I really don't know if it's just me or if you people also notice it. In the canteen, the prices rise exponentially... The first day they sell things, it's reasonable but after a week... WOW! The price is unconscionable! an exponential increase in the price! Almost or not a hundred percent! Is it because of the oil prices? Or because we have no choice?

maybe we're paying for the new coffee shop!

first question: WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU BUYING SHIT AT THAT GOD-FORSAKEN PLACE??!!! hopefully you're not buying overly-priced bread to feed to the dog. part of me says its your own fault and you deserve to have the shit gouged out of you on prices.  but the smarter part of me realizes that the unfathomable scale at which they violate basic common decencies, and probably laws, (not limited to the coffee shop) makes it almost impossible not to be taken advantage of on some occasion.

i'd bet that they don't want you to notice that the prices are going up. then you keep buying. it all goes on account. then they just take it from your paycheck later when its too late for you too question.

EVERY other place i have EVER worked has had an employee discount system. because ITS NOT RIGHT TO PROFIT FROM YOUR EMPLOYEES.

This is not only for you but for others as well who feel disgruntled.  There is a cliche that goes like this: "If you don't like the system, get out of the system."   

In reality, the golden rule is he who has the gold makes the rule.

You said and it's true that there are other options.. then, why sulk and cry here...?

This is just a reaction...

Basic business management teaches us that there are determinants in price tagging of products:
1. cost of raw materials, with the nature of our coffee shop that includes basic food ingredients ranging from eggs to milk to flour etc..,

2. cost of space rental...

3. city services (water and electric)

4. packaging of the goods

5. staff and workers

6. oil increase which covers transport of products..

One or a combination  of these factors could easily escalate a product's price to double or triple in figures...


How comparative is our coffee shop to Manang Bebang's carinderia at Kayang?

We could judge all by its visuals and its gustatory appeal, couldnt we?

Overnight?

Have you got a track record of any of the products? 

You don't need a track record. All you need is to compare the price from the today to the yesterday. You don't need to be an accountant to notice the difference and the sudden change.

Granted. But we need, specific items to check if there is indeed a change... This is because as far as the  administrators are concerned, no drastic raise has been added to any food item. If you notice, new varieties of pastry are introduced but the same old food items are retained to their original cost.

Another, our  coffee shop prides its quality ingredients and blah blah blah.. and of course I dont want to turn this into a commercial blurb..

In any case, as comments taken,  we'll look into this concern... thanks.   

i don't think that there was an inflation in the canteen but just as meancreek had said that there was an  introduction of new pastries. now, if you really noticed that there was an inflation OVERNIGHT, why didn't you bring this inflation concern to the management?
DON'T YOU THINK IT'S THE RIGHT WAY? RATHER THAN SMILING AND GREETING THE ADMIN WITH A SMILE EVERY MORNING YOU MEET THEM IN SCHOOL BUT WITH ILL FEELINGS!

BECI coffee shop is not a GOD FORSAKEN  place! Maybe BECI Coffee shop only became a GOD FORSAKEN PLACE since  YOU step foot in that canteen. nobody's forcing you to buy the products that the coffee shop offers. those breads that you claim overly priced breads to feed for the dogs are freshly baked everyday for the teachers and students. maybe those kinds of breads are the ones you feed to your dogs because you can afford it (well, with the rate being paid to you, of course you can afford in which filipino teachers deserve more to be paid, they're far better than you, your only advantage is your being a foreigner - well with the way you always utter the F... word)
or...... you react that way co'z you are used to eating free foods or handed foods for free!

I want to make it clear that I'm making these comments not as an employee, but as a costumer. Why hate the admin in the first place? I guess I'm just dooming myself if everyday I plan to frown at every admin I see- a pitiful existence. I don't have illl feelings, I just noticed something and I'm trying to voice it out.

This is just my opinion, I can always be wrong... I'm just one person...

everybody has the right to express his own opinion about the service that he availed because HE PAID FOR IT,if you think that your heavenly satisfied with the service/product that had then that"s your opinion!(and i am happy for you,i dont know for what reason/s,but i respect that.)
I bought it(and i had choice to buy it there!),so it's my call to comment on it.
i rest my case.
let's keep it to the field as costumers and not as workers of the school.

perhaps i was vague in respect to my dog comment. i didn't mean to imply that the food served in the coffee shop was dog food. i've tasted some of it. some of it i liked. but the quality was never the point of that comment. i meant that i hope the person buying the bread was not feeding it to the dog. i have seen a few filipino teachers do this. i think its a waste of money to buy "gormet bread" and feed it to a dog. i was trying to express my hope that this was not the case.

in reference to my salary, its sad that the stregnths of the filipino teachers aren't more widely recognized. i'm not sure, because i don't know you, but its quite possible that you're a better teacher than me. but on the flip side of that is demand from students for 'native speakers' (i find the phrase a bit uncomfortable myself). and honestly, i have complete respect for the english level of 100% of the filipino teachers i know. yet maybe there is a certain fluency or something that maybe can't come except from growing up a 'native speaker'. but actually that's not quite true either, its just a different fluency. british english, american english, austrailian english, filipino english, etc, basicially its all correct as far as i'm concerned, even if its not the way i would speak, as long as its understandable. i guess what it comes down to is that somewhere, somebody made the 'native speakers' of the UK, US, Canada, and Austrailia (am i missing any?) the standard. i don't know who, i don't know why, but it happened. i'm sorry.

i also don't know who decided that of all the words in the english language, some of them are "bad words", but i'll try to limit my use as not to be offensive. still, i think for those students who are interested, they are an integral part of the english language.

i'm also sorry for getting completely off topic in this thread. please feel free to completely disregard this. that may be about it for now. feel free to talk to me at school any time. or if you prefer i'll buy you a drink somewhere if you want to talk further (a meager compensation, but perhaps its owed to you).

i've never bought into any of that "love it or leave it" nonsense. they say the same stuff in the US. Usually coming from the far right wing. if someone speaks out against going to war in iraq for example, certain people would claim that's "unpatriotic".  yet "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

why get out? why not try to make it better?

Quote: BECI coffee shop is not a GOD FORSAKEN  place! Maybe BECI Coffee shop only became a GOD FORSAKEN PLACE since  YOU step foot in that canteen. nobody's forcing you to buy the products that the coffee shop offers. those breads that you claim overly priced breads to feed for the dogs are freshly baked everyday for the teachers and students. maybe those kinds of breads are the ones you feed to your dogs because you can afford it (well, with the rate being paid to you, of course you can afford in which filipino teachers deserve more to be paid, they're far better than you, your only advantage is your being a foreigner - well with the way you always utter the F... word)
or...... you react that way co'z you are used to eating free foods or handed foods for free!




It would seem that you know Mr Chuckie and have got rather personal in your attack on him, etc: you react that way co'z you are used to eating free foods or handed foods for free!
That leads me to think you are an English teacher here.
Well (although I'm not perfect, always) could you please sort out the numerous mistakes in the above mentioned text!............................See.....................nobody likes it when it gets personal!
If you cannot do this I will do it for you     Peace

"For every action there is a corresponding reaction."

The exchange of discourses above, whether personal or not,  didnt stem out of the blue...

Don't you think there wasnt any personal attack of any sort evident in the earlier texts... ?(please see earlier texts).

Mr. Chuckie had already  proven his point and whether Mr. Spongebob has conceded to the point or not,  isnt the issue anymore..

From the expression, "let-sleeping-dogs-lie", I guess the dog has slept already and the hatchet had been buried... It is best to let it that way...

just a reaction...

Quote: your only advantage is your being a foreigner


Let sleeping dogs lie is correct
However blatant s*#t like the above quote and others (I am a foreigner) is offensive to me.
If spongebob would like to talk personally about this I suggest he/she come to my room.
There are not that many foreigners here. Its easy to work out who I am!

Besides,  we're not even sure who exactly the writer

might be. It could be anyone...

anyone? not quite....  

There are not that many foreigners here. Its easy to work out who I am!

You're right.  So if it's that easy,  wouldnt a call or a note  be unthinkable?

doing something easy is unthinkable? i thought doing something difficult would be unthinkable?

and speaking of this civilization creating things we don't like.... can't we choose if something offends us? i'm more offended by ideas than by words. and i choose to be offended by those ideas. for instance, the idea of something being "post-modern" offends me. i think its recockulous if you call something to be after the modern times.