Scene 1

Host, Facilitator – Carmel

Jonathan
Rose Ann

Host: Welcome to this year’s job fair! We have new and promising jobs for everyone, catering
everybody’s talents, skills, and interests. We are sure that if not all are employed; all will be coming
home with a hope for a work. Remember to fill in all information needed in every form in every job booth
to ensure employer to employee contact. For our new comers please proceed to the registration booth
by the entrance. Thank you.

At the registration booth…

Facilitator: Remember to fill in every blank space in the forms. Your name, of course, age, birthday,
address, undergraduate course, college and others.

(While filling in the forms, Jonathan notices that the girl next to him, Patricia, took the same
undergraduate studies as his.)

Jonathan: Hello, I’m Jonathan. I have seen that you have taken Bachelor of Science in Business
Administration also.

Rose Ann: Oh, yes. I specialized in Financial Management. How about you?

Jonathan: I have taken the same specialization as well!

(Facilitator interrupts their conversation and asks them to move on.)

Facilitator: All those who have finished with their forms please proceed to the gymnasium to give space
to others. I repeat all those who have finished with their forms please---

(Jonathan and Patricia both proceed inside the gymnasium.)

Jonathan: This is really a coincidence! As soon as I entered this job fair I immediately met someone
with the same course and specialization as me!

Rose Ann: Don’t romanticize it too much; there are a lot of people who have taken business
administration. By the way, I was not able to catch where you graduated from. Where did you finish
college?

Jonathan: I graduated from, Divine Word College of Calapan.

Rose Ann: Oh that’s why you look so clueless…

Jonathan: Excuse me?

Rose Ann That’s why you look so clueless. People who graduate in large universities, like my alma
mater – Ateneo de Manila University, are more “woke” than people who graduated in colleges here in
the province.
Jonathan: And you are saying that to me just because I got excited meeting you?

Rose Ann: Whatever. I have to go na.

(Flash on screen: Patricia used communication to express intolerance and hatred to a fellow job seeker
through discrimination of the type of school and of education considering that Jonathan went to a
provincial college.)

(Jonathan stays at the center, confused, as Rose Ann and Chinel approach him.)

Scene 2

Jonathan
Patricia
Chinel
Sab
Joshua

Patricia: Jonathan! You are late again. I have already applied to three business firms while waiting for
you.

Chinel: I just saw a girl who left your side, is she your friend?

Jonathan: Ah, that girl. No, she is not a friend. She is a “conyo” and she is very ignorant because she
graduated in an ivy-league school.

(Jonathan notices a girl and a boy arguing.)

Patricia: You are wondering what is happening, ‘no? Chinel knows the girl, tell her Chinel!

Chinel: I graduated from the same college as her. She has been known to get everything that she
wants, you know? And that guy with her, I heard he is a low-scale farmer and she is forcing him to
invest in a business he does not want.

Patricia: They have been like that even before you came, Jonathan, and it is really evident that the guy
does not want to do whatever she wants him to.

Chinel: Let us move closer to hear what they are talking about.

(The three move closer to Joshua and Sab.)

Sab: Come on, Joshua! We have been over this for a thousand times now. I am telling you, this is a
good investment for your growing business. You need a push this hard to meet your targets instantly.

Joshua: That is the thing, Sab. I do not want something instant. Anything instant is not good for you.
You know instant noodles are not good for the body.

(Sab rolls her eyes.)

Sab: Just trust me. I am a licensed accountant; I know what I am doing. Besides you are just a farmer,
you know nothing about these.
Joshua: I am sure you know your numbers, Sab. But my farming business is really small and this
investment that you are proposing is a big risk for me, and my starting business.

Sab: Come on, just sign the papers!

(The three move farther from the arguing Joshua and Sab.)

Patricia: Do you think the girl is slightly coercing the guy into doing what she wants?

Chinel: Oh yes, she is coercing him. She is using her knowledge of accounting and his lack of
knowledge on numbers as a low-scale farmer for her advantage. She knows that he’ll soon give in.

(Flash on screen: Sab used communication to express intimidation and coercion to Joshua, a small-
scale farmer, in order for him to invest in her business.)

*phone rings* Sab: Excuse me; I need to take this call.

Scene 3

Sab
Elaine
VO – Yuan
Facilitator – Carmel

Sab: Yes, Miss? Opo, I am sure I will make Mr. Huerta sign the papers.

VO, Boss: Make sure you will not disappoint me again, Ms. Lasquite. You have not been making any
deals since December last year. You need this contract.

Sab: Yes, Ma’am. I know that. I will not fail you. *phone call ends*

Sab: Someone take over my place in front of the booth and make sure Joshua does not leave! I need a
water break.

(As Sab is drinking her water, Elaine approaches her.)

Elaine: Hi, are you a fellow job seeker? I just want to ask where the registration is, I’m new here so I
have---

Sab: Do I look like someone who does not have a job to you?

Elaine: I am sorry. I was just wondering if you have an idea where the registration booth may be.

Sab: I am neither a job seeker nor the organizer of this event, Miss. You can ask someone else.

Elaine: Yes, I know that. But the thing is you are the only one in the crowd who isn’t actually doing
something.
Sab: Excuse me? I just took a water break from an hour of forcing someone to invest in our company
and now you have the guts to tell me I am doing nothing?!

Elaine: You are being unreasonable, Miss. What I meant was, at the moment you are not actually doing
something but it did not imply that you have not been doing anything the whole morning.

(Sab raises her voice and starts making a scene.)

Sab: I am the one who is being unreasonable, really?! You are the one who approached me while I was
peacefully taking a break; you are the one who is unreasonable!

Elaine: Geez, calm down, Miss! I did not mean to offend you. I was simply asking for directions.

Sab: Obviously I do not know the directions to the registration booth! Now, get out of my way!

(The facilitator of the event started to notice the scene and approaches the two ladies.)

Facilitator: Excuse me, is there any problem here?

(The facilitator looks at Sab as she noticed that it was her who has been raising her voice.)

Facilitator: Miss Lasquite, may I talk to you outside, please?

(The facilitator and Sab leaves.)

(Flash on screen: Sab used communication to express violence and hatred towards Elaine through her
raised voice and unreasonable choice of words.)

(Elaine remains at the center as Chinel, Patricia, and Jonathan approaches her.)

Scene 4

Elaine
Chinel
Patricia
Jonathan
Joshua

Chinel: Oh my god, are you okay, Miss?

Elaine: Yes, thank you for asking. I am okay.

Rose Ann: We heard you just arrived. We are sorry that is the first thing that greets you in this job fair.
Elaine: I am sure she has her reasons for acting that way. She just said that she just took a break from
an hour of working, I am sure she is just exhausted.

Jonathan: Let me guess, you took Psychology in college, ‘no?

Elaine: I get that a lot! Yes, I took Psychology as my undergraduate course. Does it show?

Jonathan: Oh yes, it shows a lot. Haha!

(Joshua approaches the group.)

Joshua: Miss, are you all right? I heard Sab raised her voice to you. I was her client before she took a
break.

Elaine: How sweet of you to ask, but I am really okay. No need to panic.

(The group stays at the center as Yuan and Erika move towards them.)

Scene 5

Yuan
Erika

(The group exits.)

Erika: Did you see what just happened, Yuan?

Yuan: Everybody saw, Erika! The lady literally made a scene in front of everyone in this job fair.

Erika: Yes, I know. But did it not make you realize the importance of good and decent communication?
The lady raised her voice to someone she does not know. I bet she forgot her lessons during college.

Yuan: You are such a nerd looking back at our college lessons now, Erika. But yes, I remember how
important proper communication is.

Erika: I still remember when we discussed Ethical Communication by the NCA; principle no. 3 states
communication that degrades individuals or groups should be condemned.

Yuan: And that is exactly what we saw today. From the communication between the DWCC graduate
and the DLSU graduate…

Erika: To the ignorant lady and the low-scale farmer…

Yuan: And finally with the scene that just happened.

Erika: This job fair really is too much. Haha!

Yuan: I know. People really need to review their communication lessons.

(Flash on screen: Remember to always follow the principles prescribed by the NCA, especially…)

(Everyone proceeds to the center.)

All: We condemn communication that degrades individuals and humanity through distortion,
intimidation, coercion, and violence, and through the expression of intolerance and hatred.

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