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Schedule, January 1-7 (OMG I love 20X6)
Jan. 2nd, 2006 11:29 pmNot forty-eight hours into the new year and I'm having an excellent time. I always have fun at Coney Island, and work today was pretty interesting, too.
First thing first, we made goal. YAY. By the time I left, we had at least $1300 in the drawers when we were set for only a thousand. Second, we're cleaning up the stock room for Karen Flores so she can see that we can handle the store on our own (she's the store manager, but she's NEVER in, leaving things in Nathalie's hands; she's the asst. manager). It -- and the floor -- both look IMMACULATE, and I'm very proud of the lot of us.
Interesting, now. This afternoon, an Orthodox Jewish woman came into the store with a return. Simple enough... only, she didn't have the receipt for the product. That's still fine... only, we didn't ever have the product in our store. We called Times Square and found out it was a clearance item so we couldn't accept it anyway. The woman, obviously, didn't like that, so I pulled out the sheet that had our store policies on it and told her to read it if she didn't like what she was hearing. She still threw a fit.
Evie wound up giving her store credit -- this is for something LESS THAN EIGHT DOLLARS, mind -- but told her that it was only good for clearance items. Most people don't have a problem with this, but this woman did. Oh my gosh. She threw ANOTHER fit. In the meantime, I rang up a few customers and they were all staring at her like she was crazy. In the end, Ariana gave her Carmen's phone number. Carmen is the district manager, and from what I hear, she can talk anyone around to anything. So the woman tried calling Carmen then and there but got an answering machine. Upset, she left the store. Ariana was kind of giggling after that, and we wondered why. She said because she gave the woman Carmen's 800 number.... where the machine ALWAYS picks up. To quote Fernando, "It's like saying, 'Kiss my fatty!' " Awesome.
And the only reason I mentioned that she was Orthodox Jewish is because she made me sad. She's the kind of Jew that gives the rest of them a bad name. I love my Jews. Three of my future bridesmaids are Jewish. :::hugs them::: (Haha, Katie. You suck cuz you're not Jewish.) Oooh, so honest question: why do Orthodox Jews dress all their kids -- no matter how old they are -- exactly the same way? Same coat, same dress, same shoes, same everything. I've witnessed this phenomenon since I was a kid, but never quite understood it.
And THEN, someone walked into the store with his friend a little before I was set to go home. He looked familiar and asked me if I went to Bronx Science, and I said I did, and told him he looked familiar. So turns out his name was Alan, and his friend was Ariel. We chatted a little, and got back to the reunion. I explained that I didn't go because I was in Baltimore for Otakon. Ariel knew of Otakon. So they left, no big deal. On the way home, Ariel found me on the R train. We chatted some more, mostly about Nintendo and stuff. We got back to school and I mentioned Stony Brook, but he said he went into the Marines instead. Ooooh. Said he was leaving tomorrow for a couple of months, and to call him if I wasn't doing anything tonight to hang out. And with that, he dashed up the stairs and was gone.
Wait... so, cute guy talks to me (Fernando and I agreed on this)... I got his number... and he told me to call him... and he was a Marine leaving for a few months TOMORROW.... WHOA. Did that really just happen? To ME?! :O!!! My dream finally came true, and I'm not single enough to realize it (I love you, Phill). Meh, but that's okay. Even if I were, I don't think I'd've done anything about it because I'm a dork like that. But wow, I can stop complaining (so much) now. o_o; It's amazing, dude.
Aside of that, there's con drama ALREADY, with the whole PianoSquall and I-Con thing. I've got a headache, somehow, from all of it, and poor Lynda's probably a bajillion times worse. But that's enough of that. No need to mention it anyMORE tonight.
Back to knitting... hope I finish it.
( Even though it's old by now... )
First thing first, we made goal. YAY. By the time I left, we had at least $1300 in the drawers when we were set for only a thousand. Second, we're cleaning up the stock room for Karen Flores so she can see that we can handle the store on our own (she's the store manager, but she's NEVER in, leaving things in Nathalie's hands; she's the asst. manager). It -- and the floor -- both look IMMACULATE, and I'm very proud of the lot of us.
Interesting, now. This afternoon, an Orthodox Jewish woman came into the store with a return. Simple enough... only, she didn't have the receipt for the product. That's still fine... only, we didn't ever have the product in our store. We called Times Square and found out it was a clearance item so we couldn't accept it anyway. The woman, obviously, didn't like that, so I pulled out the sheet that had our store policies on it and told her to read it if she didn't like what she was hearing. She still threw a fit.
Evie wound up giving her store credit -- this is for something LESS THAN EIGHT DOLLARS, mind -- but told her that it was only good for clearance items. Most people don't have a problem with this, but this woman did. Oh my gosh. She threw ANOTHER fit. In the meantime, I rang up a few customers and they were all staring at her like she was crazy. In the end, Ariana gave her Carmen's phone number. Carmen is the district manager, and from what I hear, she can talk anyone around to anything. So the woman tried calling Carmen then and there but got an answering machine. Upset, she left the store. Ariana was kind of giggling after that, and we wondered why. She said because she gave the woman Carmen's 800 number.... where the machine ALWAYS picks up. To quote Fernando, "It's like saying, 'Kiss my fatty!' " Awesome.
And the only reason I mentioned that she was Orthodox Jewish is because she made me sad. She's the kind of Jew that gives the rest of them a bad name. I love my Jews. Three of my future bridesmaids are Jewish. :::hugs them::: (Haha, Katie. You suck cuz you're not Jewish.) Oooh, so honest question: why do Orthodox Jews dress all their kids -- no matter how old they are -- exactly the same way? Same coat, same dress, same shoes, same everything. I've witnessed this phenomenon since I was a kid, but never quite understood it.
And THEN, someone walked into the store with his friend a little before I was set to go home. He looked familiar and asked me if I went to Bronx Science, and I said I did, and told him he looked familiar. So turns out his name was Alan, and his friend was Ariel. We chatted a little, and got back to the reunion. I explained that I didn't go because I was in Baltimore for Otakon. Ariel knew of Otakon. So they left, no big deal. On the way home, Ariel found me on the R train. We chatted some more, mostly about Nintendo and stuff. We got back to school and I mentioned Stony Brook, but he said he went into the Marines instead. Ooooh. Said he was leaving tomorrow for a couple of months, and to call him if I wasn't doing anything tonight to hang out. And with that, he dashed up the stairs and was gone.
Wait... so, cute guy talks to me (Fernando and I agreed on this)... I got his number... and he told me to call him... and he was a Marine leaving for a few months TOMORROW.... WHOA. Did that really just happen? To ME?! :O!!! My dream finally came true, and I'm not single enough to realize it (I love you, Phill). Meh, but that's okay. Even if I were, I don't think I'd've done anything about it because I'm a dork like that. But wow, I can stop complaining (so much) now. o_o; It's amazing, dude.
Aside of that, there's con drama ALREADY, with the whole PianoSquall and I-Con thing. I've got a headache, somehow, from all of it, and poor Lynda's probably a bajillion times worse. But that's enough of that. No need to mention it anyMORE tonight.
Back to knitting... hope I finish it.
( Even though it's old by now... )
