Will be Back In a While

     Hey guys! I haven't posted lately. It's because of the all the school work that I should accomplish from today until the second week of October. I have so much work to do that I have little free time now. I hope you can understand my situation. But I promise you that I will be back to during this semester break. So, I ask you to be patient. That's all I'm asking.

     See you guys later!

Film Reflection #1: Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

In our Theology class, we watched the film, "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Pajamas)". Afterwards, we were required to do a reflection paper about the film. Since I don't have any blog ideas as of the moment, I might as well share it you guys. Please go easy on me because I really don't know how to write a reflection paper. I still don't get the difference between a reaction paper and a reflection paper. Without further ado, here it is:

I am thankful that I live in the period where people treat each other with respect and dignity. Though there are still few instances of mistreatment, today improved a lot in terms of equality. Indeed, we learned from the past so that the bad things that happened in the past will never happen again.  

At such a young age, Bruno decided to hang around with the little boy even though he was a Jew and tried to help find the little boy’s father. Not all people can do this in real life, well in similar context.  If I were in the same position as Bruno, I might hang around with him, but I will not risk my life to enter the work camp for I might die there. It’s great to help people but when in times of life and death, I prefer to save myself. Though, I’m trying my very best to help people at dire times, it’s just that, it’s very difficult to do it. On the other hand, if I were to choose, I would bring Schmuel out of work camp so that he will not suffer anymore.

Though this was my second time watching the film, I always feel sad that Bruno died at the end trying to help Schmeul because he did the right thing that only a few people are willing to do, and yet died from doing it. I admire Bruno’s bravery because he did it. I wanted to be like that, but it’s hard to do it because you need a lot of courage to do it.

The film shows the violence that the soldiers inflicted upon the Jews. They were treated wrongly and they were considered as evil. I thought to myself, why they were doing this to innocent people. They did not do anything to them. They are people as well.

This film also reminded me of the popular sentence, “Life is unfair”. This had me thinking why people suffered more than others even though they did nothing to the Germans and why the persecutors live a good life.

From this, we must treat people with respect and dignity because we are humans with rational capabilities, we are equal, and we should not be used as a means to an end, treated as objects, or treated as nothing.

See you guys later!

Is the Customers Always Right? (A reaction)

As a homework in marketing class, we would have to make a reaction paper on the question, “Is the customer always right?”.  I would like to share my insights and reaction to this.

So here it is:

The use of the statement, “The customer is always right”, is a marketing strategy used by several companies to make their customers feel special and to provide them with better customer service.

At first glance, I can see why they used it. The marketing thrust today is for businesses to focus their attention to their customers’ wants and needs. Since companies want to bring more customers as much as possible, it’s up to them to provide products or services that the customer wants.

However, there’s a loophole in the statement. There are times that the customers demanded for more than what the company provides and will really rant and complain if the company will not provide it. Even though the company clearly define their products and service to their customers, people still do not understand and remain unreasonable. Lastly, there are people that are just plain wrong and claim that they are always right even though this is not true every time. In other words, some customers abused “the customer is always right”.

In my opinion, the customer is not always right given these circumstances. Some of them just keep on complaining on a company’s “poor service” and will remain to be unreasonable. These types of customers can be counterproductive to the company if they keep on dwelling them. In an article from huffingtonpost.com, the author states that, “some customers are just plain wrong, that businesses are better off without them, and that managers siding with unreasonable customers over employees is a very bad idea, that results in worse customer service”.

That’s my reaction to it. What are your reactions to this? Let me know in the comments!

See you later!

Hey There? It's Been a While . . .

Hey guys!

I apologize for not posting recently. It's because I'm very busy lately with all the things that has happened to me. I was very overwhelmed with these things that I pretty much forgot about blogging.

Right now, I had just finished my on-the-job-training (OJT). With this, I have more free time now, which means, . . . more blogging for me! Yey! :)

I have a huge backlog of blog posts right now and I'm trying my very best to get them published sooner than later.

That's it for now, and stay tuned for more!

See you guys later!

(Wait . . . I meant to say see you guys soon, because I'll be posting sooner rather than later. Get it? hahaha. OK, now I'm being corny.)

Plant Tour Awaits Us.

To begin with, as one of our graduation requirements for the college program that I'm enrolled in, we must attend a plant tour during our 4th yr stay in the university. This plant tour/ educational tour usually takes place outside Davao City. 

Tomorrow (Oct. 15) will be the start of our Plant Tour/ Educational Tour in Laguna and Metro Manila. I'm so excited about this and also my classmates! hahaha.

It's been 5 years since I haven't set foot on Luzon. This is how excited I am! Also, we get to explore several plants and factories to learn how their internal operations work (the reason why we have plant tours in the first place). Lastly, we will go to malls and other popular tourist attractions!  

I will be posting pictures and an official blog entry about this. I think I'll have to make 2 or 3 entries of this event.  So stay tuned.

See you guys later!

Hello World!

Hello everybody! I'm Emer Operario, and this will be my official blog.

So far, I haven't posted anything yet because I just started. So stay tuned guys!

For the content, I'm not sure on what specific content that I will be posting. For now, I'll just post anything that I wanted to share.

That's pretty much about it. 

See you guys later!