Today is Friday for me. I’ve got tomorrow through Monday off so I will be happy for a short time. Anytime I am not working I am happy. Now my company has changed it’s signage yet again. I believe this is the third or fourth time in five years. We have these but fucking ugly yellow signs. We no longer have signs that distinguish between ad items and in store specials anymore; they are all on the same sign. We also have a large list of items that will now carry an “EVERYDAY LOW PRICE” sign on them, as well as all of our private label. Let me repeat that for you… ALL of our private label. That means at any given time our aisles are going to be littered with signs which as far as I’m concerned is going to make it harder for customers to shop because these ugly ass dayglo yellow signs are going to be screaming at them. There is a slight difference between the ad/special signs and the everyday signs, but the fact is that they are all yellow and by god are they ugly. Another thing that they changed was making the scanning policy go away. We used to have a policy where if something scanned wrong that the customer would get the item free of charge. That was then changed to have a five dollar cap on it and now it has been totally dissolved. I am glad that it has been taken away because for the most part it was an abused system. Customers knew that if the product would scan wrong they could get the item free and most of that would get it would make sure they could find the items they thought should be on ad and then go bitch that they didn’t get the sale price and therefore get it free. I just wish I could be at the service counter when the first customer comes up that finds out that the policy is no longer in effect. Just last weekend a lady ended up paying 99 cents for an item that had a sign on it for 89 cents and when she went to the service counter to complain and the girl handed her a dime she blew into a fucking tizzy and told her that she knows our policy and that she is supposed to get the item free. Damn, I wish that shit would have happened this coming weekend.
Yesterday on my day off the corporate office came in and checked out our store to see if we were doing our jobs properly. From what I was told (because I was off of work and had no intentions of driving in on my day off) corporate told my boss that my department was the best looking out of all the stores they have done so far. I figure that either says a lot for me, or not very much for the other stores. I don’t feel that I do a great job in my department. For one I am hardly ever in there anymore. I get to be in there two days a week for sure because of the truck coming in and I need to order on those days as well. And second in case no one has noticed, I don’t really give a shit anymore. I think when you see every option you used to have to make money slowly stripped away (I’ve mentioned it all before, from the loss of cosmetics and toys up to the injection of dollar days and therefore won’t mention it all again) you get a little cold and unfortunately no longer care. That or maybe I’m just an asshole.
Another reason that I am off tomorrow through Monday is because I have to get another year older. 31… fuck. Only nine more of those sunofabitches to go and then I’ll be near 40. That sucks man. I guess it’s not something you can really dwell on, and it does help to have friends that are roughly four or five years older than you so you can go… well at least I’m not as old as your sorry ass.