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[shoebox2]

Look, yes, I know I should be writing on more adventurous topics. I really should. Like for instance, that time I wrote about filling in for my supervisor, and got my first taste of management, and how that was pretty cool? Yeah, well, my buyer has been travelling in New York all this week. Also the department planner is in Europe somewhere.

Comments

[risti]

...and it goes without saying that all of this needed to be attended to RIGHT THEN AND THERE or the world would naturally come to an end. It's funny in hindsight, how your priorities get screwed up in retail admin. People are dying, wars are raging, Lindsay Lohan still has a career, but you delay one lousy day off approving a PO for sparkly tops and it's like, Atlas wobbles.

Retail in general... I've been training a few new people recently, which has meant I've gotten to see the raised eyebrows as I go on to explain how important [random thing related to how the store is set up or some quirk about how important presenting a trendy image is to the overall marketing scheme of the company] and I see the fresh meat new employee look at me and I realize that they don't get it yet.

And then I feel horribly shallow, and even more so when I realize that if they don't learn to get it, unfortunately this job isn't going to work out for them.

[shoebox2]

Yes! I so know that feeling. :) My -- very imperfect -- solution is to just roll with it, treat it all as one giant joke. Or not a joke exactly, just that - fashion is ultimately about having fun, right? Right?

Unfortunately, that way lies whole other minefields, especially when confronted with a grim buyer waving sales figures...