What???
By ingrid
@ridingbet (66857)
Philippines
October 16, 2017 8:32pm CST
I conditioned myself to wake up early today; prepared breakfast and opened my phone. Then a message from my colleague Sir A said we have to wait for announcement because apparently, we have no duty AGAIN today. (The transport strike is on its second day).
“What?” was how I reacted to him, of course through text message; so I immediately messaged my colleague Miss CC about it. I even told Sir A that I was about to do 3 sunny-side up eggs for me, my sister, and my son; also, I said I have to delay my bath to know the latest directive from school.
“What?” was also the reaction of Miss CC. She was about to have her bath when her phone rang. Both of us are so disgusted but what can we do? It is the national and local announcement.
That is another 2 days less than our 15 days salary for the second half of the month.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
yes we had to, because if we will have duty, then we can change, but if none, then we can still stay home.
@cacay1 (83223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
17 Oct 17
@LadyDuck , the two days srtil=ke ended this day.Despite strike, but there are many vehicles and taxis running in our city. I went to school for I assorted all the test questionnaires and brought them to the dean;s office.All proctors must go there to get the questionnaires and log
. The office of our dean is located on the 5th floor of the Physics building. I rode on the elevator. I carried too heavy test questionnaires good for 8 sections
at 48 students each, my God, I was so tired carrying those two rounds. I was so afraid for I was alone in the elevator back and forth, no students, no class.There were only 3 of us in the faculty office preparing for the exam tomorrow that starts at 8 up to 4:30, with one hour break for lunch, Huh, huh.
. The office of our dean is located on the 5th floor of the Physics building. I rode on the elevator. I carried too heavy test questionnaires good for 8 sections at 48 students each, my God, I was so tired carrying those two rounds. I was so afraid for I was alone in the elevator back and forth, no students, no class.There were only 3 of us in the faculty office preparing for the exam tomorrow that starts at 8 up to 4:30, with one hour break for lunch, Huh, huh.2 people like this
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
yes i hope the transport strike ended today and we will have our duty on Thursday.
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@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
@ridingbet makes sense. The sun is the biggest star. Estrella is star. Or am I correct?
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
it is the sunny-side-up. or the fried egg. that is why it is sunny side up because the egg looks like the sun (yolk) facing up.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
17 Oct 17
I wonder how long that strike will go on.
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@cacay1 (83223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
17 Oct 17
@fishtiger58, two days due to nationwide transport strike.The drivers and operators disagree with the modernization of the vehicles. They wanted the same face of the jeepneys, my goodness.The appearance of the jeepneys was designed during the Spaniard's occupation in the Philippines for almost 300 years.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
it is announced that the transportation strike is only for 2 days. so we expect that we will resume our duty on Thursday.
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
@cacay1 but they main appearance of the jeepney should not be defaced. it is our own mode of transportation and the altered jeepney looks like a mini-bus.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
My son told me about the second day strike again and told me that our city won't be joining anyway. But there was an announcement of classes being cancelled however he still went to school because they have practice for their intramural tomorrow.
Last weekend I was asked by one of our employees if we have work Monday and I said yes. There were a lot of public transport yesterday as well and it didn't affect our work at all and the only bank that was closed was UCPB and I was really disappointed since I have a transaction with them.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
i guess many of the students there have their own cars, because they did not need to ride on public utility vehicles.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
@ridingbet I got a text message from the adviser at 5am in the morning that they have practice. And yes you are right most students in Ateneo have cars. However, like what my son said, our city didn't join the transport strike so they were a lot of public transport available.
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@Shavkat (137215)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
@ridingbet I used to hear feeling not going to wake up in the morning. She didn't go to school today. I can see a big smile from her.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
really, kabsat? PM me then about the link. i have not yet finished the examination of the previous online teaching site that you shared to me. it is too long kasi eh.
why was your niece not whining this morning? was it because she did not want to go to school?
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
@Shavkat i hope she will have that big smile once she goes to school tomorrow.
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@jobelbojel (34729)
• Philippines
23 Oct 17
Wow Just wow! The transport strike that was. We had to work those days and luckily, there were PUV/J who were not part of the strike.
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@jobelbojel (34729)
• Philippines
26 Oct 17
@ridingbet I think the ordinance was followed.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
26 Oct 17
here too. we have the tricycles and they were not joining the transport strike here. that is why we wondered why we had no duty. i guess it was because the announcement of our governor.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
yes, and i hope on Thursday, there will be no more problems or unexpected announcements.
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
i believe tomorrow is already resumption of classes and offices will be operational.
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@cacay1 (83223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
17 Oct 17
We received the night before from the chancellor's secretary in our university that there is no class for 2 days.This week is our final exam week, so the Monday and Tuesday schedule of the departmental will be moved next week, the rest of the days like tomorrow will have exam schedules as is.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
it is hard when the activities in school are postponed. it is adding more anxiety to the students for their examinations.
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
20 Oct 17
but we should expect another round of transport strikes in the future.
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@Behindtheguitarbar (2831)
• Guangdong, China
17 Oct 17
so the government still doesn't do anything?
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
no, because the transport strike is done by the transportation owners, drivers, and even commuters.
@Behindtheguitarbar (2831)
• Guangdong, China
18 Oct 17
@ridingbet oh, I see. Then it must be difficult to solve it out.
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