I quickly ran up to it.
“hello mam, I’m Riley. I have an appointment here.” I talked to the middle aged lady who was professionally dressed up along with a ponytail tied up behind her head.
She examined me up and down before giving me a beautiful smile that made her look even prettier and young. “Please take a sit there, the interview is going on. I’ll let you know when your turn comes.”
I nodded at her and went to sit on the bench just in front of the reception. I looked around to pass the time , it seemed like Rose was really popular among its customers. People are coming non stop to the shop. I had never seen this before, most of the company have their selling place different from the working place.
“Riley Wilson, its your turn next.” The receptionist said looking at the crowd who were there for interview. I got up and walked up to her.
“I’m Riley, where should I go from here?” I asked her.
“Go straight and second room.” She pointed at the long corridor in front. I nodded as I gave her a big smile and went to the room she mentioned.
When I reached there, I felt nervousness taking over me once more. I took a deep breath before I knock on the door.
“Knock knock”
“May I came in ?” I opened the door a bit and take permission.
“yeah come in please” a female voice welcomed me and I pushed the door open and entered the office.
In front of me was a man in his thirties and a girl around her late twenties waiting for me.
“hello sir, hello mam.”
“Please have a seat.” The girl politely asked.
“Thank you.’ I nodded and get myself sit on one of the seat in front of them.
“So, gave me your introduction.” The man finally spoke.
“I’m Riley Wilson. And I’m seventeen.” I spoke trying not to sound nervous to him.
“Documents??” the girl asked about my cv. I took out my CV out of my bag and handed it to her.
“You have already worked in Golden Company ?” She asked me with her eyes wide.
I nodded. “Yes I did.”
“Then why did you leave that company?” She inquired forward.
“Were you fired or you leave it ?” the manager asked.
“I was fired technically.” I gave him a sheepish smile.
“For what ?” she asked further.
“I was supposed to do a task which I couldn’t finish on time. That was why” I explained.
“What have you worked there as ?”
“I was at the finance”
“So, you think you can work as marketing officer? I mean finance and marketing are two different fields.” She asked with a worried face. And she was right. It certainly was a different field though.
“I’ll do as much as I can. I’m sure I can do this.” I smiled at them not sure of if I can do it or not.
“Well you seem confident. Don’t you? We need such people here who can interact and convince people to buy our products” The man said.
“vmmmm vmmmm” his phone on table started to vibrate on the table.
“Excuse me’ he took a look at the phone and his brows furrowed a little.
“I have to take this. Please excuse me for a while.” He got up from his seat and went out of his office to answer the call.
“You know you have to be very patient while talking to customer. You need to understand what they are looking for and even talk to them about how good is our products. The benefits…”
“crack” the door opened as the girl was talking to me about the work of a marketing officer. And the HR manager come back in. He went up to his seat and sat down there. He had his expression a bit stern and cold then he seemed when he went out.
“Well, this is enough. We had asked everything we needed to, so you can leave now.’ He said still with the same expression on his face.
“But sir, we still…” the girl next to him seems to say something but he raised his hand to her and she shut up in an instant.
Well that was quite akward. I don’t what was going on but it didn’t seem good to me.
“I think I will take my leave now.” I got up from there and smiled to them.
“I’ll inform you if you got selected or not through the gmail. I think till tomorrow morning” the girl said.
I nodded at her and came out of the office. When I came out there were still lots of people on the queue. I was lucky to have my turn sooner. I came out of rose and hailed a cab. As I said before, I had two appointment that day. The first one was a bit weird. The HR manager got a bit cold after he got his phone call.
Well… that was ok I guess. I just hope everything will go fine and I got selected. Fingers crossed and lets hope for the best.
As I hopped in the cab and moved towards next destination, My phone buzzed in my bag. I took it out and look at it. Then I found out it was a message. But the weird thing was it was an unknown number. I unlocked my phone and look at the message. There were only a few words written “How was it?”
That was it. I don’t if it was from someone I knew or just a wrong number but I didn’t reply the message because I can’t concentrate on it while moving. I feel a bit dizzy. So, I put it down on my bag and let it be.
When we reached to the destination, I got off the car and paid for it. then I went inside. This time it was a small shop and I have applied for the receptionist or you may call it as a counter girl. The shop un front of me was a cloth shop basically. It was not inside of any mall but a roadside shop. As I went in I saw an old lady at the counter. As I entered in the shop, the old lady smiled politely at me. “Hello there, what do you need?” she asked with a smile.
“You posted that you need a receptionist? I’m here for job interview. I send you my resume.” I said to her. As she listened to my words, her face became a bit colder. Her smile has faded away.
“Well about that we aren’t hiring you. Sorry for the inconvenience but we have already found someone.” She said with a akward smile.
I felt bad at hearing those of course but there was nothing I can do anything about it. I smiled at her and nodded before coming out of the shop.
Coming here was such a waste. I thought I would get job today after so much rejections online but seems like it isn’t my day either.
I went back home in a not so good mood. I went in and changed my clothes before lying down in my bed. I remember the words said by Mr. Gold told me earlier. “I’ll just ask you to pay hospital bills within next month”
How on earth am I going t do that? I don’t even have a job now….. What should I do ? I thought for a while before calling Camila.
“Hello”
“What are you doing?” I asked.
“What do you think I’ll be doing? Just serving some rich brats.” She replied.
“Why do you sound so angry?” I asked her, it seems like someone had triggered her on the job.
“Don’t ask that. Some rich kid with zero manners. I don’t know what they think of themselves.”She fumed on anger on the other side of the phone.
“Leave them, we can’t do anything about them. Just don’t let their stupidity ruin your mood.” I tried to comfort her.
“Yeah I know. But still its so frustrating sometime.” She sounded low and tired.
“Ohh , I forget to ask what I called for… What time are you getting back home tonight?” I asked.
“I don’t know… ” she hesitated a bit.
“Do you have any plans or what?” I asked her confused.
“umm yeah, a sort of. Ethan and I were planning to go out to a club at night… so…”
“Np no, that’s ok. You can go, I was just asking.”
“you sure? I mean I can cancel on him , if you need me there…”
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