Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Luckless streak in job seeking.. Sians..

Started job seeking in mid March when i realised that i'd been slacking at home for more than a month. Then when i'd gotten the cartooning (art teacher) job, calls from job agencies started coming in. 'Hello, are you looking for a job??' Damn it! They are so slow can?!? The cartooning job sounds interesting, but the person in charge didnt fulfil his promise of giving more assignments, so i'm like stuck with only 1 assignment which took up the whole of my month of April. Hard to find other jobs this way. And cos of this job, i turned down an interview for the Canon job, i thought my chances arent high anyway. It seems that the interview is quite 'important' and i received email of confirmation and printed the application form which is so thick, it's hard to believe they are just looking for temporary staff!~
But alias, it's a BIG company after all.. Maybe that's how it works in there.

Finally my contract for the art job ended, wanted to search for a proper full-time job. Through ST Classified, i found an audit clerk job, agreed on the pay of $6/h and was prepared to start work real soon. Then came the 'bomb', the person emailed me to say the pay is $5/h. Walau eh! I haven't even started work, they wanna dock my pay?!? WTH. WTH. And from the way she put it, it's like a 'take it or leave it' kinda thing. So i shot back with an email to say that i aren't taking up this job anymore.

Time continued to pass~

Last week, i started work as a property agent's personal assistant. On the morning of the 2nd day of work, i received a call from a job agency to tell me that the job as Customer Service Counterstaff is now available. OMG! DAMN IT LA! I'd rang them up so long ago that i almost forgot about it and now they are quite desperate to find people to fill up the vacancies. I guessed that those people they shortlisted had gotten jobs by the time they called up the 2nd round. I pretended that i'll ask my friend about it, hehe actually i'm the one interested in it, but i cant possibly say that out when i'm in the office. But later in the day, i received a call to tell me that the positions are being filled =x
Sians.. Then on monday, the office called me to say that 'they don't want to leave my hanging & asked me to look for other jobs' WTF! They 'hung' me for days already loh.. the boss didnt confirm with me whether he wanted me to continue working. Thur say Fri confirm, Fri say Sat, Sat say Sun.. Think i'm a fool is it?!?
Made me waste chances of working in White Sands or Tampines Mall because of this..

So i'm more concerned whether i can get my pay, cos frankly speaking, i don't like that job. So hectic, handling numerous calls a day in a small office. The first day that i started my 'training' (in other words, free labour.. i think that's the reason why the boss asked as many people as possible to come down for training), i think i gotta die from excessive radiation as we answer the calls from several mobile phones if i were to work here for a longer period. The phone's like practically stuck to my ear, as i answered 1 call after another. Or if the call lasts slightly longer, i may see '2 missed calls' showing up on the screen of the mobile phone.
To sum up, I think i've answered more calls in the office in a day than the total number of calls that i'll ever receive on my mobile phone in the entire year. You get the idea?

Plus no lunch break, the other girls in the office either skip lunch or bring in takaways into the office and have them at 4pm. Wah liao eh~ Bo xue yuan gong!

But i count that as an experience in handling calls & sounding nice and friendly over the phone though i arent exactly smiling. And i finally come to know how some BIG-TIME property agents can earn so much much more than others.

Have you ever wondered how those top achievers whose faces get plastered in full page ads in newspapers annually, score so many deals? At least i did wonder. NOW i know.. heh..

It's not a one-man show, though eventually only that one man gets the credit.

Time continued to pass..
Need to get a job soon!~

yunn. at 12:00 AM