Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Bugged
Guess like I have been hit with a cashiering bug.
I was dreaming about me serving a customer who wanted to pay for a blanket, and that I couldn't find the price tag on the blanket no matter how hard I searched.
Ironically, this blanket somehow seemed familiar to me.
*wakes up*
The blanket was indeed my own blanket and it was flipped and tossed around.
Scary huh.
I was dreaming about me serving a customer who wanted to pay for a blanket, and that I couldn't find the price tag on the blanket no matter how hard I searched.
Ironically, this blanket somehow seemed familiar to me.
*wakes up*
The blanket was indeed my own blanket and it was flipped and tossed around.
Scary huh.
Friday, January 08, 2010
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6th January 2009
Being alone outside at the atrium is a real daunting task of trying to keep yourself occupied yet appearing to be doing your job to the public and your superiors. there are no computers (cash register counted?) to use, no storybooks to read, no 1-man games that I can effectively play w/o getting caught.. so I am draft writing my much-awaited (I hope =P) blog post on the (guess what..) receipt paper.
*checks drawer*
There are at least 10+ rolls so even if I ninja (steal) this 1/4 roll of paper it shouldn't hurt John Little or my job right? This is my first time working, and well there are mixed reactions to this.
Good:
1. I get to earn money while spending my "free" time instead of possibly gaming and snoozing at home
2. I get to experience a job as a frontline staff - and also delve a bit into the hidden workings of a departmental store.
Bad:
1. Really sucks to be alone, and now it is justified that I can sympathize a bit with those people manning a store by themselves - human beings are social creatures mind you
2. Best working experience is when there are not too many people (rush) and not too few people (boring) - sadly none really happened at the atrium
Ok la, the time now is 16:11 ... at least 5 more hours to go. The sky's getting dark, and the promoter said peak periods will be around soon, so yes let's see. There is this other temp female staff by the name of Mandy, or rather its "a name I picked for myself". I wonder why people like to give themselves a new name over their parents' one? Bad blood? Accepting the name your parents gave you at birth is at the very least a form of respect and affirmation of your ties with them. I'm not too sure but well.. maybe I think too much.
There's more people now, or rather more traffic. There are people carrying John Little shopping bags but not served by me de. Haiz I want to be posted back into the main store, and not stone at the atrium.
16:38 and only 2 customers, no wonder Singapore's consumer expenditure is so low. Ok I am ranting and this serves no economical benefit.
Ooh, now I am seeing alot of students, namely from River Valley, Gan Eng Seng, ITE, New Town Sec ... and this reminds me on what Charles said yesterday when I visited him. "Its a different feeling having the knowledge that you are not at school when practically everyone else is" Furthermore, we are not in school not because we are sick but rather we just simply do not need to attend school! Well, one might feel liberated from wearing school uniform of said schools, but the reality seems to be that you are just going to change from 1 set of uniform to another set of uniform. When you work, you also have to dress appropriately - not just T-shirts and pants and slippers - and don't that constitutes as uniform? Furthermore, at work, everything's unexpected and may influence your life directly. In school, you may fail the first test and pass the second test and that's it, it doesn't affect you that significantly. So whether being out of school is a blessing or not, you decide. For me, working is better - cause you get to earn money to do OTHER things you like, and maybe due to the fact that I experienced the scholarly type of confinement for 10 years?
yay, another $5/= credited to me!
Ok its 17:28. time really really moves damn slowly. I just realised why the air was so sweet smelling, the Body Shop is just besides me, and there are numerous people going in to test the products and hence esters diffuse out (:P), maybe I should too!
45 more mins!!! Not bad, I easily covered more transactions since 7pm as compared from 10.30am to 7pm.
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6th January 2009
Being alone outside at the atrium is a real daunting task of trying to keep yourself occupied yet appearing to be doing your job to the public and your superiors. there are no computers (cash register counted?) to use, no storybooks to read, no 1-man games that I can effectively play w/o getting caught.. so I am draft writing my much-awaited (I hope =P) blog post on the (guess what..) receipt paper.
*checks drawer*
There are at least 10+ rolls so even if I ninja (steal) this 1/4 roll of paper it shouldn't hurt John Little or my job right? This is my first time working, and well there are mixed reactions to this.
Good:
1. I get to earn money while spending my "free" time instead of possibly gaming and snoozing at home
2. I get to experience a job as a frontline staff - and also delve a bit into the hidden workings of a departmental store.
Bad:
1. Really sucks to be alone, and now it is justified that I can sympathize a bit with those people manning a store by themselves - human beings are social creatures mind you
2. Best working experience is when there are not too many people (rush) and not too few people (boring) - sadly none really happened at the atrium
Ok la, the time now is 16:11 ... at least 5 more hours to go. The sky's getting dark, and the promoter said peak periods will be around soon, so yes let's see. There is this other temp female staff by the name of Mandy, or rather its "a name I picked for myself". I wonder why people like to give themselves a new name over their parents' one? Bad blood? Accepting the name your parents gave you at birth is at the very least a form of respect and affirmation of your ties with them. I'm not too sure but well.. maybe I think too much.
There's more people now, or rather more traffic. There are people carrying John Little shopping bags but not served by me de. Haiz I want to be posted back into the main store, and not stone at the atrium.
16:38 and only 2 customers, no wonder Singapore's consumer expenditure is so low. Ok I am ranting and this serves no economical benefit.
Ooh, now I am seeing alot of students, namely from River Valley, Gan Eng Seng, ITE, New Town Sec ... and this reminds me on what Charles said yesterday when I visited him. "Its a different feeling having the knowledge that you are not at school when practically everyone else is" Furthermore, we are not in school not because we are sick but rather we just simply do not need to attend school! Well, one might feel liberated from wearing school uniform of said schools, but the reality seems to be that you are just going to change from 1 set of uniform to another set of uniform. When you work, you also have to dress appropriately - not just T-shirts and pants and slippers - and don't that constitutes as uniform? Furthermore, at work, everything's unexpected and may influence your life directly. In school, you may fail the first test and pass the second test and that's it, it doesn't affect you that significantly. So whether being out of school is a blessing or not, you decide. For me, working is better - cause you get to earn money to do OTHER things you like, and maybe due to the fact that I experienced the scholarly type of confinement for 10 years?
yay, another $5/= credited to me!
Ok its 17:28. time really really moves damn slowly. I just realised why the air was so sweet smelling, the Body Shop is just besides me, and there are numerous people going in to test the products and hence esters diffuse out (:P), maybe I should too!
45 more mins!!! Not bad, I easily covered more transactions since 7pm as compared from 10.30am to 7pm.
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