Wednesday, March 23, 2005
hey! proud me have to announce that i quit my job (actually it's not condsidered as a job.. cos today was only training, and they have not carried out the selection yet.. haha).. yeap.. their training lasts for 2 weeks! and during these 2 weeks, i will not have a consistent pay.. basically, today all i did was to.. "waste" my time.. well well.. in the morning, i went there all alone, feeling very scared cos everyone was foreign.. some people were having "orientation" in the meeting room and were making a lot of noise.. for a while, i was quite worried that we will have to do cheers like what they did.. "how to do that when i did not know anyone?" well, my fears were unfounded.. luckily.. those having "orientation" were the trainers, and the..12(?) of us were given a trainer each.. haha.. the one who trained me was the guy who was arranging who trained who.. guess what he told me.. haha.. nvm, i shall not say.. i buddied up with another guy.. meaning, there were 2 trainers with jason and me.. we were both shocked that the company was managed by predominantly malays.. really shocking.. but owells, we're a multi racial society~! :) well, we went all the way from aljunied to admiralty.. gosh.. long ride.. but as usual, i had my barrel of lame jokes and games like the who many maa-maa jump over the wall game, coupled with my trainer's (sean, a mixed arab and eurasian) lame jokes, and jason's partner's ignorance, we managed to entertain ourselves as well as everyone on the train.. we went KFC.. there they ate.. and we played exothermic reaction.. it was a rahter slack morning.. but the afternoon was terok.. i actually did something which i despise.. ok, perhaps despise is too strong a word to use.. but if i explain what i had to do, i guess you'll get what i mean.. as part of the training programme to build up our self confidence, we have to promote this charity organization called renewal self-development centre, which is actually a halfway house blah blah.. and then ask ppl to donate 10 bucks, after which they will get this free gift which is quite funky..dunno how to describe.. its this cool box that because of the leather binding the 2 portions together, is able to flip around.. ok i'm not making sense. but yeah.. i mean, how easy is it to get people to part with 10 bucks? it will be impossible for me! 2 bucks, ok.. 10, no way! haha.. we will get 2 bucks from the company for every 10 bucks we collected.. it was hell i tell you.. see all the scrunged up faces, all the patronizing looks.. people who shun you like you have leprosy.. people who listen to you talk the whole day and in the end tell you "oh, actually i'm not interested", people who let you talk and talk and then pretend to not see you and walk away.. wah biang.. i wish i was at holland v.. singaporeans are really giam siap! BAH! it was hell.. hated it thoroughly.. jason and i will crowd together and lament to each other.. then the trainers will come and ask us to approach ppl.. it was maluating to the max.. after lunch, perhaps high on adrenaline, i decided to just approach people blindly and dun care whether there is possibility that they will listen to me or not.. ok, i got some results.. solicited 3 more deals on top of the 1 deal that i got before lunch.. by 4, both of us were thoroughly shagged.. there was a news stand, so i casually commented that perhaps we should flip thru classifieds and try gte another job.. haha.. and guess wad? we actually did! haha.. we bought it and scurried to some hidden corner of the station and flipped thru the papers frantically.. haha.. calling the companies.. whenever somebody walked past me, i will jump, afraid that the trainers will catch us skiving.. haha.. well, in the end, we're going for 3 interviews tml.. hopefully one of them will be successful.. *hopes* rj has no more places for relief teaching.. :( no more easy $$.. well.. so in the end we lied that i had a bad stomachache, that's why we disappeared for so long.. haha.. then we went to chui air con in popular, and pretended that we were pitching in popular.. i was an expert liar today.. yucks.. nvm nvm, its all over.. we both pitched 4 deals, but well, we din get the 8 bucks that we more than fully deserve, cos? "its illegal to pay you guys when you are not selected".. ok nvm.. we both had to console ourselves that we had just done something for charity.. if there's anything i had learnt, it will be that when you want to sell something, you really have to hard sell.. be thick skinned and approach everyone. dun stand there and try to figure out which person has the potential to buy.. i mean.. its the law of averages.. haha.. and when somebody waves their hands in your face and shakes his or her head, sometimes just stick around and bug.. he or she might waver.. and perhaps, the best excuse to give someone asking for donations is "oh, i think this money will go towards helping me too", or "actually, i've still got my parents to take care.. my dad has ... and my mum has ..." not only will the promoter not get "pissed" with you, she will sympathise with you too! haha.. ok.. so i'm now officially unemployed again! ganbatte! :)
