dayshift

FUN. 

Less queue. Less stress.

But not that compensated since there is nothing hazardous that may inflict a call center junkie like me. As am with a 24-hour support center, the clock ticks the whole day long, swarmed with people around, our center never gets hollowed and empty. Sometimes 5-10 heads in the afternoon or 10-15 count by night time then 150 to about 200 people by the middle of the wee hours after midnight. A regular stuff. No biggie.

I have the conventional and typical Yuppie shift that starts when the sun rises and ends when the sun sets. Boring? I know. Not to mention the traffic plus the hustle and the bustle of people trying to get to work and school as well. Qualms? I don't get to have any nowadays. What else would I ask for? Work by day and party till dawn then repeat till fade . See? For once in my 6 years in the industry am in a human form again. You never get to have a social life if your doing the gravey, I should say, been toxifying those shifts since eternal I guess.

Health? I don't know, endangered, I deduce? It's not a normal routine if you ask me but that's the only way to palliate all the negative ions you procure. A week is so much of a burden not to mention Mondays, yuck! I even made a mantra for Mondays, T G I F -making the day a Friday instead of it being the first day of the work week! Positive thinking just to get thru the day. I can't tell you enough to the brim, how fusive Mondays are with us. Spell hell in all caps. That's it!

My life? Like dayshift!
Fun. Less queue. Less stress.

The Dessert and The Main Course

They have been steady for 7 years and counting, one time I asked, "What makes your relationship strong?" He answered. "It's not! We just work things out"

"Huh? What do you mean? Isn't that what you define as complicated?"


"It is!"


"Huh? You are talking in riddles. Am not digesting it anymore but very intriguing!" Scratching my head back and forth. Deep breath.


"That's what makes it so complicated, I can't even explain it." He moved closer with a blank face.


"That's tough!" 


"It is!" Staring out, still blank face. "Ganito yun. Although we are in a relationship we cater others too."


"What? That's infidelity!" My jaw dropped in disbelief.


"Di naman! In a Filipino-type of setting it is, even alarming. I came from an uptight Chinese family, ties and customs bound pa nga eh!"


"Hmmmm. What do you mean when you said cater to others?"


"Flings. Casual innuendos. One-time fuck! Sometimes orgies too."


"Don't you love him anymore."


"No. Don't get me wrong when I say this, I love my partner but as your relationship grows, there comes a time that I would feel nothing, affections, nada, love, none too, but you will stay because of commitment."


"Complicated nga." Nodding in approval. "Haven't you decided to break up nalang? Coz' if you're not being true and honest to your partner, you're denying respect to the both of you."


"Ambobo naman neto! Widen your horiozons! C'mon! Think out of the box." His eyes so wide open trying to explain.


"Di nga! Ikaw kung maka-bobo ka naman! Dahan-dahan please?"


"Kasi nga you haven't been into our kind of relationship. All of your shit were one-night stands and short. Not even a week, here you are single-again." 


"Oo na! Ikaw na masaya!" I rolled my eyes to hide the hurt.