Sunday, September 11, 2005

Hrm... been working at the C & C Kia roadshow at Suntec this weekend... Sat and Sun, 8am to 9pm... kinda tiring, but interesting too... seeing how things are run and making frens with ppl...

I was basically there with a few of the NUS Motoring Club ppl to do crowd control and other stuff, like giving out balloons and popcorn... If anyone remembers... Kia had this promotion where you could find $5000 and a chance to win a car if you brought this coupon they had in Thursday's newspaper to Suntec on Saturday and tried your luck at opening the vaults. Ppl started queueing at 6am in the morning... they started at 9am... and at 9.03am, someone already won one of the $5k... by 10.40, all the vaults had been won... damn fast... and ppl queued until it stretched out from Carrefour onto the road and around the contruction site... in the sun...

I admit I kinda found their arrangement a bit hard on the people... no shelters out of suntec... ppl standing in the hot sun and risking their lives by walking right next to the road to the end of the queue... Some of them did complain to me, but there's nothing I could do... there wasn't any refreshments or water either... not even for us... I guess they didn't expect such a large crowd...

Anyway... I guess I did learn somethings... like how to interact with ppl even more... working at Big O also kinda helped... esp when ppl kept asking me the same questions... how hard a Sales Exec actually works... they were up on their feet the whole 2 days... the only time to sit was when they were talking with clients... Then I was also fine tuning my method of explaining how the vaults work to the people... I was mostly at the booth for Kia owners, who had a chance to win $9999 instead... no one won btw... heh... But I also helped out at the balloons and popcorn... shift work basically... but no set time... just change when you want to...

I also made frens with the events management ppl... one of them asked me for my number... so they could contact me if there were any jobs... hee.. at $10 and hour... I don't mind as long as it's not too close to my exam period... Saw Glenn Ong and Jean Danker today too... Glenn is actually very funny... and friendly... the MC I talked to worked with Glenn quite a few times... they were there for the games today...

I also got mistaken for a Sales Exec numerous times, each time, I had to refer them to the real ones... heh... proabably cos I was wearing a black polo with the Kia name on it... the SEs were wearing black and red shirts... not many ppl knew that...

Damn tired now... think I'll go sleep soon... gotta mug for CA tmr... hai~...
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