See pei suey man!

Words cannot express my suey-ness today. I thought it would be a good day because it was one of those days where some bugger from work falls sick and I'm called upon to stand in for him or her (I'm on Maestro's "reserve team" you see, or rather, reserve person since it's only me...), oh boy, I thought wrong...

What actually happened was that when this lady bought a pair of Elixir OEM strings, I had no idea we had two types, so I just grabbed two off the rack and handed it to her. When I was about to close shop, her son called me up and told me one of the sets were wrong. I was really puzzled as I had no clue we had different ones, so I gave him Isaiah's number to see if he could rectify the situation.

On the bus home, Isaiah called me up and told me the guy nagged the crap out of him over the phone for an hour, and the sadder news is I HAVE TO BUY THE STRINGS ONCE HE RETURNS THE SET. My gosh. I think I can jolly well kiss today's earnings goodbye. Here's a little calculation:

Earning today:
$5 x 7hrs = $35 (w/o commission)

Spendings:
Lunch (chai peng + apple juice) = $5
Dinner (Burger King) = $7
Transportation $2.50
Elixir set = $22.50
TOTAL = $37

WAH LAN EH! See pei suey man. I mean, if I were to sit down all day and just use the internet and doing nothing, I'm fine. The sad part is today just so happens to be one of those days where there's a shitload of work to do. There was stocktaking, I had to service a guitars (technically two as I helped a lady tightened her guitar's machine heads) and there were THREE customers in particular whom I had to do a lot of explaining to. I even had to run over to the Excelsior branch to deliver stuff and back.

Now I'll have to buy the returned set of strings from the customer sans the G string because he put it on his guitar and "it didn't sound right". Basket, I don't even like Elixir strings lah, so bloody expensive... if he had bought EXP or Wyres at least I don't feel too bad taking. I just hope boss has a special price for me on that strings man...

Still, the fact that I'm on the reserve team and I'm earning so little already sucks monkey ass. As much as I want to swear a shitload more right now, I am trying to keep this blog as reader friendly as possible and would refrain from stuff like that.