LOVING JESUS FORSAKEN IN MY WORK EXPERIENCE

Yesterday could have been the bleakest day of my life. The President of  our company called our Call Center Team to a meeting. At the call center, we handle four different accounts. One of the accounts is handled by our team.  Our company has been in the news lately. The parent company has decided to divest itself of its other businesses and concentrate on its non-life arm. Non-life includes fire, auto, travel and more. The President explained to us who were gathered in his office a situation that is unique only to the Philippine region. It is only here that the non-life company is owned by the company that is to be divested rather than owned by the company that would do the divesting. Its life insurance firms would be divested also but not before the life insurance firm has sold its Philippine non-life arm as per agreement between the two parties.

The Call Center Team braced ourselves for the worst. Finally the President dropped a bomb. Since the  Call Center will also be divested, we as part of it will no longer have an account to handle once the non-life arm is sold to the parent-company. We have to resign from the Call Center and reapply with the Philippine non-life arm.  Deadline for submission of our resumes and letters of intent will be this Wednesday, Jan. 28. The catch is this, only 8 positions are available. There are11 of us. Three of us will be left with the Call Center until they find something for these three to do.

If we pass the job interview and get hired by the non-life arm, we will start all over again. We will only be entitled to the benefits if we become regular employees and to leaves after a year from the date of hiring.

I have thought about how this event would affect my family. At first, there was a great deal of uncertainty and I was tempted to cry out and despair but I remembered Jesus Forsaken and lifted all my fears to Him and my soul was at peace once more. In the darkest of nights, I hold on to Jesus Forsaken and let Him guide me and my family until we see the break of dawn.

How I love Jesus Forsaken!

Original written on Jan. 25, 2009 5:44 a.m.