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Did you
know 1:
The
Bureau of Customs is one unhappy place right now.
You see,
it hasn’t met last year’s collection target, not even
close. And that means that under the 2007 Attrition Law,
those collectors who didn’t hit their quotas will have
to go.
Then
again, maybe those with, say, sick relatives or lots of
children to send to school may be given a second
chance.
Did you
know 2:
That
racetrack in Sta. Ana, Manila, that has been moved to
Cavite is tentatively set to open middle of this year.
From the
lay of the land, however, it looks like Exequiel Robles’
group is really looking at end-2008 at the earliest.
Did you
know 3:
Korean
food supplement brand, Circulan, is doing so well that
its local distributor, Macropharma, is launching a
second product, this time for the lungs.
Interestingly, Macropharma, a partnership between a
Filipino lawyer and a Korean investor, has generated the
most sales from those reached by Christopher de Leon,
one of four endorsers.
The
January 28 hearing in
New York
against the 27 Filipino nurses recruited by the Sentosa
group has been reset until sometime in April. You see,
the judge is currently hearing a homicide case.
As
everybody knows, Sentosa claims the nurses, whose
working permits require them to work only under the
supervision of a US registered nurse in different homes
for the aged, endangered the lives of their patients
when they quit because they weren’t receiving the
salaries they signed up for.
The
nurses have already lost their case in the Philippines
by default (read: they didn’t come home).
At the
heart of the nurses’
US
defense are two factors. One, the Department of Health,
both federal and state, absolved the nurses of
negligence. Two, the nurses quit only after they
completed their assigned duty rounds.
As
president of Ayala-controlled Innove Communications, Gil
Genio has probably not gotten a “dear valued subscriber”
letter from customer care head Tina Marie Ortiz that
all subscribers of Globe’s broadband service have.
Basically, subscribers will be billed extra in the
coming months for the inefficiencies of Innove highly
paid personnel and consultants.
Here’s
the letter, just in case Genio is interested in some,
uhm, recreational reading
“…Because we want to serve you better, we conducted an
upgrade of our billing system. During the transition
period, however, there were calls that did not register
in our billing records.
As a
result, some calls that you made during the previous
months did not reflect on your bill.
“We are
already in the process of extracting the details of
these calls and we will include them in your bill as
soon as the process has been completed…”
Oh yes,
Genio might also want to try his own hotline to get
some, you know, clarification. If he’s lucky (read: if
he can get through), he might reach a recorded message.
That’s standard whether the call is done during working
hours or outside working hours, during weekdays or
weekends. |
