Wednesday, June 16, 2004
MY AMBITION : i am going to become a data entry personnel at exhibition and shows when i grow up.
today was the 2nd day of my 4 days stint at Singapore Expo, CommunicaAsia, BroadcastAsia and EnterpriseIT Exhibition organized by Singapore Exhibition Services.
i intended to wake up at 6.30. but went back to sleep until 745. i played ps2. got ready only at 8.30. so i was late. reached the bus stop at 915 to find that the traffic sucks and i missed my bus so i sprinted to the MRT and hopped on a train. reached hall 6 at 9.35. supposed to report at 945. yup. doors were closed. but apparently, almost all e other data entry staff were inside already. restocked all the plastic folders and stuff. doors opened at 10.00 but visitors were only allowed to enter the exhibition premises at 10.30. so all of them clogged up the registration area. i am sitting at the corner, just next to the entrance of the exhibition area. my workstation, number 19 is the last. i went off for lunch at 12. yucks. picked the wrong container. rice with brocolli. EEEE. wanted to get the fried rice with chicken! so, being hardworking me i went back inside at 1220, although my work was supposed to resume at 1230. so i took over the middle workstation, cause they needed to go for lunch. i had to cover up, coz its the nearest counter to the queue. work is basically like this
collect the forms
enter serial number
enter name as in NRIC
enter company
enter country
indicate Y and N
for main area of interest
gotta process the forms mentally fast
just by skimming through the ticks
and then print
and then slot in OVERSEAS visitor or LOCAL visitor
and then if they are of managerial post and above, give the show directory. otherwise smile and say thank you
:)
so i had to repeat this like a few hundred times
i migrated to another person's computer. until 2pm. the crowd was crazy man.
cause half of the people at my regisration counter weer like MIA.. left only 6. my section has 12 counters. the other part got 7 i think.
after which i went back to my own secluded corner
had to raise up my time everytime im free to grab the attention of the ppl in the queue. otherwise i can just wait falling asleep
yup. so this went on until 5plus
when 2 guys came up and asked me where is this particular spanish country. beats me. they were like asking me over 15 minutes.
haha. i gave up and just gave them the show directory
well, the database doesn have what they wanted what.
here is a general observation
it seems that all the staff of the following companies came down to view the exhibits
singtel
m1
starhub
ida
a relatively large proportion of singtel m1 starhub visitors were females and i was able to guess that they approach my counter due to their poise. always lots of make up. tied up hair. branded handbag (don't know whether gucci or fendi or what not), those kinda suits that makes them look as people of high importance. yup. at least they bother to say thank you
some visitors feel that we are obligated to act as robots and bootlick them. haha
the person next to me... he was asked by a pissed visitor to get the supervisor. so phoebe came and yup. phoebe got scolding or smtg like that. but phoebe's cool abt it. i think she's a nice person lah. anyway, yup shes my supervisor from SES. thought she was erm weird, during the briefing on saturday. but yup very nice person. character that is.
i guess the only way to calm ppl down is by smiling, saying hello, thank you, greeting them.
the only troublesome thing is that we gotta ask them "is this name here reflected in your ic?" or "is this your ic name?" "can i check with you the spelling of your company?" "which country do you want me to key in your company as?" "you forgot to fill this up" "can i have your namecard pls" "is it ok if i attach it together?"
and yayayaya
blah blah blah
and isit convincing enough why we shld all quit our studies and bcum data entry OPERATORS? obviously not. so ridza, 12 days to common test. you gotta mug like crazy for the last 10 days of ur hols. oppps. i got 6 days break after my last paper
muahaha
anyway today alot of vice presidents, and ceo, director, managing director, senior engineers, managers. yup. yalah. of lil divisions.
|| nobone ran out @ 6/16/2004 09:42:00 pm ||