NU6 by JC What Pisses you off at the Mall

I don't know what's going on in the mind of these perfume sellers at the malls, but they have a really unrespectful and annoying habit of spraying the perfume they are selling on you without your permission.  For some customers, it can be a simple mall nuisance that they usually shrug off.  But for me, its a health issue.  Whenever these marketers/sellers in Rustans or Watsons decide to spray perfume on me (regardless of distance and fragrance type) my allergic rhinitis is triggered.  So it goes without saying that I usually spend the rest of my shopping day sneezing or drowzy (if i decide to take my anti-allergy medicine).

How can I prevent them from doing that?  I came up an idea of making "statements shirts" specifically designed for these annoying marketing people at the malls.

Right now, we have statement shirts in the market that shows off nationalism,  latest internet fads, sarcasmic or witty statements and school affiliations:

     




The idea is to create a shirt that will make you off limits to some annoying marketers at the malls or in the streets.

Example of my proposed statement shirts.


   


This shirts are fun to wear and will save you the time and effort shooing the persistent marketers or sales people away. ( Another spoof?) 4

Nu 6 of JC, What Pisses You off at the School

What pisses you off at AGSB? What must be done?
By: M100048 JC

I have always enjoyed studying in AGSB.  This is the first ever private school I have been to and I'm amazed by how fully equipped and clean the facilities are.  I was excited to go to class every week…until…one day I left my ID and the security guard would not let me in.  I know of course that it is my fault and I own it.  I apologized to the entrance guard and asked him on what I should do so I can enter the premises and attend my class.  He said I should go to the cashier and pay P300.  Obviously the amount shocked me.  But I couldn't complain since it is my fault.  I accepted the penalty.

The guard escorted me to the cashier (which I actually admired because it means that they make sure that no unidentified person can loiter inside the school).  I was impressed by the security of the school.  Then when I arrived at the cashier, I readied my P300 and my company ID.  The cashier just took my cash and asked my name.  I told her my name and I handed to her my work ID to show her that I am really the person I'm claiming to be. She brushed it away and gave me a receipt.  I then went to the guard and asked him to give me a temporary ID because I have already paid my penalty. The guard said "that's your temporary ID" pointing to my receipt.  Of course that confused me.   I initially planned of wearing the receipt around my neck so that nobody will question me inside the school but thought otherwise.

So what's annoying about this? 

Let's get go back to the basics.  What's the ID for?  It is a card showing that you are a valid student of AGSB and that you can enter the campus freely.  What happens when you don't have your ID?  The school can't readily validate your identity and if they let you in, the security of the campus might be compromised.  Think of how many affluent students this campus has.

The problem is, i cannot connect the premise  mentioned in the previous paragraph to the solution being done by AGSB for lost ID (making you pay P300 without validating your identity). This means that making you pay for your missing ID gives the school extra money while does nothing to security.

Therefore, if you are an outsider who wants to enter the campus, you can enter in two ways.  First as a visitor, maybe you can buy a fake ID in Recto and leave it in the entrance guard.  Second, and the more convenient, is to pretend that you're a student who lost an ID.  All you need is a P300 and you are good to go!

What can be done about it?  Part of the tuition we pay to the school is for their making sure that the facility is secure.  The main purpose of faculty and student IDs is to make sure that only authorized or registered and verified (in case of visitors) persons are allowed to enter the campus.  If I lost my school identification, then I should be required to present another ID card to the cashier/registrar so they can validate my identity.  Then they should give me a temporary ID showing that I am indeed authorized to go around the campus and attend classes.  They can charge me P300 or P500 as penalty, it doesn't matter.  I think the school is completely missing the point of why IDs are issued and it bothers me because I know for every person that enters without proper validation, the security of both people and properties of AGSB are compromised. 3


What action is proposed?

JC 1st NU6 paper Leon's Mangoes-

New product improvement (process improvement)

Leon Mangoes

I came from a town in Iloilo called Leon.  We are 28 kilometers from the City.  Our area is mostly mountainous or hilly.  Our town grows a variety of agricultural crops and we are popular in Iloilo as the town the produces the best and sweetest mango.

Department of Agriculture and the Western Visayas Integrated Agricultural Research Center (DA-WESVIARC) research show that our mango has a higher sucrose content than that of Guimaras, meaning- sweeter.  The quality of our mangoes is superior and are proven to be very marketable abroad.  Despite the known quality, our mango farmers subsist on minimal margin on their produce compared to to the mangoes farmers of Guimaras.  Why are Guimaras mangoes more popular?  Magnolia even launched a new limited edition "Guimaras Mango" flavored ice cream recently.  That opportunity should have been ours. My aim in this NU6 is to present a new idea on how we can generate more income from the quality mangoes that we have in our town. 

My idea is to form a cartel of Leon Mango growers.  I used the word "Cartel" because the rules within the organization I'm visualizing will be stricter that the ordinary farming cooperative.  To illustrate my idea, here are the basic steps i'm thinking:

1)  Get hold of a government or private grant that will support the research and development of creating the best quality mango possible.

2) Form a cartel / cooperative.  Recruit Mango farmers in the town. Highlight the yield they will get using your new mango growing technique and the price protection the cartel will offer.

3) Apply for a loan in Landbank,  Use the money to finance the first roll-out of the new technique

4)  Share the new technique to the cartel members and ensure that they follow the procedures.

5)  When harvest time comes,  the farmers will sell their produce to the cartel at a predetermined price.  This is where the price protection comes in.

6)  Cartel will obtain contracts from big companies (Nestle, Robinsons Supermarket, SM Supermarket, San Miguel Corporation etc.) by capitalizing on their ability to deliver the agreed quantity and the quality of the mangoes.

6)  Once they receive payments from these clients, they will use the revenues to pay up the loan in step 3,  pay the succeeding cost of produce of farmers in step 5, and pay for further research and development in step 1.  The remainder (net income) of the cartel will be distributed among the cartel members as dividends.

Graphical representation of these steps are shown in the attached file.

The general idea of this NU6 paper is to find a way of creating synergy among the mango farmers to allow them to get higher returns for their produce.  By creating a cartel, I am trying to create a structure that will market the product, acquire the needed knowledge and support from both private and public sectors, protect that knowledge, maintain quality of the produce and at the same time create unity and cooperation among the farmers.

To protect the cartel, if a farmer decides to sell his produce outside the cartel, he will automatically be kicked out of the organization thus denying him of the dividends, price protection and the further knowledge and developments on mango farming.