I can't believe this

Well, first day of the "X'mas Card Job"..
It went well at first.. as in the so call policy..
We are actually doing advertising through selling X'mas cards for this Company (shall not reveal the name).. This company rather pay us to do such advertising for them rather than paying $50K to a marketing firm to do the advertising. (Which i feel it's not a good way by selling X'mas cards.. First of all, few people nowadays buy X'mas cards.. Secondly, who would actually go to the website stated at the back of the X'mas card when they receive one?)

It goes like this..
50 of us are employed to sell X'mas cards.. Either on streets, door-to-door or wadeva method.
We were given 200 packets of X'mas cards each. Each packet costs $10 and there're 5 cards inside a pack. So, if our sales are good, lets say we manage to sell all 200 packs within 3 days, we will be paid $30 an hour. If we manage to sell all 200 packs within 5 days, we will be paid $20 an hour. But if we manage to sell or not sell after the 5 days (based on 1 week), we will be paid $10 an hour. and the thing is we are required to work 5 hrs a day, location is selected ourselves.

So this morning, YL and me went to collect the cards from the office. As 200 cards are too heavy for us to carry, the person i/c asked us to take only 50 each first. so we did. and we end up decided to do door-to-door at AMK. We went to a building near AMK central and did 0 sales for that entire building. Due to the heaviness of the cards and the pain on shoulder, we decided to head to YL's hse to leave part of the 50 each in her hse. We continued to sell at her block. But again, disappointing sales of 1 out of the entire big building. We thought this is not gonna work. We headed back to her hse as our things are still in the hse. At this moment, someone from the office called, telling me that the agreement has changed. He says that because they are not able to monitor whether we are working or not, and due to some feedback of the others asking questions like what if they can't sell, they decided to change the 'rule' to: We will not get paid if we didn't manage to sell all the 200 cards within 7 days, but will only get paid $1.50 for each pack sold.

Nonsense don't you think? Where got people/employer changed the policy only after their employees started work? We put in so much effort carrying the heavy bags going door to door and made 0 sales and now you tell us this. We wasted our day, our bus and MRT fare (We made quite a few trips down to the office because of this job), wasted on food when we could have ate at home, and most important of all, we wasted job opportunities that we could have taken up during this period. One apology and he caused us this much. Absurd!

Just admit if you are too young to be a boss! Your marketing strategy is not going to work!

Anyway, YL and me decided that it's not worth continuing the job after the call if the sales is going at this rate. It's not going to cover all our expenses. So we brought back the remaining 99 cards back to the office and told them we quit. The I/C told us that we could actually bring back the cards and sell it at our own free time until mid-dec and that we can sell it to our friends and family and get paid $1.50 per pack sold. Isn't it still dumb? Because normally people will just buy a pack or two from you and it takes time and money for you to meet the person up to pass the cards to him/her. So we are actually not earning afterall!

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Luckily we did apply for the Levnovo Job at the IT Fair.
Called this morning and the lady said we are confrimed as one of the staff working.
But she msged in the evening saying that we will only be confirmed only after going through an interview tml.. Zzz.. Still thought that we are finally able to slack at home tml.. and the place is damn far.. ):