Blogging from Work

Yup, I am at work now. Actually working! I won't be here for long though....I have some other stuff to do like help the Sisterhood pick a gift for a golden wedding anniversary that happened last week. According to Mom, Dad was a bit hurt since no one thought of him---how he went to the anniversary celebration without a gift in hand.

Sigh! Hehehe. So we're going to Rustan's to pick out a nice gift, i.e., expensive! from him and Mom. Of course, we're going to lunch after. We were all set for CPK...but Dad called a few minutes ago and said he wanted to go to lunch, and he didn't want CPK. So it's some Greek food. Something new to try.

Anyhoo, we have a "project" here in the office. We set up a sort of cooperative. Sort of because we didn't want to go through the hassle of registering it as a separate company, we figured we'd do it internally. So, to make a long story short, we set up a system where employees could get a loan from us (the Provident Center, we call it) instead of having to go to the bank.

We issue the loan right away to our employee, which makes the employee happy (and liquid, hehehe). The beauty of this is that our "cooperative" is composed of all the employees in the company. So the interest that a loan earns goes back to the employee. Pretty cool huh?

Like most co-ops, we are exploring ways to help others, mostly our employees, to make a better life for themselves via the loans. We look for projects that an employee or group of employees can do for them to earn while at the same time making the co-op earn as well. All in all, the employees don't lose. They earn. Isn't that what a company does anyway? Help their employees?

Eventually, we want to be able to give back to the community as well. Eventually. We have just started and are doing pretty well. So maybe in a couple of years, we may have something to donate somewhere. :)

Ok, off I go for lunch....