I am about to leave for work, early, because I have to swing by another store on the way to pick up something. This is bad ( Read more... )

Today, my cashier triggers the silent alarm, which I find out about when I get a 'courtesy' call from the cops. 'Hello, are you being robbed ( Read more... )

Just over a year ago I took the worst damn store in the company and made it shinyWith the help of my fabulous assistant. My boss knows what a great team we are, and how much we like working together, because we tell him so. Regularly ( Read more... )

'And I thought Sarren was the one bad things normally happen to!' - mr_booboo

( So here, lj-cut cos it's it's been quite eventful, is my week )

The papers recently have been banging on about how women are still underrepresented in managerial and professional jobs, and those that are there are often paid less than the men, especially here in Australia. All true, of course, except in the back of my head was this little self satisfied "Not in my company". So today I had my first manager's ( Read more... )

So tonight this Noongar guy comes racing into the kitchen. I shout at him to leave, but notice his body language is all about Escape! He's not even seeing us. Some other guy leaps the counter and comes back, but pauses and doesn't quite come into kitchen, then retreats. Escape! guy has darted further towards the back and now looks like he ( Read more... )

It's been whole days since I updated and only have 20 minutes - I'm not doing my usual Friday night stunt of staying up til nearly 3am before getting up at 7 for my 14 hour shift. Cos for once I'd like to not feel like complete shit for the whole day ( Read more... )

So winter's closing in...and my ankles are cold. Pretty much constantly. Damn ankle socks, damn them to hell I say! I am even (and I cannot emphasise the horror of this clearly enough) considering throwing all taste to the winds and buying Ugg boots.

The angst! The visual trauma!Now where did I see those fluffy rainbow ones again ( Read more... )

Once upon a time when I had a girly job I longed for a time when I didn't have to bother with the heels, the stockings, the makeup, the hair ( Read more... )