Ugh, Already!?!?

At lunch a couple of days ago, several of us "old timers" were sitting around the table, and as usual, we talk about things in our BigBox store. 

A young new hire sat down and listened for a moment and chimed in his two cents worth:

  "Management in this store in asinine."

Us old timers gaped at each other, because for someone so new to our store, to retail, and to be able to grasp that told us exactly what we wanted and needed to hear:  We feel the same way and its NOT because we're jaded or wishing for past practices --- it truly IS asinine!

*whew*

Sometimes it takes someone else with a different perspective to tell us what we thought we already knew:  we're not crazy!

Before everyone gets in a tizzy over all that, unless you work with us, you shouldn't judge.  Its difficult to work in an environment where management creates problems all on its own.  Our "team leaders" are all new to our store, mostly new to retail.  And while those of us who have been doing it a while like to do things in what they consider "the old ways" -- sometimes those are the best ways!  (I laugh because its taken this management team three years to understand what I've been saying all along:  everything revolves around your on-hands.  Get them right and the rest of the program works great.)  We had no choice but to go along with the other choices management made thus far.  They finally announced on Friday the new program they put into place to get on-hands corrected.   It's about time, I say.  But they'd better hurry --  guess what's coming?   It's only 142 days until Christmas!  Which really means its only about 60 days until product starts rolling in our back door.  UGH, already!??!??!