Little bit by bitz

Again, it's been awhile since I blogged. Due to the weather, laziness, keep me away from blogging. hahaha. Been playing with my iPhone 4, that's why. Little bit by bit, I'm gonna share my bitz of my daily life. As usual, you work, eat, sleep and work again. Same routine, basically! And, I'm on my annual holiday for a week! woohoo!

Snacks from Slovakia. How much my ex-supervisor love me, this is how much she brought back from her country for me =) How sweet! I finish them in a day.

I went Westfield for shopping and I found this 'cake' in one of the cupcake booth. Interesting pieces of work and I wondered how much does it cost. o.o

I had this seafood 'wat tan ho' in one of the chinese restaurant in London where we have our karaoke session. Huge scallops and prawns. Therefore, its worth £8.80 per plate full!

Ba Chang all the way from Malaysia! A loving friend of mine brought them from a thousand miles. Missing home, indeed.

Last but not least, the bruises I get from work. Well, its not as bad when I first started work! I used to have like 10 blue-black on my both legs. hahaha. And I've got promoted as a Supervisor early this month! Sounds like a good promotion but the pay is isnt high as you thought and you'll need to work MORE! Babi shitty kiam siap company I've ever seen. bleh~

oh, and I brought her in to my work place. At least, work wouldn't be so boring =/

A week has passed.

Well, a week has passed real quick. It's time to hunt for rooms after contract ends in August. I din't wish to stay here longer and my parents are complaining about my 'shitty' job. I just don't understand why can't I work on the job that I love and happy with? Working in a retail store is not a bad job after all. I think they just discriminate my job =( But what to dooo, I'm really into advertising rather than graphic design and it's hard for me to adapt the culture here and honestly, they would only hire local people unless you are EXTREMELY genius or they will hire you in their shitty company like my previous ones. To be honest, I'm just an average designer who is not HIGHLY passionate in graphic design and born to be creative. There's alot more I need to learn and adapt which I am too lazy to do it now. hehehe. Oh well, I'm kinda a little bit 'rusty' in Adobe tools now. Therefore, I just hope when I go back, I could find a better job. Not to say 'better job' lah but I think most importantly, the company itself. Working in a shitty company will never work. =)

Anyway, I finally develop photos from my Anna Sui's super sampler. It's been 2 years and most of the pictures are over exposed so din;t have good ones, unfortunately. However, these are the few ones in good colour.

A 'Welcome Back' dinner

I've just realized I've been blogging about work recently. I must say it's an exciting work experience for the first time in a huge company because I could work with more people and get to share some experience unlike the previous small company I worked. The manager is approachable and I din't have the pressure when she's around. She's very bubbly, hardworking and she doesn't discriminate people. In short, she's a role model for everyone of us and gained our respect. However, when she's mad, everyone will be stress. ahhaha!

Anyway, we are supposed to have a farewell party with her last Wednesday however, it turns out to be a welcoming party. Not many people attended to the dinner because some of them don't want to come because no one invited properly (politics issues between each other. haha) and some can't communicate well. I wanted to get to know well with other colleagues so I decided to go. Going out with your manager I thought it would be nervous because I always think we need to be polite and most importantly, the table manners. Therefore, it turned out to be a normal dinner gathering where everyone chat like friends. We talk from life to how relief manager got sacked and work. Also, things that I did not expect the words came out from manager's mouth. She even asked me not to tell anyone about it. hahaha! It's pretty casual and I'm comfortable with it but then it's still quite sien because like I said, some of them from Poland and Slovakia and they cant really speaks English well so it's a little bit hard for me to communicate with them.

Overall, I pretty much enjoying working in this company regardless some politic issues within colleagues. And, I am not going to INVOLVING politics issues between other colleagues although I'm like in between them. I just have to be nice with everybody and have the motivation to work. Work starts tomorrow an I always wanted to look forward to have a nice relaxing weekends after hectic work on weekdays.

Immediate Sack

At about 12 noon, the director of this company visit us today so as usual, we are extremely busy. After he went back, I was shocked to know the relief manager that I've JUST mention in my previous post got sacked immediately today. The director of our company came today and he was being a SMART ASS complaining how shitty system in this company is and GAVE solutions to change to them. On top of that, he's saying that all the staff can't SPEAK ENGLISH and etc. So, the director got very angry and asked him for the car key and gave him 20pounds to take public transport home. hahaha! Hilarious die man~ Supervisor and everyone else are extreeeemely happy. I have not get the full details from other colleagues yet because it was a busy day. I SHALL pat more tomorrow~ hahaha~

So, who's the new manager now? Hmmm~ Probably my store manager will stay.

BackStabbing

Indeed. It's common to be happen everywhere in the world. Whether during your school times or at work because each of us has different personality. Most of the time, high-ranked position will get the most stabs on their back. Agree? Well, you must agree =p because they manage staff's productivity, merchandising or whatever. Also, they often abuse their power, acting smart and of course, they make sure you follow them even if you think they are retardedly WRONG! They often go like "Am I the manager or you? I want it to be in this fucking way. Now, do what I say!"

Time flies. This is my 4th week of work and they started to backstabbing some colleagues and soon-to-be new manager (he is a relief manager which he's supposed to be relieved for 4 weeks) in front of me and telling me stuff. Unfortunately, my lovely manger is leaving the company next Wednesday =( She's such a good manager! How could they let her go?!!) So, the relief manager might be replacing her according to other colleagues. I lazy to explain further why most of them hate the new manager. Maybe 9/10 hates him and here's the reason why (most of it are rumors unless I see it with my own eyes and hear them with my own ears);

1. he act smart and knows everything even though he came in a day after I join the company and he know exactly NUTS on how the company procedure.

2. trying to revamp the whole system.

3. he act hardworking when Area Manager visits.

4. he said he is the manager so he will not be helping all staff to do the delivery.

5. was being unreasonable most of the time.

So, that is it. I hate politics and I'm so not gonna involve in this shits. I just do what I HAVE to do and I'm happy with my position now. However, things are not gonna be easy I guess. Sigh~

Shop whilst working...

in a fashion company is a bad idea. You will ended up buying things from there and you always remind yourself you've got a STAFF PRICE! hahah~ I'm always in the stock room so I'll always get to see new stuff coming in the store before it goes to the shopfloor. Felt so tempting whenever I see clothes, shoes & accessories that I like and my colleagues always share their department's pretty stuff which makes us go like "Awwwww! I want them!!". Supervisor will show us pretty clothes whenever she unpack new delivery. And yes, I fall into their trap and ended up reserving the goods for staff purchase later. Belum dapat gaji, sudah 'splurged' (I couldn't remember how to translate them to BM =/ ) I promised bi that I WILL leave my staff discount card at home and will never spend money again.

First of all, this is my very first "oi sam" lunchbox from my bi. Fried rice with black sauce topped with egg. YUMMY~ =)

Yesterday, I bought this hp bling bling accessories! Cute,eh? They have pumps as well but it's too big and I think I will make them as a necklace instead because it's quite heavy to hang on your phone.

Every girls love this shirt when they are in the stock room and only left size 12. My colleague who wears size 8-10 bought them, someone even bought them even their in size 14/16! She came to me and ask for larger size and I told her we only left size 12. She was pretty disappointed. After few steps away from those shirts, she came back and said "I DON'T CARE!I'M getting 'em. I'll just wear a jumper on it" ROFL!!~ I told my supervisor about it and she was like "CAN SHE FIT 'EM?". I LOLed and said "She'll put on her jumpers". We only have 15 in stock and 6 of us bought them.

I saw another series of this shirt today while hanging those shirts! They've got a lacey ribbon on it and I WANT THEM! Luckily, don't have my size or else, i will sure pokkai before when I got my salary at the end of the month! Geez~ Working in a fashion retail is not a good idea!

4th day of work

is treating me well because I get to move around. Skins at the tip of my fingers are peeling and i dont know why. =( Probably the weather is dry.

I did new things today - hanging the clothes, changing the size cube, clipping a censor tag on the clothes and help out on a new delivery. Something new to learn in their warehouse for today that's why the time flies faster. I was tagging price tickets on more than 50 skirts half way and my store manager shout at me because it's time to go home! hahaha. She asked me to leave them aside and GO HOME! I was like "what???! it's only half left. Let me complete it!" and she said "QUICK QUICK! FEW MINUTES LEFT" I was like "okay okayyyy"

I'm the kind of person who never like to leave things half way done especially at work. I just couldn't get use to their working culture. Arriving at the same time and leaving at the same time! And, they could just stop whatever thing they half way doing it. I felt uncomfortable. How could they leave their work place with the thing you knew you still haven't finish yet? Weirds. But yeah, good for me. I will do that in future, probably after my probation. wahahah~ Somehow, I couldn't go through my heart if I ever did something like that. My colleague even watch out my lunch time and ask me to GO have my lunch. And my store manager reminded me my second break twice =.= As I said; Today is a busy day so yeah, isn't good that I'll just go late for lunch when we aren't busy? But it's okay they were being too good =) Just love them! hahaha.

That's all for today =)

Aching Feet during work

My second day of work really killing me badly. Firstly, the put me into the warehouse today and making me do the same thing for 8 hours. Secondly, my toes really hurts especially the end of my toes after hours of standing at the same place. I thought I'll be still at the shoe department in store so I could run around just like my first day of work whereby I don't feel tired at all. Well, probably a little but yeah, I enjoyed it.

People are not as friendly as I thought. Only a girl approach me at the first day of work and introduced herself to me. I got to make an initiative to introduce myself and I seriously couldn't get their names because they don't have basic names? LOL! Most of them aren't British they are from different places with non-common names to me. I sometimes couldn't get their name right =( And they couldn't get my name right too, I guess =p

I introduced myself as "Kerin", my store supervisor calls me "Karin", and manager calls me "Care-rin". Look, I don't know how should I pronounce my name when I introduce myself. I just wanna make them remember me so I get them donuts after my lunch break and wrote a notes and signed my name. I'm not sure if people would ever know this girl exist. hahaha. AH! I should have write my chinese name so they will know who am I!! Because I'm the only chinese work works there today.

I came back with aching feet and I was too tired till I skipped my dinner! I don't feel like working tomorrow =( I should get a better shoes perhaps. sigh~ what a day.