happy ending

7th feb 07, wednesday

woke up slightly later this morning. quickly, doubling up my speed of preparing and rushed down to flag for a cab. reached marina square at 1230pm. today sales and business aint very good. not much crowd in the mall today. hence, there's lots of slacking time. because of that, 2 people from the headquarters came down to marina square to 'spy', and gave comments about us. because of this and some of the office matters, our in-charge, liping, was reprimanded by them. this results in affecting her mood alittle, and also results in changing of working hours to shift duties.

as part-timers, of course we would like to earn extras, the more the better. and because is hourly paid, we of course would like to work full day instead of shift. this also results in some negative attitude that we portrayed out to her.

obviously, one of our colleagues, joseph, wasnt very pleased. perhaps because of many things that happened today, product was broken, collecting of o level results is drawing nearer and nearer and these affecting his mood too. liping was so stressed up and she suddenly just scolded him in the debrief meeting.

she felt so hurt and she actually could not control her tears and cried. this situation made all of us so astonished and shocked, leaving us thinking what to do next. we quickly dismissed the meeting and asked joseph, marcus and zhihao to go first. meeting joseph and marcus at the roadshow there, waiting for us.

having karen and i accompanying liping in the shop, she expressed and explained to us on how she felt. her story was touching towards joseph. and of course, it makes sense. we will try to understand and compromise each other more.

after the whole thing, joseph apologised to her and we all treated her to a sumptous supper at makansutra beside DXO. the atmosphere was cool then, no one actually like remembered what had just happened earlier on. well, after all, its a happy ending. i believe each day will be a better day, and prayed that business will get better and better each day. and of course, praying for those o levelers taking results on friday, all the best, and worry not. after all, u did your best. :)