Accounting tasks that I should be able to do, includes:

• Doing Purchase Orders
• Making Bank Deposits
• Accepting Payments
• Deleting Payment Duplicates

Aside from the accounting tasks, I have Marketing Campaigns that I do every week. I also update the marketing template sent to thousands of emails every Friday. On Mondays, I make sure that the campaign is
scheduled to be sent at 7AM U.S. Pacific Time.

There are so many days in the week that I am mostly stuck doing accounting tasks. Of course, it’s much easier than accepting technical calls, but it gets boring sometimes. I wish the new client gives us a “go” to integrate their website to e-commerce. It will be a hard project, because it means a whole lot of work, but at least it is something that doesn’t bore me. Looking at .csv files and excel sheets
for a long time makes me really sleepy.

I am still on the lookout for a day job.

Graveyard shifts = Stresstabs

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We’re going to work on new projects in the next few days, and that includes marketing campaigns, looking for stock images, and matching the images to the inventory.

The work itself is okay so far. Hopefully, this will be a job that I can keep.

I am an Account Specialist. Basically, I should know the ins and outs of the account, and I should be able to perform any task that will be assigned to me.

My immediate boss is in charge of the design implementation of the e-commerce websites that our account handles, so that means, I am tasked to do his bidding.

Right now, we’re working on a Poker merchandise website, which is giving me a headache. We’re trying write a script, but, no matter what work around we try to do, we could not make it work.

Another one of my tasks is making sure the Google feeds are updated. I had to make sure that the CSV files are rid of symbols because Google Feeds doesn’t accept it. Some files are at least 900 lines with 6 columns. It takes a long time to check, but, it kills time.

I hope my boss gives me a good evaluation so that I can be retained on the account. It’s so hard to find a job these days.

I think I need a real vacation.

I think that I have no more grasp of what’s important. It seems that I have forgotten how to choose the right things. I want to rearrange my life, but I don’t know where to start. Sometimes, I just want to disappear. I just am so lost.

Andreana we do apologize for this but we need to be honest and straight forward to you . Our HDD crashed and at this point of time we’re recovering it however we cannot guarantee you that these backups works as we’ tried rolling it out yesterday evening and all account got corrupted. I know how frustrating it is to you as well as on our part but this really the main reason why we are sending new account information again.

They also posted this on their website:

We’ve found out that there was a hard disk failure and we are currently looking into the hard disk. Also our weekly backups had nowhere to restore all files as the uploaded had gone corrupted. We do apologize for this matter.

We know that all your files are important but we’ll do our best to restore all files as much as we could. Thank you.

I was in denial for a whole day. I didn’t want the nightmare to sink in. I didn’t want to think that I had to rebuild four websites; of which, the last backups were from February 2010. All the posts that I wrote after that are lost. Of course, things like these are inevitable, but what added to my frustration is the fact that I had to ask before I knew that something big like this is going on. Plus, I was with Ryan and it was his birthday. I didn’t want to ruin his special day.

Sigh.

Two of my good friends are affected, too. Pao and Lexie. Like Pao, I would appreciate a heads up and an apology by email to everyone who are affected. Well, there’s nothing I can do now.

Lesson learned. Weekly backups!

I will try to do weekly blogs. I have to! Or I am just wasting my blog space. Right?

Today, I just received 2 perfect tees from Rainbow Scraps. I should have settled for a smaller size, though, but still, I like them tees. The fabric is cotton and a little stretchy. It feels comfortable to wear, too.

I am currently waiting for a new XOXO bag to arrive, plus a Doraemon pouch!

Since September, I have been working for another call center as technical support associate for a US-based ISP¹. I met 11 new friends from my wave, and we’re all lucky because we had 3 great trainers, who became our friends, too. In those two months of training, I’d have to say that it was worth giving the BPO industry another shot.

This week, all of us are trying to adjust with our new team. Lica and I are lucky to be assigned to one of the top 10 teams in our account. I’m glad that we’re together in one team, at least, it wouldn’t be too hard to fit in a new group. So far, my teammates have been very helpful and friendly to us. Our team leader invited us to eat with them for lunch on our first day with the team. They all made us feel that we belonged.

Still, Lica and I miss our wave. During lunch breaks, we would walk the floor and find our friends. We have different shifts, so sometimes, we can’t find anyone.

It’s been a stressful 3 days, but hopefully, after this week my body clock would be back to normal. From 8am to 5pm last week, to 8pm to 5am this week!

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