It's been quite an intertesting week at the shop. I found out that they will be transferring me to Starkey Road to work with the manager there. They apparently want to get me to the point where I can become a full store manager. I was assistant manager in Salem. This is really cool. I hope everything works out. I start Monday morning over at Starkey.
Yesterday the same group of middle school kids came in that usually do every Friday afternoon, and they all bought their stuff and occupied the entire back part of the store. As they were thinning out I noticed that the group of boys that sit on the black couches, as usual, did not clean up their mess. A little while after that two of them came running up to me as I was brewing coffee and the youngest one said, out of breath, "If someone comes in here trying to kill me, call the cops." I replied, "Make sure you clean your mess up before he kills you." And they set about cleaning up their mess. I like being a jackass. There is something cynically fulfilling about it.
Yesterday the same group of middle school kids came in that usually do every Friday afternoon, and they all bought their stuff and occupied the entire back part of the store. As they were thinning out I noticed that the group of boys that sit on the black couches, as usual, did not clean up their mess. A little while after that two of them came running up to me as I was brewing coffee and the youngest one said, out of breath, "If someone comes in here trying to kill me, call the cops." I replied, "Make sure you clean your mess up before he kills you." And they set about cleaning up their mess. I like being a jackass. There is something cynically fulfilling about it.
Glad to hear that you're probably getting a promotion. I think that the Starkey store is probably a move up from Salem, since the Salemites seem to be quite shoved up their own asses.
Maybe things will suck less there...