I swear when I have kids, I will send them for etiquette class man !!!!
My company posted some newspaper ad to hire some staffs that we need. And you cannot believe the kind of shitty phonecalls I get !
Since my position is B.S.B.H (bao sua bao hai)Executive, naturally my mobile phone number is being published in the national newspaper. Therefore, I've been submitted to the fate of being a walking telephone operator of sorts, on a WEEKEND !!!!
First 10 calls were fine... I was still pretty nice, directed them to the correct number to call cause I'm not in charge of the position that they are looking for. 11 calls and up and its getting on my nerves, this phone business.
I mean can you imagine, I'll be at Louis Vuitton and then my phone ring... when you pick it up, its some human being that can't speak very good english looking for a job, so you gotta speak chinese to them, which kinda makes me look like I'm from some cheena country or something. Which to me, is my greatest nightmare.
By the 13th phonecall, you start to get ridiculous phonecalls from students who can't hold a decent conversation. And after each phonecall, I wonder are they retarded or what ? If they don't have much qualification (which is quite impossible in Singapore), I can understand... But if they told me what they are doing right now (in school) and the conversation is so sucky, I wonder how they are going to survive in the future, I mean in the working world.
Example #1:
Boy: "Hello, I saw your ad"
Me: "Oh, which position are you looking for ?"
Boy: "Promoter"
Me: "Ah.. okay, just wanna let you know that its a permanent full time position, not a part-time or temporary position, is that okay with you ?"
Boy: "Yes"
-Silence-
Me: "Soooo... how old are you ?"
Boy: "19"
Me: "And may I know what are you doing now ?"
Boy: "Waiting for results"
Me: "And what will you be doing after you get your results ?"
Boy: "Going back to school"
Me: "SO THAT MEANS YOU ARE NOT LOOKING FOR A PERMANENT FULL TIME POSITION JOB !!!!"
Boy: "Oh..."
Me: "Thank you and goodbye !!!!!"
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Example #2, which I bet my ass its a call from an ah beng:
Boy: "What job you got ?"
Me: "Sorry ?"
Boy: "What job you got ?"
Me: "We have Accountant and Promoter, which one do you want ?"
Boy: "Promoter"
Me: "Its a permanent full-time position, its not a part time or temporary position, are you okay with it ?"
Boy: "Yah"
By then, I know that he's a small ah beng fartMe: "How old are you ?"
Boy: "14"
By now, my blood is boiling like nobody businessMe: "THAT MEANS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A FREAKING PART-TIME JOB AND THIS JOB IS NOT FOR YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE SOOOOOOO UNDERAGE !"
And that idiot just hang up my phone, can't blame him actually cause I sounded like a total bitch... hahaha------------------------------------------End----------------------------------------
Know what I mean now ? Its sooooo appalling !!!!
Just send shivers down my spine and I told myself my kids will never be so idiotic.
So at the end, I managed to secure 6 interviewees over a span of 2 days and guessed what ?!?!
Only 1 showed up !!!! NONE even bother to give me a call and tell me that they can't make it due to some lame excuse. I mean I totally understand the lame excuse part if they don't want the job anymore and its just too embarrassed to tell me the truth. But to just be a no-show, that's utterly rude !
Grrrr.... Guess I can't be a HR, eh ? hehehehe
To all HR out there: kowtow to you for being able to withstand such situations :D
xoxo
