Comments on: Taking Advantage of Typhoon Ondoy: Degrees of Badness http://technogra.ph/2009/10/05/taking-advantage-of-typhoon-ondoy-degrees-of-badness/ Pinoy Tech, Filipino Tech, Technology in the Philippines Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:40:28 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Very Sorry Island Rose! http://technogra.ph/2009/10/05/taking-advantage-of-typhoon-ondoy-degrees-of-badness/comment-page-1/#comment-17775 Very Sorry Island Rose! Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:31:32 +0000 http://technogra.ph/?p=6313#comment-17775 [...] Dustin Andaya left a comment on my original article characterizing Island Rose’s promise to donate P100 to Ondoy victims as “maybe [...] [...] Dustin Andaya left a comment on my original article characterizing Island Rose’s promise to donate P100 to Ondoy victims as “maybe [...]

]]> By: Dustin http://technogra.ph/2009/10/05/taking-advantage-of-typhoon-ondoy-degrees-of-badness/comment-page-1/#comment-17754 Dustin Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:23:19 +0000 http://technogra.ph/?p=6313#comment-17754 Hello Rico, My name is Dustin Andaya and I own Island Rose. I read your blog entry and I could not help but write back. I would be pretending if I said did not feel bad about your article. When the storm happened, I called up my brother (who is also my partner) and asked him if I could do something to help the victims. We are not a large corporation but I thought that there must be something we can do since we were lucky enough to get through the storm. As you can imagine, sales where tough during the storm but I thought that if I give a fixed part of our net income, I can help without going out of business. So we did it, for every dozen that was ordered, i set aside 100 bucks for the cause. We have a really good membership base so I announced it to my members through the newsletter you posted in your entry. We were able to raise over P50,000 for the red cross and I look forward to seeing it used for a good cause. I will tell you straight up that giving away almost 10% of your gross income for some of the worst performing days of the year is suicidal for any business but we did it anyway. I heard that a local supermarket was commended for donating P10 for every P500 peso sale. In proportion, we gave almost 5 times that ratio. It was a bad week for the country and a bad week for us in terms of sales - the only thing we felt good about was knowing we could afford to make a donation at a time when people needed it. Because it came straight from our income, It did not cost our customers a cent more to donate but we named the donation after our valued customers who ordered from us even in our toughest days. If you care to look, here is my blog entry about the fund drive: http://islandrose.net/blog/2009/10/27/typhoon-ondoy-fund-drive/ Wouldn't it have been great if everyone could give part of their income to the victims? We could have solved a lot of problems quickly. We at Island Rose are very happy that we were blessed with the ability to help. Sincerely, Dustin Hello Rico,

My name is Dustin Andaya and I own Island Rose. I read your blog entry and I could not help but write back. I would be pretending if I said did not feel bad about your article.

When the storm happened, I called up my brother (who is also my partner) and asked him if I could do something to help the victims. We are not a large corporation but I thought that there must be something we can do since we were lucky enough to get through the storm.

As you can imagine, sales where tough during the storm but I thought that if I give a fixed part of our net income, I can help without going out of business. So we did it, for every dozen that was ordered, i set aside 100 bucks for the cause. We have a really good membership base so I announced it to my members through the newsletter you posted in your entry.

We were able to raise over P50,000 for the red cross and I look forward to seeing it used for a good cause. I will tell you straight up that giving away almost 10% of your gross income for some of the worst performing days of the year is suicidal for any business but we did it anyway. I heard that a local supermarket was commended for donating P10 for every P500 peso sale. In proportion, we gave almost 5 times that ratio. It was a bad week for the country and a bad week for us in terms of sales – the only thing we felt good about was knowing we could afford to make a donation at a time when people needed it.

Because it came straight from our income, It did not cost our customers a cent more to donate but we named the donation after our valued customers who ordered from us even in our toughest days. If you care to look, here is my blog entry about the fund drive:

http://islandrose.net/blog/2009/10/27/typhoon-ondoy-fund-drive/

Wouldn’t it have been great if everyone could give part of their income to the victims? We could have solved a lot of problems quickly.

We at Island Rose are very happy that we were blessed with the ability to help.

Sincerely,

Dustin

]]> By: BrianB http://technogra.ph/2009/10/05/taking-advantage-of-typhoon-ondoy-degrees-of-badness/comment-page-1/#comment-16908 BrianB Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:15:44 +0000 http://technogra.ph/?p=6313#comment-16908 Maintaining protocol supposed to ensure we know who to blame: the authorities. Those who heroically break protocol to save lives are laudable but they should also should suffer the proper consequences... kaya nga hero eh, diba? Doesn't work like that in this country. Partly, it's the conditioning... that nothing works to begin with. Also our fundamentally flawed democracy: it's not real democracy but a paper alibi for the feudalism enjoyed by our voted officials. Maintaining protocol supposed to ensure we know who to blame: the authorities. Those who heroically break protocol to save lives are laudable but they should also should suffer the proper consequences… kaya nga hero eh, diba?

Doesn’t work like that in this country. Partly, it’s the conditioning… that nothing works to begin with. Also our fundamentally flawed democracy: it’s not real democracy but a paper alibi for the feudalism enjoyed by our voted officials.

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