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I was bored at work, n decided to try out translating nursery songs on Google. See! So entertaining!

Sometimes, you have to be arrogant to get what you want.

I wonder why people never learn. Be nice and I'll be nice as well.

As usual, I was doing my daily monotonous job, and was trying to reach a certain person in a certain company. Now, I really hate it when their underlings ask me to call back (but don't give me a specific time), act like they're the boss, or are just plain rude. I hate it even more if it's a PRC. Because they always ask me to speak in THEIR mother tongue. Hello, you work in MY country and you ask me to speak in your comfortable language? That's the biggest joke ever.

Anyway, she told me her boss doesn't come to the restaurant. So fine, office number? Don't want to give. Never mind if she was polite. But she tried to act smart and ask where I was calling from. Rudely. I snapped back at her and revealed my company's name. Which is, by the way, one of the biggest and most influential companies in my country.

Obviously I left her shivering and begging for forgiveness. Hahaha, ok no. But she got scared and gave me what I was asking for.

This is not the first time I've had to act arrogant to get what I want. I don't like it, really. Most of the time, I have no intention of even calling the person I'm looking for anymore. I just want to get the kick of scaring these morons who think they can act big.

Yeah, I'm horrible.

You don't give terms & conditions when giving a reward.

I have worked at so many places before, and have seen all sorts of people in my life. Nasty bosses, nasty clients, nasty colleagues.

My current two bosses are the ultimate limit. Seriously, all the EQ courses in the world won't save them.

They decided to have some mini competition between the two teams, and to cut the story short, we won. The initial reward was to let us all go back 1 hr earlier. But today when he announced the winning team, he decided to change the reward to us coming to work 1 hr later.

Reason? Because afternoon is peak period. My foot. 5pm to 6pm, hardly any clients are sitting pretty in their office waiting to receive calls from us.

And what's the point of coming in 1 hr later? Firstly, starting at 930, and 830, doesn't make a difference. What are we supposed to do in the morning with an extra hour? Go market also cannot. Sleep extra 1 hr also not much difference. Jam is still the same. What's worse, I don't have a shuttle bus to work at that time, and no way am I walking 20 mins in the bloody hot sun to work.

So we decided to counter offer. We said we still wanted to go home 1 hr earlier, but since he's so damn worried about lack of manpower *eyeroll*, we will take different days instead.

Guess what the bloody idiot replied? Replied with terms and conditions. Must have good sales on the days we pick, must not have people on MC or on leave, must this must that. Then wth you give a reward for when you have so many terms and conditions? It's like giving a present and then saying: "I expect something back from u in return ok?"

We got fed up and replied back that we'll just come in 1 hr later as proposed initially, and now the idiot insist we go back 1 hr earlier. Seriously, he can never NOT piss us off every day.

Ela in Thailand

You don't have to parade around in bikinis w ur face caked w makeup to make a difference in this world.

These few days, I was in places that not many pple will be willing to visit. I met pple who have no identities, no homes, no future. My heart really saddened when I saw their living conditions.

As I'm blogging this from my comfortable aircon room in bangkok w free wifi, these pple r sleeping in badly ventilated cramped houses w terrible sanitary conditions.

I came back to a wifi room to discover who won miss Singapore. Well, I usually don't follow the contest, neither do I read about their background, but so happened after I got a job where I'm supposed to read the papers, I know a bit about the girls.

This girl said she wanted to prove that beauty queens aren't dumb. Do u actually need to have a title to prove so?

If someone had actually said she wanted to make use of the influence this title can give her, to make a difference to the less fortunate pple in third world countries, I might not be so cynical of such pageants.

What a sad n materialistic world we live in.

Well, this past one week had been a mixture of excitement and anger.

The exciting part first. I got to eat lunch with HIM! He's too hot. I should go drown in cold water, lol. And for the entire week, I had fun moments with him. Like bumping into him at the pantry where he gave me a hello hug *blush*, and writing a BYE BYE via Draw Something and showing it to him, hahahaa, I made him laugh on that one.

Anger part? 2 inconsiderate colleagues. Thanks to them, most of our special privileges have been taken away. And the irritating part? They don't feel guilty about it. Grrr.

Oh well, I'm trying to look for another job, so I shouldn't care so much.

Monday, I have a color coach session! Fun! Can't wait. And Tues I have dinner appt with a lovely couple. Yay, I finally have a life.

Don't know what's wrong with teachers nowadays. So bloody rude.

"What do you want" <--- this is how she answered me on the phone

"Just send me an email" *hang up* ,<--- what the hell????

Ha. I got threatened with a lawsuit. Like wtf. Sorry, as a christian I shouldn't be swearing. But I'm so irritated.

And my upper ups still think I'm at wrong to report her. Like I give a shit. My heart isn't with this company anymore.

But I'm still in a good mood. Because dad found out about the threat, and I told him the entire story. He's proud of me! He said I did the right thing by reporting her. And that now my manager will know better than to piss me off, lol.

I have not seen Mike for a few days. Sigh. Kinda miss his gorgeous grin.

Wow, its been too long since I blogged. But honestly, there wasn't anything good to blog about.

So now I'm in telesales. And honestly, I hate it to a core. I have quotas to hit, I get nagged at everyday for low sales, etc etc etc.

Maybe I shouldn't be in sales line, because I do not like to force or persuade pple to purchase/sign up/agree with me on anything if they aren't keen at all.

The only perk I get from going to work is the sight of this gorgeous new colleague, Mike. He's so good looking and very friendly. *drool* But back to reality, gazing at Mike every day isn't going to fill my rice bowl.

For a while, I have been wondering whether to stay or go. Nice colleagues, yes. Understanding boss... hmm.. bearable. Nice office, nope. Pay wise? Sucks to the max. I wonder why I even lasted till now.

Thurs... my answer came. I was doing my calls and called some company. The moment I introduced myself and where I was from, the bitch screamed at me. She said many pple from my company had been calling her, she's not interested, and how come we don't have a tracking system. She was totally unreasonable and rude, and best... she used the F word on me.

I had to control my temper and explained to her politely that we have many sale depts here, and I am unable to track calls from other depts, however on my end, I'll take note and not call anymore. That should have pacified her, but NO! She told me not to dare hang up the phone and that she wanted to speak to the manager. And went on screaming and screaming away, god knows what she was talking about. I was very sick and tired of that bitch and repeated myself to her, that I will take note, and not call anymore, goodbye. I didn't even bother to thank her.

Now, I know everyone hates telemarketers. But seriously, must u go to the limit and start screaming and swearing? If you had a bad day, that's your damn problem. Don't bring it to work and lash out at innocent pple. And I warn you, you can reject me, you can hang up on me, but don't you bloody ever dare swear at me.

I lodged a complain against that bitch. I told them what happened and that this woman has no work ethics, is unprofessional, and is not fit to run a business.

And guess what! I had to go for counseling because of it! Said I didn't take the company's reputation into consideration. Hello, then what about staff welfare? Your staff got bullied. Your staff, who slogs for you, was verbally assaulted. And all you pple care about is your bloody reputation?

During counseling, I broke down and cried. I was so pissed and angry, and so tired of this stupid job. And that's where I decided, I'm leaving. I've had enough.

Apparently the bitch called back in the evening, demanding my manager apologised to her. Crazy. I think she better go to Institute of Mental Health for a check up.