Pressure....

Not only sinus pressure, but pressure to perform OUT OF THIS WORLD at my new job I’ve been at for less than 5 days.

Let’s rewind about 3 pm yesterday (I am about to be off at 4:30 and sick as a dog)…

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“Aubrey it’s A. I need you to have everything ready for the store tomorrow by 9:30 am (we open at 10) We sucked at this promotion last week when I wasn’t at the store, if I knew I was going to miss two Fridays, I wouldn’t have booked these flights. So what I need you to do is make sure my boss has pictures of the store (her boss is one of the nine that founded the company I work for, holy hell), we have to have an amazing sales day, and more and more and more things she mentioned. (She’s freaking out on how much she got crap at the company wide gathering in LA this week because of the stores performance last Friday. This freaking out leads to me freaking out.) Aubrey, no pressure but this has to go AMAZINGLY well, this is your time to shine, I know you can do it. (Did I mention, I’ve only been at this job for less than 4 days.) I need you to get balloons and blow a shit ton of them up and put them everywhere (did my boss just say a shit ton, crap I just got side tracked), I mean everywhere. I also need you to go print of 1000 flyers and hand them out to hotels, restaurants, any where possible. I need you to stress to the employees how important tomorrow is for us. I also need you to make sure the signs are ready to go for tomorrow. (Did I mention I only had at this point an hour left in my shift) So go out there and rock it, because we CAN NOT suck tomorrow, we will look terrible if we do. I will talk to you later.” *click*

At this point I feel like I’ve been blind sided by a huge double-decker bus. I have no idea WHAT or HOW I’m supposed to be doing all these things she mentioned. Lack of training plays a role here. So I do everything I can to get things done while at work, I ran to Kinko’s, ran to the big Best Buy, and got things together for the store. I left a few things up to the lead in the store for the rest of the night to be done.

So now it’s 8:30 am, I’ve got a monster energy drink and dayquil in me. I’m rocking out getting ready to open the store. I have an employee show up at 9 who was absolutely USELESS to me on getting this ready, he literally sat on his ass. The lead got one thing done out of the five I asked him to do. I made so many freakin’ balloons, my skin blistered on my fingers where I tied the actual balloons. I was moving so fast because 9:30 deadline, have to make it. After a few mess ups, I did make the deadline. This is only part one, the controllable part.

The sales part was much harder, the mall is a tough place, a uncontrollable place. You never know who you’re going to get in. When it comes to checking someones credit, it makes it even harder. I checked a group of people to see if they could get a phone I think every six people, and each time they had a ridiculously huge deposits and said no.

Thank God for my parents coming in to activate a new line for my little brother. Because of them it started the process of it raining. “When it rains it pours.” I ending up knocking out 7 HUGE sales. This is just me, I’ve got others who are doing the same thing on 2 other registers. This is AMAZING considering yesterday we did 2 phones. I ended up helping a customer an hour past when I was supposed to leave, but I didn’t care. I fought for every dang sale I had and it paid off. Walking out for the day felt so amazing, because I knew I knocked it out of the park.

My manager gets back from her trip tomorrow and it’s my day off, we’ll see how she thinks yesterday went. I do know this, from the pictures I sent she said the store looked amazing. (I think, wait I know, I’m going to kick ass at this new job) Now if you’d excuse me I’m going to pass out from exhaustion and this ridiculous cold.