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.

The Iloilo agents (Day and Night shift) were able to had a chance to dine together with Nhut. It was our opportunity to know Nhut better and of course introduce ourselves to her as well.

The group really liked the delicious food served to us at “Dapli by Breakthrough.”

L-R: Merben, Sarah, Jun, John, Donna, Hannah and Nhut (Junelle’s Note: I did pose, but the waitress who took the picture didn’t include me You would see my arm at the side of Merben.)

Everyone is busy eating now.

Right Merben?

Just to let you know, I am here.

And of course, last but not the least, someone is late.

Here goes Amy (at the center).

Everyone seemed quiet since Manilyn speaks different dialect than Iloilo Folks, and most of us were shy to approach her. Amy is doing QA as well, so we let her speak how she does it. This is for Manilyn to know all aspects of QA not just on doing QA on AW. Amy started her speech, but was too shy to finish it. She informed us that she would just email the process of how she does QA.

Everyone enjoyed the food and knowing Nhut better.

Cam provided by Donna. Thanks Don!

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Here is the managers dinner with two very jetlagged visitors.

Vere & Matt’s visit to the Chicago office

The girls supporting their Promet shirts!

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!