Wrapped Up March 2012 (2)

070312 (Wednesday)
Just when I thought I would never found a temporary job, I received a call for an interview yesterday.

I was asked to meet Miss Sherry at one of the office Times Centre. Not knowing what job it was really plus I needed a job badly, I decided to accept the offer.

I was told it will be a easy job with the pay of $6 per hour. Sounds quite impossible that I would take as I usually take when the job pays $6.50 at least. If not for the circumstances that force me, I guess I would never say yes.

She said she will send me an email with the forms attached. I needed to print it and completed it before handing it to my supervisor on my first day of work which will be on 10 March 2012. Reporting time will be 10am.

Pray hard it will be not difficult job. For the sake of money, I agree without finding out that it is a coolie job.

100312 (Saturday)
If not for this job, I wouldn't know that there is warehouse books sale located so near me. First day of work, everything is new for me. I was told to arrange the books on the table and shelfs.

Now then I realised that there are more things for me to learn. I have to report at work at 9.30am instead of 10am as stated and work ends at 9pm instead of 7pm as stated.

In short, I was conned to work in there. Anyway, it was something new for me as I had never worked in bookstores, neither have I worked in warehouse.

Whole day till lunch break, I was arranging books and stacking books. Luckily time passes quite fast today. Not that tiring as it seems but a lot to remember though. Pray hard that tomorrow will be a better day for me.

110312 (Sunday)
What a Sunday! I have to spend my time taking out price tags and paste color tags. Carrying cartons by cartons.

I have also to learn different catagories for Non-fiction books! How to?

To be frank, if not being force, I doubt I will pick up a book and read. Though at times, I will have an urge to have a fiction book on hand.

Today ended to be tiring as I have to arrange shelves and pasting color tags. Carrying up and down cartons~~~ I will hang on till 18 March 2012 as that was end of warehouse sale. I believe I can.

120312 (Monday)
Days get tougher when they keep telling me to stack books that I do not even know where to place them. As they are all busy doing cashiering, I just tried my best to place them accordingly.

It is natural for not able to remember them plus it was my 3rd day at work. With no experience and no prior knowledge, how am I suppose to know where are those books and what are the catagories?

I would rather they send me go inside and stick color tags which will be easier.

130312 (Tuesday)
How long more can I endure? I really hope I can hang on. Endless of books to be shelves, endless leaflets to be given out. But then, to be assign to give leaflets will mark that I am able to slack for an hour and have my lunch outside.

But then, when come back have to continue with endless stacking. That's not even cool! Well, hang on! The warehouse sale will soon come to an end!

140312 (Wednesday)
At last it is finally a day off for me! I can have my good rest and not thinking of all the books!

Since I do not wish to stay home, I decided to catch a movie instead. What movie shall I catch then? Oh yes! I wanted to catch that movie very long ago!

Although it was quite expensive to catch at night but it is a promise that I made to myself to at least catch it once! Finally, I am able to catch it. Felt super contented. So much not wanting to go back work tomorrow but then, I have to.

150312 (Thursday)
Today, I made a decision, I do not wish to work till 17 April 2012 as promise. I could not take it anymore. I wanted to end as early as possible.

I could not imagine myself in the expo doing stacking and shelving of books, let alone remember where the things will be place.

Sad to say, my supervisor do not wish to talk to me yet. The rest thought I wanted to leave as I know I could not remember things well.

But then, the main reason was I do not wish to torture myself further. Plus, I have ISIP from 7-10 April 2012. Hence I am unable to assist in the Expo sale.

160312 (Friday)
When everyone was shouting TGIF, I was counting down days to my last day of work!

I always believe, when I have to drag my feet to work, it will be time I say bye bye to my workplace.

True enough I have this longing that I wanted to say bye bye right away when the date is 18 March 2012. But reality does not allow me and I have to be with them till I have finish my task to prepare them for the Expo sale.

Endless stacking and endless sticking! I was really being conned to work!

170312 (Saturday)
Finally 2nd last day of the warehouse sale and I can say bye bye to stacking of books, giving out flyers and endless of standing!!!

I should thank god that I do not needed to learn cashiering.

But then, why do they need to rush me on pasting the stickers when I have more than enough time to complete them? I have a feeling that they are simply just wanting to torture me to the max! Somebody please save me from agony!

Tomorrow hopefully will be better day for me.

180312 (Sunday)
Can you imagine how much I am looking forward for today? Last day of giving flyers and stacking of books!

This job simply does not suit me. I am just somebody who applied for a wrong job at the wrong timing. But what's awaiting for me tomorrow will be disaster which I could never expected.

190312 (Monday)
I could never imagine that they can be two sided faces. When in front of me, they look nice person. Behind me, they are saying bad things about me.

Well, they simply do not have empathy I guess. Someone who have never worked in bookstores before and know nothing about shelves, how fast can I work? You asked me to paste yellow stickers for books that was less than US$10, so I have to be careful and look at the price if unsure. Plus I really have ample time doing so. But why rush me to do and throw me alone to carry cartons?

We are all paid $6 per hour, but they are doing less things than me and do not need to carry cartons like I does, than why complaint I am slow?

There was no one there to teach me how to differentiate what catagories they belong to, so how am I suppose to know then?

Same pay but they are all slacking. So unfair. Yet I cannot say no as there was no one to supervise us and I was only 2 days later than them. Faster come, my last day of working! I soon unable to endure it!

200312 (Tuesday)
So sad, initially was scheduled to be end work at 7pm but they tell me go back at 6pm. Loss $6 just like that where I can not say no.

They continue to torture me by asking me to stack cartons which is higher than me. Yet I was asked to do it fast!

Oh boy! How can anyone survive this agony? Due to this, I think I have hurt my back. After lunch was more cartons to carry and carry! They treated me as though I am paid coolie. If not for the sake of money to pay for the uniform and bills, I doubt I will just walk out.

Counting down 10 days to end my agony! What was consider lucky will be, now it will be a 5-day job where I finally can have my weekends back! Which means, I can have my brunch on Saturday back! Celebrate!!! :D

210312 (Wednesday)
Two more days to Friday! I have to take off next week! Hence I took off next Tuesday.

Again, I was being treated as coolie where I carry cartons here and there. Today was even worst!

Initially I was asked to paste price tags with one of the staff. End up, I have to put the books into cartons from the shelves and have to pack them according to color tags. How fast can someone do when you need to differentiate from color tags and price tags and there are 2 different color tags, for goodness sake!

I am already doing quite fast yet they say I am SLOW! I am human not robot. I do not have experience moving house and that gal have! No prior experience, what you expect?

I am really hoping next week faster come!

220312 (Thursday)
Why is it only Thursday? Endless of packing, endless of pasting! Endless of carrying! They expect I am robot!

Maybe they should hire a robot and not human!

Someone please save me!

230312 (Friday)
I cannot express how thankful I am that it is FRIDAY!

But then, I can never escape from being tortured by them. How to have TGIF when I am paid peanuts but work like a coolie?

Hence, I decided to take one more day off next week to shorten my agony. Which means, I will be left with 3 days of agony before I say BYE BYE to this coolie job!

260312 (Monday)
Words cannot express how I love today!

No need to work like coolie and I can have my time today going school or go out for shopping!

Happy Monday! I also can choose to catch movie too! Woohooo

Tomorrow will be special day for me. :P

270312 (Tuesday)
Why do I say today is special day? I finally have courage to give myself chance to test if I am suitable to be emcee.

I guess it takes a lot of courage to go through this. Furthermore, since the last time I had entered singing competition, it's been years since I last have the courage to go for audition.

But I guess I will not be selected as I did not do well. Anyway, it was an experience gained and I will not lose anything at all. :D

280312 (Wednesday)
Last three days to go! Today was not very happy as I was being accused of taking books without permission!

She was the one who saw me taking and she gave me approval. She also took things back without asking. Furthermore, the book are from the bin where they threw all defect books. I am just taking it and not taking new books.

Why he need to be so rude to me? Even his apologise also sound so insincere. I can never imagine, they were like my friends in the first place but soon they like mastered the Chuan Ju's face changing, attitudes were total different!

Now I just wish Friday faster come! Not to mention that I am coolie today also. Doing cartons of books! Can imagine 20-30 cartons of books weighing almost 20kgs? No one to help. Think by Friday, I probably needed to visit sinseh for my back or my wrist!

290312 (Thursday)
2nd last day!

Today was even worst than any other days. They really are torturing me! Ask me to clear 22 shelves by 1 hour! How can? When you needed to split them into Yellow tags, Red tags and Price tags! Even robots also unable. Plus you need me to stack them nicely in the boxes and not to 'injured' the books when they are being transferred to Expo.

Plus I needed to do my own cartons! They keep talking behind my back and using fake names to think I wasn't smart to guess that they are saying me SLOW!

Trying my best and slogging till I almost fainted! Packing cartons and cartons, yet no empathy and not even saying good job for helping! I really looking forward for tomorrow!

300312 (Friday)
TGIF!!! Finally, a day I had been waiting for!

But today will not passed that easy! Knowing it was my last day, they continued to make me even more like coolie!

I have not only to complete the shelves which I have not cleared yesterday, I have to cleared the big business books before lunch!

I really need 1000 hands to be able to get that done!

Luckily I managed to clear them slightly 10mins after lunch!

More work to come! I have to cleared all the Young readers shelves before I go home today! Since they keep bullying me, I shall do some tricks on them. Few cartons will filled with two books that does not belong to the catagories. Afterall, human can make mistakes.

Initially it was really mistakes made when I took few books at a time. How am I to have luxury time to go through each and every books to see if they are yellow tag, red tag or price tag! They were the one who kept telling me PACK FASTER! So please do not blame me for that.

When clock stikes 6pm, it's end of my agony! Bye bye to coolie life!

(What a March holiday I had! Memories which I really do not wish to remembered! Luckily it was all ended!)