**7.56PM.
My shift started about twenty minutes ago. Now here I go again, changing my blog description, blog title, and the domain name. Sorry for the confusion but I think I'm gonna go ahead and stay with this one. It's easier to have a topic that I'm currently immersed in.
**8.12PM
Today I just said goodbye to a coworker. She's a Nurse and she's off to Canada and will work on a cruise ship, and she will be resigning on Friday. She's planning on not ever coming back to the call center industry again.
Then I got another coworker who has been absent for three straight days. Turns out he went to Cagayan Valley, up in the North, hunting for a gecko that can earn him $7,000 minimum.
Coworker will resign by the end of August, will go back to her previous call center.
Another coworker in the Sales Department resigning, can't handle workload and wants a real career.
Also another one, VISA approved, will go back to Dubai, UAE.
Also another one, will resign and then apply to a different company with a non-voice account.
Then a couple more.
I realized I'm like this people. Restless. Always wanting to get out. Trying to make sense out of life. Trying to do everything just to feel alive. Can't stay contented, can't stay satisfied, always on the run, don't know if they're ever going back. Few work because they need it. Many work for the strangest reasons.
I'm still thinking.
**6.57AM.
3 minutes to go before my shift ends. Customer called in, said, "Hello?" No answer from my end. Finally when his "Hello?" reached my middle ear, I woke up, startled, saw that he has been waiting for an answer from me for about 52 seconds. When I finally gathered my words, "Yes Sir hello, how can I--" he hung up.
Can't blame him. He can't blame me either.
But I could have made a sale. I am 80 bucks short of my quota for the day.
**7.00AM.
Time to gather my stuff, run out of the office, hail a cab and then make it to school in an hour. Will have classes until 4.30PM, then my new shift starts at 7PM-4AM.
Hell of a life.
Okay, I don't know if you have tried working nights before but it's a damn good challenge if you haven't already. Actually it's probably best to stay away so as to avoid stress and wondrous permanent damages to your immune system. And it doesn't stop there. It also puts a halt on a lot of other things like... well, your life as you know it.
It's 3:34AM, I'm in my station taking calls and I want to literally hit the floor and just sleep in peace regardless of it being very uncomfortable. I regret having to take the job, I regret why I'm here instead of sleeping, I miss the nightlife, I miss social life, pretty much everything.
But then I take back everything I said and my feelings of regret I start to forget when I see the sun breaking out at 5AM. I see the somewhat strong current of the Pasig River and the stillness and peacefulness of.. well, mankind.
I love the view from here. Now everything just seems right. I'll have the same thoughts tomorrow around the same time but I'll have the same good vibes when I see the clouds lightening up the horizon.