Rating

I am an uber rider and since I have another phone I decided to create a new account and after my 5th trip today, just saw my average rating. Which is 3.4 out of a possible 5. Now I got down on why drivers gave me such a low rating. I don't remember being rude, maybe because I used promo codes and that at one point my fare was less than 100 pesos? I hope they can also show how you were rated after each ride so that at least you can get a hint why the driver gave you such a low rating.

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Senior workforce

I am currwntly waiting in line a couirer service center. The 2 man on the counter processing the customer orders are 2 elderly men. I am guessing they are in their early 50s if not very late 40s. They are both slowly typing the customer details in their computers. And yes, using 1 finger at a time.
Although I do not agree on setting age limit on job openings, I believe we should also carefully select the employees on how they can be efficient with their jobs.

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Truth

Before, I have strongly believed in " the truth shall come out", to the point that even when all people against me over a lie I just keep quiet and let then "feast" over me.But things change, because now I more often than not would like to correct right away if someone heard a lie about me or have a misconception about me.I don't know what it is about me that I somehow seem to uncover the lie or deception that people try to conceal.I have a colleague, her previous supervisor has high praises for her, saying that she is always willing to take on new responsibilities, do not complain and always willing to adjust her shifts when needed.But when she joined in my team, she seemed so lazy. Wouldn't take initiative, and when assigned with a task she would always giggle which I initially taught was cute but now that she's more than 6 months in the team it isn't cute anymore. She always has a reason why she cannot go on an eary shift which is always her kids. Being a mom myself, I don't want to take it against her, but considering that she has a mother in law who she lives with and a husband who does not have an office job ( only goes to work when called) I was expecting more flexibility from her aside from the fact that when she was in her previous team her boss was so proud that she is very flexible in terms of schedule changes.I am not a confrontational person and somehow I still believe in the truth will eventualy come out. But one time that she began posting in Facebook about quotes on being a leader or leadership, I felt obliged to talk to her in private.I told her straight away that I was disappointed because she had so much praises from her previous team which is contrary to what she is showing in her current team. She just nods, smiles and occasionally says "OK". She made me think if I was a very bad colleague or team lead or that I was so lenient with her ( due to her high appraisals) that she saw me as a doormat that she can manipulate. Or that she has always been living a lie and deceiving her previous supervisor in order to be given a high appraisal and moved to our team.

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Social

They say that man is a social animal which is why I think anywhere and everywhere there is an obsession to be sociable and friendly with people. 

What's in a position name?

I hold a position/title of team lead in my current job. My team doesn't have an immediate manager so I sort of act as our manager and report to the Operations Manager. The team is actually subtly subdivided into 2 groups, the 1st group is the operations team who is based here in Manila and the other (the projects/implementation team) in the home country of our company. Recently, it was announced that the team member who is part of the projects team and who has been in the company for 3 years ( I am in the xompany for a year) and in the home location for 1.5 years got promoted to Technical Manager. That means, I will now be reporting to him. For me it was not weird or awkward. But other people in the company based in Manila seem to think otherwise.
They would ask me questions which team or team members are now under the Technical Manager. Is he the same level as the Operations Manager? Don't I think that it was a leap of a promotion?
Aside from that, people ( and yes including managers of other teams) ask me questions about some admin stuff that they are unsure of. Now, I see them looking like they were saying "ooh that must be embarassing what happened to her". And they now show animosity towards me as if I should not be associated with a manager like him. Even the assistant who is usually all smiles with me is now very distant.
Which makes me want to set my Lync status to: I did not get demoted! I am a team lead eversince! Its the person that I am reporting to that got changed!

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Bully

I just saw an "FB war" between 2 bloggers that I follow with one accusing the supposedly more famous one as being bully.

I just remember an incident that happened the other day. There was a "tradition" in my office that you have to treat your officemates on your birthday or at least on your birthmonth. Since the number of people has grown from less than 50 to almost 100, it then become a "by invitation". When I was new in the office, I was "bullied" into this, I did not complain since they say everyone (at least in the group)does it. I did not mind at first but when I saw how some in the group don't mind ordering a lot of food, I became pissed.
In the next dinner treats that followed I would decline the invite, and then 3 celebration dinners before my birthmonth, I was no longer invited each time. And they were doing the "invitation" discreetly. I shrugged it off thinking that they probably think she won't join anyway, why bother?
Then my birthmonth came, and then one of people in that group who shares the same birthmonth as me approached me and asked if I have any suggestions where we will treat the group. I laughed hard and barely controlling myself to blurt out "are you f*cking serious?" He did not seem to get it first because he said, "you don't have any suggestions?"
Forward to the incident, they again joined together for the celebration dinner, they did the invitation again discreetly. There are 3 things that pissed me off. One is when I caught one of them that they already sent out the invite and I was not invited, he just laughed it off. Second reason that I got pissed off is that person who laughed it off, was once ignored by that group. I would always catch him eating alone in the nearby convenience store when previously they would ask him to join. I would chat with him then when no one dared join him. Third reason is that its like their slapping me in the face, when the newest team member in my team got invited. The same team member that I warned them about to be careful about sharing comments about the other team because she is a blabbermouth.
I am sure tomorrow they will smile at me, chat and laugh with me as if we were BFFs.
Those are the kind of bullies we have today, not the old school ones who will unceasingly tease you and make fun of you in front of other people. The new breed of bullies are the ones who will pretend that they are friends with you and that they have nothing against you but one turn of your back and they are talking bad thins about you and worse planning things that would tell the other people that they are not actually friends you. I would rather have the old school bullies because you know right away that you have to stay away from them. But this new breed, they lure in, push you out then act as if nothing has changed and then if you already know their bs and you stay away from them they act as if you are the one who is at fault.

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Husband and father

Should a man stop being a husband when he becomes a father?
I understand that when a man becomes a father he changes his priorities from taking care of the wife to taking care of the kids. But does this mean that the wife should no longer be taken care of? That she should only be seen as someone who should also take care of the children, who helps provide for the children.
I am all about gender equality that a woman should not always play as the damsel in distress waiting for her knight in shining armor. But a woman who took care of a kid for 9 months inside her own body, who risked her life giving birth should at least be "given a little something" for her effort.

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She's strong but she's exhausted

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