# Philippines flooding **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 28, 2009, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121 "2009-09-28T09:32:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![micah](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/micah/32/7257_2.png) [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/1 "2009-09-28T09:32:26Z")
crazy… our offices over there are 50-75% staffed right now… check this video [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8277018.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8277018.stm) ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/2 "2009-09-28T09:38:24Z")
Then how will people get tech support? ---
**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/3 "2009-09-28T09:55:16Z")
Eeep. Not good. good time to own a jet ski, though. ---
**Author:** ![TradersBASE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tradersbase/32/5321_2.png) [@TradersBASE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TradersBASE)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 10:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/4 "2009-09-28T10:33:15Z")
LOL @ jetski comment. I don’t find amusement in others suffering and hope the damage there is very minimal. I would enjoy Ingram to suffer lost biz tho. They love to cut corners and try to whittle to the bone with staffing. What 140 million in net profit wasn’t enough??? Gotta make moar profits while you assist in damaging the US (and in turn global) economy? Greed always has a way of catching up to ya. GL on the phones my ex US comrades. ---
**Author:** ![micah](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/micah/32/7257_2.png) [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 10:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/5 "2009-09-28T10:35:50Z")
> [@TradersBASE](#): > > LOL @ jetski comment. > > I don’t find amusement in others suffering and hope the damage there is very minimal. I would enjoy Ingram to suffer lost biz tho. They love to cut corners and try to whittle to the bone with staffing. What 140 million in net profit wasn’t enough??? Gotta make moar profits while you assist in damaging the US (and in turn global) economy? Greed always has a way of catching up to ya. GL on the phones my ex US comrades. i havent taken calls in years… and i had to jump on today… right away a call caught me off guard first call: me:“hello” them: “ingram?” me:“yup! what u need” lol im so out of the loop of the normal greetings etc ---
**Author:** ![TradersBASE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tradersbase/32/5321_2.png) [@TradersBASE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TradersBASE)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/6 "2009-09-28T10:57:00Z")
LOL Micah. Which direction does the customer service level flush on this side of the equator? 😉 I have heard about Ingram’s tech support these days having as high as 45 minute hold times. Who the fuck waits 45 minutes to talk to somebody (a foreigner or Apex student no less)? And the abandon rates which used to be sub 1% and are well into double digits now. Sometimes a bargain costs you in other ways. Without future business growth, who cares how much you can save today. AHHHH the narrow sighted corporate America. ---
**Author:** ![burnt\_toast](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/burnt_toast/32/7518_2.png) [@burnt\_toast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/burnt_toast)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/7 "2009-09-28T16:27:56Z")
on a side note… the volume bar on that video, it goes to 11. ---
**Author:** ![pirite](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pirite/32/5308_2.png) [@pirite](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pirite)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/8 "2009-09-28T16:35:41Z")
> [@burnt\_toast](#): > > on a side note… the volume bar on that video, it goes to 11. first thing i noticed too haha ---
**Author:** ![travisn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/travisn/32/5046_2.png) [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/9 "2009-09-28T16:57:19Z")
Good. Maybe they will decide to move our collections department to the US. ---
**Author:** ![TradersBASE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tradersbase/32/5321_2.png) [@TradersBASE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TradersBASE)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/10 "2009-09-28T18:14:19Z")
> [@travisn](#): > > Good. Maybe they will decide to move our collections department to the US. Yeah it’s tough to issue threats that are taken seriously with a heavy language barrier. 😉 Side note…my street flooded. 1ft of water at the corners. I went out with a rake and unclogged the 3 drains and I’m good to go. Made me late to my MRI appointment though. :lolham: ---
**Author:** ![ZOMGVTEK](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zomgvtek/32/5063_2.png) [@ZOMGVTEK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZOMGVTEK)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/11 "2009-09-28T19:13:00Z")
Now, would 11 be 110% of the videos original volume? ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 10:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/12 "2009-09-29T10:33:25Z")
For the first time ever I saw a tourism ad for the Philippines last night.(Golf Channel) I thought of this thread and thought; maybe not good timing for an ad. lol ---
**Author:** ![micah](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/micah/32/7257_2.png) [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 6:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/13 "2009-10-01T06:51:52Z")
big pictures > **[Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy)](http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/09/typhoon_ketsana_ondoy.html)** > > About a week ago, Typhoon Ketsana (known in the Phillippines as "Ondoy") made landfall, and according to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), Ketsana dropped 455 mm (17.9 in) of rain on Metro Manila in... ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/14 "2009-10-01T07:19:21Z")
unbelievable. ---
**Author:** ![Zer0DazE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/zer0daze/32/7624_2.png) [@Zer0DazE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zer0DazE)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 7:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/15 "2009-10-01T07:36:12Z")
More proof that God hates poor people ---
**Author:** ![evane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6bbea6/32.png) [@evane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/evane)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/philippines-flooding/74121/16 "2009-10-02T22:14:14Z")
Our offices are running quite understaffed as well, we have a heavy presence in the Philippines, on of the guy’s from one our Reporting group is over there training people is suppose to be there for 6 months.