Mac and I went to visit Net Quad at 2 in the afternoon. It was drizzling a bit... the roads were wet... My umbrella was falling apart... and... I was wearing my gold strappy sandals!!!
Ok, so I wasn't dressed for that Net Quad visit... But who would have thought that the building is far from my idea of being "almost done" since they are saying that the cards people will move there by August. Hello, it's already July. So I was thinking the builing should be on its finishing stages and the lobby would at least be entirely finished.
But no!! It was a construction site. Hahaha... My poor gold strappy sandals had to walk over dried cement, wet cement, scattered debris and a really dusty floor. If I had dust allergy I would have been dead by now. Oh by the way, it was brownout when we arrived there and so we can't use the "almost ready to use" elevator. We had to climb dusty stairs up until the 7th floor. By this time I was just laughing at myself on how funny I looked decked in my office attire (and my gold strappy sandals) walking up those seven flight stairs with construction men walking with us carrying those big, long wood...
Thank God when we reached the 7th floor and I was panting, by the way, catching my breath... ehhehe... so when we reached the 7th floor and entered the production area, it was like walking in an entirely different building! The floor is ready to be used!! So Mac and I went in and looked for Alice (the GTI PM). We found her in the data center with Denise and Erwin. Hay, familiar faces... Erwin was surprised to see me there, he didn't know I transferred to RFS-IT already. So we all stood there in the data center without our shoes (so my gold strappy sandals had taken a rest finally). Ask me why we took off our shoes? I have no idea. Hahaha.. But the data center, as any IT person would know houses the servers that would support the entire operation. They had this two big refrigerator-like machine that has so many buttons and lights on it. So I asked Erwin jokingly, "what happens if I start punching these buttons randomly?" He just smiled and sweetly said, "Masasaktan ka lang." Hahaha! So Erwin Arcebal!! =)
After listening to techie talks of servers, migrations, PBX and all that IT jargon... Alice went with Mac and me to tour the rest of the 7th floor and later on the 8th flr. This is the area assigned to CAF (Chase Auto Finance), which I learned that RFS-IT will support. These two floors are indeed ready to accept call center agents by August. They are just waiting for some more deliveries of wyse clients, thin desk, monitors and the PBX...
It was quite an adventure for a second day. And I so loved it. Mac is so cool. He's treating me like a colleague and asks for my opinion and patient enough to answer my inquiries on these IT stuff. I am so loving it!
By the time Mac dropped me off Philam tower it was already a little past 4pm. Ok, back to my other boss... (Hayyy Ria, so how's the admin post coming along? :P) We had this mobility event going on and of course Jhopet and Innocent have me on my toes with last minute preparations... I am so loving my gold strappy sandals... hahhaa.. Even with all that walking, my feet weren't hurting. :D
The rest of the evening went on without any more mishaps. After my duties with my LTDM family, I went to the 24th floor because Kuya Ace found a VPN token for me and he has to activate it there. So I guess tomorrow I really have no more excuse to login at Philam and my Bridgespace days will start officially. I worked there with a few (ok, a lot) of interruptions from the rest of the RFS-IT guys. We were waiting for two other new employees that Kuya Ace and Kuya Cocoy will onboard before we all head to Bridgespace. But one of them arrived at almost 10pm. Mac started to call by 11pm asking how's the RFS-IT booth at the 9th floor. Hahaha. We didn't even visit so I told him we can all meet there. Buti na lang, they are done na with laptop configuration.
So we went there and there you go. Another way to end your day... Spend time with HR peeps, GTI, and the rest of the home lending people taking pictures!!! =)
Hay. it's almost 4am. I have to be asleep na to be early tomorrow but I can't sleep yet.
Hehehe.. Ang haba ulit ng blog. Sorry naman ulit! :D Have to document this. Again.
Oh, look at my tired feet and my reliable, now my-all-time-favorite-sandals:
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