The (insert company name) Curse
I have been working at the same place for almost four years now. Since there's only less than 20 employees here, practically all our life stories are open books already. For the sake of easier blogging, I shall call our company "Company X". Lately, me and my colleagues have been joking about the so-called Company X Curse. Work in Company X and its almost always guaranteed that you'd lose a girl/boyfriend. Why? For starters, its the odd working hours. Nope, I do not work in a call center. But I do remember my boss telling me though that all of us here are on-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Because of our unpredictable schedules, many personal plans (READ: Dates) get postponed or cancelled. There was one time that I spent Valentine's Day sleeping at the office floor together with one other officemate because our work finished at 2 in the morning. And so because of this, we end up spending more time with each other than with our significant others. A col...