Ace received another blessing from his employer. Yey! Thanks God for it. That’s one great thing about being employed with Unifrutti Services, Inc. Everyday at work is really a challenge for him, but at least he was well compensated not to mention the many benefits they are enjoying especially the medical benefits they are entitled to. They don’t have health plans from a certain health maintenance organization but their benefits is more than what the HMOs could offer. Truly, Unifrutti’s management is really looking at the welfare of the best asset of the organization - its manpower. Now they have made hundreds of families reasons to celebrate the season by giving out bonus (aside from the 13th month pay) to their employees despite of the fact that the world is in economic turmoil and many companies have downsized causing thousands of people jobless. Thanks God that Ace became part of that great company and may He continually bless the company and its business.  

For days, I don’t feel like working because my back aches and I am not feeling well. In short, I am in rest mode. Imagine being seated for the whole duration of my shift and will only have time to stand up when on break. OHJ has a new policy, to use webcam while working so they can monitor if their coders are really typing. I have nothing against it because I’ve been doing my job ever since. OHJ just wanted to make sure that everybody is working during their shift because client have noticed that some coders are so lax that they let the captchas expire. This made me realize coding is never easy. It’s a routinary job but the continuous typing of caps is so tiring. Compared to office work where you have time to relax, time to chat, browse the internet and do extra activities not related to work, office work is lighter than coding. With office work, pressure is there but manageable because you can choose not to attend to it for a while and get back to it when you can.  

Since June, we are experiencing long qeue so we need to type as fast as we can to keep the qeue low. Sometimes, my fingers become stiff with painful finger joints not to mention the back ache I suffer from sitting long hours. Once I’m online, I cannot just log out because they need coders. Times when Ace would arrive home and I am still in front of the PC working. I cannot immediately log out so he has to eat alone while I am working.*sigh*. Haven’t heard him complain about that for months but lately, he mentioned about it. Hence, I decided to be on-call so I will only work if I wanted to and can ask to be out anytime as long as there’s no qeue. This way, I can attend to other things. If only we have a house help that can do other house chores while I am coding, guess I can manage to be on regular shift because I don’t worry about logging off so that I could rest and be able to prepare dinner. Or if I am too tired I can sleep as much as I want because I know that somebody will prepare breakfast. I am not preparing breakfast anymore, actually. Ace goes to the office early so that he could eat at their canteen. Che2x eats breakfast at school so I take my brunch (breakfast and lunch) during lunch or when I am on break then we eat dinner late because I have to wait for Che2x to come home so she can prepare or I have to rest my fingers first before I’d be able to cook. By the time dinner is cooked, we are all so hungry.