Capital ONE HSBC

After all those positive scriptings from the management team, para'ng hindi pa rin ma-digest ng karamihan sa amin na HSBC has finally sold its US accounts to Capital One. Last week, may natanggap kaming e-mail from the Boss about this issue pero we actually didn't pay close attention to it. Akala kasi namin, it's just another one of those progress reports until we realized that there is more to that letter.

Yesterday, we were called to a meeting with the management team and they finally confirmed that HSBC's US accounts are already sold to Capital One. What happens then is there are about eight sites in the US na maa-acquire ng C1 plus an off-shore site. And guess what, that off-shore site is none other than our very own Alabang Site.

Sabi nila (ng management team), "..and the off-shore site that Capital One chose is the Alabang Site and we are very excited about it.." Ako naman napangiti, kasi naman sa ganda ng phrasing, pansamantala ko'ng nalimutan na kailangan na naming iwan ang building namin na tinuring kong tahanan for 3 years.

Kaso mabilis nag-wear off ang spell and we all began to see where the meeting was leading us to. Well, hindi naman kami mawawalan ng trabaho, yun ang guarantee nila sa amin but for sure, we have to leave the site anytime in 2012.

Ang pinakamabigat na issue, para sa akin (at para sa karamihan), ay hindi yung paglipat ng workplace but yung pagpapalit ng pangalang dinadala ng mga taong tatamaan ng changes.

Imagine, for so many years, dinala ng mga employees from the US account ang pangalang HSBC but all of a sudden they will be moving to Capital One. Personally, napakasakit nito para sa akin kung directly affected ako nito kasi palagi kong sinasabi sa sarili ko na mahal ko ang HSBC and I take pride in working for it; that's why I sympathize with those who will be (forcibly?) carrying the Capital One flag next year.

Paano na lang yung mga dreams nila, yung mga aspirations na kung saan kasama ang HSBC? Lahat yun maglalaho kasi they will be adopted by a new company. For some, siguro they will find it exciting to work under a new banner, but not for most.

Thankful ako na I belong to a non-US account. Choosing between the two evils, sabi nga, we choose the lesser evil. So it's better na mapalayo ng workplace (if ever) kesa naman mapalayo nang tuluyan sa kumpanyang minahal at minamahal ko.

I love HSBC T_T


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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/10/capital-one-buys-hsbc-credit-card-for-33-billion/