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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
-5:30 PM
today was a very good day at work with just ali, Hag and I! yay! i was so happy that i almost cried. FOR REAL.
cos Hag told her fellowship not to go for work since there was us. she probably wanted to make FULL use of us and labour. i swear this is the fuckiest person i've met. she made ali and i leave De LaSalle to deliver some books for her, to a customer's home, when it was her job. i bet she didn't trust us with the money left in the classroom. Asked us to buy lunch for her at McD too.
She ate her meal rather VERY slowly while the queue for us to attend to was getting longer outside. i'm quite sure she was enjoying her meal. for the rest of the 8 hrs at work, she made us attend to the customers outside at the counter while she sat inside the classroom doing god-knows-what.
The Hag
Hag:
girls, there's cutomers outside.Us:
ok. *walks out of classroom to attend to customers*
(done with countless cutomers one after another and walks back into classroom to take a rest,but before we were able to do so...)
Hag:
there's customers outside, go help them. *still doing nothing in the classroom*
(a line of customer queue to buy books along the 3 long tables at the counter. there's only US attending to so many.)
me: *walks into classroom to get books according to one customer's booklist, and sees more customers coming. which in simple, basic logic, means we required extra assistance at the counter.* (apparently Hag was unpacking files from their packaging cos they were "running out".)
Aunty, there's people outside!Hag: *pretends she didn't hear*
Me:
Aunty, we need help. there's people outside!Hag: *pretends she didn't hear again and continues to "pack" files*
Me: *raises voice to VERY audible speech and repeats*
Hag: *finally turns as if she just heard me*
how many? *looks at me instead of outside, towards the counter where customers were waiting*
not many right? ok, nevermind, just let them wait, doesn't matter. *turns back to her meal*
Us: *scrambles to help out as much as we can while Hag does nothing about it. finally manages to clear off the whole lot of customers by ourself*
(when we got back into the class room, Hag got us to do something else for her until the next few customers appeared outside at the counter.)
Hag:
there's people outside.Us:
oh, ok. *attends to 2 customers who took particularly long to go through every damn thing on their book list*
Me: *going through a booklist with my customer while i desperately looked into classroom to try get Hag to help the other customer in-line who had been waiting for super long for assistance. i was worried that the customer waiting would discover an ultra-free person leisurely strolling around the classroom who was supposed to help, while he doesn't get any help with his books cos the other two bookshop people were busy attending to their own customers. that was definitely ridiculous*
Me: *goes back into classroom to "plead" for help*
Hag: *says the same to to me again* (by now i realized she was indirectly telling me "hey, let them wait, after your customer's done buying books, then attend to that customer waiting in queue cos i'm not going outside to help. let them wait, and you'll can attend to them once you're done with your current customer.)
(but she finally goes out of classroom and helps out after "finally" realizing that the queue wasn't getting shorter.)
Hag: (while standing outside attending to her customer, looks at us...)
can you help me get this (books/stationary) from the classroom?Us: (we were walking into the classroom to get the books for our customers when she requested us to help her get those items from her customers booklist. why couldn't she walk back into the classroom herself to get those books? we had our own customers to handle yea?)
err, ok.(time passed, realized ali and i were standing most of the 8 hrs. i think we only sat down at most 1hr in all to rest while the whole time was dedicated to standing. towards the end of the day...)
Hag:
can you move those boxes of books and put them back into their correct places in the classroom? *makes us pack up everything while she counts # of 50 dollar notes we gotten from sales today, packs her own bag, and does no more than that*
(when we were about to leave...)
Hag:
take this bag and throw it outside the dumping corner before you leave too.Us: *smiles at her*
bye auntie! :)(takes our leave with that big black rubbish-bag.)
and of course, *shouts "bye effer!" when we're out of the classroom* yes, loud enough for her to hear, but i bet she doesn't know what we meant, or better still, i bet she didn't know we were refering to her.
