So many people have been asking if I started my job yet and how it has been going. I did start on Tuesday night and it was OK. Not great, not wonderful... OK. Actually, I did not enjoy it very much at all. I got to fold clothes and pick up things that people had thrown somewhere it did not belong all evening. I couldn't help thinking all evening that people are pigs. And I am being all inclusive with this. I am not exempt from it at all. I must admit that I too am guilty of picking up a shirt and putting it back on the table totally unfolded and messy and thinking to myself, "well, it's their job, they can clean it up!" I won't be doing that anymore. It is frustrating coming back to a table 2 minutes after you got it all nice to there being shirts strewn all over and piles knocked over. I left the parking lot of the mall at 9:45 at night and had a pity party all the way home about the fact that I hadn't wanted to clean up after people and all the sales associates were so young and all I really wanted was to be a mom anyway!
Yesterday, my second shift, was much better. I still did the same job, but somehow my outlook was better. Though when I was leaving my heart hurt to see R at the patio doors with his face squished against it and his hands on the window, watching me leave. He has been a little more clingy and huggy the past few days. It is good for he and DH to have time to spend together though, without me. I know that DH is enjoying it.
As I was saying, yesterday was better. There was a lady who was in her 40s who had started in the past month, so I didn't feel so old! I was in womens folding a lot, though different sections, without so many T-shirt tables. I interacted with and got to know more of my collegues (spelling?) and that was good too.
So, for a part-time, temporary job, this should work out OK. Now we just have to get me cash trained and I can deal with irate people at the till... :)
2 comments:
I was thinking of you yesterday. I took Trinity to Old Navy and got her some tops and pants that were on sale. I kept wondering how your job was going and if you enjoy it. It's the kind of job I'd love to do, I just can't get paid enough to put the kids in daycare and Mark isn't home regular hours to watch them. *Sigh* Maybe someday. You're right though, especially in big box stores, people are pigs! I was caught folding a sweater that I'd looked at at the Gap one day and a lady offered me a job right there! Yikes! Enjoy the few hours that you get out of the house. I'm glad that your second day was better...I'll keep praying.
I am glad to hear things are going fairly well with the job. I find it really hard to leave our kids as well when I need to go see clients with my job and go away on business trips. I just want to take them with me....but I figure I might loose clients that way. :o)However I would be very happy.
Sorry I had to put this message under annonymous, I am having issues with leaving messages under my BLOG name. Weird!??!?!
Carolyn
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