I am Weeping

I am weeping while I am typing this post. I am really crying, my tears wouldn’t stop. More like “hagulgol”.
I am in my office and drafting an Affidavit because this woman cheated me of P10,000. I am not crying because of her or my loss of money although last night I was upset and angry because I couldn’t believe that she lied and cheated me. This is another story. I would tell you about what happened some other time.

I am crying right at this very moment because of this 22 year old male job applicant. Last week, I decided to dig into the piles of bio-data gathering dust behind my desk with the intention of throwing them away. I noticed this particular bio-data of a young guy that had a nice smile in the scanned photo.

I placed the bio-data on Julienne’s desk because she’s the one handling the sales department. The next day she went to my office and asked “Ma, you placed this resume on my desk, what do you want me to do with this?”
I answered “Di ba you’re hiring Sales Consultants? maybe for Makati Ford”. She said “okay”.

Five minutes ago, Julienne came up to me while I was doing the affidavit, she was holding the bio-data of this guy named Leonard.
“Ma, you know what? The resume you gave me? I also found one in my files. Apparently he walked in here long time ago and passed on his resume and no one called him. I interviewed him today and when he entered my room, he started crying, literally balling. I didn’t know why, so I asked why he’s crying.

The boy was overwhelmed by the fact that he’s been jobless for two years and had been waiting for us to call him. He said he prayed so hard to help him get hired or to at least give him a sign. He couldn’t control his emotions.

When Julienne told me that, pati ako naiyak, I started weeping, ewan ko ba, naawa talaga ako. Naiiyak pa rin ako ngayon. There’s something that touched my pusong mamon. I told her “hire him”.
Julienne said “that’s the problem, he’s not a college graduate, he finished Automotive Mechanic. So he only qualifies as a janitor, helper, messenger, or helper mechanic. “Anak, just hire him.”
So, both maawaing mother and daughter decided to hire him initially as on-the-job-trainee assigned in the Service Department since that’s his wish. We’ll have him trained and let’s see how far he goes.

Many years ago, after I interviewed this driver and told him he’s hired, he cried in front of me and thanked me profusely 10 times, no kidding, 10 times. I did not feel awa, I was annoyed. He lived somewhere in floodway, had been jobless for a year, ate two meals a day.

A week after I hired him, he became so suplado complaining about so many things. The food, the working hours, the bed, etc. We’ve had several more like him. Not all poor people that cried in front of me proved to be deserving.

Being business owners give us the opportunity to hire and help people. In the same token, we also cannot hire every person that comes along. We are running a business and not a charity institution.

Minsan iniisip ko, had I chosen to pursue an executive career I could be receiving a salary 10x times what I am paying myself now. But it would only be me and my family who would directly benefit. One of the pampalubag loob of owning a business is that, whether our employees appreciate or not, we are able to help them even in small measure. We are able to help improve their lives.