meridien is a lousy hotel. lousy HR officer. (to be specific it's lousy ASST HR Officer). GROWL GROWL GROWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(the following is an illustration of WHY it SUCKS so freaking much. if you're not prepared to hear me gripe then. um. don't read on. :D )

YES they suck!!!!!! why!? on friday i accompanied my grandma to an interview. (why my GRANDMA wants to work is a totally different story). my grandma is 64 but she looks 10 years younger.

anyway. happily we filled up the form and waited to be called. suddenly from the office this FAT FAIR AND WOBBLY woman in a bright marine-blue figure hugging dress entered with a flourish as if she is the biggest shit around in there. (physically i guess so). she swiped the application forms and flips them thru with -most- impatience and hisses LOUDLY and MOST AUDIBLY "WAhhhh (lao) how come 60+ still come!!!!" at this point she furrows her brows furiously and shakes her double-chined head and teeters back to her office.

oh yes i was definitely fuming. very silently and with a most cordial smile plastered on my PR face. *bitch* ok never mind. i escorted my oblivious grandma to a seat and proceeded to wait. the time was 2.45pm.

names after names after names were called. there were two interviewers apparently. a malay lady and the chinese lady as introduced above. the malay lady called my grandma in very affectionately, greeted her with a warm smile and everything. ALAS. communication breakdown. one chinese cannot speak english and the other malay cannot speak chinese. sigh sigh. pass the form to the OTHER FAT FAIR AND WOBBLY interviewer. and i thought to myself "shit".

now. logic would follow, and courtesy would follow, and protocol would follow, THAT my grandma would be next on the OTHER interviewer's list to be interviewed, since by mere order her turn is next. RIGHT?! yes. but was my grandma next? FUCKING NO! never mind. we waited patiently and patiently and patiently for her name to be called. but throngs of people streamed in and out. eventually people who came LATER than us were interviewed and LEFT earlier than us.

my patience was wearing very very very thin. it was 4.20pm. i told myself that if the next person is NOT my grandma, i'm going to make a lot of noise. and the scene is never pretty when a cat flares up.

and.

it was not.

my grandma restrained me and told me she'll go find out. there she was. a poor, elderly woman looking for a job, sitting there looking so vulnerable and guileless. my heart broke and froze in anger. i went to speak to the bimbo of a girl at the counter and asked her very politely what (the hell) is going on. she shrugged and said "du-n-no?" and told me the forms are already in the office.

i am FUMING. SEETHING. GRITTING MY TEETH. THINKING OF A REASON WHY I SHOULDN'T CURSE THE LOUSY INTERVIEWER WITH HERPES. (then i figured someone like her wouldn't get laid ANYWAY so chances of herpes are pretty low). i decided on a nice long speech that included cursing her wombs to be infested with worms and roaches and hoping she gives birth to a fiend who won't take care of her when she's old and withering away.

the ASST HR Officer sauntered out. i stood up and prepared to give her a piece of my mind. and.

loudly.

she demanded for.

my grandma.

DAMN! there goes my nice long speech. my grandma hurried up from her seat and told me she's gonna tell her she don't want the job anymore.

HOW SILLY of my guileless grandma! i told her to just go through the (damned) interview as well as she can so that when they call up to tell her she's hired, she can tell them to go to hell (translated civilly as "sorry but i'm not interested in your (lousy) company or the job anymore".

and there ends my illustration of why LE MERIDIEN HOTEL SUCKS TO THE CORE. absolutely no fucking respect for the old. fucking HR dept. so fucking screwed up. it's really infuriating to the BONES. waste my time. waste my grandma's time. OUR TIME IS NOT TIME IS IT?!?!?!?!?!?!?

LE MERIDIEN HOTEL. what a LAUGH. note to ALL tourists planning to come to singapore: even if you're LOW on budget, don't ever EVER pick this lousy hotel. cheers!!!! :)