In the words of King Diamond, One Down Two To Go – Day Twenty Eight

 

Finally got a picture of my bike

Just to clarify, the picture has nothing to do with the post. It is solely there because I have neglected to put a picture up of my bike yet.

So anyway to explain the title. Yesterday marked the three day period of eight hour shifts. Today, a twelve to eight shift.

The mid day shifts again have pros and cons. The pros are sales. There are just that many more hours on the floor to sell to customers. The cons are that all hours are on the floor. When you open or close there is at least an hour or two off the floor where you are away from the customers that allow you to somewhat chill. When you are on the floor you are in “go go go” mood twenty four seven.

It definitely makes the day go slower.

So today all I did was work. I worked, I met up with my new girlfriend after. That is it.

Today was seriously boring.

I did not buy anything although I am still anxiously awaiting my Obey accessories to come in the mail.

I really wanted to skate today. I couldn’t I pretty much worked from sunrise to sunset.

Christmas is coming up. I am excited. That is always a good time of  year. Every one is happy. So yeah.

I guess I am getting a new phone soon. If I get the Droid I will be stoked.

It is so sick.

It is supposed to be the iPhone killer. I like the iPhone so we will see.

Anyway. I still need bike stuff.

I broke my pressure valve the other day too.

Damn it.

Why isn’t there free stuff.

Like Costco. Costco rules. Go on any given day and get a bunch of samples.

Awesome place.

End Day: +$209.20

 

Black Friday – Day Twenty Seven

 

The Store

 

 

So today marked the busiest day of the year for shoppers. Black Friday (the friday after thanksgiving) is notorious for being the day where all the stores open up ridiculously early in order to give their early bird shoppers large discounts on the inventory.

Our store was chaos. The entire Carlsbad outlet mall annually opens at 12:01 a.m and closes at 10:00 that night. That leaves almost twenty two hours that we are open that day. Our store is not staffed to accommodate those hours. That being said we brought in about ten more people from the warehouse and other stores. Even still, we were understaffed. This forced all of us to work a minimum of eight hour shifts.

I lucked out.

There were a couple shifts available. A 11:30 on thursday night to 6:00 friday morning, a 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m, a 12:00 noon to 8:00 at night, and a 3:00 p.m. to close.

I obtained the three to close shift. There are pluses and minuses to this shift. On the plus side I was able to sleep in and have some of the morning free.

I took full advantage of my open morning by going on a nice fifteen mile ride. It felt nice to bike after indulging of the Thanksgiving food the previous two days.

On the other side, closing in not a time. Closing depends on two things, how fast the manager counts the money and closes the registers, and how long it takes the closing employees to clean the store. This Friday and Saturday the store closes an hour later as well. Between the seven closers and manager it took us almost three and a half hours. By some sort of magic the store slowed down about 8:00 leaving us closers a small window to jump start on our cleaning. So my shift ended up being a 2:30 (I came early) to 11:45 p.m. I got by solely on a cup of coffee in the morning, a venti iced white chocolate mocha at Starbucks, and a Red Bull.

It was tough but I got through.

Anyway on the monetary side I bought that coffee mid day. Good bye $4.50

End Day: +$209.20