My day
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Events
Well as the day officially starts at 12:01 AM, mine started with me going to bed at 2:30, and having to wake up at 7.
I had to be at Staples at 7:45 to open the Computer Dept, ya well that didn’t happen as I was stuck at our crappy Tim Hortens. At its worst I’ve seen that Tim Hortens with only two employees on the night shift (its a 27/7 place), now that’s not all that bad - till you realize they’re both wearing “in training” badges. At its best I’ve seen it full of staff all doing random things with their coffee filters and bagels…but no one taking orders.
So I manage to get my order, end up half walking/half running across the parking lot and managed to get the lid of the cup filled with coffee (it was sealed). I missed the morning meeting, which was primarily focused on the copy centre - so nothing important :P
After all that I get back on the floor and notice an abundance of people on the floor already. So I ask one of the guys in the laptop area if he needs any help, he turns out to be one of those “Nah I’m just looking around..ill let you know if I have any questions” kind of customers. So I think nothing of him till I see him walk away and go up the stairs to a meeting that was being held by the GM’s of various Mississauga stores.
Damn him, he could have let me know he was a GM and not a customer…
So about an hour goes by…and one of other associates comes over and kind of leans in and with a hushed voice says, “Whenever you get a chance, your fly is undone”.
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Do I feel retarded or what….
The day does end up getting much better after that though, I haven’t opened in at least a month so I had forgotten how much work can get done in the first couple of hours when there are very few customers in the store.
At the end of my shift I left and got on the bus at 6:40, got to the GO at 6:50 only to realize that I had been carrying an mp3 player in my coat for the last week and I had been determined to get it returned today..but because the bus’ run sparingly after 6, I had to wait till 7:25 to get on the bus to get my back to Staples for 7:35.
Just wasted a whole hour of my life, well not entirely, I met a friend from high-school on the bus and we talked for a good 15 min and exchanged emails.
To keep a long story - short, I didn’t end up returning it because of a price discrepancy between the receipt and the system, if I was a customer I would have got the better price..but because I was an employee I get “special treatment” and have to wait for one of the other managers to sort it out.
So now I’m going to take it back to work tomorrow, and probably end up forgetting to do the return and end up kicking myself tomorrow night when I get home.
After which the whole cycle will start again the next day.
