Uncertainty

Borrowing a friend's article title, I would like to talk about the recent happenings regarding my career.

A few weeks back, our HR director and our boss summoned out whole department to a closed door meeting. It was for the prupose of announcing the pending reorganization of the HR group. As a consequence, people might be displaced, transferred elsewhere or lose their jobs. The new organization will not happen until 2008, but changes will begin happening by third quarter of this year. With the announcement came a suggestion to start exploring career opportunities outside SMC. Of course there was much talk about us being highly employable to quell our anxiety about the impending change.

Just when I have made my decision to stay in SMC up until rertirement age...

I love being in San Miguel, not only do I learn something new each day, I am also in the company of people who have become dear friends. I take pride in our products (sometimes I get flak from my sisters because of my loyalty to SMC products), our heritage, and the kind of people that SMC breeds. Walking in the corridors (despite the worn out carpeting and wiggly panels) of the head office makes me feel at home. The guards and maintenance people are polite, the employees (well most) have a ready smile when you nod or say hi.

But then again, as I said before, sometimes decisions are not ours to be made. Sometimes, circumstances will dictate the direction.

I've posted a couple of applications on-line and got a couple of calls for interviews already. Let's see what happens next.

3 months after

Three months since i last went here...

I've been getting flak about not updating my blog as often, but then again there's just so much in my hands at the moment that I can't even bother to get a pedicure...

May, June and July came and went and oh was it eventful! First, my dad came home on May 26, my sister got married on June 10 (oh yes I wore the yellow gown!), my dad went back to the states, etcetera etcetera...

All my time and energy is still spent on work most of the time and in renting and watching movies over the weekend. This is something that i've come to enjoy doing on my days off. One time, i did a seven-movie marathon for 2 days!

Last week i rented the movie adaptation of RENT and boy i loved it! Not only because Jesse L. Martin has been my long-time crush (I never thought he sings so well!), or that I simply adore musicals, but because the movie was just spectacular! I'm still raving about it and urge all my friends to watch it too. I even downloaded a RENT screensaver for my office PC. The songs were great and I promised myself to get a copy of the OST.

Note: picture courtesy of sonypictures.com