By the time this blog is posted, I will have most certainly turned in a document that looks very much like the one below to my store manager. This probably goes without saying, but I am excited beyond words to be doing this. And this.
As embarrassing as it is to say, I’ve been working in the retail industry for over three years now. When you’ve been doing something for that long, you begin to pick upon trends regarding whatever it is you’re doing. When that activity is retail, you begin to notice things like regional and industry trends: November [...]
My dear friend Jon has said for several years now that he’s certainly never going to become a CEO, and those closest to him tend to agree. It isn’t that he lacks the people skills necessary for the task, but in certain areas falling under the “common sense” umbrella, he’s proven to fall short time [...]
Over my nearly three-years-with-an-eight-month-break in the retail industry, I’ve had my share of (insert any adjective here) interactions with customers. You could ask me on any given Sunday about an awkward customer from the past seven days and I’d probably be able to give you a more than adequate answer to your inquiry. This week [...]
Instead of spending noontime on Sunday past with my mother and other family members in celebration of Motherhood, circumstances demanded that I be at work (retail knows no weekends, after all). Generally frustrated with the fact that I was spending time at work on my day off, and unsettled by the high employee to customer [...]