Extraordinary

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It still continues to amaze me how I am brought to the right people at the right time, in the right place, for the right reasons.

Last Friday, on the 20th, I assisted one of our senior officers in awarding a plaque to one of our new member companies. With one of our executive committee members, also an executive of one of  Cebu's prestigious banks, we went to the office of said new member company and discussed possible partnerships between our organization and their company.

To say that I was impressed by what they are initially doing within the company is an understatement.

Allow me to take you back to the present image our BPO industry is projecting, based from the observations of both professionals and ordinary citizens of our place.

We mostly see employees of BPOs doing any or all of the following:
(a) they drink alcohol
(b) they party heavily
(c) they spend money unwisely

And some of the reasons that may cause these are:
(a) they want to destress
(b) they don't originally live in Cebu and, thus, look for other means to spend their free time
(c) they love to award themselves for the humongous salaries that they have by spending

Sadly, if you look at the more mature/older people's perspective, this is a sad state which they believe could be a price we have to pay for development.

But not for this company, which we got to meet on a closer level. They may be a BPO, but they believe in the holistic development of their employees and are already organizing activities and events that would harness their other skills and develop their spiritual, mental, physical and social abilities.

One of which activities is to gather these employees for more worthwhile activities like reforestation events, coastal cleanups, feeding programs and many more.

They are also looking up at organizing a scholarship program for their employees' families, and that is just one of the things on their list.

Now this is extraordinary. And I'm blessed to see things like this unfold before my very eyes and be inspired myself to do my very best.


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