You cannot get away with hostility without attracting retribution in kind. You want to be hostile with what you have in riches, then be prepared to accept tirades in whatever form. This in essence was our response to several calls and inquiries arising from what appeared to be a deliberate omission of one business establishment located along the Baclayon highway in our inventory of investors setting up shop in the historic municipality. The answer, indeed, is deliberate. We really omitted the name of the establishment to teach the owner a lesson that she cannot do away with her own indifference without citing her for contempt in pursuance of a noble purpose. It is within this context that our profuse thanks went to the management of the Petrobest Gas Station, Foton Motors Bohol, Peacock Luxury Garden Resort, 7H Construction, P. Te Construction and Pamilacan Dolphin and Whale Watching Tours all Baclayon-based establishments for their unwavering commitment to make our special supplement for Baclayon's 414 th Foundation Day a runaway success. Ditto to political personalities like Mayor Alvin Uy, V-Mayor Jodel Theodore Cabajug, Gov. Edgar Chatto and V-Gov. Concepcion Lim, Cong. Rene Relampagos, Davao del Sur Vice Gov. Arsenio “Boy” Latasa, and the Bohol Electric Cooperative I. They, too, deserved our cheers for supporting our special project.
With all these purely Baclayon-based establishments answering our request for advertising support, a standout for ignoring a noble undertaking remained a hard nut to crack. No use of mentioning it in this piece, because no way that the establishment in barangay Taguihon will pass unnoticed. Considered one of the most successful businesses in that part of town, this souvenir shop must have thought that it can leave alone without bothering to respond to corporate social responsibility. Whatever is its interpretation of corporate responsibility, we will leave at that. But if we have to lecture it on good PR, management should be told that cultivating a good public relation must be one of them so much so that anything tragic will happen in the course of its operations, media will have the temperance to mitigate the impact of the unwanted incident that may come its way. Speaking of tragedies, who can foretell that the establishment will be mired in some labor problems because management is not paying the right minimum wage with its workers; or the same business establishment might be investigated for some tax deficiencies.
Or what happens if the same establishment will be the subject of tourists' complaints because the pricing of its display items is so exorbitant because the owner is trying to pass on to consumers the extravagant commission it gives to tour guides and drivers of tourist cars, buses and vans. It's public knowledge among industry players that the business is booming out of the goodness of the heart of the owner in maintaining a good rapport with a network of tourist guides and drivers. The rapport comes in the form of high commissions that some recipients have the temerity of boasting that the pass-on money now counting in the thousands of pesos because they manage to keep the gestation period longer than usual. We can only hope that the “healthy relation” between owner and industry workers will go on without any hitch as time goes by. The real danger is when a new player comes strutting around with deep pockets playing the same game as the pioneer of the business does in her turf. If that eventuality ever come, then all hell breaks loose and media will have the last laugh.
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