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I wanted to wait. I wanted to wait until my 1000th post and announce this with the first sucky customer story I've had since losing my job at the Bent Staple. Because frankly you can't go one week in any workplace without a customer story, as anyone can attest to.
From experience, I know that's especially when you're the newest employee.
Anyway, I had an interview at a small chain that buys most of its inventory from other stores, like overstock on out of season merchandise, or inventory from a place like Circuit City. There are many retail outlets that do this. One of them is The Christmas Tree shop, but that's not the store I interviewed at.
The interview went so well that they jumped me into orientation straight away. Of course that created some static as the people in charge of the orientation didn't know anything about the computer system and it took two hours to get three people into the system.
*sigh*
Aside from that terrific sneak preview of what the management will be like, the positive upshot of this is that I will be starting work at a place that I will hereafter refer to as OSJL. It's primarily based in Massachusetts with one location in Vermont and a few others scattered through New England.
It's no coincidence that today is the ten year after my unsuccessful attempt at college and one of the most devastating events in US history. Because it also represents a time when I have decided to stop living in the past.
But...I'll still have a sucky customer story for my 1000th post.
From experience, I know that's especially when you're the newest employee.
Anyway, I had an interview at a small chain that buys most of its inventory from other stores, like overstock on out of season merchandise, or inventory from a place like Circuit City. There are many retail outlets that do this. One of them is The Christmas Tree shop, but that's not the store I interviewed at.
The interview went so well that they jumped me into orientation straight away. Of course that created some static as the people in charge of the orientation didn't know anything about the computer system and it took two hours to get three people into the system.
*sigh*
Aside from that terrific sneak preview of what the management will be like, the positive upshot of this is that I will be starting work at a place that I will hereafter refer to as OSJL. It's primarily based in Massachusetts with one location in Vermont and a few others scattered through New England.
It's no coincidence that today is the ten year after my unsuccessful attempt at college and one of the most devastating events in US history. Because it also represents a time when I have decided to stop living in the past.
But...I'll still have a sucky customer story for my 1000th post.
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