I love my job! What's there not to love? I get to meet cool people like almost everyday, change my smell each day(lol) and its easy money.
Just by saying
"hi can i help you? this is the nicest/best-seller fragrance here. I suggest you get the biggest bottle coz its value for money. So you'll take this?" i can get up to 6 bucks. If there is 10 customers, i can get 60bucks. Plus my basic daily pay. Wow..haha
Ok, i'm not trying to boast just trying to share wit you ppl my current contented lifestyle:D
Oooo, and i get to buy cosmetics/skin-care at cheaper prices(jealous?)haha. Well my job do has its bad points too la. Like for example, you have to sumtimes serve arrogant customers, continue smiling eventhough the customers are rude. Plus sumting i am good at, act interested in wat the customers are saying and laugh at their jokes eventhough its not funny.
It takes time to master dat ok.lol. Well, its not exactly dat difficult to learn. The key points to take note of when you're not interested in a conversation is.
- Eventhough you're listening half-heartedly to the convo, do keep an opening ear. For example, take out the main points of the convo. With you knowing the main points of the convo, you can still converse with the other party witout knowing wat he/she just said but still appear to be attentive.
- Nod your head at certain intervals to show to the other party that you are listening to wat he/she is saying. This takes some practice coz if you were to nod at the wrong intervals, your acting might be known.
- Also laugh or makes acknowledging voices at certain timing too. Wat i mean by acknowledging voices is like "ya lor" "hmmm" "aiyo", you guys get it rite?. Also referring to the first point. IF you find out dat the other party is touching on funny subjects, be sure to laugh at certain points. This helps you to show dat ur listening.
- Lastly, do add on to the conversation to show ur interested. If only the other person is toking, he/she can sense that ur not interested unless your main motive is to really show/tell him/her to just SHUT THE FARK UP!hee
Well, dats the 4 main points i follow when serving customers that tends to over-talk and expect us to be interested.haha. Of coz, most of the time i do serve with sincerity ok. I will start conversation out of sincerity and if i'm interested on the topic, i would definitely reply with sincerity too:D
Some people might think dats being too fake. But hey, you have to be fake in some points of ur life rite. Especially if it helps ur future or bring you kachingzz.. Who does'nt love money tell me?
Like a saying dat i believe in. Money can't buy everything, but everything is money:D
Kamsa Hamnida!
S
Labels: arrogant customers, fake, Fragrance
This post is bout my work and colleagues and some of you might find it boring. So read it if you want but dun read and then complain it is too boring ok:DOk i noe my blog is getting a lil boring with lack of updates and pictures rite. But wat to do? the busy life of a working bachelor.haha.
I oso want to shout out dat i hit my first daily target on Sunday!!!haha. So i earned $50+ commision as i sold $1318 worth of fragrance. Ok i know you guys are not interested. Just one more thing. I have improved on my wrapping skills and customers even praised it leh!!haha. ok i better stop. FYI: i am not boasting :D
Last two days(monday and tuesday) i worked at the entrance of Tampines Mall helping at the fragrance promotion there. If you guys din know bout it, go now!! The promo is till this Sunday and branded fragrances like Issey Miyake, Burberry, Ferragamo, Calvin Klein are going for a discount of nearly 50% off! Serious!!
The work at Tampines Mall is exhausting as on the first day i had to be there by 8:00 a.m. The worst thing is dat i wore formal clothings as no dress code was given by my boss and when i reached there. Everyone else was donning casual clothings. Found out dat i could wear polo tee, jeans and sneakers. Paiseh or wat!
Then i had to clear stocks and arrange them and squat here and there with the limited space clothing i had on lor. Not to say, the weather was HOT!
First day had 7 workers including me. They were all pretty nice but being the over-shy me, i kept to myself la.haha. I opened myself up more as the day past by. Closing time was the most havoc as our RME(sumting like the boss) was high. She kept on saying weird things and do stupid poses. She reminded me of Patricia Mok lor. She look exactly the same.haha. She would be saying" i too stress oready and smoke". Too stress when she never even do anything.haha.
Then one colleague who is like one of the person in-charge looks like TypicalBen(the famous blogger). At first i toght it was him but his name is Jeremy. Yesterday was the best as i opened up more and became my crazy self. I had to be loud too la since my other colleagues are loud oso.
They are all individuals of their ownself and appeal differently to customers. Like myslef, i attract more malays, indians and mostly mixed blooded clients. One of my colleague Meiyan said because i have the eye of an Indian and the skin tone and the looks of a malay.haha. She was confused at first if i was a Indian or a Malay.
Wat she actully said was kinda true. I really do have the eye of an Indian as i have those typical bulging eye of an Indian. She oso said i have a very bright eyes and nice deep double eyelids. haha. For once sumone appreciate my big eyes.lol.
Then there is this very lame guy who kept asking me and Meiyan about waterfalls. lol. He asked wat would be our reaction if we saw a waterfall and all. When we asked wats the answer to his qs. He showed us the hand sign that means Fuck You. Which totally makes no sense. He very funny oso lor. He has attotude and serve customers like he was forced to. When customers asked how long the perfume can last, he use his hand to say the whole day. The funny thing is, Customers still buy from him.haha.
Then there is this girl named Eunice that use very weird words to describe people. Like the customers today very 'pau' leh. Which she means as the customers today like to ask alot of qs but not buy.haha. Then another person in-charge Weilun is 25 years old but he look 19 lor. Then he like to boast baout he young looks.haha. But for a 25 year old, he is very childish lor. Using the bubble tea pearl and stuck it to his teeth to make people laugh.hah. To cut it short, every one has their own personality ok.
And for once, i was at Tampines Mall till 1:30 a.m lor. Coz we can only close and count stocks till the last customer leaves. So the first day we went home at 1:30 a.m and ytd went home at 12:30 a.m. I leave the nearest lor, the rest of them leave at Sengkang, Punggol, Ang Mo Kio and Bukit Panjang.
All of them are around my age. The youngest is 16 and the oldest being 25 lor. The middle would be 17 and 18. I think dats wat makes me more attached to them after just two days but not so attached to the colleagues at Vivo as they are OLDer.haha. I seriously miss them la. Most of them work at Tangs Orchard and Takashimaya. I dun mind being posted there if the workers are all that young.haha. Tang Vivo oso not bad as it is not dat strict but i just wish there were much more younger people.
Ok this post is a lil boring i think but my body is still too tired from working 17 hours on Monday and 14 hours yesterday standing all the way ok. However the company and team spirit made it worthwhile.aww.haha.
Kamsa Hamnida!
S
Labels: Fragrance, Tampines mall
I started work oready!! yea!!haha.
Quite happy with the current job. Working as Fragrance Promoter at Tangs Vivocity. My first day at work was on wed and i sold nothing lor. I was oso not ready to sell anything yet as i had no info bout the stuff at all. For my division i'm selling
Calvin klein, Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Lopez, Davidoff & Keith Cole. Can you imagine, 7 brands of fragrance to memorize of.
Worst thing is its the corporate month which means i can sell other Divisions fragrances oso. Dat makes more brands to memorise lor. I now focus on 9 brands only to not make my head burst from too much info. 1 brand oso have like 5 diff kind of fragrance leh. Ok i noe you guys not interested la.lol.
The main point is that
please come to support me. Come to Tangs Vivo and look for me and buy fragrances from me. For the 2nd day and 3rd day(today) i only sold a total of 6 fragrance. So i want to sell more to meet my first tier target.
Coming to Vivo Tangs is better than Tangs Orchard as you might bump to hot guys giving out free chocolates like i did today. You can opt to lick the melted chocolate of their lean body if you want to.lol. I noe ladies and some guys are oready imagining right? nvm can imagine more.haha. Plus, they are wearing Tux. Which guy dun look hot in Tux right. Dun worry ladies, the chocolate are dark chocolate so its not too fattening ok. Actually i think those guys are promoting for Candy Empire. But i dun understand why hot guys like them would want to work like that lor. Candy Empire however is very smart, they know by hiring hot guys, more people would take the free chocolate and be a customer of candy empire.
And it actually works!
i saw a lot of ladies going to the guys asking for sex chocolate.haha. Of coz witout the guys, people would still take the chocolate but that's that. With the hot guys, people would actually ask wat the promotion is about.
Wa, i think i toked about the hot guys wit chocolate more than i did on coming to support me lor.haha.
This job allows me to update frequently as if i did morning shift, i can go home at 5 30. I can oso sit if i want to lor. But i would not get customers la.haha. I can oso use the fragrance dat i can only dream of buying . It is not dat expensive but teens like me definitely would not have the money to get it unless you live off your parents la. Shame on dependent teens like dat lor. Can work oready but too lazy so end up still asking money from parents.
Worst still, those muggers still want to have girlfriends/boyfriends when they cannot even provide for themselves leh. But not all couples are like dat la, like today i served a sweet young couple. The boyfriend bought for the girlfriend Sarah Jessica Parker duo Covet set which cost $155. He let the gf choose what she want and not say if its too ex or wat . so sweet hor.haha.
Maybe i can now change my preceptions about teenagers in relationship?? haha i dunnoe.
Kamsa Hamnida!
S
Labels: Fragrance
