Carabao English
I have been working in a call center for almost two years now. I am now in my second company. Stress level is too high, but I endure the pain, and bear the fruit of high salary.
My job now is in line with accounting. I am a senior technical support specialist for an ERP system. Yes, accounting it is! I am a graduate of accounting, but never experienced the "real" accounting job.
Anyway, why is my title "Carabao English?". Carabao English are words “Filipinized” in pronunciation and spelling, and subjected to Filipino grammatical rules. (for example, the present tense “Mag-Internet tayo,” the past perfect tense “Nag-Internet ka na?” even a future tense “Mag-Iinternet ako mamaya”). I was kind of irritated when someone from our Development team said I have poor wording when he saw the issue I made for a customer. It was kind of insulting, but then, I just accepted it, and swallowed my pride. It may be because of communication barrier. We sometimes use words that meant different to foreigners. Maybe I also used an inappropriate term that is why he called my attention. My bad!
Day is almost done. I will just blog again later? :D
My job now is in line with accounting. I am a senior technical support specialist for an ERP system. Yes, accounting it is! I am a graduate of accounting, but never experienced the "real" accounting job.
Anyway, why is my title "Carabao English?". Carabao English are words “Filipinized” in pronunciation and spelling, and subjected to Filipino grammatical rules. (for example, the present tense “Mag-Internet tayo,” the past perfect tense “Nag-Internet ka na?” even a future tense “Mag-Iinternet ako mamaya”). I was kind of irritated when someone from our Development team said I have poor wording when he saw the issue I made for a customer. It was kind of insulting, but then, I just accepted it, and swallowed my pride. It may be because of communication barrier. We sometimes use words that meant different to foreigners. Maybe I also used an inappropriate term that is why he called my attention. My bad!
Day is almost done. I will just blog again later? :D
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