Saturday, October 15, 2005

What Did I Get Myself Into?

So, one night after I was done at GS I was talking with Renae about some things. One was that if they wanted someone to come in before opening on the day after Thanksgiving to get Target cards, that I would do it. The other was stated previously in another post. Well, yesterday Tara came up to me and asked if I was still interested. I was taken aback because I was wondering how she knew about it. Well, the head cashiers had just had a meeting and they talked about it. Oh wow. I told her I still was and that was that. So therefore I think I will be getting there early to ask people standing outside. It should be fun, but damn I'm gonna need a flashlight because it will be fucking dark around 5:30 or so in the morning. Jeez, what if no one wants one? They will be pissed at me. I told Tara I wanted to be at GS that day too because I had to fucking cashier last year.

And to toot my own horn, I think they are gonna make me a team trainer! ...finally. Anyways, I was writing the schedules for each day at GS and I noticed some people had 'training' from 6-7:30. I was curious so I asked Sharon and Maggie about it and they said it was for cashier trainers. Then Maggie went off on a tangent about how Amanda couldn't do it, and they needed to get someone else. Maggie turned to Sharon and asked her if she thought I would be a good trainer. All right in front of me, mind you. Sharon said yes, and they ran it by Rich and he OKed it so I think I'm on my way to being a trainer. Score! That will look SEXcellent (haha) on my resume. And plus, I will definitely hammer home some things that cashiers do that piss us off at GS. Maggie said I'd have to hammer home about Target credit cards. Yeah, ok can do. All I have to do is tell them to ask everyone and I'm covered. BUT, the day the training is going is when I close GS. I always close GS on Wednesdays because I'm the only one available TO close on Wednesdays. Sharon said they would find someone to cover for me during the training time so I hope they can. I'm most excited about getting the new nametag that says 'Trainer' on the bottom of it. That way I could tell guests to suck it when they doubted me. "Yeah bitch, they made me a trainer, so I must know what I'm talking about." The only bad thing about the new nametag is that it doesn't have a hole for the bullseye pin. For those of you fellow TMs, the pin is dead. They don't make anymore, so therefore I want to keep mine so all the newbies know I've been there longer than they have and they can suck it. (Haha, I sense a theme.) I thought about making a hole for it, but with what? Anyone with any ideas will score major brownie points! (COMMENT NOW WITH IDEAS!!)

So anywho, I am on cloud fucking 9 with all this good news. After 3 years, they finally believe in me. Only took them 3 years. AND, my 3 year review is in like 3 weeks, so I should be getting a raise soon too. FUCK YEAH BITCHES! I'll tell y'alls how it goes when I get it.

So yeah, no big bitches today at work, it was just really busy. SO BUSY. And so many Canadians although they weren't bad today...at GS anyway. Tomorrow is 2-close and I'm supposed to be training in Emily which is cool because we've hung out before. Funny thing is that I'm only available to 7 on Sundays, and so closing kinda pisses me off because this of all weekends is when I have the most school work to do. Always works out that way. 8 more weeks of school left and I couldn't be happier. Halfway through October. November is almost here, then December, then finals week, then 1 month vacation from school. What can I say, this semester has been rough and I'm only half way through. Oh well, at least the light of the end of the tunnel is getting brighter.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations on all the good news. I thought of you the other day (even though I don't actually KNOW you) because I was shopping at Target and did what you (and I used to) particularly HATE: buy clothes without trying them on! You'll be happy to know that all 6 things that I bought actually FIT! (surprised me too). However, my friend bought a pair of jeans that didn't fit right, so today we went to return them. The transaction at GS you would have loved. I had the receipt out with the barcode up next to the receipt on the pants and handed them both to the GSTM and she scanned both barcodes, printed the receipt, and we were done. Took maybe 10 seconds max.

And yes, I was mad about the no more pins also. The old nametags used to say something like "Speed and service specialist" on them and the name was all caps and in red ink. I still have mine from the first time I worked at Target.