Wednesday, February 23, 2011

A word of advice from someone who's been there...

Word of advice: don't pray for something unless you're willing to live with the consequences that could come from what you're asking.

Example: Last week I prayed and told Heavenly Father that I was bord. Just bord with my life. I was hardly working and had lots of free time. Too much free time allows one to think too much and therefore analyze every part of my life and remind myself of everything that is wrong with me and everything that I could be doing better (which is nothing because I'm practically perfect in every way).

Consequence: My store manager left on vacation and left me (not the assistant manager) in charge of the store. This meant being in charge of running the floor change that was originally scheduled for Sunday but then was changed to Monday night - prepping the store for the floor change including sorting and prepping all the new clothes that were suppose to all come on Friday but instead came half on Friday and the other half on Monday. I was also to make sure that everyone else did their part in keeping the store running including making sure our assistant manager did her projects. And I was apparently suppose to make sure that we were making lots of money and helping every single customer fulfill their needs and leave our store happy. I was suppose to be Wonder Woman - let me rephrase that - I was suppose to be better than Wonder Woman.
Let's make this even more exciting.
On top of all my duties at my store I get a call from a friend asking me to cover his shift at my old store. This meant that on Saturday I was to be at my store at 7am - 4pm with an hour break then head over to my old store and work 4pm - 10pm with a half hour break. Because I had so much to do at my store I worked during my hour break plus came back to my store during my half hour break. I also had the brilliant idea to help out my friend even more by working for him Monday morning. So Monday looked like this: 9am - 1:30pm old store. 1:30pm - 3:30pm my store. Then a break (which I worked through) till 5pm which I then worked non-stop 5pm - 12:30am.
Despite everything that went wrong I thought I did a pretty d*** good job running a store by myself. Not that I did an amazing job but despite everything, I felt alright.
Store manager came back today.
You want to know everything that I did WRONG? Because that's all I heard during my shift at work today. Even though I worked my BUTT OFF since she left all I heard was everything that I DIDN'T do or that I DIDN'T do right. And I got in trouble for everything that everyone else DIDN'T do or DIDN'T do right. I DO NOT get paid enough...
So after working two 14+ hour days I get told everything that I did wrong. Not that I'm not already a perfectionist and not nearly hard enough on myself, I had to have someone point out to me all my faults. Like I already don't know. What a wonderful day.

Advice: when you think your life is boring and you feel like telling Heavenly Father this - just be prepared for what may come.

5 comments:

  1. wow talk about de-constructive criticism. stop being so hard on yourself because it seems like everyone else is. sorry dude. :(

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  2. I feel like this is also partially my fault because I've been praying that you would get more hours at work. So blame me. And quit being so hard on yourself. And tell you boss to be nicer and see the glass as half full. You're wonderful... just don't forget it!!!

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  3. Oh it's not your fault Mom - I know I'll be really grateful when I get my next paycheck :) Plus I get to work this weekend at AE and that's happy!

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  4. Aww Rach, I'm so sorry!!! I hope that you do remember how wonderful you are!! I love you and hope that you have a better week!!

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  5. Rachel, this is a perfect example of what not to do - how not to act! "All these things give us experience" and unfortunately you are part of the large learning curve your "boss" is in. You will be a better boss, wife, mother becuase of all the wonderful experiences you are having. Okay - enough of that! Your boss was/is a jerk!

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