Hello everybody! Potato blogger is
once again back here again…
“What to
do in this semester break?”, that is a question which university students
frequently ask themselves or their friends. In fact, there are lots of thing
can be done in the semester break such as doing some part time job, going to
travel with friends or going for a university activities camp. These few
options are the most popular activities chosen by the university students to
carry out in the semester break. In my humble opinion, I prefer to go for
backpack trip alone as that is my interest, however, I did like to make some
quick money prior of going to backpack trip so that I can higher amount of
backup budget to cover up my expenditures. Therefore, today’s blog topic is on
my 2020-year first part time job.
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| At Aeon IOI Mall Puchong |
For
starters, I got this part time job from my previous promoter job (Heineken 0.0)
manager, in which her company oversaw the brand activation campaign
(promotional activities) of Jack N Jill CALBEE potato chips. Since I had few
promoter experiences previous, so she again welcomed me to do this promoter
job. However, that time I was a bit reluctant to pick the job as I deemed that
the Chinese New Year was just around the corner and I really wanted to hang out
with friends during the weekend (18th of 19th of January).
Luckily, my parents and the other outlet promoter that I met in training
session for that promoter job deter me from just quit this temporary part time
job. They said the same thing to me by telling me to differentiate which one is
the important one slacking at home do nothing or spend money on entertainment
with friends or go to work first before spending money. Therefore, this had
enlightened me to do this part time without any hesitation.
I did my
promoter job at Aeon IOI Mall Puchong for 2 days from 18th till 19th
of January. That was my first time ever to work there. I heard that many people
said that Aeon IOI Mall Puchong was rather stringent to its staffs and
promoters. Upon receiving this news, I was bit frightened and I went there and
realized there literally very stringent on the staffs and promoters’ affair
there. On the first day of working, I was forced to run here and there to get
the outlet manager signature of “Sell in Letter” before going inside to prepare
for work by the security guards there. The other outlet is not as that strict,
from my inference. Besides, prior of going in the mall, the staffs and
promoters will be check by security guard meticulously on attire and hygiene. I
was called to tuck-in my working t-shirt into black slack pants and cut fingernails
to look tidy and hygiene. In fact, the intention of the Aeon outlet is correct
as it wants to leave the customer to give a good impression to the Aeon, in my
opinion.
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| Randon picture of Aeon staff entrance |
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| Loading bay that linked staff entrance to the selling floor |
After
settling the issue at staff entrance, as usual, I did my promoter regular job
scope there by preparing samples and counting the stocks. I studied and
recapped again what were the selling points and key promotional activities on
going before really start to approach customer. It was the time to show my
eloquence in selling the product… Show time… It turns out the product, Jack N
Jill CALBEE was well received there. There were many people purchased the
potato chips on that 2 days. Perhaps, I guess it was a ‘hot’ period to prepare
goods for the upcoming Chinese New Year celebration. Anyways, I just did
promote and push sales as usual to make the sales higher a bit…
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| The samples... |
Here was
a bit about CALBEE, Basically, CALBEE is a latest potato chips brand of Jack N
Jill and it has 3 flavours such as Classic Salted (Salty and Not spicy one),
Smoky BBQ and Flaming Chilli. However, the latter one, Flaming Chilli flavour,
most of the people said it was not spicy enough even though it labelled as
“Flaming Chilli”. Besides, all the flavours were too salty, according to most
of the respondents who had tasted the samples. Then, there was so-called
“Fortune Angpow Contest” that is still on going from 1st Jan till 27th
of January. The prizes detail, kindly view the picture below this paragraph. To
participate this contest, you have to purchase more than RM10 of CALBEE in a
single receipt and a setoff Angpows which consist of 3 angpows will be gift out
and you can scan the QR code of whichever of the angpows inside that set of
angpow. Then, upload your receipt onto the link to participate the contest. So,
in short, this was how my that 2 days working routine by doing and telling same
thing to customers repeatedly.
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| Good business until it was being replaced by another stock due to it was high in demand till the extend of out of stock. |
Apart
from that, as a saying goes that job happiness and environment are determined
by the subordinate-supervisor relationships and co-worker relationships. I was
glad that I’ve met many kind and good co-worker of promoters there. This is
owing to we were in the same wavelength that enabled us to communicate with
ease. We chatted on some topics such as previous working experiences,
university life as well as some political issues from domestic ones to
international ones. The latter issues we discussed more often than the former ones.
Besides, I just got to know that they were also living at the same main township
as mine in Puchong city. This made us to chat non-stop there whenever the volume
of crowd was getting lesser. Upon finishing the last day of work there (19th
Jan 2020), we had exchanged our product samples with each other as a small
appreciation of recognizing each other there. Meanwhile, my supervisor was a
nice guy too. He had a strong believe on me to do the things right there and giving
me some motivation to do the work. A leader whom he or she trust the
subordinates to do the work right and giving some motivation will do help boosting
work performance of the subordinates. Therefore, I was able to do my job in
ease and performed well there by having recognition from supervisor. In short, workplace’s
people relationships will be a key factor for the workplace environment to be
in healthy and good status.
To conclude,
I would like to say this was a good opportunity for me to meet and socialize
with more people rather than doing nothing during the semester break. Indeed,
promoter jobs certainly do boost my confidence in talking and approaching the
strangers. At the first glance when I got my part time promoter job in the last
year 2019’s January, I was a bit scared and worried to approach the potential
customers. Nevertheless, as the time moved by, I am not afraid to talk to the
strangers anymore by gaining more and more promoter experience. So, it is a
good channel to practice socializing skill apart from merely learning it
through universities or schools.
