I think I need a walk round the wheel of luck...
I need a change of luck...
If ANYONE complains that they've been unlucky OR unhappy in their jobs and job-hopped a million times... pls see my situation before u complain next time...
Have been in the workforce for about 2 years plus already.... but in the 2 jobs that I've held so far, I have had the WORST luck anyone can imagine...
cos it's two times in a row... its like the book by Lemoney Snickets... "A Series Of Unfortunate Events"...
my very unfortunate incidents as follows...
My very first was at this small production house located at this a very old and dilapidated office in an industrial building… the very first time I went for the interview, there was this very auntie looking woman who greeted me. (Auntie looking meaning that she looked like she was the office cleaner and coffee lady as she had a rag in her hand when I walked in.) The entire office had 1 PC outside, and 1 Mac outside, and 3 Macs inside this cordoned off area where the AVID editing machines and Final Cut Pro were placed. Further inside, there were 2 rooms at the back of the office, and one of them looked like an office. The auntie told me to wait outside first, cos the person who called me wasn’t around. So I sat down at this plastic desk and chair near the door, there wasn’t exactly a reception area at all. Then the auntie asked me to go into the office to wait. When I waited inside, the lady who called me came back, and she said that she’ll start the interview when the producer is in the room… then guess wat… the AUNTIE came in… I was like… “Oh my gosh, luckily I didn’t call her auntie…” the interview went alright, and she said that she’s actually looking for an editor, not a producer… so I said I can try first I don’t mind, as I’ll just take it as a learning experience… then the interview ended… I left…
A few days later she called and asked if I wanna try being editor… and then she immediately asked me to go that evening and try out some editing with the AVID machine…. Ok fine…. But then she left me there and went to eat dinner!!! Then I actually finished in like 20 mins and I couldn’t find her or the lady that called me… and there was like only 1 guy in the entire office… and seeing that she wasn’t coming back I went to ask the guy where she went… that’s when I knew she went to eat!!! OMG how can any employer do that when you are doing an interview???!!!! After like almost an hour she finally came back… and we discussed terms… and the pay was like peanuts… $1300-1400 ok… I said I’ll consider about it… even though inside my mind I’ve already rejected it cos of the low pay… then another week later she called me again… and I mentioned that I find the pay too low, and I’m more interested in producing than in editing… then another week later she called and asked if I’m interested in a producer job, with starting pay at $1500… since I haven’t been getting any job offers, I thought I’ll just take it and see how…
My very first day was very scary for me… as she didn’t do a great job at introducing me to the staff and there wasn’t really a desk for me so I had to work at the pantry table…. Yes the very first day she gave me a project and asked me to try and conceptualise and write the script for a beverage…
Weeks went by and little by little she started to show her true colours… at first she was very nice… and since I worked with some of her previous media colleagues and contacts before, she likes to gossip about them to me… no doubt trying to make friends… but then as months went by, I noticed that she has some rather bad habits or characteristics:
1. she’s hopeless in managing people or the company…
2. no doubt the company is small, but she has really badly stored and kept equipment, etc that never seem to be serviced or checked for faults… a terrible mistake for a production company that relies so much on your equipment…
3. she likes to PR so much with the clients that sometimes it makes me wanna puke… imagine an auntie trying to flirt with you… that’s the scenario…
4. she has really extreme mood swings that make the entire company’s staff pissed with her when she screams pretty much like a mad dog, and worst still… FOLLOWS u around when she’s “barking” and doesn’t stop even if you walk away!!! Then the next moment she can be asking you if you want lunch and buys everyone in the office lunch… our verdict is that she’s menopausal…
5. she has very terrible hygiene… she doesn’t shave her armpits… she had BO… she has smelly feet… and wat’s worst is that she likes to wear sleeveless, or butterfly sleeves tops that show her plump arms… and the unshaven black forest and smelly armpits… she also likes to walk about bare footed in the office… her room stinks when she removes her shoes…. Once it was so bad it stank as if there was a dead fish or animal in the office… I almost puked when I went in to have meetings with her… even she also smelled it, and tried to blame it on the AC…
6. she likes to take jobs that have so short a turnaround period that it’s almost impossible to finish for us unless we work OT ( OT is not paid here… only can claim transport)… mainly duplication jobs that once made me work on a Sunday from 5am in the morning cos her unserviced Mac was cranky and didn’t wanna output the video onto VCD…
7. ultra cheapo commercials that make you ashamed when you see them on TV…
she doesn’t like people to rebut or speak back to her, or even have an opinion… she likes gentle lambs that will do her EVERY bidding… DEFINITELY NOT ME… so that’s why I’m her eye sore…
8. she likes to try to use food to bribe the staff… but to no avail… she once treated the ENTIRE company’s staff out for steamboat at one of her client’s restaurant… of cos we went… but we just ate and ate and ate… just gave one word answers to her questions to PR with her…. We ALL went shopping after the meal but told her that we were leaving for home…
9. her make-up skills are an eye sore… she puts only foundation, and cos her face is oily… it gathers around her nose, and some parts of the face, and looks patchy…
10. manicures are a waste of money & time for her… since she doesn’t even do proper grooming… nails are just not enough… the rest are much more important…
to be continued….
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