TEE-GEE-I-FF!

The hotel event went off very smoothly, and smaller scale than what i had in mind. Anyways, it wasn't that like an exhibition but more like meet-up of partners. Was educated quite a bit on brocade's products. Well, it is not an advertising firm, actually, far far from it. Apparently, it is an IT business solution provider, with key customers from three areas, end users, channel partners(ding!) and OEM (dingding!). Rings a bell ah. Its provides SANs support, which is storage area network. Its partner company includes hp. So hp provides the external hardware, and brocade gives the storage support. According to the manager, brocade's coverage in S'pore is about 70%. Thats pretty fantastic. Seriously, i haven't heard of the company prior to this. End users include any organisation that has a large database and needs a storage area for all participants to share that hard disk. Something along that line. Ah, all the IT stuff.


What the department does is pretty much like what the textbook describes it to be. Managing database, check. After the hotel event, we collected a bunch of surveys, namecards of the sorts to be keyed into the system. Mundane stuff, stuff for the intern to do. Then we have to do a email blast using the newly updated database. Then do telemarketing too, calling individuals up to check who will attend and all that follow-up. Then pack the goodies, and the datasheets, and the lucky draw box and all that. Then set up the place, mingle around abit, collect more surveys, more namecards, bring back, then update. That's how the marketing pipeline looks like. To see how well marketing efforts has turned out, there is the weekly sales report to be compiled and a meeting every monday to discuss the next week's event.


Haha, that sounds like an instruction sheet. That's for the elog book by the way. Haha..


Actually this company is really quite different from Citibank. Maybe the only similarity is that both are Us firms. Citibank has a thing about punctuality. Louise implemented this (ridiculous) rule that whoever is late has to put 2 bucks into the team's kitty. Here, haha..everyone is late. 9 am is the supposed starting time, some people come at 8 plus, some at 9 plus, some decide to SOHO for the day. Ad-hoc timings and what have you. The big shots are always busying. At citibank, the Balcon dept calls the staff marketing officers, but really it is just telemarketing. Repeating the sames sales pitch as per every phone call, and get slammed on every one out of ten calls. Considering if you were to call 50 a day, that is more than enough to ruin the day. At brocade, i really really do marketing stuff, which is good, lots to learn. but i get paid 4 times lesser, pre-cpf deduction.
Btw, all the cute guys are gone. See la, the jinxed mouth. I shouldn't have mentioned them. Yep, they flew off and i only caught one name, which is Rick.


Oh, something REALLY perculiar. To get to the toilet, i have to bring a key and a security pass. First door, tap security pass, door opens, take key, open door. Huh? What is there inside the toilet that is good to steal? And, there are camera's everywhere. One in the pantry which is directed to the pantry's fridge, and ya..took 3 coke light cans in 4 days, so there. And there is beer in the fridge. And there are loads of spreads, jam, butter, margerine, cheese, excel(waha) but no bread.??? Is it possible to eat butter from a spoon??


Ah, all these cowpoke gritty details. Jooooyy..sometimes i needa some amusing to let the day get by easier. Especially at times where i have nothing else better to do besides staring at the screen...watching the pdf and zip files for the datasheets in download process...takes forever.. Little envelope icon files from left to right. Sometimes just bored to constipation.


Oh ya, This is funny. So there was supposedly a fire drill at 3-5pm, well for all of us to evacuate. So 2 o'clock comes along, Janice(my boss) says..beverly, i'm going back to do my work. Fire drill later. Then another office lady says..hey quickly evacuate the office before fire drill starts. Then Janice tells me..beverly, you can go home. Then i'm thinking, she must be kidding. So i said...as in, serious? Go home? She said...ya. Next thing i look up, half the office is gone. This is so so strange. Evacuating the fire evacuation. Anyways, of course, i didn't stay around to play hero. so..hhaha..but but..Fire doesnt tell you what time it is coming. No, seriously it doesnt come in the form of a signboard which says.."firedrill, 3-5pm". But again, even if it does, we arent punctual people. Probably have already been fried by then. Seriously, just go home.