Work was fun today!
Sep. 23rd, 2003 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
songofjoy02The guy who my co-worker and I think is the boss of the warehouse...and in charge of several stores in the chain...decided we needed some help "cranking out" the baskets. This was only my second day doing it, and he wanted me to show him how! LOL! He ended up helping us almost the entire day, and he's going to probably help tomorrow (I won't be there) instead of going to a store about an hour from here...a store he really needs to visit. He is SO excited about the potential profitability of the basket making that it is really quite contagious. LOL!
On a rather concerning note, the person I thought would be my boss didn't show up today...which I'm beginning to think might resemble normalcy for her. I guess most of her job description requires her to be gone quite a bit (marketing to corporations). However, I think it would be very good to have a little more direct training. What has happened is that the lady and I who were hired each spend a very few minutes with her at separate times, and then tell each other what's happening. It's almost funny! It's a good thing that I have a sense of humor, anyway.
Fortunately for me, other people have taken charge of the production side of the basket making (the man I mentioned above, in particular). The only problem is that I'm not sure how quality control will suffer if we don't have the person in charge of basket making actually there to monitor it...even just for the first several days.
Anyway, the man's enthusiasm about the baskets has made me laugh every time I have been over there. First of all, I would not have expected a guy to be excited about baskets. That just wouldn't have occurred to me. But even if he was, I would have assumed that his excitement would be more indirect, less involved. But that's not the case, either. Not only is he aware of the price of almost every item in our inventory (not a short list!), he is also interested in being personally involved in the production--from rolling paper to put in the baskets to sticking leaves on with glue dots. I don't know...it's just funny.=D
On a rather concerning note, the person I thought would be my boss didn't show up today...which I'm beginning to think might resemble normalcy for her. I guess most of her job description requires her to be gone quite a bit (marketing to corporations). However, I think it would be very good to have a little more direct training. What has happened is that the lady and I who were hired each spend a very few minutes with her at separate times, and then tell each other what's happening. It's almost funny! It's a good thing that I have a sense of humor, anyway.
Fortunately for me, other people have taken charge of the production side of the basket making (the man I mentioned above, in particular). The only problem is that I'm not sure how quality control will suffer if we don't have the person in charge of basket making actually there to monitor it...even just for the first several days.
Anyway, the man's enthusiasm about the baskets has made me laugh every time I have been over there. First of all, I would not have expected a guy to be excited about baskets. That just wouldn't have occurred to me. But even if he was, I would have assumed that his excitement would be more indirect, less involved. But that's not the case, either. Not only is he aware of the price of almost every item in our inventory (not a short list!), he is also interested in being personally involved in the production--from rolling paper to put in the baskets to sticking leaves on with glue dots. I don't know...it's just funny.=D
