13th Month Pay and BackPay
Hello Every one!!!!
I have been getting allot of comments on an article that I wrote a while back on 13th month pay and back pay. Not sure if any one is going through the comments that I have replied to but don’t seem like it because I’m getting more and more.
Everyone that is worried about getting back pay and 13th month pay needs to look at there contract and employee hand book! Every thing they need to know is in there and if not then they can pull it up to the company where they are working. If it’s not in the contract from what I under stand then you are entitled to it but you need to read. the contract.
Do I Need A Drivers License To Drive In The Philippines
This is a easy one!
NO!
I drove in the Philippines for years with no drivers license and got away with it and I know allot of people getting away with it right now.
Here is the down side, every time that you get pulled over by the cops its going to cost you about 500 to 1000 Peso skin tax which to some may be worth it.
Now How do I get a drivers license in the Philippines?
Also very easy.
Take your drivers license where every you are from down to the LTO in QC which is a bitch to get to and make sure you go early and plan on staying there all day. Once you get there tell show them you drivers license or tell them what you need and they will point you in the right place, again look out for the fixers. Cost about 1,500 Peso some some thing like 30 dollars. They will have you feel out some basic form pay for it and then go take a drug test yes that’s correct a drug test. The test will cost around 500 Peso and I think they don’t even do any thing so you wait a little bit then get the results and then take back to the LTO. The drug testing place is near the LTO, I think we just walked there because it was that close.
I got my drivers license and was like finally I will not get harassed! WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG. Nothing changed every time that you get stopped by a cop in the Philippines you are pretty much going to have to pay them some thing. In some cases they will require you to go and take a class for like 7 hours in god knows where, never happened to me but had friends do it before because they did not want to give the police man money under the table. I can still remember to this day my friend Romeo telling me about this and he said next time they ask for money he was just going to pay them.
I still think that it’s a good idea and suggest that you get your drivers license in the Philippines because it’s legal but there are allot of people driving with out one.
No matter what your going to get harassed.
You Must Have A Return Ticket To Enter The Philippines
when you are coming into the Philippines from another country most airlines will ask you to show your return ticket or a ticket that you are going to be leaving the country at some time. A while back I went to Japan to invest money in computers that did not work out but anyways. I was heading back to the Philippines from Narita and when I was checking in the lady said can I see your return ticket to the US and I said I don’t have one so she said you have to have a return ticket to enter the Philippines and I said so what you want me to buy a return ticket back to the US and she said you have to if you want to get on this flight. So I then had to go to the ticketing office in the airport and buy a ticket leaving the Philippines, I just got the cheapest option I could which was at ticket to Hong Kong still was not cheap like 400 dollars because it was over priced. When I got back to the Philippines I just got a refund on the ticket like a week later.
So you always want to make sure that you bring your return ticket with you if you are ever planing on leaving the Philippines.
If you have no plans on leaving the Philippines in allot of cases when you have entered the Philippines you can just take your return ticket to the airline that you got it and get a refund on it which will not be the full amount but will put some extra money in your pocket. The Philippines immigration is so third world they really have no way of tracking you down or have no plans on people just staying there on a tourist visa. I lived in the Philippines for about 4 years on just a tourist visa, renewing every money or even one time I did not renew it for about a year and just found some one to help me get it renewed under the table for about 200 dollars. I’m not suggesting that you do this but it is possible, I have heard of some people not renewing there passports for some thing like 3 years and they are still in the Philippines.
It took me a while but I got set up with a 13-A visa which is a married to a Filipina which costed some like 700 dollars but was worth all the hassle to get it done because I did not have to keep renewing my visa monthly and I was 100% legal. If you are married to a Filipina then get her to go down to immigration to ask them to find out how to get the 13-A visa for you and all the paper work. You have to go through a bunch of bull shit and it sucks really bad but again it will be worth it. When your in immigration your going to get hit up by allot of what we call fixers saying that they can set up the whole thing for you plus the skin color tax. “do not use them”
New Philippines Weightlifting Shirts Website
I have a new website that I’m putting together which is going to be my first time selling a product.
Some of you that know me know that I look nothing like a powerlifter or from the Philippines but y friend Nick was very big into it and always gave me different types of weightlifting shirts that I wore all the site. So after many years and people telling me how much they loved them I put a website together that only sale Philippines powerlifting shirts. I’m having all of these shirts printed here in the US with many different types of color and all types of sizes so that anyone can wear them.
Nick gave me a bunch of them so I wear them a couple of times a week, it drives my wife nuts.
I’m offer free shipping to both the US and Canada for now.
Click the link below to check out the site.
Philippines Powerlifting Shirts
No Donations
Hello Everyone,
If any one would like to send me money then pay me at beau@uniqueinteraction.com
Call Center Headsets Life Spans
One thing that I’m starting to under stand is that headsets of all types and kinds have a life span of any where from three to six month really no matter the cost unless you are buying some thing for six dollars.
I have tried headsets ranging from six dollars to one hundred dollars and all pretty much lasted around three to six months but here is the thing, I use my headset every day for both personal and business related. When you have agents working from home you are going to get the same thing, they are going to use them to watch videos on youtube and take or make phone calls for you.
Best to get some type of headset that is USB because the connection and sounds card is allot better and they should last longer and you should get a warranty with it, most being six months to a year.
I remember now looking back when we worked with a company that sold headsets in Manila a while ago and we kept taking them back for repairs over and over again and I thought that this was because they were selling a shitty product which it was not, it was just that we used them day time and night time over and over tell they would just give up.
So pretty much I guess just get ready to buy a new headset every 6 months unless you are super man.
Employee Time Tracking Online
Ok well the other open source software I did not use because they wanted $100 dollars set up and this one Clock Spot did not price was pretty much around the same but for some reason I just liked Clock Spot better.
I have only been using it for two days and gotta say I’m loving it. It tracks the agents login’s and out’s real time and I can see who is currently login and what time they logged in.
If you have agents working from home or outside of your office you know they started on time and they finished on time. There is allot more other stuff this does but I’m really not going to get into it but if you like more information click on one of the links and have a bit more of a read.
Call Center Guy Podcast Episode #1
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Ok every one here you go, I really did a shitty job on this and it was not planed but I figured that I would give it a go. I had some one contact me that was thinking about outsourcing and so we talked for a while typing and then we decide to talk over skype.
I have already fired my self you know, you know, you know, you know, you know! Having to listen to my self and edit this sucked, I need to talk some speech classes or some thing.
Any ways we talked about.
- Setting a company in the Philippines
- Working at night in the Philippines
- ISP’s in the Philippines
- Hiring American’s in the Philippines
- Filippino’s being really good in customer service
- Ortigas being a good place to set up an office
- Mega mall
- Resumes getting allot of them and don’t even know why I talked about it
I have been working hard on figuring out the editing software and things to talk about in the future but here you go.
I gotta say pod casting is allot harder then it looks.
Free Time And Attendance Software
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I always love free software that I can use for my call center but even better I thought I would share it will everyone!!!!
Managing the employees time and attendance has always been a pain in the ass but we have always found was to fix it buy buying some type of software to and then all worked great but costed an arm and a leg.
I have been searching for a free program that I can use to track when the agents log in and log out from home but just kept coming to sites that offer the online service but you have to pay for it, allot of them reasonable but I wanted some thing open source or free.
I came across this site called Time Trex and open source company that proved the software that I was looking for that was free and then it turned out that they also had payroll added into it and again its free.
Now when it comes to open source yes it’s free but you have to take the time to set it up and figure out how every thing works, so it’s will take you some time to get it going but it will be worth it in the end. If you are like me not a super geek installing things on your web hosting is not the easiest thing to do, so I contacted my web guy and asked if he could install it on there and I would pay him to do it, I’m thinking it should only cost like 10 dollars because it should be easy for him but we will see.
I downloaded the free windows version of Time Trex on my computer, went through all the set up and got her going with no problems and got to look into the software and see how it worked and I gotta tell you it was pretty sweet and they also had 3 free videos that you can watch on how to set it up.
This software will do every thing from employees clocking in and out, setting scheduling, Payroll, time sheets, advanced reporting and many more things.
One of the things that I love best about this software is it will work prefect with the agents I have working from home and at the end of every pay period payroll will be done automatically.
If you want you can sign up with Time Trix for $29.99 a month for 10 employees and they will host the system for you and also give you support if you need it. Also they charge a one time fee of $99 dollars to set every thing up.
To down load click one of the links or click here Time Trex
Call Center Jobs!!!!!!!
Hello All,
I just wanted to let you know if you are looking for a job in a call center then please go to this site and fill out all the info and some one will contact you, don’t send me your resume.
