Day 5

I come in and get sent to the children's section. I ring up my first sale and then a few more by myselfcuz the associates keep disappearing. I don't like being left alone when I know very little about this section. Lady asked where winter coats for boys were and saw them behind me before I could say, Let me ask somebody. Another lady asked the price on something on the sale rack, but it is not marked on sale. I go tothe register and attempt to recall how to look up a price w/out ringing it up. I have to ring it up to get the priceand then can't figure out how to void the transaction when price is not on file. Next I hunt down one associate, who sends me to another cuz she's busy with a customer and she doesn't have a scanner I need with her. Go find this other associate who scans it and tells me the price. Tell customer the price hoping it is the right customer. People tend to move and look alike after a while. Another customer asks about tights and then shoes, and the phone rings when the associate is helping her. I don't know the proper greeting so I say whatever comes in my head. It is for the busy associate so I help customer in shoe section. So in the shoe section, lady wants a size. I go into their stock room and ask where to find these shoes. Associate completely ignores me and complains she can't find the shoe she is looking for to the associate walking by. Walking by girl points out where the shoe I need is. Ok, find shoes, put on stockings for the little girl's dress shoes since girl doesn't know how to put these on. How much do they cost. Price is not on the box, or the shoes. Try to ask busy associate how to find the price and she walks away from me. It is on the shoe's heel. No, it is not. I think she meant the display shoe when I found them and put them back. Try to check on cash register. Too busy for my questions associate wants me to wait ringing up so she can check a price. Sure, go ahead. Get the price and return. Lady needs to buy a few more things so I place her stuff by the register. Tell associate these the lady will come back for these.

Let's see, the manager walks by a few times and they tell me to walk around looking busy (I notice this action happens frquently whatever section they put me in). I straighten their stuff animals and put dresses in a clothes bag instead of a sack. Then I rearrange a sale rack to place all small, med, and large sizes together. They are put on racks by style, not size. Complete that and it is about time to go. The associates are dumbfounded I have another job, it is part-time? No, full-time and this new job here is full-time. Then I have to go into the definition of two weeks notice (even this store has this policy so this should not be a foreign concept). Oh, ok, they finally get it. Time to go and I run into the manager who thinks I'm leaving for lunch. No, my other job. She cops an attitude how as full-time we work open to 6 cuz that is how it is done here. I explain back that my other job is 34 hours until the two week notice is complete, then I'm free as a bird. She telling the store manager on me that I'm leaving early. The associates were all worked up about how I'm getting into trouble over this. I answered that I will simply explain that I flat out refuse to work 74 hours a week and it is not my fault they fail to comprehend two week notice means that I am working another job the first 2 weeks I am here (and BTW they are not training me to do anything). What are they going to do, fire a trainee cuz she has to give her prior employer 2 week notice? I made this clear at the interview.

Anyhow, I go to the airport and an owner's friend is coming in tonight and got on another flight that will be coming in after we close. Sure I can wait for owner's friend (I need every penny I can get my hands on). The guy gave me a twenty for staying for him. I told him that I'm getting paid extra for waiting so I'm not gonna start complaining about it. He laughed. Get home and cats are starved. I noticed they have been eating more food, maybe cause I feed them earlier in the morning. Tomorrow I can sleep in a little, no store on Sunday. Precious keeps jumping up at the doorknob to go out. Poor kitty.