Hello Everyone

[TopEndDave]

Been lurking for a while and decided that it is time to sign up and tell some stories. These stories are from when I worked at a store that I will call "Hardly Normal". Most Australians will get the reference.

Hardly Normal is a large chain but what most people don't realise is that it is a Franchise. In each of the stores will be a number of Franchises for each of the sections. In my store there were Electrical, Computers and Furniture franchises plus an Admin and Warehouse section.

I worked in the Computer Franchise doing sales, running the photocenter, being a computer tech, receiving goods in the warehouse and returning faulty goods at different times. In fact, I did everything job their except for cashier and manager, although I had the access in the POS to do those jobs.

My background is IT and I had been a contractor until a lack of work resulted in me working retail. I have since left and gone back to IT work but I will not discuss my current job as my employer has some very strict policies about it.

Anyway, Hello from the Top End of Australia.

[Dips]

Hello! Good to have you.

[fireheart]

Hey hey welcome!

Northern Territory by any chance?

Hello from a fellow Aussie!

[TopEndDave]

Northern Territory by any chance?

You are correct.

[Nyoibo]

Wait, you have electronics up there? *ducks*

Welcome to a fellow aussie, I actually didn't know that about Hardly Normals.

[fireheart]

Wait, you have electronics up there? *ducks*

Welcome to a fellow aussie, I actually didn't know that about Hardly Normals.

Slightly off-topic but when my uncle lived in NT, he was an air traffic controller (he still is, but now lives in NSW) and at the time, my cousins were around 18 months and nearly 3 respectively.

The eldest one used to refer to her dad's job as either "little work" (where he'd go away for a day and come back) or "big work" (where he'd go away for a few days). Very cute

[TopEndDave]

Wait, you have electronics up there? *ducks*

We have lots of electronics and just a crappy power supply. The store would regular be in the top ten for sales nationally

I actually didn't know that about Hardly Normals.

Not many people do as you can't buy into a franchise but have to go through the HN training program as a manager first. Also they move the franchisees around a lot.

[dalesys]

Dave, according to my McArthur's Universal Corrective Map*, you need to change your handle, since you're on the bottom.

*available from: ODT Maps

[fireheart]

Dave, according to my McArthur's Universal Corrective Map*, you need to change your handle, since you're on the bottom.

depends on how you see it.

Top End is slang for the top half of the Northern Territory, one of the "territories" of Australia (we have six states and two territories). The bottom half of the Northern Territory is called the Red Center.

So in an Australian's eye, it'd be that way.

But otherwise you are correct. Gives a new meaning to the term "Down Under" XD