Well, now the holiday is officially over..
Spent Christmas Eve at Cheryl's and then went back today for
dinner. We had Pork Roast on Saturday night and Manicotti
and other Italian stuff today. I now have a few gift cards
to spend and a cd that GQS sent me to listen to Monday
night. Thank you, ladybug!
Hopefully I can get my Muse back in gear. No shortage
of ideas but work fatigue combined with a bit more rp
activity cut into the writing.
At any rate, all is calm.
Merry Christmas, folks.
Monday, December 26, 2005
Sunday, December 25, 2005
WELL, THANK GOODNESS THAT'S OVER WITH!
It's Christmas Day and at last the holiday madness is over.
This means we get to take the Christmas music we played
since October 30th at work off the pa system and can listen
to something different.Yay!
I know it sounds Grinchlike of me but think of how crazy
it was for you Christmas shopping. Then imagine being
on the other side of the sales counter or register for nearly
two months dealing with a steadily increasing stream of
anxious or surly shoppers until you reach the frenzy of
last minute Christmas eve shoppers who are mad because
you are sold out of the item they've waited until the last minute
to come looking to buy...literally.
Ah..but tomorrow starts the lesser chaos that is post-Holiday
returns and the use of those gift cards, when people become
enraged because we haven't yet gotten in stock to replace the
items we were sold out of on Christmas Eve.
Pft!
Anyway, off to my sister's for dinner. More later.
This means we get to take the Christmas music we played
since October 30th at work off the pa system and can listen
to something different.Yay!
I know it sounds Grinchlike of me but think of how crazy
it was for you Christmas shopping. Then imagine being
on the other side of the sales counter or register for nearly
two months dealing with a steadily increasing stream of
anxious or surly shoppers until you reach the frenzy of
last minute Christmas eve shoppers who are mad because
you are sold out of the item they've waited until the last minute
to come looking to buy...literally.
Ah..but tomorrow starts the lesser chaos that is post-Holiday
returns and the use of those gift cards, when people become
enraged because we haven't yet gotten in stock to replace the
items we were sold out of on Christmas Eve.
Pft!
Anyway, off to my sister's for dinner. More later.
Sunday, December 18, 2005
A DISPATCH FROM THE LUNATIC ASYLUM
Numpty's Law of Retail
:
You have on a lanyard with your name and the store logo.
You are wearing an earpiece, a microphone and a walkie -
talkie unit.
And in your hands is a stack of books.
And still....STILL..you will be asked for the 9,999 time:
"Do you work here?"
Oddly enough, it also happens that when you are minus
the nametag and walkie talkie setup, and you are on your
break with a sandwich and drink in hand, the customer has
no problem at all at identifying you as an employee even if
you are on your lunch and will sometimes even follow you
right up to the breakroom door to ask if you can find them
a copy of the new Trans Siberian Railway Christmas album.
Or some such other drek.
I say again..."Bah Humbug!"
:
You have on a lanyard with your name and the store logo.
You are wearing an earpiece, a microphone and a walkie -
talkie unit.
And in your hands is a stack of books.
And still....STILL..you will be asked for the 9,999 time:
"Do you work here?"
Oddly enough, it also happens that when you are minus
the nametag and walkie talkie setup, and you are on your
break with a sandwich and drink in hand, the customer has
no problem at all at identifying you as an employee even if
you are on your lunch and will sometimes even follow you
right up to the breakroom door to ask if you can find them
a copy of the new Trans Siberian Railway Christmas album.
Or some such other drek.
I say again..."Bah Humbug!"
Thursday, December 15, 2005
JINGLE THIS!
I am so tired of Christmas. The Store put up the decorations the
day after Halloween and we've played nothing but Christmas music
since Thanksgiving. I suppose I'd be more in a Yule mood if not
for being run ragged all day either trying to wait on eight customers
at once while fielding phone calls. or spending all eight hours at
the cash registers dealing with a Neverending Line of Customers.
We have perhaps a third less staff than we did last year for the
holiday. If business had remained slow as it had been on
Thanksgiving weekend we might have been able to cope. But it
has exploded over the past few weeks. We are averaging five to
ten thousand dollars OVER the daily sales plan this week and it
will only get busier. Instead of hiring help earlier in the season,
the management preferred to wait and see how many of the
former workers would come back to work on their college breaks.
Three have returned but two won't be actually working until next
week.
Meanwhile, we're losing another person tomorrow who found a
better paying job in his field of study.
And I'm told I'm once more going to be on the Christmas Eve
closing crew with TMWMBO.
On the plus side, that former coworker from Hellywood does not
appear to have been hired but he could be training at another store
before starting with us, so I'm still a bit wary.
Bah humbug.
day after Halloween and we've played nothing but Christmas music
since Thanksgiving. I suppose I'd be more in a Yule mood if not
for being run ragged all day either trying to wait on eight customers
at once while fielding phone calls. or spending all eight hours at
the cash registers dealing with a Neverending Line of Customers.
We have perhaps a third less staff than we did last year for the
holiday. If business had remained slow as it had been on
Thanksgiving weekend we might have been able to cope. But it
has exploded over the past few weeks. We are averaging five to
ten thousand dollars OVER the daily sales plan this week and it
will only get busier. Instead of hiring help earlier in the season,
the management preferred to wait and see how many of the
former workers would come back to work on their college breaks.
Three have returned but two won't be actually working until next
week.
Meanwhile, we're losing another person tomorrow who found a
better paying job in his field of study.
And I'm told I'm once more going to be on the Christmas Eve
closing crew with TMWMBO.
On the plus side, that former coworker from Hellywood does not
appear to have been hired but he could be training at another store
before starting with us, so I'm still a bit wary.
Bah humbug.
Thursday, December 08, 2005
IN A DEEP AND DARK DECEMBER
Damn, I hate Winter.
The temps were single digits over Tuesday night
and it's still in the teens with wind chill lower than
that. Cold enough on my day off today to start
wearing some extra layers of shirts inside. I made
spaghetti for dinner to get the kitchen warmed up
as well as my innards.
Did nothing today again besides cooking and
hanging out in Cams this afternoon. I took a
break after eating and read a bit. But I'm in a
mood where there seems to be more bad news than
good around me and if I had my druthers I'd crawl
into my bed under the comforter and stay there forever.
In fact, think I'll wrap things up and do a little of that
bed stuff now.
The temps were single digits over Tuesday night
and it's still in the teens with wind chill lower than
that. Cold enough on my day off today to start
wearing some extra layers of shirts inside. I made
spaghetti for dinner to get the kitchen warmed up
as well as my innards.
Did nothing today again besides cooking and
hanging out in Cams this afternoon. I took a
break after eating and read a bit. But I'm in a
mood where there seems to be more bad news than
good around me and if I had my druthers I'd crawl
into my bed under the comforter and stay there forever.
In fact, think I'll wrap things up and do a little of that
bed stuff now.
Sunday, December 04, 2005
LOVERLY
Too tired to write much but need to put this in while I
still recall it.
New supervisor at work met one of my former coworkers
at the store today. After they talked for a bit,she told him
to "Leave now before you end up like poor Bill."
I've become legend, apparently.
still recall it.
New supervisor at work met one of my former coworkers
at the store today. After they talked for a bit,she told him
to "Leave now before you end up like poor Bill."
I've become legend, apparently.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
RANDOM THOUGHT
The only good thing about it being so
quiet that you can hear yourself think is that
eventually you bore yourself to sleep.
quiet that you can hear yourself think is that
eventually you bore yourself to sleep.