I slept in a bit this morning, jumping out of bed at 0646, that's very late for me. At that point the outside temps were 53 (F). They have climbed to 60 (F). I'm already wearing my day shorts; why not enjoy the heat while it's here? Overnight the temps are going to be dropping back to what's considered seasonable, but only briefly. Friday and Saturday we will again have daily highs in the 80s (F). While there's a cooler forecast in the future, as with all weather predictions, we will have to wait and see.
And I did work yesterday. The store was slow. Last week I hit three of my goals, I failed on credit. I don't have a problem with that. The first thing my supervisor said to me when she saw me was to tell me there is a Store Walk on Friday. Not a word about my last weeks performance. But regional people are going to be in the store on Friday and they want things to look spiffy diffy. My response was to shrug. I don't work on Friday. Besides, I've been with the giant orange retailer long enough, and in high enough positions, to realize that these walks are never intended to be anything more than show. If the store is doing well they signal a sign of approval, if the store is doing poorly they're an indicator that you need to do better. These people don't walk down the aisles saying "problem, problem, problem." That's well below their paygrade. They are symbolic at best.
Otherwise, yesterday was pretty much meh. They still had loads of ice cream at work, so I ate 2 bowls: blueberry pie, and peanut butter cup. I guess the only other important thing to happen was that the stitches around my extraction site (I like the way that sounds, extraction site), have disappeared. The healing process is going along well. At this point, I'm eating just about anything I want.
Of course this happened yesterday as well.

Oh, the fun and games of retail management!
ReplyDeleteOh, jolly gee whiz. I'm so glad at this point in my retail career I can simply shrug.
DeleteLike Nero before him, Cankles will grift while America burns.
ReplyDeleteAt this point, I don't think his brain is strong enough to grift, but those all around him are grifting like hell.
DeleteOh, it’s gonna get worse.
ReplyDeleteOil prices affect everything we consume. We are very oil dependent. I may have to get my bike ready.
The blind bimbo is right though. And you are right about those accounts overseas. Did you read about Kegsbreath’s lawyer trying some insider trading?
It’s not good.
XOXO
One good thing is that with his terrible approval ratings he barely has the MAGA cultists behind him. At this point I think people are waiting to see how corrupt Alito and Thomas are, judgement will pursue them later.
DeleteI used to call store visits "horse and pony shows". Everyone always gets worked up. But on my end if all my t's are crossed and I's dotted daily, I never have to rush around doing the spiffy stuff as you call it. In pass jobs the visual department has saved visits from being a total disaster.
ReplyDeleteI used to have to do those walks and I can tell you that afterward, none of us ever talked about what the store looked like. They were all about presence, nothing more.
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