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My adventures at another Shoppers Drug Mart 2

November 4, 2010 at 12:04 AM (Uncategorized)

oh man!!!!! it’s been almost a month since my last post!!
nothing interesting has really happened since the X Japan concert.
but at least i nao hav something interesting to post todai.

Remember my post back in july.
wher a shoppers nearby was failing and i went to help out.

yea……this is my 2nd adventure

this happened last Thursday. that would be oct 28th.
it was my day off so i was sleeping in.
then my supervisor called me 10:11 in the morning asking if i wanted to work.

i was like “wha??”
she then told me a Shoppers nearby was in dire need of merchandisers
i asked her if this was another failing store like the one back in July
she said it wasn’t, and that they just needed help because apparently their Front Store Manager was recently fired.
due to poor performance, and that they needed help as soon as possible.

accepted but my condition was i was to start at 1pm, and no earlier.
seeing their call caught me off guard and during my beauty sleep.
that way i would have time to eat breakfast, shower, etc etc..

the location was at Lawrence and McCowan.
Lucky me, there was a store there that sold comics.
Arrived a bit early so i could check out if they had the comics i was hunting.

Luckily they did, so i returned ther 2 days after to buy them.

still 25 mins before i actually started, i just decided to walk in and prepare w/e.
Meet the assistant manager, owner, and few other people i was going to work with.

After meeting them, the truck with new merchandise just arrived.
lucky me, i  have fun bringing out stock to the front store.

first thing was first.
take the bathroom tissues, facial tissues, and paper towels that are going to be in promo the following week to the 2nd floor storage.
o.O!!! 2nd floor????
yes they had a 2nd floor for storage. i was surprised.
i asked how would i do such a thing?
he said i was to use the elevator.
ELEVATOR!?!?!?!

omg they had a conveyer belt to bring merchandise upstairs :O

and if you load a lot of heavy boxes on it it’ll start to slow down and eventually wont have enough power to actually run.
if that were to happen, you’d have to operate it from the bottom and give it a push to start.
that would be more effective if 2 people were to do this.

thas how it looks  on the 2nd floor storage area.

after stacking the tissues upstairs, i had to bring stock out onto the floor.
the front store.
the fun part bout working as a merchandiser.
bring stock out, and do nothing else. hohhohohoh

did that for a good couple of hours.
and my supervisor from my store also helped out and came in 2 hours after i did.
note this was a bigger store compared to my store, and yea.
they had a lot more stock to put out.

after a couple of hours it got hotter, idk why but i think the heater is up way too high.
the assistant manager said he was feeling the heat too, but apparently all the ladies who worked ther felt cold.
i was burning and flooding with sweat!
my sweat rag was drenched, and my uniform stunk.

the heat was hard to work with, it made me feel like crap, and affected my performance.
after doing stock, i realised their back room was hell messy and unorganized.

earlier that day i brought out some crackers unto the front store.
i noticed they already had some crackers as overstock, yet they ordered more of it.
yea….they are fucked.

they also had baby merchandise overstock beside the pet food overstock.
thas not very good putting baby food beside pet food.
then i found more new stock that they had overstock of.

everyshit was everywhere.

then near the back door was a crap load of boxes waiting to be thrown into recycling bin.
it was just messy.
at first i was thinking of applying to work in this store, but nao after seeing the conditions i dun even want to return.

the other merchandiser i worked with was a nice person.
she said the only way to throw the recycling was with another person. it was a 2 person job.
you know why?

this is why. thers a huge bin outside that crushes the boxes and such.
of course this is a safety issue so it really had to be done by 2 people.
we threw the boxes and crushed them.
and the back looked a lot cleaner.

hah. a few minutes later it was closing time!!!
9 hours of work and 30 mins of break. i had more time for my break, but only took 30 mins.
i woulda prolly get lazy if i took the whole hour break.
ghey thing was, ther are were no Tim Horton’s nearby to calm me down.
except teh tim horton’s they said that was in the hospital across teh street.
during break i had onion rings from a nearby fish and chips joint.
it was decent onion rings.

our shift was done, my supervisor and i were glad we finished.
we did not want to return there again after seeing the enviroment we had to work in.
we were very glad we work at our store which is a lot neater and well organized, and lead by a very good manager.
i returned to my store the day after and i gave my manager a hug. im so thankful for the store i work in.

earlier during the day, the store owner asked if i could leave my contact info and schedule.
guess who’s going back tomorrow for an 8 hour shift XD