Long Time No See

Wow... has it really been 3 months since I last posted? Not that anyone is reading this... but wow. I can't believe it... I didn't post about the Valentines day drama... or Easter... or store visit... or the loss of an assistant... I came up with a new title for this blog. No longer shall it be I Work in Retail... I christen thee Dollar Tree Must Mean Drama in Another Language. Well, where should I start. I guess we'll start with... so many topics are racing through my head... I guess we'll start with today and go back... or forward... Behaviors tends to repeat themselves quite often at my store.

Whenever I am the only manager on duty... it seems like everything goes to shit. I don't know if that says something about my management style... or if everything really just goes to shit... Usually by Thursday I am tired and don't feel like working but I push thru it for the sake of my store. My dill hole of a boss leaves me a list of crap that would take 10 hours. I knew that the storefront did not scream mothers day... I knew this when my boss had a cashier making graduation bouquets instead of mothers day ones... So our regional training manager comes in and is... what is our next holiday? then y does your storefront scream summer... if I wanted to be a smart ass I could of said Cinco De Mayo is next... but I choose my battles. So not I have the task of changing the store front to mothers day, on top of the other tasks. Meanwhile, the frozen truck that should of been there at 8 doesnt show up until 1230, so i have to come up with work for my stocker to do while we wait for the truck. And then my midshift cashier comes in... why she was hired.. I don't know. On her to do list is make balloon bouquets for mothers day. There is a picture of what the balloon bouquest should look like on the helium tank. Do u know I had to explain to here step by step what to do. And she is slow as molasses. I hate when I get stuck with the slow cashiers. I want to suggest a cashier training session... because our cashiers are lazy... and if I train them... then I know what they know. And if they continue to suck... Grounds for termination. But I forget what I was even commenting on... Was I commenting on something? So anyways... between doing everything I had to do... I didnt clock out until 415. As I am getting ready to leave Walking Contradiction calls me. She wants to pull me out of my store to train another store on the freezers next week... flippin awesome. I dont even do frozen like that... but whatever. So now I have to see if Jason can come in earlier next thursday so i can go to another store. I mean... the only training I got was read this manual... here is the planogram... good luck... I really need to get out of this place... but then what stories would i have for u guys? Well I guess I'll call it a night. More to come tomorrow... I think I'll discuss my bosses laziness...