Checking Out
June 6, 2008
So I started work today.. at the Retail Giant’s Competitor! I got a call on Sunday from the Competitor asking me to come in for an interview the following day. I’m like, fuck, the Retail Giant doesn’t know what the hell is going on, so why not. My interview goes fantastic and they offer me a cashier position! ..with 3rd shift weekends. I live a 3rd shift life. I crash at 2A and wake up no earlier than 12P. Needless to say, I take the job. I went in for computer training/orientation yesterday and completed that 5.5 hour course in 3 hours! I kicked ass. The HR administrator training me was so impressed with my work that she made me her administrative assistant the first day of training! I did payroll for over 500 employees my first day! It was the greatest first day of work in recorded history!
Well, I went in for actual on-the-job training working at the register and whatnot. Eight hours on your feet is murder, but the job is totally worth it. The only piss-poor part of it all is the stupid rewards program they randomly “pre-approve” customers to participate in. After about every 15th customer, my computer announces that the current customer is pre-approved for the 1-2-3 rewards program! All I have to do is explain why it is so beneficial and how it is different from the regular rewards program that every customer is permitted to participate in. Allow to explain how drastically different these two programs are: “A” vs. “A”. It’s the same damn program! No one EVER signs up. BUT! I have to make sure I explain this to every “pre-approved” customer because if a Mystery Shopper gets “pre-approved” and I completely ignore it, I fail immediately. Stupid marketing schemes!
Moving on, she’s gone for four days. No contact whatsoever. Damn international calling.
I’ve been thinking a lot about post-undergrad school. I’ve been thinking how much I hate school. I’ve been thinking how my graduate program will fuck the life out of my brain. I’ve been thinking what else can I do. I’ve been thinking about a career change. I’ve been thinking how I do not want to check out of undergrad to just jump right back into grad school. I’ve been thinking.
I should know who I am by now
I walk the record stand somehow
Thinkin’ of winter
The name is the splinter inside me
While I wait
Where do I go from here?
Meant to ask you how your first day went, but you had a game too and didn’t know when you got off. Kudos on what seems to be a fun time working. You still are making me wonder about a certain secret if you know who… I mean what I mean
. As for the thinking… feel free to hit me up and bounce ideas off. I am about two plans in the past on what you said you would do afterwards and would love to hear your ideas what ever they may be… till then… later.