Quest

4 April 2007

Siew Foon's off today.

Actually Shi Yng's a really nice girl. It may be that incident which made me detest her, made me hostile to her. But I just take it too seriously. I just think too much. Many people are actually not so detestable when you don't think so deeply into it. I guess that's why so many people in the world can't get along with one another. Maybe everyone should learn to let go.

Anyway.

Shi Yng told me Jason would be dropping in later. She just happened to 'receive information' from the HQ people. Hahaha.

Someone came in to interview. Vietnamese girl. She filled up the form. Expected salary: $1200. She has job experience. Her salary was like, $1100-1200 for her past few jobs. We told her to walk around in the mall while waiting for Jason to come. So she went.

I took a peek at the application forms. (Actually they were laid out generously on the table.) There was one applicant from TP and she said that she would be able to work till 23rd April. Who would want to recruit her?

I was sitting on the chair behind the counter when a man entered the shop and went into the storeroom. Oops. Jason. Why am i always caught doing something wrong in front of the HQ people? MUHAHA.

He was wearing a (bright) red shirt. And as usual, he didn't button the first few of the buttons on his shirt. G-R-O-S-S. He's always like that. The first time i saw him was at the interview. I hated him since Day 1. Hahaha.

Anyway it's been a long time since i last saw him. He was here once or twice since I was working at TM. But he hadn't been here recently. I asked Shi Yng if she chatted to him in the past when he was here. She said yes, but now, not anymore. It must be the bonus thing. And Jason asks her to settle all the problems herself nowadays. Siew Foon suggested that it's cos SY's leaving soon. End of May.

Jason left his laptop in the storeroom. I called the Vietnamese to come back to the shop. Jason brought her outside the shop for a chat. Then somehow the application got back to the table(Jason brought it out for the interview) and i KPO and read it. The '$1200' was striked out, with '1100' written in black in. Obviously Jason's handwriting. Dammit. I only $900 leh.

I contacted two Malaysian girls who had came to fill in the forms earlier. They said they were in Kallang and would take half an hour to reach here. Ok.

Jason went away. I guessed he went to McD to use free internet. HAHA. The two Malaysians finally came, like one-and-a-half-hour later. I had even went for my break! (BTW i bought a pumice today. Got a layer of hard skin on my heels since working at Dano) One woman came first, asking me if the two girls who had been here earlier for the interview had left. I said yes, then she went away. I thought she was asking me for the morning part. Then the real McCoys came. Called Jason. He asked me to tell them to find him at McD, just opposite The Body Shop. SInce the Malaysians were like blur-blur, I brought them to him. I am so gracious and helpful right?

Jason came back later, with no signs of the application forms. I wonder how much salary would be given to them. He brought in his laptop, but they was no sign of it anywhere in the storeroom. Hmm. Very peculiar.

Once Jason entered the shop when i was eating beehoon at the counter. Shi Yng explained it was because the store was stuffy. He understood. But i didn't dare to eat in front of him. Served customers in between mouthfuls.

Meanwhile, the people at Blush! changed the clothes on their mannequins. It was... very unprofessional, i should say. The one in the middle has a silky cardigan slipping off her arms. The staff are, like, trying to make her look sexy. And the hot pants are like printed with cutesy, coulourful cartoons. Oh my goodness. Sheer torture. It's not beneficial to their sales.

Later another girl came in. Very student-like and demure. I think she filled in the application form two days eariler. All of us were at the counter. Jason was telling her stuff about the job. Then suddenly Shi Yng asked me how much my salary was. I turned around and said,"Nine hundred lah". Jason asked the girl,"Can?" The girl agreed, and was told to report for work on Tuesday. Then Jason mentioned something about six off days, then suddenly turned towars Shi Yng and told her,"Oh you haven't heard of it hor?" Then he continued babbling stuff to the girl.

I went inside the store to check stock, and found out that Jason had stashed his laptop in the shelf. -_-"

Later Shi Yng asked him what he was talking about earlier. Jason then BRAGGED about the various changes that will be made to the company policy. He said that he needed to do something, cause everyone is running away from Dano. Hahaha. Serve you right.
1. Six off days per month, including one Sunday. So the staff will get 1 day off for the first week, 2 days off for the second week including a Sunday, 1 day for the third week, and two for the fourth week.
Jason mentioned something about keeping in competition with other comapnies. I barged in and commented,"Yah lah. Other companies let you have at least one weekend off"
2. Comission regardless of whether you've hit your personal target/shop target. 0.5% comission. So it means you'll get comission any-oh-how.
3. 55.5 hours a week-----> 47 hours a week. Damn you. And there're the shifts of 2pm-10pm and 11am-8pm. They should have done this earlier!
4. New uniforms. (Oh yeah. I forgot to suggest to him that we houd be allowed to keep our uniforms, like Fashion Lab.)
5. Increased salary, up to $200 increase.
All these changes will be made in MAY. Damn. And guess what. They are throwing out all the clothes and bringing in new ones on 15 April. Me quitting on: 14 April. Damn you fuckers from Dano.

My pay is only $900. Won't affect me much anyway. I'm not confirmed stuff. Just not very pleased about the working hours stuff.

I seriously suspect someone from headquarters is reading my blog. HAHAHA.

Dano finally has the graciousness of what a big firm with 14 outlets islandwide should have. But it still remains to be seen.

He left shortly after. YAY! Rest time.

Jason looks stupid, but he's using money to keep Shi Yng and the others. Scheming bastards.

I was sitting behind the counter again, when Gladys poopped out again. Dammit. I forgot what i was doing, but it must be something unsightly. Hahaha.

Luckily Shi Yng brought her own cd to play. It was in English. Phew.

Thereafter Gladys requested for plastic stands. Gave it to her. Don't know what she's up to.

I wanted to take out new stock from the store, then i saw her taking merchandising photos. Propped up two small bags against the plastic stand. She was taking pictures with her digital camera.

Then she was asking for batteries. None. Only the remote control's which are too small.

Finally finally finally she went off. Time a well-deserved break. HAHAHA.

I sacrificed my youth.
I sacrificed my beautiful feet.
I sacrificed my TV.
Finally i will be released.
In 10 days.