I've quit my job just after 4 days. It's totally not something i'm proud of. You may say things like "no job is fun" and stuff. Or something like "you need to toughen up", but the thing is i don't expect any job to be fun but i just hate and fear mine so much that sometimes i even have brief nightmares about it. I'll say this job isn't suitable for me. As for the toughen up part, i'll say things need to be taken step by step. I'll use a metaphor of climbing up a flight of stairs. Let's say i'm at first storey and i want to get to second storey. Sometimes i can climb up the stairs 2 steps at a time. But, if i'm to work in ntuc veggies department it's like climbing up 4 steps at a time. No. One can only take things step by step. You cannot achieve what you want just overnight. I won't say my job is the most dfficult but i know it's definitely not easy. It's simple, but simplicity doesn't bring about easiness all the time. What finally made me decide to quit was actually jasmine's words: "it's not worth the time". And that made lots of sense. I'll just find another job.

What i did during the job was actually rather simple. Restock, check quality, tie bananas, weight bananas, throw rubbish, pack carrots, repack products with broken packages, put price tacks, answer customer's questions and store stuff. This was just like how i was told during the interview. Sounded really easy.

By the way, those 2 paragraphs are not complaints. The first paragraph is the explanation as to why i quit. The second is a brief description of the job. Now i just feel like talking about lessons i've learnt through these 4 days of working. I've learnt 4 main things: About myself, about other people, about fruits and vegetables and about service.

Myself
I've learnt to face my own limit and not lie to myself. It's very ironic that a liar blogged about liars. But that's okay, because i've learnt not to lie to myself. I've done that subconsciously many times and i had not noticed. I've also learnt not to let other people's judgements affect my decision. I have to fight for what i want. If i want to escape, i must fight my way out.

Other people
I've learnt how much my family mattered to me. Also i've learnt how much i miss my friends and my school days. School was fun! :D And i've realised that many singaporeans are polite and many are irresponsible as well. My colleagues are mostly friendly and my supervisor is generally nice.

Fruits and vegetables
I've learnt how to prepare carrots and bananas for resale, how to repack goods and how to handle baskets with relation to height. I've learnt about the existence of some types of veggies. Anyway just a side note: My days had been spent mostly dealing with bananas.

Service
Next time before you mess up the tidiness of stocks and products on the shelf, in the basket or whatever, think about the efforts that the retail assistant had spent keeping them tidy. If you remove a banana from the hanger, it will very much be appreciated if you put it back onto the hanger instead of leaving it lying around. It will also be nice to put chye sim back in the chye sim basket if you've decided not to buy it the last minute, not the potato basket. It is troublesome for a retail assistant to walk all the way to the other end to put that chye sim back to where it should be.

I've always thought that saying thank you to a cashier is a nice thing. It is, but just halfway nice actually. Saying thank you isn't enough. You must say it with a smile and eye contact. That is then sincere. And i've always done it wrongly. I learnt this because one of my colleagues complained that the people say 'thank you' without eye contact and that's kind of rude.

Hopefully i'll find another job soon and stay in that job. No more 4-days-only-quit. My next job will last for 2.5 months.