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After the President’s Expanded Community Lockdown last March 17, everybody is asked to stay at home and self-quarantine. In our condominium, our building’s board of trustees made the critical decision to ask our frontliners to stay in the condo. These frontliners include the building admin (1), security guards (8), maintenance (3), janitor (2), gardener (1) […]
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It’s time for businessmen to step up in an emergency. COVID-19 is not under the government’s control. Every country is experiencing this, and everyone is affected. The main question we businessmen is, “What have we done for our own staff?” The government helps but the buck stops with us. The government has already prepared the […]
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There’s a lot of things we need to reflect on while we are in Expanded Community Lockdown. As I am at home, sipping my coffee and catching up on work, I realized that not everyone is as calm as me. Many businessmen are anxious, shouting “bankruptcy” even if it’s just the 12th day of temporary […]
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Yesterday, Dave Villanueva, a disgruntled popular multi-level marketing employee went to Raffy Tulfo to complain about FrontRow Millionaire’s Club’s failure to pay for his earnings due to some misunderstandings last year. Dave Villanueva was tauted as one of Frontrow’s rags to riches story and his face is still at the site’s web page. Here was […]
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Yesterday, March 2, an armed man named Archie Paray y Pedraza, 40 years old, went into the mall admin office of V-Mall in Greenhills, San Juan, fired three gunshots, shot one person and took hostage up to 70 people, mostly rank and file employees working at the admin office in the mall’s second floor. He […]
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QUESTION What do you think of a company wherein the owner calls his employees stupid, idiot and useless? Is it acceptable in any situation? Side story: I have been accepted in a young company. Althou they have the machineries and the properties already and they are expanding their projects. Most of the employees are new. […]
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I have managed our small business for 5 years and have only now decided to make a staff house for our head office core team. The idea has been one year in the making, from the time that I have been looking around the area, negotiating with brokers, and finally putting the money down. Why […]
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A lot of people ask what I do the entire day. The short answer is, “Long term wise, I set the direction of the company. Short term wise, I solve problems.” Especially when it comes to running a business, you already have a system and capable group of people in place. But sometimes, sh*t happens […]
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The Philippine Law said that companies have 6 months to gauge the capability of a probationary staff before the decision is made to regularize that staff. Companies erroneously count 6 months from the day they start. Hence, for example, if the person started on March 29, the HR person might say that he/she must have […]
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In the Philippines, we have a saying that you should not have a Crab Mentality. Have you ever seen crabs in a barrel? Everyone wants to escape to avoid being eaten, but every time someone gets a leg up, the rest of the crabs in the barrel pull that crab down, until everyone gets eaten. […]
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I usually need just one interview to decide to hire. If I am on the fence, I would usually ask the applicant to come back 2 to 3 times. But most of my hires got an offer by the end of the interview. What do I look for? First, is COMPETENCE. The primary consideration is […]
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What and how to learn from others’ mistakes and commission By former DOLE Undersecretary, Atty. Josephus Jimenez, DPM He wrote these two books which is useful for any beginner HR: First, we must remember that in the Philippines, there are four layers of arbitration — Labor Arbiter with NLRC and DOLE, filing of case and […]
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