Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Global Crisis

I was alarmed of the following (due to financial crisis):

That blogger Yanah who work as a Sales Consultant in one of the Real State Company in Sheik Zayed Road did not receive her salary yet for the past 3 months.

That Dennis, a DIFF (Dubai International Film Festival) Volunteer who work as Marketing Executive for an Ad Company for almost 3 years looks for better company since their salary was delayed for a month now due to their company’s collection problems.

That Ronald my roommate for 3 years and now works at Royal Mirage is wondering if he had the right decision of moving.

That our hotel occupancy dropped to 45 – 50% compare to last year’s overbooking on this time of the year.

That our HR Department released a MEMO recommending staff to take a local leave or to go home for as long as 3 months wherein our Manager told last month that no one can take vacation on December.

That performance appraisal was conducted on all Departments. Is this the right time to conduct as such?

That the restaurant reservation staff should help waiters to serve guests in our coffee shop because they don’t have bookings or even inquiry calls.

That the transportation department removed the 6 routes of Staff Bus that will go to Karama and IBN Shopping Mall.

That your Boss will expect too much from you wherein there is nothing to do because of very low occupancy.

That tonight, Christmas Eve, the Security Department will raid the Staff Village and whoever caught drinking alcohol will automatically get his one way ticket to his homeland and will never get the chance of going back for work. Etc., etc., etc….

Whew! What a season to celebrate.

Merry Christmas to my family in the Philippines ! Hope that they will realize the situation here and stop asking for more “padala”.

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