1) On Monday, my co-worker doesn't show up for work. With myself as the only seasonal staff member during busy Christmas hours (with a big flyer, to boot), I get absolutely no stock work done, but cope well enough with the customer load. My department manager and a small hand-picked crew came in that evening to finally fix our Christmas department and get everything in proper working order.
2) On Tuesday, I spend the before-opening hours cleaning up after the night crew (going through that much stock makes a mess, so I certainly don't hold it against them). On Tuesday, our store also got certified from the corporation -- the franchise comes to the franchisee and sees if they're worthy of upholding their name (Canadian Tire stores are all independently-owned and -operated, so you get excellent customer service and a quality yadda yadda yadda). I fail to get much work done because the store manager has me running all over trying to keep the store pretty in the wake of the customers who are messing it up (and thereby ruining our grade). (The grade we received is, of course, proprietary information which I'm not obligated to share. But I can say that we're a good store.)
3) On Wednesday, I finally have time to work on stock after I clean up after the night crew for the second time... and as it turns out, I have a literal barrel full of hockey sticks to sort out. The one barrel of hockey sticks takes me the rest of my shift, while my co-worker astounds me by working through two entire pallets of stock by herself.
4) This morning, I once again clean up after the night crew during the first four hours (before the store opens), and bring down some Christmas trees and build a display for products coming on sale tomorrow. I get half of a cart of stock done after everything is finished.
Not a very good track record this week. And yet, despite all this, my manager came up to me today and gave me a booklet of McDonalds gift certificates for my "great contribution over the past week".
As the title says.
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I took this little quizlet I saw on National Guardsmen's blog.
| Your Brain is 46.67% Female, 53.33% Male |
Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female You are both sensitive and savvy Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve |
Pretty damned accurate, I think...
However, I question the "female" and "male" classification. It'd be much more sensical to use "feminine" and "masculine". The test actually set off a few "holy sexist remark, Batman" warnings in my head while I was taking it -- for instance, according to the test, women are hopeless romantic gossips and men are calculating extroverts who don't talk about their feelings at all.
Bulltweet. I'm a hopeless romantic introvert who doesn't gossip about much in particular and is nonetheless happy to talk about his feelings with anyone who cares to ask. But I'm still 100% man, baby. *ad lib winking*