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Monday, December 17, 2007

gonna keep things brief this time cause i know you readers will get tired of reading excessive text sooner or later ...

* day 13 . 141207 [A] .

rumours that me and the Hoyu girl are going steady began going around .
and I just chose to ignore these rumours .
cause we're just friends in the first place so there's nothing to hide . (:
with regards to work , there was nothing worthy of note besides the fact that I've observed even more customers (on average , about 40 a day compared to less than 20 the previous week) coming with gift wrapping requests as Christmas continues to draw even closer .

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* day 14 . 151207 [M] .

same shift with the manager once again , and this time I finally arrived before her .
was kept busy for the first half of my shift as she constantly handed me more tasks like re-arranging location of products .
however the second half (3-6pm) passed very slowly cause I was told to stand guard at the five trolleys of products outside the store and therefore I had nothing else to do .

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* day 15 . 161207 [A] .

within a five-minute time frame , i witnessed two customers complaining about disparities in display price and the actual price they had to pay at the cashier area .
the first was a bespectacled lady and man , she was fierce .
seriously .
the manner in which she gave the feedback seemed like we were totally in the wrong .
the second was a middle-aged guy who told the counter staff about the price disparity straight but didn't go on any further , to the staff's relief .
there was one last customer who asked for wrapping of a teddy bear 10 minutes after closing hours when I was already helping to clean up the area .
of course the staff (not me . I suck at wrapping , big time) had to entertain her still and the frustration was kinda evident based on their facial expressions .
oh , and I nearly forgot .
the area manager made a surprise stop at Watsons at about 8pm .
I suppose he would drop by twice a month cause the last time he visited was exactly 15 days ago on 011207 .
he suggested some changes to the positioning of the trolleys outside the store which were implemented the next day .

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* day 16 . today . 171207 [M] .

supposed to be off day but some last minute changes to the roster meant that it had been changed to wednesday instead .
sort of transformed into the "sai kang" (translate : work that nobody would be willing to do voluntarily) man of Watsons for today .
if there was flatting out of cardboard boxes to be done , I was there .
if accumulated rubbish had to be cleared , I was there too .
well , cause there wasn't much that I could help in displaying of new stock anyways .
talking about new stock , like previous mondays , the amount coming in was massive .
two full trolley loads of goods that stacked up to at least 2m high came in just as I went for my lunch break .
other than the usual heavy load of new stock , again there wasn't anything noteworthy .
spent the last half hour of the shift sticking on Sensormatic labels to products at the cosmetics zone .

those memories. 20:53