Got berated and threatened for distributing flyers
I am a 49yo housewife. 3 months ago, I started real estate agents flyers distributing at HDB door-to-door.
The remuneration isn’t great, ($0.03/pc) it’s OTOT job, relatively easy (albeit tiring) fits my time schedule and i only need to work about 2 to 3 hours, earn some small pocket allowance and basically also regard it as workout job.
i know it can be annoying seeing flyers stucked at the side of the gate, some residents will put up a notice ‘NO FLYERS’ or ‘WE ARE NOT SELLING OUR HOUSE’ and will skip their units when i see such notice.
Some residents will politely decline, some will take it from me, and there was a teenage resident who hollered at me to remove the flyer. I take it in my stride.
Yesterday, a resident left his gate and door wide open. I slot the flyer at the side of the gate. As I was at the next unit, he came to the door, pointed the flyer I stuck and asked ‘What is this?’
I quickly apologized & took it back. He asked ‘what are letterboxes for?’ I naively thought he was providing me a suggestion. No, he was creating a window to lash at me.
I went on to reply ‘the letterboxes are locked, and we were told to go from unit to unit’. Thats when he raised his voice ‘letterbox are locked for a reason. It is precisely the reason we dont want to receive these. Don’t you people get it?’
I tried to calm him down and explain further, that I didn’t see any notices being put up indicating…. and he cut me off by saying ,”Just go lah. Do you want me to sue you and trust me i sue someone before. GO!”
I apologized to him for the 3rd time and went on with my job.
Honestly, I was quite disturbed by this incident.
Why would he want to go as far as threatening to sue me? Did he feel gratified after berating me ? On what grounds can he sue me? People sue for a reason, especially monetary. But there was none here. It is an empty threat obviously.
Is being a flyer distributor a very lowly regarded job. I still have 3 more blocks to cover before the end of the assigned blocks.
Should I still continue? I don’t seem to be the right person especially when I haven’t got over the incident with the disgruntled resident.