensure all the bugs, both legit bugs and nuisance bugs, are fixed.
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December 11th, 2010 09:05 AM #36We've got a Japanese customer.
Dalawang QA yung kailangan namin i-please. Our own local QA and the REAL customer QA.
Our REAL customer QA is the one that logs legitimate, practical bugs. Our own local QA logs pilosopo bugs. Unfortunately, we've got to solve all of 'em.
Anyway, we've just entered partial code-freeze last week. And bugs are down to a trickle. Any new bugs that are logged are subject to an evaluation on whether or not it's worth including in the Q4 release slated next week.
SO the bulk of my work right now is playing the role of a defense lawyer arguing to not solve a nuisance bug.Last edited by ess; December 11th, 2010 at 09:11 AM.
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December 11th, 2010 09:45 AM #37I just realized that during xmas season people are becoming materialistic who are looking forward to receive material things.
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December 11th, 2010 10:18 AM #38
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December 11th, 2010 10:21 AM #39
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December 11th, 2010 10:27 AM #40
facade lang yan uls, ang dami kasing pwedeng bilhin na gadgets ngayon...tapos meron pang mga offer na buy now, pay next year.
ako nga gusto ko bumili ng Mac book pro, Iphone 4 and Ipad. konti na lang hinde ko na talaga matiis.
mag propose ka na kasi...
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