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though it's not your favorite song

don't wanna be the wind

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 09:52

pain and satisfaction (:

Wait, before I forget, I realised that I haven't been using much of my camera.
Okayy, that was random and that wasn't my main point of typing this post.

Let's go straight to the point.
Three days of pain, talking and satisfaction.
Haha. Yea, this is what I am talking about.
Last weekend I was working part time at the PC Fair and had quite an experience.
Knew how it feels like to be standing throughout a period of 11 hours non-stop, without a proper break.
Talked to more than thousand of people in three days?
And had the weirdest pain at my neck when I should be feeling pain at my feet O.O

I was in-charged of selling this trap pad, which is a mouse pad that could be folded up (like a curry puff) and zip it up to become a pouch for your mouse.
Okayy, that's not exactly a thing that you would want to buy in a fair and it costs RM20 for the first day and RM15 for the next two days. Not really cheap, mind you.
I was having great prejudice against this product.
It seems totally useless to me.
Not something that I would want to buy with RM15.
And yet, I tried to sell it to the public.
Haha. It's really ironic when the salesperson is not even convinced about his/her products and yet he/she is selling it.
Since I have no choice, I had to just sell it.

First day sale was bad. In total I sold 7 (yes, only 7) while in grand total, we (there were two of us) sold 11. How pathetic right?
Second day, things got much better, I sold 10 (haha, inproved by 3) while my other partner sold 9. So, total 19.
In two days time, we sold 30.
Third day, which was also the last day, my partner decided that this was a lousy job and didn't turn up, so I was left alone to sell this trap pad, which also means NO break at all.
And guess what? I sold a total of 47 trap pads.
Of course, it was wih some help from the producer himself since he had no choice but to help me since I was all alone.
:D 47! :D

Okayy, I am boring you right now, I know.
Next thing I am gonna blog about will still bore you I think so you can stop now and click the X on your top right hand corner (:

So, some events during my three working days:

The big boss is really not so nice. He shouted at his full time worker, threw things anywhere (okayy, this is not that bad but still not good) and I really think he has a bad bad temper.

The staffs there were not so friendly. I smiled at them, and they looked at me like I am some alien. -.- Fine. Well, at least the situation gets better when some of them started to smile at me too and I managed to talk to some friendly ones (: I even managed to recommend a lady from kl, who was working there, how to get to this particular place to eat hokkien mee! Hahaha. I wonder whether she went.

My first day partner (actually it was only for a few hours) was very weird. She was so quiet. Initally I tried to talk to her by asking some questions and all she did was only answering me and yup that's all. After a few attempts, I decided to just stop since she doesn't seem like she wanted to talk. Things got worse when she wasn't even approaching any customers and since I am kind (ahem ahem yes I am) I gave her some of my customer (okayy, it was only one) so that she could get some commission. And after that, she was still that quiet self, so I decided that I shouldn't help her anymore. After a while, the boss changed her to another section and changed a new one, who stayed with me till day two. Anyway, back to the first girl. So now, she was working with another girl selling laptop bags, whom I shall call her P. P told me that the quiet girl snactched (not literally but you get what I mean right) her customers who. Hmmm, that's really not an attitude to have when working with someone eh? Oh well, in the end they solved their problems and so I guess everything was well.

Reflection: By working for these three days, I really learned a lot. Like relationship with your collegues and how to actually communicate and persuade custormers to buy your product. Before I worked, I remember telling my mum that after this job, I would certainly won't be interested in sales job anymore but guess what, I was a bit wrong. I mean I don't want to be a promoter but there's this little part in me that tells me that I could actually become a business person if I want to try. Hahaha how cool eh.

Ohh back to somemore interesting stuff. My producer seems to be flirting with that P girl (who sold laptop bags). Tsk tsk. My producer smokes. Eww. I hate people who smoke. Anyway, both of them were always having some little talks here and there and about some topics which I shall not discuss here. I wasn't eavesdropping, just that they were talking right in front of me so I couldn't help but listen :/

Ahhh, and also not forgetting that person who keeps calling me karipap. And that JVC guy who kept saying we would certainly decrease the price of the trap pad on the last day nearing 9pm (that's when the fair ended). But, no, we didn't decrease it anymore and the last price was still RM15. And he stupidly told me his mickey mouse mouse pad is better and blah blah blah. -.-

Oh yea, I remember another incident. There was once a guy bought two of the trap pads from me so I needed a bigger plastic bag hence I went to ask one of the sales person from the bag department and the following happened.

Me: Hello Miss, could I get a plastic bag?
Her: (looking at me for 10 seconds, I really think it was 10 seconds, that long!) I am afraid we don't have enough (and by this time I was looking at the huge pile of orange plastic bags).
Me: (too shocked to talk because I only ask for a plastic bag which probably costs her less than 10 cents, and furthermore, we were working for the same company)
Me: Oh okayy. (still very shocked)

By now I turned to another lady and she also told me that they didn't have any more plastic bags (this one is true by the way) so I just had to go back to the customer and apologized. I think I was still shocked from the reaction of the first lady. Oh well, this society is really materialistic. Anyway, that was an eye-opener. Literally.

Ahhhh, okayy, that's all from my PC fair experience (:

I am glad I listen to my mum advice and called the person-in-charged on tuesday and went for the briefing on wednesday and worked for three days and experience the pain and most of all, satisfaction (:

I just set a goal for myself. I must go to australia in the near future. If not to go there for my education, at least for my vacation. Yes, I must. Australia, wait for me. Just wait for me.

There's so much you don't understand.
There's so little you can do for me.
So, just don't ask anymore.
It's better that way.