Two weeks to the day and I leave....booo. I said the same to David this morning but we promised we wouldn't be all sad and melancholy about it until I actually left. So no melancholy for me!
Work has been fine; we had to undergo mind-numbingly stupid training on Sunday morning (!) for 2 hours. It was rather unfortunate, as the guy who is in charge of training thinks that by reading us the standards by which we are judged, we will pay more and better attention. Frankly, I disagree with some of the standards so it annoys me that they are the ones so arbitrarily judged. Plus, as bonus, we got to watch 2 of the same training videos I watched a month and a half ago when I was hired. And then take quizzes. The whole thing was rather unfortunate since the customers in the training videos are nothing like our actual customers in that real customers are harder to serve.
But I actually do like my job a lot. When you're a file clerk, the sense of accomplishment you get is small because it's something along the lines of "hey, I've finished filing today, good for me" or "hey, I closed 20 files in 40 minutes, good for me". Any job with actual customer interaction is so much different because, if you do your job well, you get positive feedback from the customers you're working with. It makes work very gratifying although I do have to admit that the demographic is challenging at times. Generally, I get along best with the customers that are 50 years old and below. At the same time, I mentioned to my manager yesterday that I feel much more comfortable working with this age group than I would working with my own age group (I'm not cool enough, ha ha).
And I'm glad I have retail experience now. I'm pretty good at sales, especially if I know the goods I'm selling. It's funny; whenever I feel like I could be good at something, I always start planning wild, abstract things for the future: a chain of stores that stock everything from cooking supplies to clothing.
By the way, if anyone wants anything from Coldwater Creek, let me know. We're getting a 50% discount in store now (only on full-priced merchandise, not sale prices). If you check out www.coldwatercreek.com and let me know what you like, I can see if we do have it in store. Unfortunately, the online store has more things than we have in store and not everything in store is online. But let me know and I'll see what I can (40% discount on sale priced items too).
I've also been coordinating with my beautiful roommates for next year, working out things like who is bringing what, when our electricity is getting turned on, and when rent is due. It's really frustrating not being able to go through my things until I get home later but fortunately I have a pretty good idea of what I have so we won't be bringing duplicates of things like vacuums or shower curtains. It will be nice to get back home, although the task of going through the accumulations of the past 19 years of my life in 48 hours is rather daunting.
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