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Sojourn in Motorola

Sojourn? Well, haha, it wasnt a really my temporary house. Nonetheless, i stayed there longer than i lived in my house during these 3 weekends. It was as if my another home, but the home is just a place of tormenting suffering.

The first day was the best of all. Shelia and I practically do nothing for half of our day there. It was as though the company paid us to slack. Nobody gave us the opportunity to work. I reckon people just dont trust us in getting the work done properly. When we came back from our dinner, we rushed the model assembly of 500 phones. It wasnt as tough as you are imagining write now, it was very simple. I put the batteries and Shelia do the other task. Our work is done pretty quickly, and due to that, the people in front of us are jammed with all the work that we have finished. Poor thing

The second day was the beggining of my nightmare. This day also instigates the task which i did for the rest of my 5 days in Motorola. We were transferred to somewhere else because there is nothing left to do at the venue we are allocated at. On this day, we have 2 GLs. One is just a lame tigress who will flare up when she sees her workers chatting or not cooperating. The second one is a bespectacled tigress who is very "not righteous" and will shout at her workers when they lose a label. That shout can possibly shattered the whole of Mototrola windows. It is just so loud. The scariest thing is that she exudes ferocity, not rage when she is doing that. SCARY. Well, all werent too bad for me, i had a very helpful stout aunty beside me to assist me in all the things which i do not know how to do. She also teaches me the fundamentals of all the stuffs. Very helpful indeed. Haha. I also forgot to bring my blue slip on that day, it almost causes me to be out of work for that day, but thanks to Shelia's boyfriend, i was saved from not earning the 125 dollars, lolz

The third day was not so good and not so bad. We get transferred to a place beside Shelia's friend. Initially, o do not know that she is a rather impatient worker. So, i took my own sweet time in assembling the parts together. Then, due to the slow speed of my work, she had nothing to do in just a short while. Then she began to urge me to do the things faster as she got bored from all the waiting. Well, she had to understand, we had a lot of things to do, the things she just had to do was to put the keypad in and slide the side buttons in. I hell wish i was the one doing that! Due to this, we sacrificed our dinner break and came back early in an attempt to jam her, but it fail. She was just incredibly fast. We also helped an indian girl who was jammed with more than 6 trays of phones. Well, in the beginning, i thought she was slow, later i learn that she was just slothering.

On the fourth day, time passed pretty quickly, or should i say, it was no difference from the third day. The differences are pretty minor so i dont remember much details of it.

The fifth day was much much worse than the third day. The chinese girl who sat opposite us moved to a different place. The worse thing is that her seat was taken by another indian girl who is so gibberish that she can almost talk about anything even to the person beside her, whom she is not really close to. I commit a big mistake and phones are required to be re-screen. Even so, the indian girl continued to talk and talk and talk that after we had finished our work, she still has quite a number of trays left. For heaven sake, what was she doing all this time? After we came back from our 2nd break, Shelia and i began to observe her, so that the time could pass a little faster. When she was extracting the camera rubber out, she knead and knead before taking one of them out from the container. Then when she was sliding a plastic in, her eyeballs dart around the room, as though wanting to find a dashing guy who she has hope of marrying to. Then when she was inserting a board, she touches her hair, ears , nose before managing to do so correctly. Then we have just a few trays left, and she still have tons of them left. For goodness sake, i questioned myself, is Motorola so desperate for workers that they need to hire someone like her? Nevertheless, she was a lot of entertainment, her conversation with the guy beside her name Kelly was lame but funny. Thanks to her, the time passed rather quickly, but Shelia's friend sure isnt too happy about her laziness.

Last day's work is hectic. We were so busy that we hardly even have time to go the loo. We do the model assembly so fast that we are rapily loaded with trays and more trays. We finished 1000 trays before 12. Thats is a huge sum, for heaven sake. And my work for sliding in the plastic is painful to my "delicate" hands. Then, the lame tigress took the wrong medicine and due to that, she kept screaming the whole day long. Then, we finished our work and chat, the lame tigress came and scolded us for not assisting our neighbours. What the hell, our neighbours are slacking the whole day and she blamed us for not helping them. I was thinking, scold them, they did nothing but move their gigantic mouth! Then she reprimanded us for not having team spirit. It is not our fault that we didnt completeour work, it is theirs!! It is because they are slothering around, talking all the time and only work when a GL or a QA is close to them! Crap of a team if you talk about team spirit! After we got back from our second break, i work as screwing the covers of the mobile. Because it is the first time i am doing it, Shelia's friend jammed me with a lot of mobiles. She thought it will really waver me in some way but glad i didnt, HAHA!

After the work, Shelia and i got very happy as the 6 days of painstaking work are finally over and we got our $600. Yeah.

John [1:04 AM]