OT Gao..

Let's continue with Work Part 2..

I'm currently working at Redbull Singapore.. I have worked there for a month now, and i believe i joined at the wrong time, cos this is the month where they are busy to the max..

First day, i was in the office for 13 hours.. Subsequently there were a number of days where i left office around 9-10pm as well.. I even worked on sat once from 11-430pm.. All these becos of all the deadlines i had to meet.. This was the month that the send all the budget spending and sales for 2011.. So it was pretty damn hectic most of time there..

Basically my job is an ad hoc kind. Whereby when they need me, they call me in.. My basic tasks are to photocopy, open mails, sort and process invoices, do payment vouchers and cheques, filing.. That's roughly about it.. But the reason why i was so busy, is not becos of all these small tasks of cos.. They made me do the accounting of the different redbull equipments in all the 7-11 stores.. Dun be fooled by the word accounting, it wasnt balance sheets and stuff, but it was more like a checklist of all the 7-11 stores, and ticking what equipments are inside which stores..

It's simple when i explained it this way, but unfortunately none of it is simple and straightforward. I don't think i should get into details, cos it wld be pretty long. Anw, then i continued to work on the company's invoices and find out the actual spending of the company and from there, it was endless stuff about the budgeted statement for 2011..

Altogether, i can say that my current job, is much more busier than the airport job.. I sometimes even work till 1am.. But i dun regret joining.. Money aside, i like the english speaking environment there plus the flexibility.. Cos when i was working at the airport, it was either china workers, mandarin speaking aunties, or malays/indians.. So most of the time i'm speaking mandarin more than i speak english. And if u know me, I'm CLB.. My mandarin cannot stand..

So i dun really engage in their conversations, partly cos of the irrelevance of topics, but mostly cos i cant put to words what i wanna say in mandarin. So, i keep quiet like 90% of the time.. The only time i speak english is if i work with malay/indian staff.. Which, i actually talk more to compared to the chinese.. So being mistaken as a malay at the airport wasnt a bad thing for me, cos the china workers cfm speak to me in english.. haha..

And right now, my workplace, everyone use english as the main language, i can at least understand their jokes or converse with them.. There is even this ang moh guy, who speaks some singlish, he's really a funny guy.. The things he say are really unique cos singaporeans dun really use those words.. Like for e.g there was this once, he was at the door locked out, and he signalled to me to open it for him, but i was acting blur.. When i finally opened it for him, he said ," you like living on the edge right?!".. But singaporeans never use that kind of language, singaporeans would probably say, "eh you wanna die ah?!?".. So it's a different humor altogether..

The next thing is their flexibility.. Like you can eat lunch at anytime you wan.. Most companies have a strict 12-1pm lunch time, but over there at redbull, i could eat at like 3pm, no prob.. They also have like endless flow of snacks/chips/juice/milk/cup noodles/coke and redbull.. Plus there were days when i went in office at 1pm as well.. So it's all good..

Lately, cos i've been doing alot of OTs, i also ate free dinner at the office.. They would call KFC/McD/Pizza Hut, and lately, Domino's.. Domino's serves really good pizza, i would encourage all to switch to them instead of Pizza Hut.. Only thing is that Domino's is more pricey cos they dun have the 2 for 1 deals.. But i still would order quality over quantity.. Did you know overseas, Domino's is like a pizza hut, and their pizza hut's are like Domino's, i mean in terms of their size.. Domino's overseas have alot of stores while Pizza hut is like the jia lat brand, but cos in Singapore, Domino's just opened their store not to long back, so obviously they have dominated yet.. But soon enough, with the right marketing, Domino's can dominate.. We'll see..

Back to the point, i get free dinner, plus i get to claim cab home as well.. Sweet deal right, Okay what.. But that's if i do OT of cos..

I haven calculated my pay this month yet, it would be interesting to see the figures since i done so many OT hours.. got 1.5x and 2x pay.. Sweet..

Plus a bonus catch for this job, i get to see eye candy.. Yup, i get to see the redbull girls almost everytime i work.. There are a few that standout only, not all of cos.. I was telling Amos i think, there's this one girl who does the day shift, that i feel looks pretty average, but i cant describe her attraction.. Hope u all understand what i mean.. And i finally saw a very pretty one last wednesday when i was working OT.. Too bad she's in the night shift, so i dun get to see them that often unless i do OT.. haha.. Cheap thrills, but these are the small little things that can help take my mind off things.. Sometimes need a break, look up, and i look at them, den continue working.. hahaha..

Alrite, part 3 will prob come up soon.. Cos i realised i typed alot already..