Hand Job
Thursday morning I was down at Raffles Place all ready for a day of hard work. The equation is simple. Finish the hard labour. 80 bucks.
The job scope was to unscrew these bottles...
All ten thousand of them from cartons. Pour them into cups and serve it to all the office workers, janitors, security guards or whoever is around walking around at Raffles Place. We were under the sun, the rain, the scrutiny of the security guards and pressure to complete our job as fast as possible.
There were just 10 of us. When lunch hour came, all hell broke loose. Unscrewing chilled bottles at a breakneck speed was no mean feat, 2 hours I stood there just unscrewing bottle caps and nothing else. I had blisters all over my fingers. The gloves don't help and the bottles were all wet fresh out from the ice box.
I sound like I'm a whiner.
I am.
We worked from 730 in the morning till 7 at night. Opening up cartons, dumping bottles into ice box, take them out again, unscrew the bottle caps, pour 2 bottles at a time into cups, serve them on trays to people walking by. There were ugly sights like people asking for bottles to take home, taking 5 to 6 empty bottles to give their kids and aunties who are just kiasu and unreasonable.
Well, the coffee was not too bad. Nescafe Mistra. Comes in 3 flavours. Banana Caramel, Tiramisu and Gold Roast. Just to let you know.
The job scope was to unscrew these bottles...
All ten thousand of them from cartons. Pour them into cups and serve it to all the office workers, janitors, security guards or whoever is around walking around at Raffles Place. We were under the sun, the rain, the scrutiny of the security guards and pressure to complete our job as fast as possible.
There were just 10 of us. When lunch hour came, all hell broke loose. Unscrewing chilled bottles at a breakneck speed was no mean feat, 2 hours I stood there just unscrewing bottle caps and nothing else. I had blisters all over my fingers. The gloves don't help and the bottles were all wet fresh out from the ice box.
I sound like I'm a whiner.
I am.
We worked from 730 in the morning till 7 at night. Opening up cartons, dumping bottles into ice box, take them out again, unscrew the bottle caps, pour 2 bottles at a time into cups, serve them on trays to people walking by. There were ugly sights like people asking for bottles to take home, taking 5 to 6 empty bottles to give their kids and aunties who are just kiasu and unreasonable.
Well, the coffee was not too bad. Nescafe Mistra. Comes in 3 flavours. Banana Caramel, Tiramisu and Gold Roast. Just to let you know.
posted by jingli K at 12:32 AM
6 Comments:
i'll give the coffee a try.
80 bucks is gd pay :)
I pay that for a day of mediocre acting.
And the coffee's OK only, a bit weak.
Colin said he saw you there.
I like that pic and the caption hand job...if u noe wat i mean. Haa...Anyway u deserve better...80 bucks is too little for u dude...
ohh. i tot its pretty gd money. tho of coz i slack ard in office n get paid abt 50 bucks. oops. haha.
anw wud u actually do tt again if ure offered?
Hey, i tried the drink before...they were having the same promotion at Orchard two weeks ago :) quite like the coffee...
Woohoo pal new Nescafe coffee out i din noe... Yeah gonna try it too. Anwae hope ya hands are alright nw, take care! (^_^)
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