Is it safe to go to Uniqlo now?

CVS Reply:
June 17th, 2012 at 12:08 AM

how do you know what number you are?

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Houstonaddix Reply:
June 17th, 2012 at 2:45 AM

They give out coupons for the first 500 customers with the number stamped on the coupon. Eg 94/500

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Deepa Reply:
June 16th, 2012 at 5:11 PM

Sizing is weird in Europe, here I am a Small to Medium. In Singapore I only fit into L or XL. 

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CVS Reply:
June 16th, 2012 at 6:39 PM

same. in Europe I am small!

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Gelo Suarez
Twitter: briandelro
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June 17th, 2012 at 10:10 AM

I remember my petite friends could only shop at the children’s section in Europe haha.

Edgar Callos
Twitter: briandelro
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June 17th, 2012 at 6:08 PM

agree. simple trick is one size larger dapat than your regular size if ur getting stuff from uniqlo

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CVS Reply:
June 16th, 2012 at 11:12 AM

that’s not even social climbing

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efriend Reply:
June 16th, 2012 at 11:47 AM

It’s both social climbing and modern-day slavery.  It may be cute to the Filipinos but disturbing to others.

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CVS Reply:
June 16th, 2012 at 6:42 PM

there’s nothing cute about it. i find you a bit exagg thought to call it social climbing. If you knew my friend Catherine, she is nothing like a social climber.

efriend Reply:
June 17th, 2012 at 12:49 AM

I love Uniqlo.  I did not refer to shopping at Uniqlo as social climbing.  Sorry for the misinterpretation.  It’s the act of asking the driver to line up that is disturbing to me.  It may not be for you or your friend but for me it is.  Thanks.

CVS Reply:
June 17th, 2012 at 1:17 AM

then you don’t know what social climbing means. maybe i can point you to the right people.

efriend Reply:
June 17th, 2012 at 1:44 AM

A social climbing is a social climbing is a social climbing.  That’s my perception and it is what it is.

CVS Reply:
June 17th, 2012 at 2:20 AM

excuse me! I bought Yaya Bhing clothes from Muji and Northface, She never wore a uniform. and you’re a complete idiot.

Nikko Panti
Twitter: briandelro
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June 17th, 2012 at 3:20 AM

SOCIAL CLIMBING is when you pose as someone you’re not. Like seeing a Prince, “unless” it’s GENUINE!

CVS Reply:
June 16th, 2012 at 6:43 PM

P.S. there’s nothing social climbing about Uniqlo. It offers basic clothes like the Gap. I don’t find it sosyal. therefore your social climbing term is all wrong.

omnesia Reply:
June 16th, 2012 at 8:38 PM

Geez how is it any different from asking a friend, your child or even your mother to wait in line for you? If my girlfriend asked me this favor, I may be upset with her and call her a brat, but I’d do it for her. But I wouldn’t certainly think of the term “social climber.” Where did that come from? Clearly you just have an insecurity and you’re projecting it unto others and reading too much into situations.

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efriend Reply:
June 17th, 2012 at 12:59 AM

Cool.  Ask your friend, your child, or even your mother to wait in line for you while you sip a cup of coffee at Starbucks.  Give the driver some human dignity.

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CVS Reply:
June 17th, 2012 at 1:16 AM

just stop.

Eric
Twitter: briandelro
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June 17th, 2012 at 5:08 AM

Why? Because you just want to cover your ears and not have your views challenged? What he is saying is right. It is humiliating to the driver and for you to deny it, to justify this action, not to internalize this criticism, and to not reflect on the implications of your actions, shows what kind of person you are. Just because the driver said it’s okay, it does not mean it is right.

You may say that you treat your help like family, but your justifcations show differently.

fried neurons
Twitter: briandelro
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June 17th, 2012 at 5:39 AM

 Why is it “humiliating” to the driver? It’s friggin’ queuing up, not dancing the two-step while wearing a blonde wig.  As you can all see from the pics, hundreds of other people were in line. If the driver’s job title were “personal assistant” would you still say it’s “humiliating”?  Fact of the matter is, domestic help is tasked with multiple functions, not all of which are limited to the job title.  If you’re a personal employee like a driver or a maid/housekeeper/yaya, being asked by your employer to do a perfectly legal and innocuous thing like queuing up at a store is by no means “humiliating”.  And it certainly isn’t slavery as that bonehead efren said it was.  Hell, there are people who earn money by explicitly offering to stand in line for others.  Is that “humiliating”?  No, it’s a job.  Get over your collective PC guilt.

Eric
Twitter: briandelro
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June 17th, 2012 at 8:58 AM

I could ask my yaya to wipe my ass for me. It’s perfectly legal but that does not make it any less humiliating. Just because something is legal within the construct of our law, the action itself could rob a person of personal dignity. Holding her place in line because she’s too precious to wait on her own, and her time is better spent sitting down in Starbucks, sipping a venti frappucino while thumbing on her iPhone tweeting about, oh, how long the line is, is the definition of a spoiled-ass brat.

And no, it’s not his driver’s job to hold the place for her. It’s his job to drive her sorry ass wherever she wants to go.

fried neurons
Twitter: briandelro
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June 17th, 2012 at 11:48 AM

You haven’t answered my question.  Why is waiting in line humiliating for anyone?  If it’s not humiliating for the employer to do it herself, why would it be humiliating for the employee to do it for the employer?  Seems to me that you’re projecting your own prejudices onto the driver.  Maybe you yourself would feel humiliated if someone asked you to hold their place in line for them, and so you decide in your mind that it’s also humiliating for everyone else. 

Oh, and by the way, having your yaya wipe your ass is in no way, shape, or form even remotely similar to asking the driver to hold your place in line. But even wiping someone’s ass for them isn’t necessarily beneath human dignity. What if yaya were wiping the baby’s ass? What if yaya were wiping the 90-year-old invalid grandma’s ass? What if yaya were wiping your ass because you were in a horrific accident that rendered you quadriplegic? What if, instead of “yaya”, the employee was a nurse or hospital aide?

Eric
Twitter: briandelro
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June 17th, 2012 at 1:43 PM

Because for one thing, the person asking to hold her place is perfectly capable of doing it herself, as far as we know. This alone sends a message to everyone else on the line that she is better than the poor sods who does not have the luxury of having their own driver to treat as an object. The mere act of asking someone to hold my place for me, paid help or not, while I sip my venti white chocolate mocha is also incredibly embarassing for me.

But you see, asking my (imaginary) yaya to wipe my ass is exactly the same as asking the driver to hold my place in line. Both are perfectly legal actions but are beyond the scope of their duties that they would normally perform. I’m perfectly capable of wiping my own ass, like this Catherine person is perfectly capable of waiting in line on her own, but I would rather that my yaya wipe my ass for me, besides, she owe me from all the salary we pay her, the benefits that we give her, and the charity we bestow her.

I assume that this Catherine person is neither a baby nor an invalid 90-year old grandma, so your example is unsound. I’m perfectly capable of wiping my own ass. Is it too much for me to expect for this Catherine person to act like a capable adult person?

CVS Reply:
June 17th, 2012 at 8:56 PM

go to hell

dontaskmetosmile
Twitter: briandelro
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June 17th, 2012 at 9:57 AM

Exactly. So my mom asking my brother to line up for the cashier during the crazy S&R sale while she does the shopping is “social climbing” and “modern slavery” now? And I guess it’s even worse, huh, since my brother isn’t even being paid to for what he does. Maybe he can sue our mom for child abuse?

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Enscissor Reply:
June 17th, 2012 at 1:54 AM

I read my friends blog everyday but don’t usually read the ‘comments’ section, let alone comment, but I guess there’s always a first time… Anyway, funny how before reading your comment/s, Cecile and I were emailing about a possible housing project I proposed for mang Seniong as we were also planning to BUY for our driver as well. So yes, to answer your question, I do not just  pay for ‘all’ legal requirements like SSS, 13th month, bday money,pasalubongs when we come home from every vacation, weekly off, overtime pay, 1 month (yes 1 month!) paid vacation leave and his ‘pamasahe to his province (every year –he has been with us for 7 years– as he takes his vacation, I always insist that he rides the plane to his province but he refuses because, like Cecile, my driver is scared to death of plane rides), we will buy him a house.  And not to mention we give him ‘advances’, and our promise to him that when it’s time for his daughter to go to school, we will pay for it! from uniform, to tuition fee– private school ha! cos we want his cute daughter to have a better future! Oh and we send stuff for his daughter since I have a 7 yr old girl, we have toy kitchen set, dolls, clothes etc sent to her every so often.  So yes, my driver is more than happy to line up for me… in fact after we shopped, as soon as we rode the car, i said to him “R__ salamat ha!” he said: “para saan ma’am?” me: “pag pila mo para sa amin” he said “sus wala yun ma’am mabilis lang nga!” So there, I assure you that my driver did not get offended at all and was actually pleased to do it for me.  So no need to be “disturbed” by ”She had her driver queue for her while she waited at a nearby Starbucks.”  Thanks. –Catherine (Cecile’s friend)

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Catherine Reply:
June 17th, 2012 at 1:55 AM

I read my friends blog everyday but don’t usually read the ‘comments’ section, let alone comment, but I guess there’s always a first time… Anyway, funny how before reading your comment/s, Cecile and I were emailing about a possible housing project I proposed for mang Seniong as we were also planning to buy for our driver. So yes, to answer your question, I do pay for ‘all’ legal requirements like SSS, weekly off, overtime pay, 1 month (yes 1 month!) paid vacation leave and his ‘pamasahe to his province (every year –he has been with us for 7 years– as he takes his vacation, I always insist that he rides the plane to his province but he refuses because, like Cecile, my driver is scared to death of plane rides) And not to mention his ‘advances’, and our promise to him that when it’s time for his daughter to go to school, we will pay for it! from uniform, to tuition fee– private school ha! cos we want his cute daughter to have a better future! Oh and we send stuff for his daughter since I have a 7 yr old girl, we have toy kitchen set, dolls, clothes etc sent to her every so often.  So guess what, my driver is more than happy to line up for me… in fact after we shopped and we were in the car na i said to him “R__ salamat ha!” he said: “para saan ma’am?” me: “pag pila mo para sa amin” he said “sus wala yun ma’am mabilis lang nga!” So there, I assure you that my driver did not get offended at all and was actually pleased to do it for me.  So no need to be “disturbed” by ”She had her driver queue for her while she waited at a nearby Starbucks.”  Thanks. –Catherine (Cecile’s friend)

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Diedre Delmonico
Twitter: briandelro
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June 17th, 2012 at 3:34 AM

Just don’t mind EFREN. I’d rather ask someone to line up for me than to crowd the counters with you and all your friends just to buy 1 regular fries at McDo. And 1 Strawberry Sundae.

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Eric
Twitter: briandelro
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June 17th, 2012 at 5:00 AM

But the fact that you can just treat your driver like an object – asking him to wait in line for you, which is out of his duty, is what makes the story disturbing. So what if he doesn’t mind waiting for you? It says more about his character than it does about yours. The problem with you people is that you can easily justify the way you treat a person by the amount of money you compensate him without even thinking about the social implications of your actions.

So what if he will gladly wait in line for you? Is your time really that important that you can’t do it yourself? Are you that really prima donna to wait in Starbucks while your paid help waits so you can be one of the first person to buy something from Uniqlo? Are you that incapable of doing it yourself?

So, kudos to your driver for being the better person and doing above and beyond his duties just to serve your whims.

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