as a lot of you might know, i work for a 24-hour cable news channel, which is a sister company of a major TV network. and because it’s a big company, i guess there’s really room for very stupid people in it.
today, i woke up at 6 in the morning in a panic. checked my phone. no messages. ok, panic over, right? no. a text comes in within a minute of my waking up, with the message i was SO sure i was gonna get: ‘wala daw rms si onyok” hay, sabi na nga ba eh.
before i go any further, allow me to elaborate a bit. RMS means resource management system. basically it’s what you send out if you need equipment, manpower, etc. onyok is our cameraman.
so, back to my story. i go downstairs to get to a phone and call the custodian. he relays to me the problem of the missing rms. but see, i GAVE that rms to the guy in charge of cameramen last week, so there is NO WAY IN HELL, that our cameraman would have no RMS, i relay that to the custodian. ANG SAGOT SA AKIN: “uh, ma’am yung equipment po may rms ba?” ALANGAN NAMANG WALA DIBA??? ano’ng gagawin ng cameraman ko kung wala siyang gamit???? naglolokohan ba tayo dito??? so of course, all i could say without cussing him off the face of the planet was this: there is NO WAY MY CAMERAMAN has no equipment, my cameraman’s boss talked to my boss yesterday and he gave us that cameraman. my boss talked to your boss YESTERDAY, so YOUR BOSS who also happens to be onyok’s boss’ relative, IS AWARE of our shoot requirements. he says he will talk to his boss when he gets to office. i hang up and am now too agitated to sleep.
at least nakapag-pull out na yung cameraman ko. MORNING KONSUMISYON. sometimes i really wonder why i’m still here, why our group is still here, when we’re surrounded by complete idiots. actually scratch that, i wonder why the NETWORK is still around, given that they hire such idiots. GAH
