Time Stops for No...
It's been awhile since I've given a run down, drag out update of my existance.
It still sucks.
Thank you for tuning in. No, just kidding. It's not been too badly. Though it seems I have caught back up to my normal, ill tempered self this weekend. It seems the idea of spending a long weekend with my family units, plus a holiday to boot is starting to make me more and more nervous. I dunno. I just don't... it's hard to explain. I don't mind talking to them, but actually spending time with them just about kills me. It's not that they are bad people. Quite the contrary. I just do not feel very comfortable in my own skin around them. So I'm getting nervous.
Let's see... work is going ok. I think the manager and I working different shifts really helps the ol' staying out of each other's hair. Though I cannot help but think that most of the employees don't really know how to take her as most of them never see her. I don't like that at all, incidently. Backroom managing has always drove me nuts. You can't work in retail without really knowing the store and the people who work in it as well as the people who come into the store. You just can't. You gotta know who the good employees are and who are floundering and cut them off before they become worse employees.
Anyways.
The most ironic thing about my week thus far as to be the board book situation. Back when I first showed up in the store, brand new, I thought the section with the kid's hard page books, board books looked awful where it was at. It's a very messy section. And that's mostly due tot he fact it caters to young readers. They don't really know how to read yet, so putting things back is hard for them. No big. But it looks awful when it's the first section you see coming into the store.
So I moved it.
Then I had to move it back to where it was cause the manager did not want to stick to her laurels being new to her job and upset the delicate balance of spiders or something. Instead of going with teh mantra, do what sells the product, she settled for do what the corporate believes who doesn't know our customers. (I detest that. You gotta be able to experiment a little on your own. Sometimes you jsut can't follow the directions they give you cause they are intended for bigger stores.) But, I didn't want to argue at the time about how foul the board books looked. So I moved everything back.
Here we are a couple months later and guess what..I have to move shit around during one of our busiest times of the year to make sure the store looks nicer. The board books are essentially going to another place to hide their disorganized nature. Go figure them apples.
The words, "I told you so" almost came out of my lips. Vindication sometimes is so freaking sweet.
Ahem.
It still sucks.
Thank you for tuning in. No, just kidding. It's not been too badly. Though it seems I have caught back up to my normal, ill tempered self this weekend. It seems the idea of spending a long weekend with my family units, plus a holiday to boot is starting to make me more and more nervous. I dunno. I just don't... it's hard to explain. I don't mind talking to them, but actually spending time with them just about kills me. It's not that they are bad people. Quite the contrary. I just do not feel very comfortable in my own skin around them. So I'm getting nervous.
Let's see... work is going ok. I think the manager and I working different shifts really helps the ol' staying out of each other's hair. Though I cannot help but think that most of the employees don't really know how to take her as most of them never see her. I don't like that at all, incidently. Backroom managing has always drove me nuts. You can't work in retail without really knowing the store and the people who work in it as well as the people who come into the store. You just can't. You gotta know who the good employees are and who are floundering and cut them off before they become worse employees.
Anyways.
The most ironic thing about my week thus far as to be the board book situation. Back when I first showed up in the store, brand new, I thought the section with the kid's hard page books, board books looked awful where it was at. It's a very messy section. And that's mostly due tot he fact it caters to young readers. They don't really know how to read yet, so putting things back is hard for them. No big. But it looks awful when it's the first section you see coming into the store.
So I moved it.
Then I had to move it back to where it was cause the manager did not want to stick to her laurels being new to her job and upset the delicate balance of spiders or something. Instead of going with teh mantra, do what sells the product, she settled for do what the corporate believes who doesn't know our customers. (I detest that. You gotta be able to experiment a little on your own. Sometimes you jsut can't follow the directions they give you cause they are intended for bigger stores.) But, I didn't want to argue at the time about how foul the board books looked. So I moved everything back.
Here we are a couple months later and guess what..I have to move shit around during one of our busiest times of the year to make sure the store looks nicer. The board books are essentially going to another place to hide their disorganized nature. Go figure them apples.
The words, "I told you so" almost came out of my lips. Vindication sometimes is so freaking sweet.
Ahem.