The Longanisa Project 3.0

You know something’s fishy when your Admin Officer is sporting LCD monitors while your creatives are using three year-old CRTs. While the latter is trying his best to use Photoshop in a 17″ screen, the former is loving the full glory of Mafia Wars in full digital display.

Fail.

I haven’t blogged in a long time. Although I’ve been meaning to, I’m just too tired to write my thoughts. That’s why I’m more active my Twitter account than here.

There are a lot of things happening in the office. I think I have about eight projects lined up, with priority levels that start from medium, and it’s starting to take its toll. I really need to beef up the web development team for this, and that doesn’t mean just hiring a lot of designers. For it to be truly more robust, I would need web architects who can double as project officers, graphic designers, usability officers and coders.

I need to talk to the boss about this.

I was going to blog and say something like “And that was January” until I figured it’s still January today. The 31st to be exact. So this darn month isn’t over yet and there’s still one more day to go before we start with a clean slate, more or less.

Isn’t it ironic that even though we have raised flooring, we still utilize under-the-carpet network cabling?

I got pissed with our HR today when I saw the list of birthday celebrators for the month of November. Not only was it posted late, it was also incomplete.

It’s Pink’s birthday on the 12th but it wasn’t there on the list. This is not the first time it happened. Nap and EJ’s birthdays weren’t on the lists they posted a few months back.

So what is this? Do they draw lots to see which IJMs’ names get posted there? Is it because of the limited space? Just imagine yourself in the shoes of an IJM who’s not getting paid a lot. I wonder how you would feel when you see your name not on the list.

We don’t want a fancy birthday list on our company bulletin board. An excel sheet with the names and the dates will do. We’re all grown ups anyway. What’s important is that this list is posted on time and that everyone who should be there should be there, regardless if that person is the managing director or the office cleaner.

I’m glad I’m finally home after the two-day planning for our initiatives next year. Even though we were all seated in the room almost the whole time, it was tiring and quite draining. We had to line up our plans, put timelines, know what type of technology we need, and then, of course, project how much revenue we have to generate from these.

From this exercise, I realized that I’m happy to be planning for online now. With all the web 2.0 technologies around, there is so much we can do to deliver our content to our customer. Comparing this with my previous stint in mobile, It’s quite refreshing to have no third-party restrictions.

Down from the hill that is Antipolo, the next thing to do is the most dificult part – making these happen. I’m planning to cascade all the learnings to my team next week (since most of them are on vacation this week). Then it would be time to sit down with the various groups and talk about the nitty gritty part.