April 22, 2013. Monday. 11.5 PM. I am at Ms. Anne’s
again, staying for the rest of the week, and the following weeks LOL I just woke up since we got to her
place and she’s still fast asleep in her couch in front of her whining
television. I guess we got exhausted from the heat and the sad environment at
work, altogether.
I left work at 7.30 PM today, earlier than I usually do
on Mondays. It was too sad to be there today coz we all mourn for our loss of
our officemate and a friend, Capt. JoJo. There are only 14 staffs in the office
so we all work very close to each other, constantly jeer and laugh at and with
each other, et cetera, everyday. His departure was very sad, not that
departures are supposed to be happy, but because of the sad consequences. He was
about to resign and to be hired by another company for higher salary rate with
an offer of taking care of his heart’s operation bills. Before any of that
happened, he had a heart attack last Saturday at around 5AM. He had been in ICU
in 2 consecutive Christmases from stresses at work plus the required participation
for the company’s Christmas event with no exemptions. We all blamed the xmas
dance practices each time he took a leave and spent it in the hospital but the
company seemed doesn’t care though his condition was known to us and the
management. Recently, we were informed he needed to undergo a high-cost heart
operation, but I guess there was no official help the company has offered him. There
were added pressures at work lately too, from the new management’s irrelevant
implementations. And last week, they could have sent someone else instead of
him for the 2-day seminar ‘coz he was too weak to be under the heat, travelling
when he needed a heart operation. We are all deeply saddened too for his 2
little kids (4 and 5 yrs old) and his very young partner, who are all dependent
to him, plus his still-studying-children from his previous marriage. My
condolences. We visited him at the funeral home during lunch break today and waved
our final goodbyes for him.
Death is a constant thing in this world and a friend’s
is truly felt. To Sir Jojo, may you rest in peace.
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