Sigh; YJ and I were asked to change departments again.

The day started off great because for the first 2 hours of work, we were just plainly chatting with Ehui in one of the function rooms while waiting for the upper management to come and decide on the table set-up for Opera Night.

YH then came to work and we slacked at Events Concierge for awhile before heading for lunch.

After lunch, we were asked to help turnaround the ballroom. At first, it was a hollow square set-up and when the clients went for lunch, we were tasked to change it into a classroom set-up. A lot of banquet staff was there and we helped out too. We moved tables, put table cloths, wear seat covers, placed pencil boxes and note pads on the tables etc etc. Time passed quite fast.

After that we slacked for a bit and Ehui asked the 3 of us to join in the Opera Night meeting at 3pm. It was kinda awkward because he asked the 3 of us to sit at the table (somewhere in the middle and opposite me was the big boss). Somewhere half way through the meeting, the GM walked in and sat behind YJ although there were still 2 seats left on the table.

We felt so extra and weird that the GM was sitting right behind us.

After the meeting we heard the GM ask our big boss “how many interns are here? Singaporeans.” We knew something was wrong already.

There was also some banquet training for the Opera Night and the 3 of us were told to sit-in and act like customers at the table so the banquet staff could practice how to serve and collect plates.

When the training ended, Goh told Ehui that Thomas wanted the 2 girls names (YJ and I). So obvious that something bad was going to happen already. Ehui sms-ed him and we waited for his reply.

Thomas said that the GM wanted to move the 2 of us to sales & marketing (either sales, MICE or events) department and we had to go for an interview with the person in-charge there. He didn’t state when the interview would be or whatsoever at it was already close to 5pm.

When we went back to the banquet office to look for June to ask about our September pay, we met Ehui and he received a call. He told us to go to Tower 1, level 5 to look for this lady named Nancy.

We didn’t know what was going on so we went to look for her and realized that she works in the Reservations Department. The moment we went in to look for her, we knew it’s confirmed that we’re being posted there.

Although she asked us if we mind being pulled out of Banquet and going to work for her, we knew whatever we said was going to be useless so we pretended we were fine and eager to learn.

But from what she said, I don’t believe 100%. She said we’ll be busy and even have OT but seriously, that’s what they said when we first went to In-room and Banquet.

I think it’s quite boring too. It’s an all female environment and the office is rather tiny. There are only 14 staffs working there. I do not like the idea of being contained in a small area for the rest of my attachment!

And the thing is; it seems like they are going to teach us how to use Opera System. YJ and I had 1 full semester of that under Justin and we don’t need more!

She said we’ll get to answer phone calls but I highly doubt so. She somewhat hinted we have to know the different types of rooms the hotel offers (more than 40 different kinds) and information about the hotel before we can answer the phone calls.

So by the time we’re familiar with the stuff there, it’s time to go back home already right?

The worst thing is that, she asked us to start work TOMORROW. And she even said that tomorrow and the day after they’ll be quite busy so they might not have the time to entertain us. I swear I almost blurted out to ask if we could just come in on Thursday.

She even told us our job scope tmr- FILING -.-

After speaking to her, we went back to find Cherry, Lucia, Tracy etc etc to COMPLAIN!

Headed back to Banquet Office to look for Ehui to ask him to help us and keep us for at least until the end of the week and he asked us to report to work to him tomorrow first but most prolly we’ll need to go there ASAP cuz it’s the GM’s decision.

Being so depressed already, YJ and I decided to head to Super Brand Mall to eat dinner. In the end, we settled down at this Japanese restaurant and ate a lot of sushi.

We were jokingly said we ate so much rice because of Rice (ahh internal joke nvm). Our total bill came up to RMB131 which is quite cheap.

Oh, we also headed to the money changer cuz YJ and I borrowed SGD200 each from Mrs. Tan and the exchange rate is 5.003! So high man! :D :D

Headed to Lotus to buy our mugs (for work -.-) and walked home. We went to the DVD place to change 1 of the DVD cuz it wasn’t working yesterday.

Came home and watched “Bratz” and JY and CF came over and we complained to them about our job!

Ehui told us to report to him at 8am tmr first though. Our working hours would be from 9am-6pm with our weekends off.

But the bright side would be: the off days I owe most prolly would be written off? Cuz of the change of dept.

I’m just so not looking forward to work tomorrow :( :( :(

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Minx: oh HELLO!!! Yup, you don't know Tracy. She's a Shanghainese and one of our colleagues working as a sectary in the hotel. I don't know why she added you though. Haha.