reverendbenzo

Tommorow at work is going to be a pain in the ass. Someone is coming in first thing in the morning to help "set up" out store, which has been there 15 years. He is going to have suggestions on how to rearrange everything. Suggestions so far that we have already done, is to have "hot zones". That means the second and third rows are to have the movies checkerboarded. Bascially, you put stack the movies one on top of another in a checkboard fashion. That way the movies stand out at the person and they are more likely to rent them. Yeah. You put American Dreamz in an opposing checkerboard fashion and it will make you say, "Oh Yeah! I should[/] rent this inflated, gimmicky turdfest!" The thing that gets me is my people checkerboard everything that takes up a whole row, even the bottom. So, I guess if they are tying their shoes, they will say"Oh SHIT! I never thought about renting Mimi's First Time, but this checkerboard fashion has convinced me otherwise!" Then I guess the money comes flying out of pockets, which is the main goal.

I got a call from said store setter upper that he wants no 2 Day movies from rows 4 down. That is damn near impossible without completely rearranging the store in a really awkward and non-alphabetical order. Plus it's time doing that idiotic horeshit while trying to, you know, check out customers and do inventory. Of course, let's not trying to sell that all importnat online service. They have been up our collective asses on that one. It's not really that bad of a thing but they want us to get people to sell it right then and there. By that, I mean, get them to sign up in the store via our laptop which runs on a 56K modem./ So, if they get bored waiting on it to connect and sign up later, they aren't happy with that. I've had to participate in two conference calls explaining our lack of sales. These calls last until I have to open, so I am unable to do the morning paperwork, bank deposit and other things that are my job beyond selling. In one of those calls I made a suggestion on how to further PVT sales and increase store inventory but I was interrupted with "The focal point of Blockbuster is numbers and increasing revenue". Funny, I thought the point of a video store was movies. I know it's a business but I think they are missing the human (a.k.a."key") element here.

I haven't used quotations marks or the word "checkerboard" in a blog ever in my life.

I should have been in bed hours ago, so I will be fresh and alive to deal with the idiotic horseshit that will surely be thrown at me soon but I kept drinking Jack Daniels and then Captain Morgans. Probably not the best recipe. I just really wanted several drinks.