It’s been over 2 weeks I worked at the well-known BATA, which was founded in 1894! Let me crap a bit about my working days at Bata. Bata is well known for its under-paid salary compare to other easy job, such as Pdi, Voir, Osim, Padini, bla bla bla…..I already calculate my total income of one month, its just around 900-1100. That’s for 12 hours per day and 6days/week ! World Taekwando Federation!Working hours : 10.30am-10.30pm, 1hour each for lunch and dinner. But we seldom use that much time. Come back earlier, and sell more, and get a little more commission.
Morning : Wipe all the racks and bottom of shoes.
Night time : Sweep, mop, buang sampah.
Working period : Serve customers with a fake smile. Watch customer choose their foot attires and wait their order to get other size. Normally, 40% of the customers are dissatisfied because of well known Bata tradition, ‘No more size’. So, ask customer to choose others. Again, we will reply with ‘Out of stock’ or ‘Tarak saiz’ or ‘Sudah abis’. Once, I got a customer who chose 5 different model of shoe, again and again, all of the size wanted already out of stock. World Taekwando Federation! They blah with 101% dissatisfaction. Aku pun malu jugak.
The shoe store : The highest placed shoe is 5m above floor level. How to get the shoe? A long ladder, good body acrobatic, (kungfu is encouraged especially Heng Gong). The width of the route in the store, 80cm. Tuapuikia is not encouraged work in Bata. Booby girls with 36d are also forbidden to enter the store (shoes and racks may get damaged by your body!). Some of the shoes need to be reached by crawling under piping, route dimension of 80cm x 90cm! (I got a knock on my head against the pipe on the first day of my job!). Guys who don’t like to exercise can come Bata, rusted body to re-con body. Free gym. Y-fitness? California? Lose to Bata Store. Tak caya? Mari lah!
Why must choose Bata?
1) Gaji seBANYAK RM1000!
2) Free gym – Walk, Catwalk, Crabwalk, Moonwalk!, DuckCrawl, Evading, Climb, Jump and sometimes during peak period also learn Fall and Accident.
3) Memory training – recognize where all those ‘handsome’ looking shoe located inside the store.
4) Free view of lots of modernized-sexed human next shop – Really! Many! Horny? Unknown.
5) Free ‘jokes of the day’ – will be told later.
6) ‘Syok’music – Bata control the music in the shop, which is so ‘Harmonized’. We can sleep on the spot. Bottom 100 all here.
7) Staff price – 100%……….undeducted.
Jokes experienced by me.
Joke 1
Customer : Kenapa sekarang Bata punya kualiti banyak teruk?
Me : …..
Customer : Tengok jahitan dia, tak kemas langsung (pointing).
Me : …..mana ada, dah kira kemas ma. (its really quite nice and tidy, just a lil bit of misalignment).
Customer : Saya mau complen kat Bata, quality memang teruk, tapi apa boleh buat. Product dia memang macam ini.
Me : ………… (thinking….wtf! macam dia pemilik Bata!Pergi complen la!)
Customer : ok la, size 8.
Me : ……….(wtf! Cakap teruk lagi mau beli!! Nasib baik aku tak makan bakuteh hari ini, kalau tak, u sudah rasa bau dia!)
Then I go check at other brand shoe which cost 200+
….same la the sewing! Mana boleh perfect!
Joke 2
After I took the size required by the customer, he tried it and walk here and there testing….then unworn it…
Customer : Ok, give me size 7 (means he wanna buy it). But let me have a look at others first….
Me : Ok, Sure.
Customer : (walk again to the racks, looking for others…..suddenly, turned his body and walked out of Bata)
Me : *(&$”&%!$(*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!$&*”^$%”£)!!!!!!!!!!!!) err……..mati pucuk)
He never come back……….and I’ll eat durian and kiss u nextime I see you.
Joke 3
Customer : Can I try size 8 please?
Me : Ok, sure…..
So, I go travel to the exhilarating store…. climb up, moon walking, shuffle, breakdance and finally got the shoe to the customer.
Customer : Eh. Why size 8 is larger than size 9?
Me : (har! so surprised! And have a look..) Err……the previous shoe u have tried is size 6 not 9. So, u should ask for size 5…..(with a fake smile, I go climb up, moon walking, shuffle, breakdance again.)
That’s some of the jokes joked on me during this 2 weeks. I hope I wont get high blood pressure or heart attack. Luckily I will stop this job 1 month later, because tanjung rambutan already sent me an unconditional offer letter.
That’s all for tonight. I shall post more about my job at Bata in the incoming weeks. Probably took some pictures to post it here.
BATA cogan kata ; ONE BATA, ONE WORLD. ^.^
