Rescue Mission
Hello class, so much for not letting this blog die.
Can the blog be resurrected?
Does it stand a chance in the midst of all the busy class peoples' lives?
Or will it wither away into oblivion, just a page people visit now and then to see if anything new has been posted, but not wanting to update?
Therefore I shall get down to writing an entry before school actually starts and we all get busier then we all are now.
So, for those who don't know, I have been working in a spectacle shop for the past few months, and all I can say is I never ever want to go back into retail. I think there's an unspoken rule that if you voice such things out almost certainly the opposite happens (like when the day before you complain to your mom that you don't want to go to work almost certainly the next day the shop people call up and ask you to turn up for work so if you want to be rich you have to say "I never ever want to be rich" and then almost certainly the opposite happens and you find yourself striking lottery day after day. Now that's a very very sweet dream for starters, and I don't think it will ever happen, but that's not going to stop me from trying) and chances are a few years down the road I might be selling clothes at some boutique in maybe Takashimaya now for a change of environment. Ah, but seriously, retail is disgusting, KUDOS TO ALL THE SALESPEOPLE OUT THERE!
Oh, I also did a 4 day stint at the Expo for the CommunicAsia event (for the uninitiated, this is where all the telecommunication and media companies over Asia get together to exhibit their technology but I swear i saw angmoh companies) as an order-form-giver-cum-drink-stall-holder. It was disgusting I never want to go into the F&B industry again. Okay at this point I'm starting to think that I'm sounding like a spoilt brat, but hey I'm NOT okay, and I don't like it when people call me spoilt brat because it sounds like spoilt bread when people don't pronounce it properly, and I sure as hell do not like spoilt bread. Okay in all honesty the drink making was fun I actually enjoyed it because the 15 year old ah bengs I was working with were so ridiculously childish I felt like I was back in primary school. Eh no la, the drink making was fun because I got to learn the difference between a latte and a cappucino, an espresso and a normal black coffee. Oh and I got to steam milk too, and the rod that goes into the milk produces a loud sound and lots of steam which causes the milk to foam wahahha. But the entire thing was stupid because the management was screwed up and very disorganized and as a result alot of precious time was wasted which I was actually quite happy about because it meant that I was being paid for doing absolutely nothing.
I dunno why, but you get alot of complaints in the forum about the service standards of salespeople and F&B people, but have you seen the standards of the customers? If all customers were nice there wouldn't be any nasty service people. (But then again maybe not, because some people are just inherently mean.) I dunno why, but the nasty customers are particularly draining. They drain you of all cheerfulness, of all energy and of all morale. (Personally I think these three are interlinked.) You know they're like the Dementors from Harry Potter who come along and suck out all happy feelings in you and they leave you all miserable and gloomy, and it would be good if you can use a Patronus spell against them, but nasty customers aren't that easy to deal with unfortunately. (Or maybe I can just shoot icy glares at them and be nastier than them, but then it would leave me liable of appearing in Stomp if some nosy passerby decides to shoot a video of lousy service standards.) ARGH I hate my job sometimes.
But then again there are the Supernice customers who make me very happy because they're very nice, and they make me want to be very nice to them too. So I guess it's true that there are always two sides to everything. Just like how I have sacrificed an early dinner just to add a bit of life to this blog. But silly me, I could have just done it after dinner eh, but I wanna watch Deal or No Deal and look at Adrian Pang dish out his "now, the banker has given it serious thought, and is offering you a total of blablabla dollars" in an oh-so-serious face which makes my hair stand because it is all oh-so-corny.
Oh well, how's everybody doing? :)
Can the blog be resurrected?
Does it stand a chance in the midst of all the busy class peoples' lives?
Or will it wither away into oblivion, just a page people visit now and then to see if anything new has been posted, but not wanting to update?
Therefore I shall get down to writing an entry before school actually starts and we all get busier then we all are now.
So, for those who don't know, I have been working in a spectacle shop for the past few months, and all I can say is I never ever want to go back into retail. I think there's an unspoken rule that if you voice such things out almost certainly the opposite happens (like when the day before you complain to your mom that you don't want to go to work almost certainly the next day the shop people call up and ask you to turn up for work so if you want to be rich you have to say "I never ever want to be rich" and then almost certainly the opposite happens and you find yourself striking lottery day after day. Now that's a very very sweet dream for starters, and I don't think it will ever happen, but that's not going to stop me from trying) and chances are a few years down the road I might be selling clothes at some boutique in maybe Takashimaya now for a change of environment. Ah, but seriously, retail is disgusting, KUDOS TO ALL THE SALESPEOPLE OUT THERE!
Oh, I also did a 4 day stint at the Expo for the CommunicAsia event (for the uninitiated, this is where all the telecommunication and media companies over Asia get together to exhibit their technology but I swear i saw angmoh companies) as an order-form-giver-cum-drink-stall-holder. It was disgusting I never want to go into the F&B industry again. Okay at this point I'm starting to think that I'm sounding like a spoilt brat, but hey I'm NOT okay, and I don't like it when people call me spoilt brat because it sounds like spoilt bread when people don't pronounce it properly, and I sure as hell do not like spoilt bread. Okay in all honesty the drink making was fun I actually enjoyed it because the 15 year old ah bengs I was working with were so ridiculously childish I felt like I was back in primary school. Eh no la, the drink making was fun because I got to learn the difference between a latte and a cappucino, an espresso and a normal black coffee. Oh and I got to steam milk too, and the rod that goes into the milk produces a loud sound and lots of steam which causes the milk to foam wahahha. But the entire thing was stupid because the management was screwed up and very disorganized and as a result alot of precious time was wasted which I was actually quite happy about because it meant that I was being paid for doing absolutely nothing.
I dunno why, but you get alot of complaints in the forum about the service standards of salespeople and F&B people, but have you seen the standards of the customers? If all customers were nice there wouldn't be any nasty service people. (But then again maybe not, because some people are just inherently mean.) I dunno why, but the nasty customers are particularly draining. They drain you of all cheerfulness, of all energy and of all morale. (Personally I think these three are interlinked.) You know they're like the Dementors from Harry Potter who come along and suck out all happy feelings in you and they leave you all miserable and gloomy, and it would be good if you can use a Patronus spell against them, but nasty customers aren't that easy to deal with unfortunately. (Or maybe I can just shoot icy glares at them and be nastier than them, but then it would leave me liable of appearing in Stomp if some nosy passerby decides to shoot a video of lousy service standards.) ARGH I hate my job sometimes.
But then again there are the Supernice customers who make me very happy because they're very nice, and they make me want to be very nice to them too. So I guess it's true that there are always two sides to everything. Just like how I have sacrificed an early dinner just to add a bit of life to this blog. But silly me, I could have just done it after dinner eh, but I wanna watch Deal or No Deal and look at Adrian Pang dish out his "now, the banker has given it serious thought, and is offering you a total of blablabla dollars" in an oh-so-serious face which makes my hair stand because it is all oh-so-corny.
Oh well, how's everybody doing? :)
posted by V at 11.7.07
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