Friday, November 18, 2005

Rants on my work and Smart WiFi

Rants about my work
Somehow I’m not enjoying my work anymore. Miss goody-two-shoes lessen my Christmas grocery value to only 1,500. All of them got 2,500 for their Christmas grocery. She said that I am just with the company for only 4 months so that’s why. She said that last year she was already 6 months with the company so she got the same amount. She really wants to put down everyone here. There’s also the incident with the salary increase of the admin. The admin and my boss already agreed on the increase and upon learning that the percentage increase of the admin is greater than “The” girl she protested with the boss and guess what, the admin got a reduced increase in her salary.

There’s also my problem with finding new clients. My boss and “The” girl has been telling me to call up new clients and setup a meeting with them. My boss wants me to find clients dealing with steel while the other one wants me to find new clients that has requirements for racking system which the new business of our company. It’s very hard for me to do the tasks. For crying out loud, I’m just with the company for 2 months, this is my first job, and foremost is I am an ENGINEERING graduate and not a business graduate and they expect me to do these tasks! I am still getting the hang of things here in the office and their expectation is already very high. Hay, hay….. One factor maybe that cause me to feel this way because of my personality being an introvert. I think you can not change one’s personality with just 2 months. It will take years and maybe a decade for me to change.

If this feeling of depression against my work will not change, I may resign from this job. There are also salary issues and business trips abroad that I have to deal with.

Rant about Smart WiFi
About a month ago I learned about Meridian and Smart Wifi offering quality broadband service with an affordable price. I went to their website and applied online. It was almost 2 weeks since I applied and still no reply from them so I ask at a wireless center near our house about this new service they are offering. They told me that it is not possible to have their service because we live in a building. After a week, smart contacted me asking me for my cell no. because I mistyped my cell no. and was missing a number. I gave them a number and after sometime, smart called and they will be sending me the equipments for the service.

Problem started when the men who will install the equipment said that they need to install it at our rooftop. The rooftop is locked so they need to comeback another day. They committed after 4 days that they will install, fortunately they came and installed. We also requested the key of our rooftop from the owner for them to install the equipment. They installed the equipment and I tested the connection and it seemed fine. When the men already left, somehow the connection was not good. The connection was intermittent meaning sometimes the connection stops for a second or two. Also, the connection was slow for most of the day. It was faster using dialup connection.

I complained and complained to the technical support and the customer rep. Their customer service takes forever to answer my calls. Fortunately for them, last week the connection became fast and the connection is also smooth now. I’ll just wait and see if there will still be problems.

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