Sunday, June 01, 2014

Things we do at work.

Almost everyday,  put coins in our cup hoping for goodluck.

Eat eggs in the morning to "break the egg".

Coins stuff underneath the machines.

Stick SGD 1.00 coins onto the calculator.

Get rid of 5 cents as soon as possible.

Avoid putting the new coins with changi airport tower on it as it represents customers flying away.

Crush a coffee bean

Sell lots of beans early in the morning.

Walk figure 8 around the 2 table.

Change machines position.

Things we do for sales.

Have been doing/selling coffee machine for quite a while. Started off not knowing what goes on in a cup of latte a few years back, tell my now-colleague "this looks like a spaceship" when I first saw a Jura machine. Now I know almost everything by heart. How big this water tank is, how much beans it can take, the dimensions blablabla, whatever questions, I have an answer or answers. I have experienced stupid customers with stupid questions, stubborn customers that refuse to bulge, gullible customers that are so naive, difficult customers with ridiculously high expectation and smart customers. Its been fun talking to all of them, I learnt a little bit here, a little bit there. Don't waste time with this kind of people, talk chim stuff with that kind of people, target the kids for family, target the wife if the husband is the loving kind, zoom in on the maid or on the elderly parents, target their co-workers for office crowd.
I don't dread going to work, I look forward to each working day. I like the productiveness, I like the rewards that come with it. Previously at night safari, I was earning hourly. Now, I can't picture myself earning just hourly. So it is true, go ahead an experience different stuff. If Stanley had not gotten me to go for an interview with him, I would not started selling shitty dolce gusto capsules machine. And I wouldnt be sent to an Audi showroom, wouldnt  have been sent to Suntec City, wouldnt have been sent to Takashimaya where I met my Jura buddies now.
Very soon, I will be leaving to start my career in the healthcare sector. It will be a sad day for me on my last day of work.

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