Camsdcute’s Lair

Posts Tagged ‘HP’

Nowadays, the problem is no longer the lack of manpower. As they say it, the faucets are working, but the well is dry.

I just read an article about HP’s plan to cut the base pay of employees by 2.5-20% instead of laying off people due to the crisis. An article related to this is in Yugatech.com, and a copy of HP’s CEO Mark Hurd letter to the employees is published in another blog – AllThingsD. I thought this letter is supposed to be confidential.

This broadcast was delivered just a few months after the HP’s ‘no annual salary increase’ announcement was released late last year. This is like having a rollback of your salary two years ago.

So in the afternoon of October 24th, just the day before the expected Enchanted Kingdom getaway, or the so-called HP AMG Family day, it was announced that ex-HP employees and contingent workers should be uninvited and if the +1 ticket is for these people, then the extra ticket should be canceled or the ticket bearer should be changed to another person. Just to give a quick background, each of them was given a ticket to EK (Enchanted Kingdom) and a +1 ticket so they can invite ‘supposedly’ any of their friends and family to join them. I, being prepared for the ‘tomorrow’s event’ just got shocked on this news. I ranted and ranted to Merryll, Arcie and Hari. To add to this bad day, I stayed late in the office just figuring out how to solve Kae’s data quality issue.

Initially I thought I still want to join, because I can still pay my own ticket to EK. After all, they haven’t requested an exclusive HP use of the amusement park. I don’t need free ticket to go there but after a lot of thinking, I just told myself, ‘what the heck, the weather’s just to hot and I can’t take a whole day under the sun.’

—

Since this EK plan was called off, I just went with Marlon and met Jobel in Glorietta for a chat over coffee. In the evening, we had dinner with Dana and her cute baby Hasan. She calls her baby ‘Kuykuy’. I was so glad I met him. His angelic face resembles her mom’s. He seems to have a lot of energy to go walking, jumping, crawling, and playing with other people in the restaurant. I heard he won’t wear slippers unless they’re Havaianas. I haven’t brought my digi cam so we just used Marlon’s cellphone to take a picture of Kuykuy. The quality isn’t so good but at least I got a pic:

Dana promised to invite us over to a dinner in her condo. We’ll be seeing them again soon and we can’t wait to have a taste of Dana’s delicacies.

I’m just excited to spend time with my HP friends again, and this time, with a much more bigger group. I’m so much thankful to Alvin for giving me his extra ticket to Enchanted Kingdom. Each of them was given 2 EK passes because October 25 is HP AMG team’s family day! Cheers!