Friday, December 19, 2008 ~
Today was basically a Hell of a day. Secondary One orientation really IS busy. We had to get to the school by 7.00am, which sucks for me because the traveling time for me from my house to the school is actually 45 minutes, which means I had to get onto the bus by 6.15am.
And it all started at 8.30am, when parents and their children started pouring in and buying their textbooks. Fortunately for me I was actually put in charge as cashier IN the shop. And luckily, all Secondary One books and stuff are to be brought at the booths outside, which means I got practically nothing to do...not.
I was seriously expecting myself to be slacking and enjoying myself today, but unfortunately that did not happen. There were actually lots of parents which came into the shop to ask about these and that, and I had to entertain them all. There were even some who took the books from outside the booths and come INTO the store to pay them. Because they are lazy to Queue. Oh my god.
This is the root of the problems which occurred today:
1) Socks and Badges aren't shown explicitly in the stationary set.
2) New School PE T-Shirt for Secondary One students are not ready for selling yet.
3) Not enough $10 and $5 notes for exchange.
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And the results of these problems -->
1) Lots of parents started coming into the store and ask me the same question:
Do you sell socks and badges here?
And I would answer, Yes. But however if you already purchased the stationary set you would not need to buy socks and badges anymore. Why? Because there's already 2 pairs of socks and 1 badge included in the stationary set.
Reactions?
1) Ok, thanks. They walk out of the shop.
2) Uhh, its ok. I want to buy extra pairs of socks and extra badges. And so they start grabbing socks from me, and I have to cater to their payment.
As a result, I've been busy selling socks and badges from around 9.00am to 12noon.
And its really BORING to answer the same questions again and again.
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2) Parents started coming into the shop and say: Do you sell School PE T-Shirt here.
And my answer would be NO.
And they will say, but the uniform vendor told me to get it here.. WTH!?
After that I would have to waste another mouthful of saliva to explain to them about the new school PE T-Shirt. Explaining to them that the PE T-Shirt is in no way linked to Popular Book Co. PTE LTD, and that its sold by an external vendor.
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3) Mei Hua Auntie(JieJie - Whatever, she looks too young for an Auntie) keep coming into the shop to exchange 50 dollar notes for smaller notes, like $10, $5 or coins. But there isn't enough. This results in me to take out all the bloody $10 and $5 notes I have in my cash register, and exchange them for $50 notes.
As a result, I do not have anymore $10 and $5 in the store. And when customers need change like $33, I have to give them in $2 notes. Troublesome eh?
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Auntie Jennifer today is as 'Gan Jiong' as usual, with her style of doing things in a very flustered and unorganised manner, but luckily everything turned out quite well, although the sales aren't as good as last year.
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Gotta work tomorrow too. Lets hope my Throat which has not yet recovered can still 'tahan' for another day.
Fantastic Day it was, I wonder how would tomorrow be like.
~ 9:45 PM -
theSTARkeeper
