First Day On The Job

December 30th: I started my first job. Well, official job. Work attachments don't count, do they?
Anyway, I got a job as a salesperson at IS.
(by the way, typing on my newly-acquired-but-first-generation iPad! Woohoo! I hate autocorrect though.)
Back to the story.
After today, I realized how much I pity salespeople. They just stand around all day, unable to sit and wait for people to come toward them. Then they paste this bright smile on their faces and use their manipulative skills to get customers to buy their products. I, sadly, became one of them today. And will for the next 2 days as well.
It started out pretty all right. Customers came and went and I smiled and convinced them to buy things. Business was pretty slow because there was hardly anyone there.
These 2 boys were walking past our counter and I overhead their conversation which wasn't much, but complaining about how their mum was shopping too much but HIGHLIGHT: the boy said to the other boy: 'URGH, there's so much lady products here, I feel my penis receding!'
HAHAHA I couldn't stop laughing!!! Thankfully there was no one at the counter so I could giggle to myself without anyone judging me.

Event #2: there's this thing called a time card where you punch in your hours to record it down. I didn't even know how to do it (I was on my way out for dinner) and then I just put it in and it punched in that I had just finished lunch. And I was like OUHKYGAWD and there were SO MANY BUTTONS on that stupid machine and THEY WERE NOT LABELLED so I had no idea which button to press and I had to ask someone and she was like uhhh *presses button* and I put it in and it was correct and I was like YAY THANK YOU. Then I went to have a 40-min MB dinner. And I was all alone and I felt sad and lonely. Then when I went back, the person I was paired with was like, UH WHY YOU SO FAST and I was like BOO YOU I HAD NO ONE TO EAT WITH. IM NOT STAYING BY MYSELF FOR AN HOUR EATING.

Event #3: My first sell.
So this woman was with her friend and they were walking about (by the way, I have a side story of this lady so I'll save that for later) and her friend managed to convince her to buy a bag and they were like, hold on we'll come back please hold it for us and I was like, ok (I was thinking 'yeah like anyone else is gonna take it but whatever') and then they came back and they bought it and my partner taught me how to sell (like record the numbers and go to the cashier and stuff) and so I did that. And I had to wait to get the receipt thing back so I just stood there and then the cashier lady was like OI GET THE PAPER BAG TO PUT THE BAG IN LA YOUR FIRST DAY IS IT?! And I went 'yeah. Sorry!'. Like, oops, how was I supposed to know? NO ONE TOLD ME ANYTHING.

Event #4: My second sell.
This girl goes up to me and goes 'hi my budget is around $30 - $40 so do you have anything? And I direct her to the only thing that's within her budget and she's like, oh thanks, I'll go look at Carlo Rino. (really? Thanks. Back Stabbed.) but then she comes back and I'm like HAHAHA and her story was that she was trying to find a Christmas present for her maid because her mum told her to get one and I was like, 'yeah this is within your budget and it's so pretty' AND OMIGOSH I FELT MY MANIPULATIVE SKILLS INCREASING LIKE 1000XP LIKE WHOOOAAA and she bought it. SHE BOUGHT IT.

Okay those were my highlights of the day... Sadly. A lot of people asked where the toilet was and when I told them (third level) they got really annoyed cause they had to get up 2 levels to get to a toilet. And they asked where the exit was and I told them one had closed down (the exit) and they got annoyed too and I'm like, SORRY WHAT CAN I DO.

Side story: I made up a lot of stories for my customers. Partly because I was really bored and partly because you'll overhear their conversations and you'll hear their lil bits of stories as to why they're buying the bag. After I hear the snippets, I'll weave them into a story of my own. This particular woman had interesting bits I overheard so I created a few stories for her (this is completely fictional and according to my own imagination so dear woman, if you stumble upon this and you know that I'm talking about you, please forgive me).
Her friend was saying stuff like 'get new colors! Don't stick to the usual brown or beige!' and as I was packing the bag for her, she was saying stuff like 'See? I'm reinventing myself, I'm changing it up, I'm going to be different'. So here's my story....
She is currently or has just gone through a difficult divorce and her friend and her has gone out for some shopping therapy. She wants to change herself and her whole identity to get rid of past her, and move on with life. She wants to get back out on the market and her friend is helping do that by making her more hip (they kept talking about buying new shoes, new clothes, new bags) and more guys will get attracted.
Another one is (this because I saw she still had her wedding ring on), she found out her husband is cheating on her but she hasn't confronted him or her husband has done something incredibly wrong and so before she confronts him, she goes out to use up all his money and getting a whole new wardrobe as she is planning to move out and start afresh and her friend is helping her.

I have more stories but maybe I'll compile all my stories into one post after Monday when I have met more customers. Hopefully I'll be able to remember them all!