the good, the bad, the deadlines

first, the bad....

my mentor, trainer, good friend, tech lead and teammate... is gone. he was fired yesterday. =(

sobrang nalungkot ako. we were making plans for a bday surprise for another office friend next tuesday. kahapon lang sya tinanggal, after 8 years of great service to the company. makes me fear for my own job din. sabi nila wala na daw tanggalan until the end of the year, pero eto, may isa pa. and that was a shocker talaga.

lunch time yesterday, kausap ko pa sya about a work ticket na ginagawa ko. he was assisting me sa lab. then around 4pm, may itatanong ako sa kanya, so i called out from my cube. magkatabi kasi yung cubes namin eh. walang sumasagot. hmmm. baka nasa meeting. so i waited.

after 30 minutes, tinawag kami isa-isa ng manager namin. meeting daw sa director's office. and that's when they droppped the bomb. he's out of the team, out of the company. i almost cried. *sigh*

apart from being a great programmer, he is a very approachable and helpful person. naging kaibigan na rin namin sya. he invited us to his home for a poker party. kasama ko rin sya sa pool tournament at sya ang captain ng team namin. now that he's off the payroll, i wonder if he will still continue the pool thing. hayyy talaga.

and my dilemma right now, do i contact him or not? ayoko muna sana kasi baka masama pa ang loob nya. but then, i want him to know that i am still just around the corner if he wants a support group. hayyy talaga. i'm surely gonna miss him. i'm sure the team will miss him. and i'm sure we will miss him more when there's a lot of stuff going on at work. *sigh*

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now, the good. i got a Hats Off award 3 weeks ago for the work we've done for that client who almost sent me to Chicago. hehehe! well, i guess since i saved the company quite a sum (plane ticket alone is six hundred freakin' dollars!), they gave me and my teammate a $250 denomination this time. wow, asenso! haha!

it used to be just a hundred. then $150, then eto na $250! weeeeh!

anyways, that's my 4th Hats Off in 3 years... must be a good sign of my performance at work then. on the flipside, it makes me paranoid that maybe i'm not well compensated sa salary ko kaya they are very generous with these stuff. haha! sows, i'll take the good na lang. hehe!

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got a deadline on the 9th. used to be the 11th. hopefully i won't kill myself with work. hehe! ok lang sana kung yung 2 deadlines ko lang eh, pero may mga sumusulpot pa na trabaho. i'm putting the rest on hold until i meet my Sept9 deadline. c'mon pipol, i only got one body, one pair of hands, one brain. and even when i do multitasking, it sucks when you have to stop-and-go sa thinking process mo. ok, that's a rant. hehehe!