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There’s this gentle and eccentric old man at work who I would sometimes talk to for a little chit-chat. He’s a Filipino too but half-Chinese. He’s about 60 years old I guess.

Sometimes, I’d drop by at his work station and ask him how he was because I feel that nobody hardly ever talks to him.

In one of our conversations, the talk about how much he is earning after about 18 years in our company cropped up. He divulged that he is only being paid about $10.35 an hour. I was so shocked at learning this. I was like, “What?” My hourly rate when I started out with this company in 2006 was even more than what this man is being paid.

I couldn’t believe it and I felt angry at our company how they could have done this to a very loyal and hardworking man. He doesn’t have any absences except for those very rare occasions that he takes his dayoff. I really couldn’t believe it. I felt I lost my respect for the company that I have very high regard for. I felt I wanted to cry for this old man. I felt there was an injustice done to him.

It really bothered me and I kept thinking why that old man stayed on for so long ? Didn’t somebody even told him to fight for a raise? Didn’t he ever had an inkling of how much other people are earning with that kind of work that he does? Didn’t he even have relatives, nieces and nephews that care enough to at least ask how he was earning at his current work considering that he doesn’t have an idea of things in America? I was appalled at how some people go by their own lives not even caring for their old relatives, knowing that they don’t know much. This old man doesn’t even know how to drive after staying here in the USA for 20 years. He drives a bicycle to work, come hell or high water. Where were his relatives? He didn’t have a wife or children so I feel somebody should have at least looked out after him. Didn’t anybody even cared?

So after three days, after being totally restless about his story, I asked that old man again about these questions that troubled me. He told me that when he applied 18 year ago, he had put “any amount” when he was asked how much he wanted to get paid. He said that his brother also told him to apply to other jobs but he chose not to. He said that his nieces and nephews are all in highly-paying careers but they do not bother with him. He said that maybe, it’s because he never asked for help. Maybe he said, if he also asked for help, they would also help him. My last questions for him were, ” but are you happy with what you have now? Don’t you want to ask for a raise? Don’t you want to ask the Labor Office, or a lawyer about if you are being fairly paid? ”

He said ” No” to all my questions. He is afraid that the company will fire him out if he asks for a raise, because one time that he did asked, he was told that they will just order outside like telling him that instead of giving him a raise, then they’d rather that the job be done by outside companies. So he doesn’t want any more trouble, anyway, in two years, he will be retiring.

This is yet another story of how old people here are being treated. This is what happens to our aging and old “kababayans ” and relatives when we don’t care how they are doing in their lives.

Tell me what you think of my story. What do you feel when you hear stories like this?

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Eversince I started posting my resume at an internet jobsite, I have received lots of spam mails in my inbox and I just find it so irritating. Some would be for jobs that you are not interested, some are from those lottery companies which I know do not exist, and some were from these individuals who have nothing else to do in life but to scam people. Do you know of that email which they send you which says something like a wealthy man had died and that he doesn’t have any relatives so they will just wire the money to your account? But of course it’s a scam. Whoever in his right mind would give you money that easily??? These people are so annoying. Sometimes I want to lash back at them but oh well, it’s not worth it at all.

The nuisances are not only with my email but also in my mobile phone. One time I answered the phone and the lady rattled on that I am a winner of this so and so and I had to stop her by saying that if this involves my paying them some money then I am not interested. Then there’s this sometimes when it will ring and you say “hello” and they dont’ even bother saying anything and then an automated voice will go off saying that you are calling this blah-blah-blah. Why can’t these people get some real jobs rather than pestering others on the phone? Well anyway, these days I no longer answer my phone. If it’s important like a job offer, I know they’d leave a message.

So think twice before you post your resume on the internet so you don’t end up with unwanted job offers, spam emails and nuisance phone calls.

Have you ever tried those work-at-home ads promising you earnings that is more than what you ever think you can make in a month, like 10k a month ?!! imagine just staying home and making that much money by just reading emails, or processing fan mails ? heheeh. i did and boy did i really scoured the web for all these ads because i was really in search for a legitimate data entry jobs or something in line with that . and so i emailed them asking if i qualify for the position they have posted etc. and they did reply , but sadly , they were all asking for money ranging from 5 dollars to 150 dollars. i can send the money , why not, but i wanted to be sure first that this is something real and not something to scam me . and so I sent them back a reply inquiring about a lot of things, like really a lot of questions. then what do you know , suddenly they told me that the position was already filled and that they no longer need any more applicants. i was mad for the effort i exerted to even mail them a formal letter and be brushed off just like that. i was really mad, mind you. so now i know better, i don’t try to even read those ads anymore.. to hell with them !!! hahaha… but in fairness, i am sure there are some real and genuine work-at-home jobs . i know because my sister was able to get a proofreading assignment but it was a parttime job though. i was just unlucky to get the scammers i guess.

so if ever you are looking for one, best of luck to you then. here are some sites i found to avoid being scammed :

hbwm.com

newyork.bbb.org

God bless !!!