Scene 1
Someone: Where do you work?
Euri: Auction.ph Corporation.
Someone: Oh. Where is that?
Euri: Clarkfield.
Someone: Oh. What do you do there?
Euri: I’m a prototyper.
Someone: What is a prototyper?
Inner Euri: Beats me.
Euri: I code HTML and CSS.
Someone: Oh. What is Auction?
Euri: It’s an online buy and sell.
Someone: What is an online buy and sell?
Euri: You register to our site and you could buy and sell stuff online.
Someone: Oh. It’s something like Ebay.
Euri: Uh, yeah.
Scene 2
Someone: Where do you work?
Euri: Auction.ph Corporation.
Someone: What is that?
Euri: It’s an online buy and sell.
Someone: Like Ebay?
Euri: Err… Yeah.
Scene 3
Someone: Where do you work?
Euri: Auction.ph Corporation.
Someone: A website?
Euri: Well, yeah.
Someone: What kind?
Euri: It’s an online buy and sell.
Someone: I didn’t get that.
Euri: You could buy and sell stuff at our site.
Someone: Oh, really?
Euri: Yeah.
Someone: I’ve heard of something like that too, before. What was it again?
Euri: Uh… You mean E-bay?
Someone: Oh yeah! Ebay!
Scene 4
Someone: Where do you work now?
Euri: At Auction.ph Corporation.
Someone: Ah.. What is that?
Euri: It’s an online buy and sell.
Someone: What?
Euri: It’s where you buy and sell stuff on the Internet.
Someone: How do you do that?
Euri: Uhmm… It’s like Ebay
Someone: What is Ebay?
Inner Euri: Where the heck in the mountains do you live?
Euri: It’s like this. You register to our site as a member. Then you can post pictures of items you wanted to sell or buy stuff that other people sell.
Someone: How do you pay?
Euri: You can pay using cash. It’s called Bills Payment. Or you can use your ATMs to pay. Both Bancnet and Megalink are okay.
Someone: How do they send the things I bought?
Euri: They ship the items.
Inner Euri: Don’t tell me, delivery services also doesn’t exist in the mountain where you live.
Someone: What if the things I bought weren’t delivered.
Euri: Then you’ll get your money back.
Someone: How will I get my money back when I already paid?
Euri: We use this certain system at our site that’s called Escrow System that holds into your money first until the transaction is done. Then the seller can use Payout to get his/her money. So in case such things happen, you can get your money back. (I think? O_o)
Someone: Oh, sweet. What was the other site you just mentioned?
Euri: You mean, Ebay?
Someone: Yeah. Which one’s better?
Euri: Don’t ask me that question.
Inner Euri: Well, duh. I work for Auction.ph, hello? Earth to Mars? Of course I’ll say Auction.ph is better! Although, Ebay does have more items on sale and members are more active, in my opinion. Still, Auction.ph wins in site features. Nyeh!
Someone: Oh, yeah. You work there.
Inner Euri: You just realize that now?
Lessons Learned:
- When you see someone you haven’t met for a while inside the jeepney, the first thing they ask after a “How have you been?” is “Where do you work?”
- Nobody knows what a “prototyper” is. Who does, anyway? O_o
- I need a tape recorder that replies to the same old question like “where do you work?”, “what is a prototyper?” etc. to save me from evolving into an answering machine.
- If I were asked where I work next time and of what kind of company Auction.ph Corporation is, I’ll answer with, “it’s a company like Ebay” so that I wont be ask what an “online buy and sell” is.
- I could also work as a CSR.
- People who live in the mountains doesn’t know what Ebay is. They also don’t have delivery services. But, they do have ATMs. They swipe it off a tree and a gorilla’s arms will come out from some hole in the tree and reach their cash or something. X-P
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