False Advertising

Went for my third Interior Designer position interview today at Ubi Road. This time I found this company on my own, so my expectations weren't exactly super low but at the same time, I didn't want to put too much hope lest it actually went south and starting sucking.




In order to get to the company, I had to take a bus, switch to a train after a 20 minutes ride, switched to another bus after another 20 minutes ride on the train, not counting in the waiting time for the buses which varies from 5 minutes to 45 minutes on a bad day. The fact that I had to actually switch from a bus to a train and back to a bus again was already a sign that the location was going to be an issue. Once in a while it's not so bad, I mean I do that every time I book out of my army camp in Changi during my NS, like maximum twice a week....taking a 2 hour ride home and hoping I won't get motion sickness wasn't so bad, but if I had to do that constant bus-train-bus switching routine 5 to 6 days a week for the next year or so, I'm probably not even going to last a week before handing in my resignation letter.



So I reached the place and the building was a nightmare to navigate, I had to walk around the building to find the design firm because I was at the wrong side and when I finally found the design firm, I was so hot and bothered I really wasn't interested in the position anymore because it was just too inconvenient for me, the only way I would actually consider this company would be if the boss offered me some kick ass job benefits.



In my previous post, I blogged about how I hate it when companies don't state on their job ad title that they are looking for sales designers and it's only after clicking the ad do you realize that it's actually a sales designer position.  Well this company went a step further and left all that information out on their job ads and website career page.

DESIGNERS

• The role of DESIGNERS:
• To assist the Senior Designer in the generation and development of detailed design.
• To assist the Senior Designer in generating 3d visuals and presentation boards.
• To assist the Senior Designer in keeping awareness of current and emerging trends of the industry and to ideate, research and conceptualise.
• To assist the Senior Designers in documentation.

This was the job scope I saw under their career page on their official website, no where does it state that it's a sales position so i thought there would be no way I was going to be doing any sales related work, since I will be assisting the senior designer, that probably means the Senior Designer will be the one who will be speaking to the clients and that's great, because I really don't want to be handling the clients directly and listening to their idea of a dream home, how they want to make the impossible possible, like hanging a huge ass chandelier in their 2 bedroom single story apartment or knocking out all the walls of their flat so it becomes one big open space....like I really don't need to be dealing with that kind of shit.



So after about 20 minutes of filling up a form and waiting for the boss to return from his lunch, I finally got to start the interview, he invites me to his office and the first thing he tells me...

" So the position you are being interviewed for is for Sales Designer."

The smile I had on my face started fading away when he said that, and even when I was trying to smile, I was frowning.

"Ummm, I am applying as the position for Designer, not sales designer."

.... because no where in the fucking job ad or the job scope on the website did it EVER state that the position I was applying for was even remotely related to sales.



Turns out the Designer position IS a sales designer position, it just wasn't stated anywhere on their website or job ad.. My gawd thinking about it pisses me off. I kinda had a bad feeling when I first walked into the company and realized how ah-beng most of the workers were, even the admin lady wasn't really dress for the part, she was dressed in short shorts and a shirt that was exposing the lower part of the stomach.



When I realized that the position has been falsely advertised, all I wanted to do was for the boss to quickly end the interview so I could just get out of there because every minute he spends telling me how awesome the job is was just going in from one ear and exiting out from the other because I don't give a shit. I didn't really want to end it myself because it's a bit rude even though I had essentially been lied to about the position I was applying for.



In the end all the boss told me was that he would keep me in view when he realized I wasn't really showing much interest in the position, said he would give me time to think over or something, not that I really need any time to think over a position I had zero intention of applying for in the beginning. Disgusting.




Anyways, after leaving the area, I realized I had actually been to the building before, in fact I had been there for an interview for a position as a sales designer back when I was fresh out of the army, oh the days when I was young and clueless.



Good news though is that I received an email literally minutes after I left the design firm from another architect firm, setting up an interview with me this Friday. Fingers crossed that that works out well, really need a good decent design company to hire me.

Finally visited Yong Siak Street

For the longest time, I've wanted to visit Yong Siak Street to visit the many cafes there but due to the distance and mainly the lack of friends who were interested in cafe hopping with me, that plan to visit never happened....until today.





The problem about going to Yong Siak Street during lunch time on a Saturday afternoon was firstly, the scorching hot sun that was glaring down on me and my friend as we navigated through the neighborhood trying to spot all the different cafes, each time taking a peek to see if it was pack, and always disappointed by the fact that it was.




I had thought that when I went to Yong Siak Street, cafes would be lined side by side and cafe hopping would essentially just mean dropping by 1 cafe, trying a few cakes and coffee, exiting the cafe and entering the next one beside it, but that was not the case at all because all the different cafes were spread all around the neighborhood and it was extremely confusing and sticky and hot and just plain uncomfortable.




Decided to settle our lunch first at this small restaurant that didn't look very pack, ordered from their brunch menu and was extremely underwhelmed by the actual dish, 3 sausages of different meat and colour, a side of scrambled eggs and a bit of salad ,which really was just arugula and balsamic vinegar mixture, tossed at the side... the dish cost me $17. It was fucking expensive and the dish itself wasn't even that good, it's not bad but it's definitely not a dish I would fork out $17 for. Kinda realized at that moment why the shop was so empty when all the other cafes were pretty much packed to the brim.... that being said, the service was quite good, so they have that going for them, which is nice.




After that, we decided to go to Plain Vanilla to maybe grab a cupcake and coffee, place was pack as fuck, the communal table they had was pretty much full and the side table with the high stools were all occupied by who I assume to be students. Decided since our plan was to explore the area, we walked around the neighborhood many times searching for a place to sit down and have a coffee. Everywhere was packed and we ended up walking for an hour, my hair was literally dripping with sweat and my whole body was very sticky, it felt like I have just completed my guard duty as sentry under the hot sun, wearing my LBV.




We gave up after a while, decided to just go to 7-11 to get a drink and went to the playground to do some catching up.... and then before going home, pop by Plain Vanilla again and each bought cupcakes. Sadly by the time we reached there, they only had 5 flavors left and a few mini bundt cakes plus other bakes that weren't really catching my interest, and then we took a cab home because I just wanted to go home and take a bath to get rid of that stickiness.




Thinking back now, I probably should have bought more than cupcakes.

New logo since I last patronized their shop at Holland Village. Out of all the cupcake stores I have visited, I still like their packaging the most. 

Cupcakes, awesome as always, and I dare say better than the ones at my bakery, I much prefer their sugary rich American buttercream style frosting over the super light french buttercream at my bakery.  Probably because I have been having light and airy buttercream for so long, it's nice to have a super diabetic-ish sugary one atop a cupcake.

Had the carrot cupcake and I honestly felt so satisfied after eating it. It was freaking awesome, didn't really enjoy the chocolate one that's smothered in cocoa nibs as much though. 

Made a 4 layer red velvet cake over the week as well, the first time a whole cake has come out so well.

Used the French Buttercream recipe from the bakery, great consistency for pipping the rosettes.

4 layers is a lot so the slices I cut were very thin. 

And there was a lot of buttercream as well because I sucked at portioning it out, ended up having to scrap the butter cream rosettes. Still good to eat though not as good as the one I make at the bakery, it always taste different when I bake them at home for some reason.

Not Trustworthy

After the two horrible job interviews I had to go through, I decided to email the lady at the Institute about my experience, tone down without the vulgarities obviously, like constructive criticism to stop finding me all these piece of shit companies.




I wasn't really expecting to get any reply from them at all after that, thinking they would probably just cross me off their candidate list and put me in the "ungrateful" list.  And I was more than ready for that to happen because I got called up by another company call AcePLP to head down to their headquarters at fucking Bishan to get an interview. What the fuck is up with all this companies being located so far away from me.



Decided since I was pretty much a headless chicken at this point with no job opportunities in sight, why not? But prior to the interview, it's always important to check what other people have to say about it, so I ended finding information in the hardwarezone forum and there were 2 polarizing opinions, they either think the company is a "bloodsucking company" that treats their students like slaves OR they are the best industry in the world that has helped countless people get a job in the industry.




The ones who were kissing up to the institute sounded very very suspicious though because NONE of them were students themselves but rather friends of people who have gone through the program, and despite not being part of the program, they understand the way it works like they have been through it themselves. It was very dubious the way they kept trying to promote the benefits of joining the company...




"The institute has help a friend I know gain the knowledge and now he has a pretty high paying job in the construction industry"




"I think it's a good place for people with no experience prior to join, they train you and help you look for jobs. If I could join I would, but I'm not interested in CAD drawings."



Of course it's in like horrible English with shit ass spelling "lyk dis"... it's like they are trying to write a testimonial, but for a friend because all the people who wrote those aren't actually graduates of the course but rather friends of people who have gone through the course. Not suspicious at all.


They were also constantly calling out to people who were dissing the company, calling them morons or troublemakers because there's no way anyone would have trouble with completing the courses, if anyone is at fault, it's you for being a moron.


No connection to the institute whatsoever but gets offended when someone puts the institute in a bad light, offended enough for them to call this people out and write a whole chunk of text defending the institute against all this naysayers who are soiling the reputation of the institute.




In the end, I decided to back out of the interview. That and also the fact that there's a 2 year bond that I will have to serve, I don't want to be travelling back and forth from Bukit Timah to Bishan everyday, that's nuts and apparently there are hidden terms and conditions that they don't really tell you when you are signing the bond, terms and conditions that are hidden and only revealed when you decide to quit midway and they sue the bejesus out of you. I don't think it's hidden as the forum users put it, but just not brought to your attention when you are signing the bond, it's probably written on like the 15th page, on the 5th line of the 3rd Paragraph or something... 14 pages after you have stopped bothering to read the entire thing.





Anyways, just a few hours ago, I received a call from the lady from the other institution informing me that she has read my email. That was a bit of a shocker but I think she felt like she owed me an explanation regarding the whole matter and after speaking to her for a bit, she decided to "look into the matter" and will continue searching for companies for me that are looking for designers and not fucking sales man, so that's good, although I won't be putting too much hope with the companies she is searching for me because the last 2 were really a huge waste of my time.... not that I had anything else to do.




So all that's left to do now is to start spamming companies with my cover letters and resume and hope that some kind soul will be willing to take me in. One thing I can't stand about how some companies post their job ads though is how they only put "Interior Designer" as the Job Title but don't actually tell you it's a "Sales Designer" position until you actually click the ad and see in the bottom..

"Basic Salary with Attractive Commission"   

More attractive for the boss that's for sure,and the basic normally only last for 1 to 3 months, and after that, it's your turn to pay the boss through your commissions, they leave that out until the interview... Too bad I can't filter all this jobs out, so bloody annoying. If it's a sales position then put it as an ad looking for a "Sales Designer" instead of just leaving it as "Interior Designer", there are people in this world that actually go through Poly and University for years honing their craft in Interior Design, and then there are those that get hired by companies that are looking for sales designers with no qualification.



There's something about such people who are not design trained with no design background calling themselves designers that I find very irksome. Decorator would be more fitting, not a designer. It's like me calling myself a pastry chef because I have gone through a 5 week certificate program at a culinary school and spend 6 months working as a pastry cook. If I told this to a French Pastry Chef, he will probably spit on my face..... because I am Asian and I heard they are pretty racist.



It's because of one bad working experience that has forever soiled my impression of sales designer.

Urgh

Went for my second interview yesterday, another company that was found through the institute and I have to admit, a few days prior, I was actually looking forward to this interview despite the location.



Working in the furniture industry as a designer doesn't sound so bad, honestly when I was still studying for my diploma, what I really wanted to do was furniture designing, that was the first thing that caught my attention when I was scanning through the list of career paths I could possibly take in the future as an interior designer in the poly's course booklet.



 So when I got a call from the company, naturally, I got very excited about it and my day that got ruined by the horrible interview I had earlier suddenly became less fucked up.




Fast forward to yesterday, left the house at around 11.30 am hoping to reach the location at 1 pm, the interview time, or maybe 10 minutes earlier,  Google Maps estimated the travel time to take roughly 50 minutes, but because public buses can take anywhere from 5 minutes to 45 minutes to arrive, and I have to switch buses en route which is always annoying.... I didn't trust that estimated travel timing shit.



The last time I went to the driving school, I decided to trust Google maps estimated travel timing, boarded the first bus 40 minutes before the lesson starts and when I finally arrived at the next bus stop and was waiting for the next bus to take, it was 12 minutes before the lesson was about to start and usually the travel time from that bus stop to the driving school will only take roughly 5 minutes because it's relatively close, so I took out my phone to check the timing and lo and behold, the next bus will only arrive 12 minutes later.



I ended up being 10 minutes late, so I just decided to skip the lesson altogether and went to update my PDL before leaving.  Reason why I hate to go to places that don't have a direct bus or an MRT Station nearby and also why I will never understand people who prefer to take the bus over the MRT.




I digress.


So anyways, I actually managed to reach the location as Google Maps had predicted, within 50 to 60 minutes, which meant that I was 20 minutes early for the interview. Decided to just head up to the office to wait since there wasn't any shopping mall around for me to walk for 20 minutes.



The first thing that struck me was how different the building in which this company is located in was compared to the other one I went to a week or so ago, this was a proper 7 storey building that didn't look like it would be infested with foreign workers on a Sunday night.




When I entered the lift area, the first thing I noticed was that entire first floor belonged the the company, when I saw that, it felt like I am a gold digger who has finally hit the jackpot and have found a guy who drives a Lamborghini and lives in a huge mansion atop a mountain facing the sea or something making a million dollar every hour. Compared to the previous company, this company just felt like a legit place to work at and to expand my career path, I suddenly became very nervous and was just hopping hard that I wouldn't screw up the interview.




Took the lift to the top floor, looked for the unit number, ringed the bell, removed my shoes, entered the office and was straight away ushered into the conference room to await my interview,during which I was given a form to fill up and when that was done, my portfolio was taken from me by a worker and passed to the boss along with the form. Now that's what workers are suppose to do during a candidates interview, hand the interviewee's information to the boss and other minor task, not fucking interview the interviewee in the boss stead. Another plus point to this company.




When I was still filling up the form, another candidate was actually also ushered into the conference room and I instantly felt screwed because size matters and her portfolio was in an A3 size Folder, whereas mine was in an A4 size Folder. After 20 minutes of awkward silence, she decided to start small talk and that was when I found out she was applying for the position of designer as well, which kinda got me worried because she was a lot more "fresh" compared to this old fart who has spend 3 years away from Interior Design. The only thing that kinda made me not so nervous was that she was applying for a full time position directly from a job ad online and not through a design program like myself, so she wasn't really competition.




All in all I waited about 40 minutes before the boss decided to see me, and right off the bat, he was a really nice guy, he was all smiles, very warm and most importantly he was genuinely interested in knowing more about his possible future employee, unlike the other dude form the design firm who couldn't give a shit at all. That guy can go shove the office printer up his butt and have all the colleagues print out the entire Twilight series ten times over.... if his anus doesn't get ruptured from the printer and he doesn't bleed to death from the paper cut... the horrible plot of the series will probably scar his butt hole forever.




So the conversation was going well with the boss, we discussed about my reasons for not wanting to continue further studies and also why I decided to go work in the F&B industry, like topics that would give him a greater understanding about me, and I thought  that with the amount of interest he was shown having in me, the designer position was mine to get, I wont let distance affect my decision, if he agrees to hire me as a designer, I am going to agree right on the spot..... And then he drops a bomb on me....

"So how do you feel about working in sales because I see your resume and you don't really have the experience to get hired as a designer?"

You have got to be fucking kidding me. I have actually told one of my friend before that becoming a sales designer was probably one of this worst positions you could get as a design student in a design firm, you as a qualified interior designer, because majority of the people working as "Sales Designer" have zero background in interior design prior to that job, so to me, asking a design student who has spend thousands of dollars and 3 years of studying to get diploma to apply for a position that can be filled by some random dude on the street that "decided it was time to stop spending their parents money and get a serious job" is just a slap in the face.




Of course when he offered me the position, I was instatnly turned off by it and kept asking about the designer position, but he was very persistent, saying I had no work experience (hello, no one is going to be able to get any "experience" if people like you keep turning us down, I'd understand the bakery's boss saying I have no experience in the field and offering me a pay lower than I had asked for because all I got is a certificate, but for fuck sake, I have spend 3 years studying to get a diploma, that alone should count for something, but NOOOOO~, he was only offering me the sales position.




At one point, I was actually contemplating about whether or not to accept the offer, because I was really desperate and needed to find work soon, then he threw in another shocker...

"By the way, we are working a 6 day work week and your weekends will be burnt, your off day will only be on a weekday."

It's like this job offer keeps getting worst and worst, normally before a job interview, I will try and picture the worst possible and plausible case scenario in my head to mentally prepare myself, this scenario did not play in my head at all, in fact it never crossed my mind that the institute would find me a company that would offer me a position as a sales person, and not even a designer but an actual sales person who has to go to the shop and recommend furniture to the customer. What the fuck am I? A middle age guy who decided education wasn't important during his Primary and Secondary School days and thus is now stuck working at a furniture mall as a low level sales person. Ridiculous... I am going through the institute's program to become a designer, not as a sales person, what the actual fuck?


The boss reason was that he wanted to get people with design background to do sales as well and he's trying to hire more people of my caliber to form a new sales group to do a job that people of my caliber are obviously overqualified for.

One of the reason why I left my job at the bakery was because of the six day work week, and now I am being offered a job that has the same work style, except its made so much worst by burning my weekends and on top of that, I have to work 10 hours everyday as opposed to the 8 hours at the bakery. At least at the bakery I get to choose whether I want to take a weekend or weekday off.... this boss was very adamant about working on the weekends.





At the end, he had no intention of offering my a position as designer, even when I asked if it was possible for me to work for him as one in the future, he kinda minced his words and said the chances were very very low. It was an extremely disappointing interview because the boss was so nice and it srarted off so well that I got my hopes so high up that when he pulled that hope back now, it was HARD... Like yanking me by the leg while I am up there so hard he tore a ligament and dislocated my ankle and send me crashing into a bed of rocks at the bottom.



This I have come to the conclusion that the institute is unreliable and inept at looking for decent companies or positions for their candidates, so from this point onward, I am no longer going to rely on them anymore. The first company they send me to just pissed me off and this one was just a colossal disappointment.



Horrible horrible experience, it's no wonder their Facebook page doesn't have that many LIKES. I fucking left my job at the bakery because of them and now I get presented with all this shit job offers, sure. I was happy when I finally found a valid reason to leave the bakery and end all the baking madness, but now that I am stuck at home and not earning any income, I feel like such a waste of space and it's a terrible feeling.

Bakery No More

I have finally returned my uniform to the bakery, my last reason to have to return to the bakery has been used up.



Before actually heading to the bakery though, I was thinking whether or not to show up empty handed or get them something, sort of as a farewell gift, the last baker who left gave everyone in the kitchen team a bar of chocolate with a handwritten note at the back, a very nice gesture and it was pretty good chocolate, I ended up just eating the whole bar of chocolate and leaving the empty box in the fridge, not knowing what I should do with the note, although now that I think about it, I probably should have kept it somewhere else where the maid wouldn't rummage through and throw away because to her, it's just an empty box of chocolate with a note written on the back in a language she doesn't read... she doesn't understand spoken English so I highly doubt she knows how to read written English.





So as I was on my way there in the bus, I decided to get them something simple, something I could  in the a shopping mall I had to cut through to get to the bakery. I wanted to get KOI for sure before I left, but I didn't want to carry it as I was returning my uniform, so I settled for Gong Cha instead.




Got the cheapest one because really, I am not working anymore, my money at this point can only decrease and it's the thought that counts, plus they aren't bubble tea connoisseurs like myself, I could get them cups of Sweet Talk and they would probably be just as grateful, if I got a cup of Sweet Talk from somebody though, I probably won't even finish that sad excuse for a bubble tea.




Bought 2 milk tea and when I walked into the bakery, only my sous chef was around, so we chat for like 5 minutes and I was out the door. My Sous Chef is a nice person, but I wouldn't say we are close, in fact every time we go for lunch together, 70% of the time he's on his phone scrolling through Facebook instead of striking a conversation with me and when he does strike a conversation with me, there will always be this awkward pause between our conversations, like my brain is trying to think of new topics to talk about before this awkward pause we are experiencing becomes a pregnant pause and before I know it, he's taken out his phone and is scrolling through Facebook.




The only person I was really comfortable talking to was the other baker who left before and I am not close to the head chef at all because he mainly converse in Chinese and I have lost the ability to converse in Chinese with anyone since I last willingly strike a conversation with someone in Chinese, and when I say conversation, I mean an actual conversation, not small talk about the weather because all I know about the weather is that is's very 风和日丽. 

I did feel very bad when I saw my sous chef having to bake all the cakes by himself though, that really sucks, especially when you think you have finally finished all the baking for the custom orders for the week and surprise motherfucker, you get 10 more from the manager through Whatsapp. I'm actually still in the group chat where the manager will send in the custom order forms and recently she send in one and it was a last minute order for an ombre cake, even though ombre cakes aren't as colourfuck as a rainbow cake, they are still time consuming to make, and the manager send in the order on Friday or Saturday, and expects the kitchen team to complete it by Monday where she will come down in the afternoon to collect.




That was ridiculous, even though I was no longer working there, I still felt a bit angry towards the manager for the kitchen team. The sous chef already told them that orders had to be taken 5 days in advance and she still takes that order, and the sous chef was on leave for both the weekends, she said she was really sorry about it and spam all the crying emoticons, but if you were really feeling that bad about it, you wouldn't have taken that order in the first place. I have met her in person before and she's a really nice person, but when she pulls shit like that, the positive feelings I have towards her disappears until I see her and she's nice to me again.

Loaf Cake

Went to VivoCity yesterday for family dinner and came across this new bakery opened by Twelve Cupcakes called Dulce and Sucre.

I've wanted to try out their loaf cakes since my ex-boss at the bakery told us (the kitchen team) about it during our monthly meetings. We all had this belief that the items sold at Dulce and Sucre were inspired by (copied) what our bakery was selling, but when I actually look at the menu, the only items that are similar are the loaf cakes and the brownies. 

They also had whoopie pies, which I was initially actually quite interested in getting as well but after seeing how flat the whoopie sandwiches were, decided to give it a miss. The sandwiches reminds me of the Nestle Toll House Cookies that I make at home, bloody recipe never works and I always end up with a flat cookie.

With the mindset that the loaves were just cheap imitations of the ones sold at the bakery I was working in, my benchmark for the loaves at Dulce and Sucre was set very high,  like anything below awesome would be horrible, like all imitation items. I have tried those from Cedele and those aren't good, at all. You can probably use those loaves to build a house, probably what the witch in Hansel and Gretel used to build the structure of her house.

So I was actually really disappointed with the range of flavors available because they only had 2 that day. Nutella and Earl Grey.

Earl Grey with Lemon Glaze and Nutella with Nutella

The presentation was really good though, it was very rustic looking with the baking paper used as liners, not something I would enjoy prepping. I can only imagine how much of a pain it must be to keep cutting and folding the parchment papers enough times so it will stay in it's folded shape and not slowly crawl out of the loaf pan every time you try to stick it in place, the worst would be when you are portioning out the batter and the parchment paper decides to fold in another direction, causing you to spill your batter all over. Happened to me many times with a loaf paper liner and it was extremely annoying.

I guess because now I am getting older, my palette has changed. In the past I would have probably preferred the Nutella flavor over the Earl Grey, but when I was at the shop, I found myself drawn to the Earl Grey loaf., but that could be because I had been baking Earl Grey cupcakes at the bakery during my last few days and it always smelled amazing every time they were done and I took them fresh out from the oven. 

Earl Grey with Lemon Glaze.

 The Earl Grey one wasn't very strong in terms of having an Earl Grey flavour, it was very subtle and the lemon glaze was just a lemon glaze really, all I could remember was how gritty it was, but that's what one should expect from a glaze. 

Nutella

Nutella one was a chocolate cake base with chopped hazelnuts folded through, really nice because I like hazelnuts so that already eared brownie points from me. The glaze is just Nutella jam sprinkled with even more chopped hazelnuts, some covered with a milk chocolate or hazelnut praline coating. 

The loaves themselves were actually really good, not as soft or as moist as the one sold at my bakery because I always have them on the day they are made, hours after coming out from the oven. They are comparatively larger than the ones sold at my bakery so it's more expensive as well and I guess another reason is because the cakes are butter based rather than oil based, once again just an assumption from the texture of the cake, and butter is always more expensive than vegetable oil because it makes cakes taste so much better, wouldn't say the same about butter being on it's own though, that just smells like a dried up sock that was drenched in sweat an hour ago.

I should probably try making this at home with the recipes I have gotten from the bakery, just use the chocolate cake and fold in some hazelnuts, I have 2 jars on Nutella at home as well. Now that I think about it, I can probably make the Earl Grey loaf as well, just need to get some quality Earl Grey tea.

Next thing I want to try are the whole cakes sold at my bakery. One day I shall get my hands on the rainbow cake and see what all the fuss is about, here's hoping to not getting chemical poisoning from the excessive food coloring.  

Being Jobless Sucks

It's only been 3 days since I left the bakery but it already feels like a week has gone by. There's absolutely nothing to do at home apart from more baking, I have no MMOs to play because this laptop is getting old, playing any games that has been released this year on the laptop just induces motion sickness due to the horrible frame rate, I downloaded Firefall a few days ago and the only setting I could play it on was Low, that's just really really sad.... and I can't get a new laptop because I didn't earn enough as a baker to save that much money to get a new laptop, I mean I have enough money in my bank to get a new laptop, but it's barely enough, if I were to get a laptop with the money I have in my bank, the money I would be left with after wouldn't even allow me to be able to afford a box of cupcakes from the bakery.




Anyway, actually right after my interview at Steven's Shithole Design Firm, I did receive another call from another company to head down to their office for an interview, this time it's a furniture company and I checked their company's website and was honestly a bit disappointed.




When they told me they were a furniture company, I thought they were a company that designs furniture like a product design firm, but sadly that's not the case, turns out, they are just a company that sells furniture. I guess that would probably mean that I will be doing more space planning than furniture designing, which is also okay. Space Planning in that furniture shop would be the best case scenario because it could be worst, they could be making me do sales.... and I don't like speaking to customers because "the customers are always right"...so even if they were to take a bookshelf and stick it up my ass, rupturing my colon, it's not their fault that they are deranged, it's my fault because my butt hole isn't loose enough to even fit the entire Harry Potter series inside.





As grateful as I am for being able to get another interview right after going through what was probably the worst interview I have ever gone for in my life, I have one issue and that's with the location of these companies shortlisting me because the furniture company is located in the East.... AGAIN, isn't there any companies from the Western and Central part of Singapore that needs employees to hire?




The furniture company isn't as far away as Steven's Shithole though, it's only about 2 train stations away from the bakery, followed by another 800 m walk to the location, it's probably more than 800 m though. The power of Google Maps, the distance for walking are always never accurate because half the time they just draw the walking path straight across a building or 10, sometimes even across the bloody river because people who uses Google Maps have gain the ability to walk on water and would probably also rise from the dead after 3 days. Gonna have to see if the distance is actually short enough for me to walk without breaking into a sweat or not, otherwise I'm gonna have to take the bus instead.






I do hope the interview goes well, that I wouldn't be interviewed by a half ass interviewer who knows shit, that the interviewer would actually introduce the company to me probably and actually tell me my job scope, and most importantly, be interested. There's nothing like introducing yourself and your portfolio to a cow.