Tuesday, February 20, 2007"
Finally quit my work to enjoy new year. The last few days of work didn go waste. Was being rather slack. But i managed to break my own record and sold 46 pairs of shoes. Hush puppies made me write a resignation letter for him. I finished the letter and asked him why he wanted to quit. The letter wasnt meant for him. It's for van heusen's head. He was just making use of me to help him write a letter. -.- Basically, its a very "in" thing to talk bout quitting there, but nobody ever quits. -.- Cursing our superiors is part of our hobby as well, but nobody ever stands up to them. I wouldn call this sheer cowardice. According to my head, there's a rather profound theory associated wif it. Its called ren2 bu4 wei4 ji3, tian1 zhu1 di4 mie4. So, the entire departmental store is about pushing duties away. haha. As a result, the heads of various departments suffer both work stress and emotional distress. Van Heusen's head, a plump malaysian lady, was tormented by her manager and was found weepin in a corner of the store. I offered to help her rewrite her resignation letter and added a bit of sarcasm into it. Was being rather confident bout the prowess of that letter, but i still encourage her to send the normal one.
My very first enriching working phase ended in a rather dramatic, if nt, eventful finale. I was rather persistent use up the shopping break entitled to us every week before i leave. My onli trustable friend there, another van heusen's promoter, a VJ guy who joined after i wrote those letters, agreed to my request. Its nt really that difficult for him to help me out wif stuff. I made him help me out wif my last words of gratification to my department and go shopping wif me. All i need to do was to talk to his head and hint bout those letters hahas. Her friends told her to send a normal letter too. She need a work permit to work in sg and she cant get one wif a bad record. so eventually, she chose the letter of lies.
Spent my shopping break wasting time. The main purpose of it was to get away from my work counter. Its dull working there, especially wif that scheming auntie in my department, who wouldn mind giving up her morals just to get herself out of trouble, a very masculine auntie. Two counters away, another auntie from sergio tacchini was gossiping to everyone and warned them that they are nt allowed to talk to me if they dun wan troubles to find them. It irritated me a lot. Apparently, that auntie was warned by another collegue of mine, another auntie when her partner talked to me. A lot of politics involved. She made me sound lyk a monster everyone feared. Once, she was telling my fren to avoid me in the lift, right under my nose. I told that auntie directly, "If u've done nth wrong, then there's nth to be afraid of". One thing i seriously dun understand is that, my work productivity is obviously tons better than those fat and useless aunties and they're treating me this way. Idiots.
Then again, i made a lot of frens there, mostly pple of my age. My department head's a very nice person although she's got rather bad temper. she buys my meals for me so i dun have to walk out of the building and waste tym on queuing for food. The breaks are short, by not having to queue for food, more healthy digestion can take place. Also, she's got great kangtao for food. Always cheap. But on this very eventful last day of work, miscommunication took place. She informed that selfish auntie to tel me and buy food myself when she was held back by sth else. Apparently, that auntie holds a personal grudge against me. It was over a trivial matter when the supervisor asked me bout a missing shoe. In act of self defence, i narrated everything out and offended her. She delibrately told me wrong stuff this tym round and i accidentally ate other pple's food.
It may sound a lil comical to those promoters, for the food i ate belongs to someone they detest most, a very bad tempered lady from the office. She was astonished to find her food missing and checked the cameras till she found who the food burgler is. Felt a lil bad, but the promoters were enjoying it big tym. Had to explain everytink to that tigress. She wasnt a tigress after all. Quite kind hearted and gentle. Wondered why the promoters hate her so much. Offered her 5 bucks for the meal and the change for her to keep, but she onli wanted 2 bucks. ><
Everytink was solved. I spent half an hour translating the letter into chinese for my department head. Enveloped this letters into a very "price tag format" manner and pasted my barcode on it. hahas. It was a very nostalgic moment. Felt so carefree yet so sad i've to leave those frens. Exchanged contacts. Pple change a lot. Even my supervisor, a very loud and chinese national, had her presentable sides. I complained to her bout those terrorism i call it, and urged her to get rid of it. "Stay firm and no-one can invade" Thats her reply in chinese.
Left the departmental store early to do an illegal transaction. Dad's spinal operation went well, but he canot put too much strain on his back yet. So i thought of buying him a pair of slipper lyk shoes, that still look formal for him to wear to work. Ordered from the supplier's supplier haha. Beverly hills gave me the contacts and arranged everytink for me. Original price 106. bought it at 67. Made a gd deal, considering its an US product =)
Working as a sales associate is indeed insightful. We've seen the most demanding and fussy pple. We've seen the largest diamonds. Happened to hear interesting stuff on my last day of work. A Chinese lady from China spoke snobbishly in Chinese, "I hear that Singaporeans have no money to buy stuff". Passerby Ah pek replied in hokkien, "There are a lot of chinese prostitutes in Singapore nowadays". Its my happiest day of my working life.
Spoken at Tuesday, February 20, 2007
