I posted about the Maxima trip to a pagoda for Pchum Ben on my food site, you can read about it here. On that site I mainly talk about food, so I'd like to add that it was a really nice day with my Maxima co-workers. The management team obviously care about the staff--the operations manager brought a bucket (seriously, she had lined it with plastic) of a very fancy red curry with chicken, chicken feet and blood for the entire staff to eat and it was clear that this was special occasion food. I also saw her slipping money to the girls who had forgotten to bring small bills for offerings at the pagoda. It was a lovely lunch and a day where I got to know my Maxima colleagues better and it nice that we went to a pagoda in Kandal province in an area where our clients live.
In other news, I think that most of my readers have heard about the recent tragedy in Phnom Penh. I was at Maxima during the weekend of the festival and my very sensible co-workers told me to avoid that area of town because it was "too crowded" and "crazy." So I am happy to report that save for one guy who was on the bridge and survived with some injury, the entire Maxima staff is safe and sound.
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