wOrk HarassMent..

Before you think of something inappropriate, this harassment is not that. This is related to sales people coming in and out of our school, selling and promoting all sorts of stuff. From delicious cakes to lame small water fountain. 

I always have no problem with the insurance and credit card people. Plus the personal loan people. I can dismiss them without much hassle. But this one time, there was this group of people saying that they were from Koperasi Guru Melayu or something like that. Offering the normal membership. But after all of us were forced to listen to their presentation... YAWN!! Insurance in disguise. Looking at their leaflet, I saw all these premiums and plans that we can choose from. So obvious. I wonder why the others did not catch their act. I explained to those who were near me. Then only they realized it. 

When we refuse to give them our phone number or even fill in their forms, muka dah tarik 14ribu kedut. They don't smile at you anymore. What kind of sales person are you? You can't force people. I know that for a fact. To make things worst, one of them did something very shocking. Maybe because most of us ignored them and they were not able to achieve their sales target, this person stole a teacher's purse!! They were hovering this one corner in the teachers' room to sit around waiting for their next "victim". The teachers stayed away from them, refusing to be forced to leave a contact number or even buy the insurance. After this group of people went back, this particular teacher went to her place and found out the her purse was gone. Let me tell you that we teachers do leave our stuff around at our place or on our table. Before this, nothing of such incident happened. Even the students come and go, our stuff is safe. This is a lesson to all of us to not leave our valuables everywhere. But still, who are they to come to our place with sour faces and steal from us?! Benciiii!!

Today's story. 2 ladies came to the school, wearing revealing skirts. I was having a class when they passed by. You can guess what happened. Come on, I dare you. If you guessed they stopped by my class, you're wrong. But if you guessed that I had to stop teaching, then you are right. Why, because the boys kept looking and glancing outside, looking at these 'chicks'. They lost concentration, of course. Seeing something that excites them, which comes once in a blue moon. Fine.

After the time passed for a bit, I went back to the staffroom. There they were promoting their products. All I knew at that time was they were selling books. I did not go near them, avoiding them. It was about 2p.m when it happened. These ladies were near my place and I had to go back there to take my stuff. I could not avoid them any longer. I had to sit and listen to their sales pitch. It appears that they were selling magazines which must be subscribed, typical. Again, YAWN!! I was not interested at all with the magazine. We moved on to the next product. Travel package. One of the teachers actually told them that I like to travel. Khianat betul. When people are promoting, of course everything is good, the price is cheap. And yes, all the price that they told me was very tempting. Cheap travel throughout SE Asia. But there is always a catch. You need to be a member and pay the membership fee. Again, typical. DOUBLE YAWN!! Guess how much must I pay for the fee for me and Edi? Rm800+!! Paying such amount when I don't even know when I am going on a holiday, is a risk I do not want to take. Yes, I do like to travel, but on my own terms.

I don't have anything against the sales people. I was a sales person before. I know how they feel, desperate for sales. I was like that before. All because of commission. Now I feel so guilty harassing those people back then. Sorry guys. But please, no means no!

                                          The one who loves to travel, but is always without travel budget.                                                                                                          -Singapore 2008-