My. Goodness.
I have never been bombarded by so much direct advertising in my entire life as I have in the last week. I've (probably due to my own silly-ness, although I'd like to think of it as being obliging) done 3 surveys in the span of 4 days and sincerely thought they were JUST surveys. The fact that I had to leave a name and contact number didn't strike me as odd until I got calls 3 nights in a row from 3 different people, and they are all from the same company doing financial planning! When I got approached the day after to do a survey (and they are all different surveys!), I politely told the man that I had already done 3 surveys and had told his colleagues that I was simply not interested in financial planning at the moment. And he asks if he can try promoting it to me instead! I was like, What????? Did you not LISTEN to what I was saying?
That was the MRT station at work. There were no more promoters there since Monday, so I thought, thank goodness I don't have to quickly walk past and ignore them again. That same day, I arrive at the MRT station near home and got approached by yet another man, from THAT SAME COMPANY =.= With ANOTHER version of the survey. Gah!
The worst by far would have to be the credit card lady I met last Friday. Her 3rd question to me following my answer of 'I prefer to use debit cards' was 'How much do you earn?'. Now I'm normally not too fussed about telling people stuff but THIS just felt a bit personal coming from a complete stranger and for something I wasn't even interested in getting. So being me, I said something completely irrelevant (avoiding conflict) hoping she'd drop it and she asked me AGAIN! By then I was thoroughly annoyed, No. 1 for not being listened to, and No. 2 for being incessantly probed for personal information, and out of my mouth came 'Miss, you are promoting a credit card and I already said I am not interested in getting one'. It worked. And I thought that was rather clever of me *grin* .... She wasn't the only credit card person I met in that week, mind you, but the others didn't ask me such provoking questions.
Having said that, I do think advertising can be terribly difficult in a place like Singapore where people are constantly in a rush and have no time to listen to you. So I hope those promoters like what they do, otherwise it'd be a horrible job to have to go to everyday. Makes me love my work just a bit more =)
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