it feels good when all your hard work pays off and is recognised.
we had an incentive thing going at work, every fortnight staff would be judged on sales, duties and attitude.
it started when i first started there, and for the first 4 fortnights i won every time, it kind of lost momentum and i thought it was cos maybe the other staff got annoyed cos i always won, then i became supervisor and i didnt really put my high sales in the running, and it kind of stopped happening.... the ultimate prize i guess from the incentive program was 7 nights paid hotel in one of 9 different places (i think she must have a friend in some accommodation selling club).
Anyway, she told me a couple of weeks ago i won. I was pretty excited... and it is nice to see my hard work noticed. I always work hard, and the incentive program didnt really encourage me to try harder, it was more just i guess a bit of a reward getting a voucher every fortnight.
I am looking forward to having a holiday, not too sure where i want to go.... it is a nice thought having 7 nights paid, but it still means i have to have 7 days off work, which i cant really afford, bt i guess i will see!
I am one of those people who thinks, if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself. I guess i am finding it hard getting other people to do things at work. often they do it wrong or not to the standard that i like, or take sooooooooooooooooooooo much longer to do it. so i guess it is hard dealing with that, plus doing all my work too. Some staff are annoying, especially one guy who annoys the fuck out of me. every day he comes to me or the other supervisor asking if it is his 10, or lunch, like if he doesnt get his turn right away he might die, its frustrating. today i asked him to clean up out the back... another girl was on her 10, he spent most of the time talking to her and wasting time when i had given him jobs to do to follow on from that. A big delivery came and the pallets of salt i asked him to put out on the floor were still there. Jess finished her 10 and he comes to me, oh Jess is finished her 10, can i go on mine, and i kind of snapped, i was like NOOOOOOOO! and he was like why? then i was like there are other people who started before you who go first, now move the pallets out of the way. it doesnt sound that bad i guess. its just annoying how he asks all the timeeeeeee.
I also need to learn how to be stronger and not feel bad telling customers they cant get refunds or return certain things just like that. Like it is not my fault your dog doesnt eat optimum, but you picked it, and there is no guarantees on "supermarket" foods. If they bought it from Woolies, they would not even think of taking it back there if the dog doesnt eat it. I guess my problem is that I am not a fan of confrontation, and i need to not be as scared. My boss is pretty strict on her return/credit policy... i guess it comes from her back pocket... i should read up on returns policies so i know the rules so i can use quotes from there so i sound more confident.
NEED TO BE A HARD BITCH
another good thing for work is that there is going to be 3 supervisors. and the other supervisors have bargained with my boss to get a pretty good deal (i wouldnt dream of doing that, i just do what im told/asked, work when i am needed and volunteer far too much to work when needed). So from next week we have a 3 weekly roster... 2 weekends off, 1 weekend on. We also work longer days, so i get 3 days off a week, and still get my 36 or so hours a week...
pretty sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. not getting my hopes up too much, things dont always go to plan but if it does work out FUCK YEAAAAA. I have not ever in my working life had regular weekends off. i usually worked saturdays every week all while grooming, and since going into retail i worked rotating saturdays one week and sundays the next. SO SO SO exciting. I can do real weekend things!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
anyway i should be sleeping, yay...
WOOOOO
we had an incentive thing going at work, every fortnight staff would be judged on sales, duties and attitude.
it started when i first started there, and for the first 4 fortnights i won every time, it kind of lost momentum and i thought it was cos maybe the other staff got annoyed cos i always won, then i became supervisor and i didnt really put my high sales in the running, and it kind of stopped happening.... the ultimate prize i guess from the incentive program was 7 nights paid hotel in one of 9 different places (i think she must have a friend in some accommodation selling club).
Anyway, she told me a couple of weeks ago i won. I was pretty excited... and it is nice to see my hard work noticed. I always work hard, and the incentive program didnt really encourage me to try harder, it was more just i guess a bit of a reward getting a voucher every fortnight.
I am looking forward to having a holiday, not too sure where i want to go.... it is a nice thought having 7 nights paid, but it still means i have to have 7 days off work, which i cant really afford, bt i guess i will see!
I am one of those people who thinks, if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself. I guess i am finding it hard getting other people to do things at work. often they do it wrong or not to the standard that i like, or take sooooooooooooooooooooo much longer to do it. so i guess it is hard dealing with that, plus doing all my work too. Some staff are annoying, especially one guy who annoys the fuck out of me. every day he comes to me or the other supervisor asking if it is his 10, or lunch, like if he doesnt get his turn right away he might die, its frustrating. today i asked him to clean up out the back... another girl was on her 10, he spent most of the time talking to her and wasting time when i had given him jobs to do to follow on from that. A big delivery came and the pallets of salt i asked him to put out on the floor were still there. Jess finished her 10 and he comes to me, oh Jess is finished her 10, can i go on mine, and i kind of snapped, i was like NOOOOOOOO! and he was like why? then i was like there are other people who started before you who go first, now move the pallets out of the way. it doesnt sound that bad i guess. its just annoying how he asks all the timeeeeeee.
I also need to learn how to be stronger and not feel bad telling customers they cant get refunds or return certain things just like that. Like it is not my fault your dog doesnt eat optimum, but you picked it, and there is no guarantees on "supermarket" foods. If they bought it from Woolies, they would not even think of taking it back there if the dog doesnt eat it. I guess my problem is that I am not a fan of confrontation, and i need to not be as scared. My boss is pretty strict on her return/credit policy... i guess it comes from her back pocket... i should read up on returns policies so i know the rules so i can use quotes from there so i sound more confident.
NEED TO BE A HARD BITCH
another good thing for work is that there is going to be 3 supervisors. and the other supervisors have bargained with my boss to get a pretty good deal (i wouldnt dream of doing that, i just do what im told/asked, work when i am needed and volunteer far too much to work when needed). So from next week we have a 3 weekly roster... 2 weekends off, 1 weekend on. We also work longer days, so i get 3 days off a week, and still get my 36 or so hours a week...
pretty sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. not getting my hopes up too much, things dont always go to plan but if it does work out FUCK YEAAAAA. I have not ever in my working life had regular weekends off. i usually worked saturdays every week all while grooming, and since going into retail i worked rotating saturdays one week and sundays the next. SO SO SO exciting. I can do real weekend things!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
anyway i should be sleeping, yay...
WOOOOO
allure:
this blog is full of Woo Yeahs!