Typhoons and Dengue Hit My Office

That’s right, my office was hit by a typhoon and, later, an outbreak of dengue that put one of my staff in quarantine for two weeks—he was literally unsure if he was going to survive, and had asked an intermediary to tell me he quit in preparation for that eventually, though the message never made it through.

This all happened on the other side of the world in the Philippines, and is one of the interesting sides of outsourcing.

When I didn’t hear from my coder for two weeks, I figured B) he got married and was taking a honeymoon without telling me first, or C) he ran into too great a challenge with the work and was too embarrassed to tell me, but in the end I discovered it was the old A) Dengue Fever hospital quarantine.

He’s okay now, reinstated and trying to recover his lifestyle after most of his things were sold or pawned to pay his bills.