Kagawaran ng Kalakalan at Industriya

Department of Trade and Industry definition. Source: Wikipedia.

The Philippines' Department of Trade and Industry (Filipino: Kagawaran ng Kalakalan at Industriya), abbreviated as DTI is the executive department of the Philippine Government tasked to expand Philippine trade and industry as the means to generate jobs and raise incomes for Filipinos.

This is what the Department of Trade and Industry office looks like

This s what their waiting area looks like

And this is what we, in either the cubicle or the waiting area, look like (less caucasian, more asian though)

This could look entirely different if either a) everybody had the gut to do what they really wish to do with their lives (i.e.: nothing) or b) if the government hadn’t monopolized the minting industry by creating the Central Bank and with it the bank system and therefore creating the monetary system we now live by and its society that is based on the accumulation of debt in order for said system to work. In addition, this system has been brought into existence in order to serve the oppressors (also known as politicians and corporate lions who, by the way, are basically the same people). And of course, lest not forget , to serve their wives who are in dire needs of nose jobs since they need to attend to their social obligations and appear in press releases whenever they hold a charity event that is supposed to raise money for the people in need (i.e. themselves). These are the people we work in corporate sweat shops for.

On a related note, thanks to me being corporate, I get to attend a lot of industry parties that offer a great selection of food and alcoholic beverages for free so as to corrupt our minds and bellies into thinking that we like our lives. The fact that most corporate offices offer free coffee for as long as supplies last (forever) helps us get through the day efficiently as well.

“Feeling extra productive today, Miss Rufener? That’d be the cocaine I added to your coffee…. You’re welcome.”

Pardon the abrupt change in topic. I’ve been drinking way too much coffee so my thoughts are not in order. Anyway, being born into this government-and-Central-Bank-controlled society that conditioned me into thinking that working in corporate offices is indeed desirable (as opposed to: predestined verdict of each of us found obedient) has put me here today, namely; the waiting area of The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). This, an uncomfortable situation for I am in fact waiting and cannot avoid pondering life, contemplating running amok and observing the DTI representative working meticulously right in front of me.

Until the DTI representative finishes whatever it is he’s doing to evaluate my Sales Promo, I’ll be stuck here thinking.

Thinking….Why is he sitting there processing paper work like the machine that he was trained to be and why is there a girl sitting beside me waiting to have her upcoming sales promo “Get 2 Nose Jobs for the Price of 1” approved?

And why am doing what I’m doing, really? Really?

Really, Waiting Areas should be abolished in a world of hard working, tax paying, unhappy citizens.

PS.: You could at least provided us with glossy magazines that advertise 2 nose jobs that you can get for the prize of one in order to keep us occupied with more important things than thinking.