I felt much better after last Friday and choosing not to let the Asshat win! Wearing my "full dress uniform" really seemed to help, at least for my own mentality. I was supposed to have a sit-down chat with some higher-ups, but as is always the case in retail, most folks are stretched too far, too thin, to have a lot of time for things like conversations.
I spent my Saturday driving to pickup Sadie from my daughter's house. She seemed glad to see me, but I'm wondering if she didn't enjoy being around more people than just me! Which would be understandable. As an "ol' lady", things can be quite boring around home! I've remedied that with making our morning walk longer, and added an extra long evening walk as well, now that it's cooler. It's been working -- sometimes, its ~me~ forcing the walk issue, but we go.
The rest of this week was full of answering questions. Now that corporate has decided to make some changes, they give us some general rules, change some of the options on the computer, but then never give us any guidance on how to handle individual questions. While I can see their point on many of the things we try to return to vendors, there still needs to be someone making sound, logical decisions for each individual item. In fact, I told Elvis that there needs to be some logical reasoning --- but it went right over his head. All day long, question after question, and not understanding. In truth, it would be much faster and more practical for me to do it all than to have to second guess his reasoning for whatever choice he makes. I know that I will have a buggy full of a mess on Monday when I return. Doesn't bother him to just toss things aside and wait for instruction instead of reasoning it out and trying to make a logical judgement call.
I'm sure you can tell that this individual is a source of much frustration and angst, and it's not only me. He's been doing the same job for six years now, with no changes or adding to his duties. He was told he needed to run a report today, and he told our manager that he didn't know how to do that. She was so frustrated, she called me over and asked me to teach him ~again~ and this time to have a witness in the room. Because she knows there will be a next time, and she'll have his ass, so to speak. Yep. We'll see.
Overall, it was a pretty good week, I kept myself busy. All the extra walks has me focusing on some of my own creativity again, taking photos on our walks. This caught my eye the other night .....
Happy Weekend, my friend!
