ThE BraWL

it was a fun night turn into a brawl. names won't be mentioned inorder to protect the identity of the 'vics' (CSI's abb. for victims, you know..). me included. ü

i wasn't planning in going there last night since i was there last friday. went anyway after reading some mails at the office, down a cup of coffe and dropping by a wake, it was all systems go. my mind was all psych-up for the fun waiting at Bleeeeep (if you've been my fan, you'd know). and fun it was, at least for a few hours... 20:30 on my watch, arrived and saw my old buddy with his office friends. damn, these guys/gals are so engrossed with their cellphone! must be bored. a few sml's and my mouth's starting to kick-in... i thought i should do all the talking coz they seem to be bored talking to each other (they're officemates, what's new?).

my "old" friend whose career started from being a call agent to one of the biggest, huge and successful call center in cebu, if not the world (do i get some incentives here, dex? i'm promoting your call center... what's the what??? shoot, i just mention his name! ah nevermind), is now a supervisor! yes people he is now a certified, bonafied, petrified, mortified and glorified "mama sang!" hihihihi!! joke3x. he's in-charge of recruitment. advertisements, interviews, hirings, earns a hundred grand a month... the works, you know... are you with me??

i've been enticed by him (admit it paker), to join his dominion of linguistic proficient agents. maybe you? with all the advertisements we're getting about call centers, how nice they look - at those pictures on billboards... ahhh, the allure of a call center agent these days.

back to our main topic which is the brawl last night. (whew! do i hear you say, "enough with the b.s.!", "let's get it on!"??) so, there we are, talking how it is to be call center agent, that it is such a challenging task. imagine talking to some morons and getting over that survey and make sure it's "complete" and how important it is to answer the phone every three seconds... kewl huh? not only that, they also have to press a button if they wanna pass-up for a while because their throat had not receive ample supply of saliva for the last eight hours, and they just wanna say to that last guy surveyed, "you suck! you have bad breath and bad english! are you from the philippines??!! f--k you very much!" not to mention, they also need to converse within the confines of the office in english or you will be fined... otherwise, their supervisors will know they did not follow proper procedures and somebody's gonna get fayerd!

tell me, wasn't that fun and great conversation??

i also had a lot of chit-chat in between our "tribute" to that closed department store with my best-bud and jon "the licker" (coz he's got funny ways of playing with his tongue). well, my best-bud told me about an unfortunate incident the other night of which i wasn't privy to. in fact we weren't. our partners were. i was hoping the guys who were offended won't make mountains out of a mole hill of that incident. our partners were drunk and were fed-up with all the talks and gossips going around.... they were itchin' to crack... boooom!!

to make this already thrilling and chilling story a bit shorter, the employer of that guy our partner challenged to a fist-fight last friday, approached me, apparently loaded, not with guns but alcohol, and ask me what's the story. i told him my best-bud was here that night and i wasn't, talk to him. two people, with alcohol running down their veins, it was just a matter of time and disaster waiting to happen... then, it became a heated exchange of filthy words. i knew it was trouble when he approached me so i stand-up, went where they are and acted as back-up. then this guy, who seem to have no business at all, butt-in and started to further heat things up. man, i would love lynching the face of that guy... his face spells trouble.... there was yelling and shoving and punches were thrown... what a night! and what a shame!

i don't know about you but i hate reading long stories... kidding aside, we settled some issues later but this is not the end of it, i'm sure. you want details? you know the drill....