I have invested in a new company that specializes in manpower and management, sort of a recruitment agency. It was a hard earned cash, but my investments was not to be put in vain, I supposed, since my intentions are very noble. It is to help people. There are a lot of companies and factories that need workers, and there are just too many unemployed Filipinos now a days. Our company was to be a bridge, for employers seeking workers and people who seeks work.
Though my current profession is not that financially regarding, I still think I’m very blessed. I always thought I could have better job since I know I could do better, but have always been too afraid to quit, mainly because I don’t want to belong to the group of people who do nothing, meaning, jobless. Its hard, having experienced it myself. The boredom, the low self esteem, the could-have-beens. So In my own little way, we set up this small company. We knew It’s not gonna be easy, but we never thought It will be this hard.
It was all set, permits and registration has been accomplished, except for one. It was the certification from the Department of Labor. We expected they will be assisting us, in every way possible, since we are doing this nation a favor. But sadly, to our disappointment, they did not. In fact, they put our nearly completed company on hold. Saying that we lack the capital, we lack some papers, we missed out some forms. In fact, we all have submitted their requirements, and in the end, what they actually wanted is money. Our capital is just around Forty Thousand Pesos. People from the labor department demanded Fifty Thousand Pesos. We don’t have that much.
I work almost 24 hours a day, since I live in the farm, and always on call even in the middle of the night, in my deepest sleep. It’s from the very fruit of my hard labor that I got my investment from. But these government people want to have as much as my four months’ worth of hard work just for lifting their pen and signing our papers.
Our agency, the company that meant to help jobless people is now up in the air and very much non operational. Thanks to the government agency that’s suppose to be providing and protecting laborers. Indeed, an irony, the one who’s supposed to help people are the ones who’s killing those who are willing to help.
i just hope this is just a phase our company is going through, sort of a labor pain when giving birth, only this time, a birth of a company with a noble cause.
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