During the start of the holidays I was moaning about having no job for the 1st month. But now I'm REALLY grateful I did not have a job during that period haha. Enabled me to laze around and more importantly, watch Olympics 24/7 XD
Plus, I already got a 1.5 weeks job during the end of August which is...
Cashering at BookFest 2012! People always mistaken it and call it as Popular Book Fair (I used to have this misconception as well) but after working there are 11 days (!!!), I learn to properly call it as BookFest, organised by Popular, but still have other publishers and companies there as well (9 days of answering customer's question with this answer XD)
The 1.5 week was erm... ERM...
Enjoyable to say the least. The people there are awesome =) I seriously love everyone especially those I worked with at our cashier lane =) We 10 (in a lane) are people of totally different personality but that's what makes working together so fun XD
And thank god I was assigned to the English Department. If I was assigned to Chinese Department, I think my customers will be very displeased with my Chinese capabilities (not a banana but... too much Chinese makes my head hurt XD Especially books from Taiwan with 'fan ti zhi'). Wouldn't mind if I was assigned to The Lifestyle Pavillion where they sell CDs and stationaries but I heard work there is a bit tougher due to the big crowd and... Can you imagine scanning 100++ small items like eraser and pencil? o.O
So yea cashiering at my English Department is the best =D I ADORE english books.
All cashiers and cashier supervisors from our department =)
And this is our lane =) 6 cashiers 3 packers and 1 supervisor. Everyone is super awesome! =) Miss all of them...
Working as a cashier, you can really observe totally different kinds of people. You can totally predict what kind of books certain kind of people will buy etc.
Some more memorable types of people and customers I've had:
1. Families where the wife takes charge.
I was surprised that there are so many families where the wife will be grumpy and scolding and picking on the husband =S Once, I've scanned all the items and the husband was going to pass me his credit card when the wife snatched the card over and scolded him, 'I haven't say you can pay!'
O.O
And there was a lot of cases where the wife is certainly the boss. It wasn't as obvious as the above mentioned case, but you can see the wife, with her arms folded, staring at the cashier (me o.O) and giving an occasional glare at the husband.
Scary...
2. Young families/ couples who are married...
... who buys books titled 'Getting Pregnant Faster', 'Guidebook to Breastfeeding', '6000 baby names' etc. You get the gist. When I see these books I'll look at the couple and think to myself: Ooo... Trying to get pregnant... And I have to resist myself from laughing T.T Dunno what's so funny but I still feel like laughing.
3. Teenagers and middle aged aunts...
... who buy Fifty Shades of Grey bundle pack. I also have to control a grin from rising on my face when I see the book, look up from the books and barcodes and without exception, they are always teenagers OR middle aged aunts XD
For those not in the know, Fifty Shades of Grey is a trilogy with sexual themes revolving around BDSM (Sadistic and masochism). It is... Porn of women. And well, from this observation, I'll say, teenage girls and middle age aunts are the horniest people? XD
And erm if I was not wrong, the Fifty Shades of Grey bundle pack was sold off without 2-3 days of the BookFest and they restocked it during the few final days. That's how popular that book is.
PS: I've never read the book before okay! >=O
And... There are many many types of customers la. Some are typical and are boring so I'll not elaborate on those. Like... Families with children, who buys LOADS of children book (duh), young adults who buy business books etc.
Oh another one of my favourite customer is this 40 year old looking lady. She bought A LOT of books, but of different variety. Her first basket was piled sky high with novels written by Danielle Steele, and other romance novels. Her second basket was filled with books by Donald Trump and Warren Buffett (best sellers throughout the fest. They are really discounted).
She put of the contents of her first basket on the table and said.
'These are for toilet reading.'
The second basket, 'These are for serious reading.'
I forgot how how conversation went but I knew I had fun talking to her =) And that I recommended her to build a library in her toilet XD
So those are the most memorable things of my days at work: My new found friend and the customers. The money counting, credit card swiping, preparing float, DCCF filling, standing up for 12 hours with only 1-2 hours break in between... Those are things that I don't really wanna remember. I still dream about those things now o.O Haha...
On another note,
I'M FINALLY OF VOTING AGE!
Everyone has at least a bit of redness on us =)
And I bought so much presents for myself. Where from? From BookFest la of course. Never bought so many books at one go o.O
And I shall spend the remaining of my holidays with my first love wee~
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