Yay! Christmas is over!
All in all, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. At work they had sooooo many staff on. THe hard yards starts now when they have to cut back on hours to make up for the blown budgets over the christmas period. I am now working my contracted hours, monday and friday night supervision. Mondays I can handle, because I have done it before, and there is no doubt as to who is in control. Last night I didn't feel like I was in control at all, it was all a bit messy. The other girl working with me said we were busy, it is new years week, so maybe that accounts for some of it. Anyway, the longer I work that night the better it will be. I am happy to have the supervision shifts. Thursday I worked and I was just a cashier, I stood on register all night. I had to stop myself from getting annoyed that I wasn't able to do anything else but serve people. Get over yourself, its just a job.
I'll be working with Kat over the next few days, hopefully the thinking about working I've been doing over the last week will help me when I go in there tomorrow. I have to get the tables sorted out so that I am not so slow on the register. And serve people on the bar better. I sucked at serving people in the bar because I didn't have an idea about what was going on. But thinking about how confident I am moving around the department at safeway makes me think that it is purely inexperience. Hope to be better tomorrow. Should be busy.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Friday, December 22, 2006
Merry Christmas
Now that it is christmas week, it is officially O.K to enjoy it. I am humming along with the carols and wrapping presents. I bought a green merry christmas shirt to wear at work, and I'm wearing a santa hat. I'm getting the most out of this week before I say 'go away already!'.
I have presents for just about everyone. Mark doesn't know it but his plates DID come in the mail in plenty of time. They are hiding in my boot so that I can suprise him a little with them when it comes to present time.
Christmas at work has been dull. Not many customers, everyone is confused about the new opening hours, and there is not enough to do. Tomorrow and Sunday I hope it goes off! I think they did most of the sales during the day today, because apparently the total wasn't too bad for the day, but the night was dead. Might be because it rained and everyone went home. General consensus is that everyone will shop in the last few days to have fresh food in the fridge. I miss the lead up in the deli and seafood. Setting up for the massive day with four windows of prawns stacked so high that we can't close the doors. The first few years at uni I was back at Shepp East for christmas, last year I was living it up in the US, this year feels kinda dead. Small store syndrome maybe. There is a lot of that going around.
Anyway, being a little quiet there is time for the little things, such as thursday night, about 11.30 a guy came in looking for a hamper. I said to him that we don't have them, but if he wanted to put a few things together I could make one. So with a hamper from Kmart as the base I added in some other chocky items and make a wicked hamper. Wish I had been able to take a photo of it. It was a master piece.
Anyway, I am looking forward to being home for christmas day and boxing day. Just chilling out somewhere else for a few days. Its been good working so much, I have been able to get a few good gifts for close people. Kind of a relief from a few weeks ago when I had to hoard the $20 in my wallet because that was all I had for the week.
Must go to bed now, tell you about blue train tomorrow.
Love Leona. Thats an order.
I have presents for just about everyone. Mark doesn't know it but his plates DID come in the mail in plenty of time. They are hiding in my boot so that I can suprise him a little with them when it comes to present time.
Christmas at work has been dull. Not many customers, everyone is confused about the new opening hours, and there is not enough to do. Tomorrow and Sunday I hope it goes off! I think they did most of the sales during the day today, because apparently the total wasn't too bad for the day, but the night was dead. Might be because it rained and everyone went home. General consensus is that everyone will shop in the last few days to have fresh food in the fridge. I miss the lead up in the deli and seafood. Setting up for the massive day with four windows of prawns stacked so high that we can't close the doors. The first few years at uni I was back at Shepp East for christmas, last year I was living it up in the US, this year feels kinda dead. Small store syndrome maybe. There is a lot of that going around.
Anyway, being a little quiet there is time for the little things, such as thursday night, about 11.30 a guy came in looking for a hamper. I said to him that we don't have them, but if he wanted to put a few things together I could make one. So with a hamper from Kmart as the base I added in some other chocky items and make a wicked hamper. Wish I had been able to take a photo of it. It was a master piece.
Anyway, I am looking forward to being home for christmas day and boxing day. Just chilling out somewhere else for a few days. Its been good working so much, I have been able to get a few good gifts for close people. Kind of a relief from a few weeks ago when I had to hoard the $20 in my wallet because that was all I had for the week.
Must go to bed now, tell you about blue train tomorrow.
Love Leona. Thats an order.
Monday, December 11, 2006
It's been a good weekend, looking to be a great week. I had a quiet weekend, stayed inside through most of the heat. No airconditioning, but it wasn't too bad inside the house. I put my head under the tap in the bathroom a few times, and sprayed with the water bottle. Kitty got wet a few times in the laundry, (not by choice).
I had a good night at work, finally they have put enough staff on for me to close the store properly. Kinda handy seeing as we are coming into christmas. I don't believe i heard a single carol on the radio tonight, which was great.
We had a rather alarming incident, not involving me thankfully, but one of the customers got rather aggressive when we couldn't change his essentials card into a wish gift card. We have had a few people in the store doing it lately, we have to say no because the essentials card is for groceries only - no liquor or smokes, where the wish card is for anything. So when Matt told him NO, he got agressive. The duty manager came and helped matt say no, then the guy spat in the duty managers face. How feral is that??? The police will be at the store tomorrow, he can be charged with assault for that! Christmas is a great time of year.
I had all the registers open today, bar 8, which is a lot of customers for our little store. Having staff finally is wonderful.
Off to see Aunty Neene tomorrow, I enjoy the time I spend there. There is a lot of stock to organise out the back of the store for her to sell. Have to get some boxes and make piles of everything. Almost no room to move she has so much!
It's late, time for bed. Night.
I had a good night at work, finally they have put enough staff on for me to close the store properly. Kinda handy seeing as we are coming into christmas. I don't believe i heard a single carol on the radio tonight, which was great.
We had a rather alarming incident, not involving me thankfully, but one of the customers got rather aggressive when we couldn't change his essentials card into a wish gift card. We have had a few people in the store doing it lately, we have to say no because the essentials card is for groceries only - no liquor or smokes, where the wish card is for anything. So when Matt told him NO, he got agressive. The duty manager came and helped matt say no, then the guy spat in the duty managers face. How feral is that??? The police will be at the store tomorrow, he can be charged with assault for that! Christmas is a great time of year.
I had all the registers open today, bar 8, which is a lot of customers for our little store. Having staff finally is wonderful.
Off to see Aunty Neene tomorrow, I enjoy the time I spend there. There is a lot of stock to organise out the back of the store for her to sell. Have to get some boxes and make piles of everything. Almost no room to move she has so much!
It's late, time for bed. Night.
Friday, December 01, 2006
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