Thursday, December 23, 2004 ;
3:18 PM
I was looking for a job these few days and i chanced upon one with decent pay and somewhat interesting job. It's a job doing promotions in shopping malls, you know those people showing you sample and all that. KT called them up and arranged an interview, and also on behalf of SI and me!The first job interview was yesterday, so all of us met up at a place and went to search for the shop. You see, our KT had aready asked for directions and got a Maybank landmark but after we reached that landmark it wasn't there ! We walked on a few minutes before we found it. Good thing all the shops and offices there are in a row. Well, inside there, we got to fill up some personal details form then we were ushered into a room for interview. ( Psst, we peeked that manager playin solitaire before he interviewed us ! ) Okay ~, the form was in front of him but other than him looking at our names, i bet he din read anything else. He did a random background check on us then quickly added that we are prospects and wanted us on an observation training the very next day ! The whole thing ended in 15 mins ! This is really not what i expected... Today was the observation training day and we were supposed to observe our seniors on their rounds and learn.
Cool, when we reached the office to be introduced to our triners later, all of a sudden shouts were coming from a room ! I mean shouts by like 20+ ppl ! Awww, motivation course. Roughly about 30 mins of random shouting again = ='', we were finally on the move in our teams to our target spot. The three of us were divided into teams and mine was to go to Genting ! Lolx ! Genting again but this guy right, he's called Kenn and his driving is really crazy. He modified his Satria into acceleration mod and his acceleration is crazy ! After his first 2 gears i think we are already at about 90+ km/h(!!!) but so sad his speedometer not working so i can't really know ! Anyway, Genting is an hour+ ride for him, he really speeds i tell you. Uphill ? Rev up and turn corners until you can hear the tyres screech ! Then on those small downhill corners ? A freak !! He aligned himself on the outer lane, then turn in sharp until nearly bang the divider and continue keeping to that inner lane until all of us got flung to the other side of the car !! And he still revs and change gear midway !! Then the journey downhill was worse. There are times he almost drift !! Then also a time 100+ km/h downhill !! I can see him very quick handed faster shift down to low gear to control his car !! Then when we reached plain land, he went so fast he zigzagged between all the cars all missing a hair touch and also he went almost touching bumper to bumper with the car in front ! Everytime he did one of those crazy stuff, i felt "accident going to happen already" and during the last time i got into one, i was still very calm then but this time i was afraid !! Oh gawd.
Luckily i reached the summit safely, his gf behind him kept<- massaging him whenever she felt scared of his driving and she does that almost everytime ! After parking already, our driver said stomach ache = =''. Haihz but that did not deter him to do his work !! A monster !!
Anyway, i thought we are doing some advertising thing and collecting market survey cos that is what he said to me but after seeing him work, hah ! It's direct sales ! He wanna brainwash me ar ?! You found the wrong guy man. He is selling this perfume, some so called non alcholic, natural, non allergic and from Calvin Klein! And 4 bottles for RM59.90 ?!? Oh man, it's fake stuff. You wanna know how he operates ?
Here is how he do it : Hi, speak mandarin? ( then change language ) Oh, don't worry i'm not a bad guy. I'm from an advertising company and we are doing a market survey here. Have you heard of CK? Calvin Klein? ( The victim say yes or no here makes no difference) Here i have a perfume from the company. ( Spray sample ). How is it? (Before the victim could comment) Very nice right? It's like you and your bf/gf running on the beach right ? Hahahaha. Today i'm not asking you to buy anything cos we are doing a promotion. This product will be launched January next year at places like KLCC, Times Square, Mid Valley and Sunway Pyramid. When the product is launched then, it will be RM139.90 for a 60ml bottle. What do you think of the price? ( victim says expensive or affordable doesn't matter too. ) Oh, but today we are doing a promotion. For this bottle here, the price is all the way ~ ( his hand then go from shoulder length and drop to his knees with his finger waving up and down all the way !! ) to RM 59.90 ! A 60% discount ! And not only that it's also a buy 1 free 1. ( Shows out two package in front on the table ) All these two for RM 59.90 ! ( Now here is the interesting part, depending on the situation these are what will happen 1) Are you a student? Yes?? If you show to my observer here ( that's me) your ID card, I will give you another 2 more bottles for free ! This is special for students only ! 2) Are you a staff working here ? If you show to my observer here your Pass I give you staff price ! Another 2 bottles into the deal ! 3) Hi! ( give out hand to shake then intro himself and asks the victim's name ) As a friend ok, i give you a special offer. Dun tell anyone else you know ! Other than this buy 1 free 1 I give you another 2 more bottles ! This is special for you because you are my friend now ! 4) Hi ! Brother ! Now i'm going to give you a special deal. You see my observer there ? He is there to check how i sell my stock and i should only can give you buy 1 free 1 but since he is my friend, he close one eye for me. So now, i give you another 2 more bottles for RM 59.90 ! 5) Since you are my last customer lady, i give you a special discount ! 4 bottles for the same price of RM 59.90 ! 6) Ok, now i give you a special offer because you are my tenth customer. Not only you have this 2 bottles, i give you another 2 more bottles and the sample i'm using !! 7) Do you have a KFC receipt ? You see we are doing this with KFC also so if you have the receipt i give you a special offer ! Another 2 more bottles for the same price !)
Woot, this guy really know how to talk ! Since ours has a "brand" name inside, so ours is easy to sell but another team also doing in Genting had a hard time. They are also selling perfumes but their packaging is unpleasant and the smell like soap smell so hard to sell out. So ask for our help. My this trainer, of all things use the same trick again !! Again next year going to launch at KLCC at what crap, price is RM 129.90 now drop all~ the way ~ down to RM 59.90. His first target's reaction ? RM129.90 for this small tube ?!? Failed to we did a small meeting. He said : " RM129.90 too expensive for this thing ? Maybe we should put it as RM 109.90 and how much is that in Japan Jay Shen ? Roughly 2200 yen ? Ok we use this tactic and also put it as limited edition in Japan. Oh yeah, since it smell like soap and the name is called Passion, maybe we say use this in your bathroom and when your partner comes you all will have fun ! Or this one. How does it smell? Like you and your gf/bf bathing together in the bathroom right ? Hahahaha" What is all this? Crap !! He even used that lame gf/bf joke on ppl who had married ! What he think? All married ppl have affairs iszit ? The actual deal is anything there is 4 bottles for RM59.90 no matter what the product is ! And how you persuade doesn't matter all that matters that you sell it !! He use all those crap to cover himself as a direct sales guy ! ( He even once said Har? The way i wear look like a salesman meh ? = ='' )
Anyway, I don't want to do a job that needs me to lie to get the sales. I'm outta here.
light my way ♥
