Ace Tuana

The reason we went through this trouble is because the current brochure of Asilo could not be easily updated. This at first had me thinking like a contractual worker who was tasked to make a brochure. “The job would be done when the sisters in Asilo were satisfied with the brochure,” I said to myself. The only thing I was thinking of was creating the best brochure - one that would have the sisters smiling and have potential partners stop being  potential partners and just be permanent partners - simple as that…or so I thought. But after our presentation with Asilo, Ma’am Dominado made us think about the long term effect on Asilo - once they had new facilities or new programs available, the brochure must be updated again and so we wanted to ensure that the next brochure would not face the same problem. We created a step-by-step manual for the staff at Asilo to follow so that the brochure could be easily updated. At least four rough drafts of the brochure were made so that Asilo could pick the design they wanted. The extra work is something that Ma’am Dominado had us do to ensure the quality and longevity of our influence in Asilo.

Classes have been hectic lately between balancing responsibilities in academics and doing all my org work - it has been quite difficult which leads me to take the shortcuts on many things, doing tasks the fast way and not necessarily the right way. Some examples would include my HUMAART Quiz which I did not have time to study because of conflicting subjects. What I did instead was study one part which I thought would be most likely to pop out in the quiz since most of our HUMAART quizzes are essay type. I was lucky and what i studied was what came out in the quiz.

I also had org work on Wednesday which took alot of my free time - much more than I anticipated, I had to go to Divisoria to buy supplies. We left school at around 3 pm and arrived when it was nearing 7:30 pm! This was not good since I still had a project to do for NTROPSY, CPROBS case, and a CSRGOVE Case to finish before thursday. Later that night, I found out that CSRGOVE would resume next week which gave me more time to focus on CPROBS which was a major business case for our group. The following day one of our group mates is absent and since she was covering the hardest part of our case, we were simply destined to fail the report. Out paper was also in tandem. Thankfully our report was moved to tuesday! Giving us ample time to rethink our case. NTROPSY deadline was also moved since most of the groups have not made sufficient progress. So in the end the Scripture that hit me was " Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself Mt  6:34"

   CSRGOVE is the last class of the day so I often look forward to it, it marks the nearing of the end of the day where I can just relax or finish my requirements. When I first opened my notebook to write this blog, I found myself having close to no notes but why? I can remember most of the lessons and I am sure that I am attentive during class hours. Then I realized – CSRGOVE doesn’t have a pressured environment which means that you can skip taking notes and just throw everything in your head. When I was studying MANAORG, our professor taught us the most efficient ways to do things depending on the situation. If employees are motivated give them promotions as incentives. If they are unmotivated and do not meet the required output, you could always force them by being the bad cop. Before I had CSRGOVE I thought that you needed to do everything under the table if you want to be a successful company. This reality was one which most of my business professors taught me and for me it was a very harsh reality. “We should do things fairly,” I once exclaimed to one of my professors who then bombarded me with what he said were more realistic saying which went something like “How do you play a game with no rules fairly…define fair, if everyone is cheating then wouldn’t cheating be fair?”I was taught that those who did things right would never be on top. The harsh reality hit me again – a critical strike one may say. I’ve been taught to do things according to my conscience’s saying of what is right and wrong but I also wanted to excel in the corporate world – these two ideas began clashing repeatedly, for an innocent freshman, it was devastating. 

   I began to see how easy it was to ace a subject without studying – all you needed to do was cheat. I hated my classmates who cheated and got higher marks than me, I studied so hard only to fail while my classmates all aced the test since they got a copy of the paper. I began to compromise – cheating every so often to get high grades. In a way you could say that my morals lost to the desire to excel. It all changed during my second year of college when I had a professor who graded us very low but taught us a lot – more than two or three “sure 4.0” professors would have scratched.  I got a 1.5 for that subject but somehow I felt a sense of achievement – I learned something and I am sure I can apply it in the future. This class left me devastated but also made me value learning far more than grades. I began taking classes with the professors’ experience in mind rather than solely their grading system. I began getting lower grades yet I learned far more than I though i would. Grades are like book covers, this is how employers will judge you but knowledge is the content of the book. Initially only you can see how much you have in store but in the long run it helps you and your organization. This is when I had a sharp realization during CSRGOVE… the corporate world is exactly the same, you could just cheat your way up but get caught and your carrier gets you a grade equivalent of 0.0, you’d have to start from scratch just from one scandal. Studying for an exam instead of cheating is like doing things the right way in a corporate setting. Many professors say it is near impossible and sadly, I agree cheating is much easier than doing the right thing. My pastor once told me that impossible is just a reason for someone to take the easy way. There are many companies that get by ethically such as Eastman Chem Co. and Google.And so I conclude – CSR is very hard to fulfill but it is not impossible – we only tell ourselves that.