i don't know where to start, i was so damn annoyed just now, really felt like rolling my eyes a million times!!!

just now i accompanied my mum to some investment seminar which we eventually signed up for. well, i was only interested in certain aspects of the seminar, so i was asking the manager if i could just come for the parts i'm interested in. he said it's ok. then i asked if he could give me a schedule/timetable of the workshop, he said it's usually not the protocol, but he'd see to it.

then after being kinda convinced, my mum and i signed up for the workshop.

THEN this other girl was attending to us and she kept contradicting herself and her colleague. omg. she's such a smoker la, she didn't answer a single of my question directly and was just beating about the bush! please, does she think i'm stupid? just because i'm not even 21 doesn't mean i don't know how organisations and events are run!! PLEASE! I'M NOT STUPID!

this was a segment of your ridiculous convo:

me: so it's ok if i just come for half the seminar right? coz i'm only interested in the technical analysis part.
girl: oh it's recommended that you come for the entire seminar. if you don't come, the speaker might ask you to leave and attend the next session in may
me: what? why would he ask me to leave? the parts that i missed aren't even related to the technical analysis
girl: oh it's all somewhat interlinked. the entire seminar is created in such a way that you learn it structured manner. so if the speaker feels that you can't catch up, he might ask you to attend the next session in may. it's for your own good and your group's good.
me: so the basis for asking me to leave is for my own good? but i don't see how motivating you to earn money(the part which i intend to miss) is related to technical analysis.
girl: oh it's all somewhat interlinked. or if you can't make it, we suggest you don't come for this march session and come for the full session in may.

HELLO! i just paid my deposit and you're telling me not to come?? are you crazy?? and this isn't all, she was so anal in the second part of the convo, i really didn't understand why she was so RIGID!!

me: then can you give me the seminar timetable so i can assess what time to come
girl: oh we can't do that. we don't give out the timetables for our workshop
me: why can't you give it? isn't it a standard procedure? and shouldn't the timetable be out at least a week beforehand?
girl: oh it's coz the speakers might have some last minute commitments, so the sequence might change.
me: then wouldn't it be finalised the day before? can't i have it the day before?
girl: oh yes it would be finalised the day before, but we would only post it on the day itself. this is so that participants would not come for just selected portions of the workshop
me: i thought to myself, but why can't we come for just selected parts? we paid for it didn't we? and who on earth has so much time to come and listen to all the crap?? so i said but just now during the presentation, there was a clear indication of what you'd be teaching each day
girl: oh yea but that is just a guideline, it's still subject to last min changes. so for instance, if the speaker isn't available, they might teach that part on another day instead.
me: but didn't you mention that the course is structured? so isn't there a sequence?
girl: well yes, but you won't lose out coz eventually you'd still learn everything that is promised

do you see the contradiction?? O M G!

me: but your colleague mentioned just now that he can help me see to it if i want the schedule
girl: sorry it's strictly company policy
me: but why can't you give it? your colleague said it's ok
girl tries to beat around the bush about how it's for my own good to come for the whole workshop and deliberately doesn't answer my question

now you see why i was so annoyed?? what kinda sales person is that?? i mean i don't think she deliberately meant to annoy me, but what she said completely contradicted what her colleague told me! and what's worst is that she's so rigid! yes she apologised at the end our convo, and i realised that my tone was harsh. but seriously, i felt that i already exercised quite a lot of self restraint. i asked my mum if i sounded angry, she said not really, but i did sound like i thought that her words were ridiculous and completely unbelievable. yes i don't deny it, i was completely flabbergasted at her ignorance and inflexibility. and it's completely ironic that she isn't giving in to the customer! yes i was being very persistent and i was really digging for details, but that's coz she was smoking!!! and her smoking skills suck! i mean i hang out with smokers all the time too (gan smokes 50% of the time and kristin smokers 99.99999% of the time), but that's ok coz they smoke about casual stuff. hello, but you're in the business line and you're trying to smoke me?? well, maybe you tried to smoke me coz you were:

1)lazy
2)incompetent
3)or worst, think i'm stupid and easily smoked

well guess wrong coz i'm not stupid and i can see through smokers quite easily. it's only a matter of only i wanna let it go or not. but just now, it's really wayy to smoky and i'd be an idiot to not sieve through your smoke!
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