I love the Philippines. I love the Philippines when it comes to handling voice support and business process outsourcing. Why?

- Large English-speaking population
- Lower infrastructure costs
- Government support
- Strong IT services industry
- Call center environment
- U.S. business hours (24 hour support also)
- Overnight turnarounds
- Similar financial and legal systems to the U.S.
- Filipino and Western culture affinity

I could go on. I’m sure I will in a future post.

I really don’t understand why some online sellers post the details of their transactions — like the buyer’s full name and what he/she bought. If I were the buyer, I certainly would not want that. It’s like going to the mall and buying something, and the saleslady going to the PA system and announcing to everyone “Attention! Miss Jane Doe just bought panties sized XXL.”

One more thing that turns me off is the negativity of many sites. It’s common to see statements like “If you can’t pay blah blah blah, then don’t bid/buy.” Then there are halls of shame and blog posts declaring war against bogus buyers.

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For most of the Filipino working class, the usual scenario is that you spend most of your time working your ass off.

Every day, you wake up six in the morning; eat a quick breakfast of instant noodles, and after that, you spent 30 to 45 minutes commuting to work. And then you spend most of your day in the office. Sometimes you may do routine office tasks, while sometimes you may be out doing fieldwork or sales work.

And then finally, you get home early in the evening. <a href=”For most of the Filipino working class, the usual scenario is that you spend most of your time working your ass off.

Every day, you wake up six in the morning; eat a quick breakfast of instant noodles, and after that, you spent 30 to 45 minutes commuting to work. And then you spend most of your day in the office. Sometimes you may do routine office tasks, while sometimes you may be out doing fieldwork or sales work.

And then finally, you get home early in the evening. Read on

from this plurk:

“Ay sir sorry po, iba kasi yung rice na ginagamit namin dito.”

so while everywhere else in the Philippines, Filipinos are happy that the Tokyo Tokyo franchises have joined the ranks of Inasal in giving unlimited rice to their customers, TOKYO TOKYO VITO CRUZ doesn’t serve UNLIMITED RICE.

QUESTION: Is this how the TOKYO TOKYO franchise operates? They open in the Taft U-Belt and probably think they can charge 5 pesos per extra rice and NOT GIVE the usual UNLIMITED RICE offer BECAUSE their customers are from DLSU, DLS-CSB and St. Scho?

EPIC BRANDING FAIL

plurk here, here, here and here

oh and it’s also on Twitter now

UPDATE:

Apparently, this a “new setup” according to review here about Tokyo Tokyo Tarlac city. To quote:

“The new branch at Tarlac City is most welcome since me and my family are avid fans of this resto. However, it surprised me to learn last Dec. 26 when dining with my family that this branch does not offer unlimited rice as in all other branches in the Philippines. One of the crew said that it is a “new setup.” What new setup is that!? Besides, the rice they are serving (Thai Rice daw, w/c I doubt)is not cooked Japanese style (buhaghag) so you can’t use your chopstick properly.

Attention!!! TokyoTokyo franchising, what is this new setup that has altered by conception of your food…. Just asking”
oh well.

I found some contact info here, maybe someone can call up their office based on this info?

TOKYO TOKYO

(TOKYO TOKYO, INCORPORATED)

UG/F SM MANILA CONCEPCION STREET COR ARROCEROS STREET Manila Metro Manila 1000 Philippines
Phone: 5228230

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