Janitor receives 0.92 pesos as retirement pay

Practically speaking, he got what he "deserved" and by that I mean strictly monetary values. Who really owe him are the students that applied for loans and abused his kindness by asking him to co-sign. The university has its rules and the janitor was well aware of it - we can't just be "nice" to everybody or institutions would end up bankrupt. I really find it disconcerting that I still haven't heard news that the students who owe him have repaid their debts. Thanks for the response on my discussion!

What? That is so unfair. The school administrators should have limited those students who made him a co-maker. Another thing is that, it is mandatory here in the Philippines to give retirement benefits to its employees who are 60 years old and above. That benefit is also tax free since the janitor have made more than 10 years of continued service and is already more than 65 years old. I think the janitor can file a labor case against the school and for sure, he will get more than a million pesos.

I saw this story a week ago, but I did not know that this janitor only recieved that much after working that long in one of known universities here in the Philippines. The show where i saw this story gave him some livelihood, and I do hope that this can sustain him and his family. I hope that the students who used him as their co-guarantor in their student loans and was able to read or see his story try to repay him back in any way they can since this poor man, as they can see in the news, has nothing and cannot even buy his own medicines.

Gosh that is just sad. All of that time and work and he just got that! How bad for him and his family I feel. That is just horrible.

Hello rsa101! Oh my, I pity the janitor. All his life he just wanted to help but look what happened to him now, no one seems to help him. Where are the conscience of those students? This kind of story made me sad and angry. I hope the school must be more considerate thinking that the man served for how 36 years making their school clean.

Poor janitor got only 0.92 because of those students who uses his name as co-maker and after they used him never to pay even a single centavo. Hoping that these people got karma on what they did to their fellowmen. I don't pray bad for them but I feel so touchng by the story of this poor janitor. Even he got volunteer to be their co-maker when they need to borrow money, they have their responsibility to pay back their loans. On the part of the administration they followed their policies. That is why he got only that amount.

that is so bad.the janitor has to bear others behaviour.he should have learnt his lesson the first time when the students loan was not paid in time. happy mylotting.

No I dont believe with the reason that he was being used as a co maker by many. Prabably used as co maker but by one person only. This is an example from my wife who have been working with the government, she try to settle with the GSIS her retirement benefit before retiring and with her surprised for working in about 25 years she will get only an amount of 17 thousand pesos. I assumed it that way because, how much is an educational plan borrowed by a certain student, lets say as a student you can borrow 20 thousand and for a janitor in the government, i hope somebody is scrutinizing the records cannot guarantee for a student loan that many, remember my wife will retire as asst proffessor and she can only get that much. I told her better forget it and i will give you that money. This is how the government is, GSIS, its a rotten system out there, when my wife was working on her paper, they said the institution she was working has no record of remittance, so the poor wife has to zerox all the records and shoved it to their face. What an appalling stance of these government employees who have served most of their life serving the people and in the end they get nothing. we call it barya. wow . LOL. while the people in the GSIS are spending peoples money like water. well as they say, you are in the philippines, so smile. LOL.

Well, it is so obvious that the UP administration made a mistake... they should have ran after the students who did not pay their loans... and not punish a poor old janitor for that... i so sure that those some of those students are now professionals who can obviously pay up... but they are just too selfish to do that... I just hope everything will turn out all right for this man...

haven't heard the news about it yet. but i couldn't hardly imagine that this could possibly happen to anyone. isn't there any way to help the guy? it was such a pity story to tell. i hope the students will have their conscience examined. and help the very poor man now. it seems like he has been working as a janitor all his life and this is all he get? oh my god! there could have been any other way to help this man. the university should have considered his loyalty to the company. very poor... anyway happy mylotting!

I felt bad also upon knowing the janitors story. he was old enough and his family needs also the money that he supposed to get from his retirement. lets just hope and pray that the Civil Service Society can so something about it and for the students who asked him to be their co-makers to at least do their responsibility to pay their loan so that the janitor will soon get the money from his own labor.

That is pathetic. My heart goes with the janitor. It is a sad thing when we are treated badly after we did many good things. He must have a kind heart to made such a thing in his life as a janitor. Not many people would volunteer themself for a risky thing that could affect the whole life. I respect him for that and the only thing I could do right now is pray and hope that he would get benefits from what he did. Have a great life.

That is terrible! To help people all your life, to help those students to improve their life, and then for them to conveniently "forget" to repay. They should go after those students, not this loyal and trusting employee. What a way to repay years of service! "Hey man, you got all these kids started on their own lives, and you were loyal to us for 40 years, we really appreciate it. To show our appreciation, we're going to kick you in the head by forcing you to repay the student's loans so we don't have to bother chasing them down. That would be too much work for us. Then we're going to kick you a few more times, just to show you how much we appreciate your loyalty to us and our students. Have a nice day!"

Well I can't blame the UP management for that. I saw it on the news, it's really disappointing at first but when I saw the story, I understand him somehow because the retired janitor stands as a guarantor to some of the employees before who use to own big loans to the University. That should be a learning lesson not only to him but to everyone that we should not guarantee anyone mostly if money talks.. But anyway, it's great to hear in the end of the news that some will somehow give the old guy a financial needs for his future.. Good for him..

This is the most unfair news I ever read. Retirement pay means pay for service for a company for a long time. Means you have given all your life and effort for that employer and this 0.92 pesos is what they deserved? How I wish this is not happening to them, is this a joke, certainly not a good joke. The problem on the student must be different from the janitor. What kind of school administration they have. What about their family , their health, hope it can be reverse.

That is really terrible for those students to be so selfish and wrong for him to help them out like that. I don't know what I would do if I only received that amount for retirement. How much is 0.92 pesos in American or Canadian funds? I"m sure it wouldn't be that much by the sounds of it.

I have watched this news in TFC. I really don't get it. How could they mess up with the records? The janitor worked hard all his life, and what did he get? Screwed. The university ought to do something about it. I applaud the students for having the initiative to help out when they learned about the janitor's plight.

My goodness that is so sad! How come this janitor allowed himself to get used that way, I mean there is nothing wrong with helping but you have to know if you are already being abused. Maybe this man did not know the obligation of a co-maker or maybe he really has been too merciful. Well, if he did that in good faith and was abused in the process I am sure God has a way of blessing him.