Great work – They put together a fantastic site in less than a day, fully functional and wowed the client.  As a result they are interested in doing more work with us.

CONGRATS TO CHRIS AND JOHN ROSS!

1. The whole Iloilo team for getting through and keeping everything together in the face of extreme adversity

2. Annie – for coming up with the relief fund idea

3. The whole US team for stepping up to the plate and helping the Promet Iloilo family

4. Andy and T.J. for matching what we could do – making our efforts three times as powerful.

5. Junelle for administering the whole program on the Iloilo end.

A big Promet Thank You to everyone!!!

The Iloilo day shift with Jun who is currently working during night.

From left to right: Hannah, John Ross, Me (Junelle), Agustin “Jun” and Donnabel.

Iloilo Team with Chris.
Chris wanted to eat Filipino food and so we ordered some Filipino food for him to try.

But it was only the three of us who ate, becuase Hannah, Donna and John had already eaten when Chris arrived.

The second day we had a lunch at Nes N Tats. This time together with Manilyn and Tere who has just arrived from Manila. Gerold was supposed to be with us as well, but he was late getting into his flight, so he was re-scheduled to the afternoon flight.

We ride a jeep going back to the office after the lunch at Nes N Tats.

Then dinner came, we ate at Emilion together with the night shift Sarah and Merben.

During this night, we let Chris experience the thrill of eating the worlds famous balot.

Gerold teaching Chris how to eat the balot.

Then Chris did it on his own.

Chris seems to love balot

We ordered a lot of food, but we managed to eat all of it until the Pizza arrived. It was 18 inches big, and cutie Donnabel was the one who ordered it. This time, we were already full, but still the Pizza looks so deliciously irresistible.

Yummy!

The Schedule:

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM – Meeting with the Day Shift
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM – Dinner with Day and Night
8:00 PM to 10:00 PM – Meeting with the Night Shift

We know Thea went here to finalize our policies.

Here is the Day shift with Thea updating us with the new and approved policies and benefits.
Of course, if there’s a meeting, there should be a food for our stomach:

Here we are, waiting for our food, and when the food finally arrived:

All of us were happy to finally eat it. After the main course, of course a dessert would be nice.

Hannah, I think Thea wants to have a taste of that delicious dessert.

Gerold, just pose with the Rachel’s dessert because he hasn’t ordered anything for himself.

After the Dinner, we are now ready to have an ice breaker for the night shift and then proceed with the meeting about benefit and policies.

Meanwhile, you can view the slideshow of the entire collection here or you may check the picasa web album.

While the US based group has not been able to schedule a purely social get together yet, we did manage to have some fun team building after our meetings in May. Below is a selection of pictures from the office (most of which feature Monkey – The Promet Employee of the Year) and pictures from our night out doing Karaoke. As the non-singer from the team I would like to point out that this was definitely a set-up. Julia, who arranged the entire event, has an amazing voice. With the exception of Mara, who also has a great voice, the rest of us were put to shame. However, Matt most definitely gets credit for pouring his heart and soul into every song he belted out.

In addition to our Karaoke team building that week, we also accomplished alot on a work level. We spent several days outlining areas where we think the team could benefit from some additional processes and documentation. From these items we have created a task list, assigning different members of the Promet Team items to work on over the next few weeks.  Shortly, everyone will be receiving a copy of this task list so you can get an idea of the projects we are all working on.  Additionally, if after reviewing the task list, anyone feels inclined to volunteer to help with a specific project, we would more than welcome the participation.

Julia and Monkey

Pim and Monkey

Chris singing his heart out

But no one does it like Matt!

Mara, T.J. and Pim

And last, but definitely not least, Our Fearless Leader!