Customer Care

The job is going well. The most difficult thing is the standing for a full shift, but I picked up some good shoes that will hopefully help with the foot and leg pain. Until I get used to it, though, I'll be popping the Ibuprofen with some regularity.

I figured out the register on my first day, returns and nonmerchandise items on my second. The only thing I still need to figure out is the order of the closing paperwork. There's about 20 different printouts and they all have to be in a specific order. I get the daily math stuff, although I'm a bit slow at it and double check myself a lot. Once I get the formulas and locations of the proper numbers memorized the math won't be a problem.

I have met most of the staff and think I will get along fine with all of them. Some of them will simply be coworkers, but there's at least one whom I think I will be friends with. Overall the job is nothing too difficult and I am doing well at it. Yayy for gainful employment!

It seems like I should have more to say about it, but I really don't. There's a whole bunch of specifics about the store and the job, but those are boring. Basically, it's everything that is handed down from the corporate office in an effort to make every store uniform. There's a certain way to hang and fold the clothes, to where the racks are placed in the store, to what clothes are grouped together (color stories), etc. At the store level we get color "how to" sheets for everything, and it's our job to make our store look like the pictures. We do have some creative discretion when it comes to layering and displays and such, but it all has to be from the same color story. On Sunday I learned, via color pictures, 23 different ways to tie a scarf. An hour later I had a lady who liked a scarf but didn't know how to wear it. I could help her!

I had yesterday and today off. Tomorrow I go back for a 6 day stretch that includes the largest promotion event the company offers. It should be a fun time.

In other news, our washer seems to be broken. We have a laundromat in town, but we also have two homes of close relatives between 2 and 7 miles from us, and they won't charge a dollar to wash and a dollar to dry per load. It will be at least a week before we can get a service call, so laundry is going to be fun for awhile.

November seems to be giving us the weather we should have had in October. Things are seriously messed up in the weather department. I'm not complaining overly much since it means I don't have to scrape my windows when I get off at 9 pm, but I will not be happy if December and Christmas are brown. That would just be wrong.

Since I don't have a computer I am now spending significantly less time online. I only get on the computer about twice a day now. I guess this change in my computer habits is good for me, but I am grateful that I something like a job to fill my hours now. I'll probably seriously start looking for a replacement to my laptop after the holidays. By then I should have some money in the bank and things won't be marked up for additional profit.

That's about all that's going on in my life. Pretty boring, but at least I'm being productive again.

Love!

~gk