It has been a decade already since my last post and I miss posting some thoughts so much. A lot of things had happened since 2011 until I graduated from college. I got my first job as a customer service representative in 2012 and it's been nine (9) years already. I had been into four (4) different companies during that span of time. I have met a lot people and learned a lot of things.
Then, there came this Covid-19 pandemic. It was around the last quarter of 2019 that it was confirmed that it had been spreading in China. People in the Philippines were just complacent about it until it started spreading in the Philippines on the first quarter of 2020. I was diagnosed with dengue fever on February 2020 and I didn't think about getting infected with the virus because cases related with the Covid-19 weren't high during that time. But I started to think that I might have been infected already because my body temperature was going high and low multiple times. I could also feel that the doctors who assisted me were not so sure yet if I had other illness that caused the inconsistency. I had to stay in the hospital for more than two (2) weeks because of that. Thank God, I wasn't infected with the virus.
The government and the private sector had to make adjustments to prevent the spread of the virus. They were too many to mention here. One of them was allowing people to work from home. It has been a struggle for some of us when we talk about good internet connection and working environment. When I started working at home, I have had a good working environment but very poor internet connection. The company that I work with has been very generous. I was provided with everything that I need so that I could start working from home. I started working at home last week of March 2020. I had been struggling with internet connection until I transferred to a new home. I was able to subscribe to fiber optic internet connection which is way better than what I had before - DSL and LTE. So far, so good as far as the internet connection is concerned.
However, I was added to the list to go back to the office. I started working in the office on October 2020. The company has been very strict in terms of health protocols in compliance with the IATF and also for everyone's health. If someone has symptoms related to Covid-19, he/she will be advised to stay at home. It happened that I got two (2) symptoms and I was advised to go on 14-day quarantine. I had to stay at home and monitor the symptoms daily. I had also to decide to have myself checked through swab testing because I am living with high risk individual. Thank God, the result was negative. Even if I am one of those who need to go the office for work, work from home set-up has been an option for some of us if going to the office is not possible due to the symptoms related to Covid-19.
I am forever grateful to God above all, who's been so good during this time and to the company that I work with for being so generous and kind to its employees.
