LANDSLIDE: February 2006

Things have been quite busy at work and at home the past few months.......

A few weeks ago, I applied for a Team Lead position. Normally, I would not apply if I feel that I'm not ready yet. But, at that time, things were going as planned. I am one of the team's referrals("floorwalker")..I was already taking escalated calls...My attendance was near perfect..I havn't made any errors for more than 6 months...And my confidence level was at an all-time high..Though, my stats were not that impressive, they were solid enough for me to be shortlisted among the long list of candidates.

Now, what happened was something I really did not appreciate..I was originally scheduled to be interviewed by a "certain" Manager at midnight on a Tuesday. Ok..Maybe the Manager was busy at that time.. It was re-scheduled to the same time the next day..

Wednesday..

Same thing happened. The manager told my supervisor if Mitch-Manager can interview me, which I told its not possible coz He was my Manager before I transfered teams. Still no interview..I was somehow

and told my supervisor to just cancel the interview..He refused so I waited for my next schedule...

Thursday...It was our last working day of the week(I work on an 11 hrs x 4 day shift)..I was dead-tired now...Finally, I gathered my confidence and walked to the Manager to remind her my interview. She asked me if I was available at that time, which I said yes and asked me to get my resume to Roma, one of the team leads,...WHAT DAH!!! But, I was finally interviewed on the last hour before the shift ended(great!)..But, I was more than ready for that interview..however, something happened again...BAM! The manager was yawning the whole time and was asking scripted and uncomplicated questions..I was able to answer everything she asked me and I was ready for the situational and sweat-pouring questions that She would finally ask me...None...And to top it all off, she mentioned about not to be discourage and that there will be a lot of opportunities for me to come..BS!!

Of course, I obviously did not get the position. Though honestly, my stats were not that monumental or remarkable..And I knew beforehand that there were a lot of people who were deserving of the position..However, I just did not like how SHE

handled the interview process..And you would know that they/she already have some people in mind for the position...Even my supervisor was

at what happened....Oh well, that's how politics..ehem..office politics works...SH*T!!

On the MUCH brighter side...here are a few pictures from HSBC's Band-O-Rama that May and I attended just last night...

From left to right: Ely Buendia and his band singing "pare ko", Mark-TL and Aubrey-TL representing our UK-Personal Cards as one of the bands competing, Mark and Aubrey Jamming away with " Sweet Home Alabama"

And the Tattoos that we both got....Henna tattoos only though!