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hello first day of work!
Dec. 11th, 2006 08:13 pmAnd if I haven't gotten myself into deep enough trouble, well, I am going to cyberize/type out my mum's whole organizer into a shitload of excel files for my montly allowance. Haha.
Agggh. Just finished my first day at Borders. My feet are KILLING ME from all the shelving I had to do. Seriously kids, try and put back whatever books you took out from where they belong? It's not awful fun to reshelve and 'alpha' books lost in the peons of the Dewey Decimal System. I feel the burn in my feet, legs, and arms so much. It's just like that talkshow I watched last night, Issac I think? "Oh I feel the burn, I feel the burn!"
Honestly, the job isn't hard - it's just slightly physically taxing. This is probably due to the fact that our supervisor (I refuse to call her a 'trainer') was there along with the GM so all five of us were busy and feverishly sorting and shelving books despite this other guy (ah, bookshelving veteran I suppose) was leisurely reshelving lost books. As you noticed, there are 5 n00bs. Well, 4 technically, since one of them is a return employee (a very cheerful and jovial doctor-to-be!); 4 girls, a guyand a pizza place.
Orientation's going to last for three days, of which we'll be learning mainly shelving (because the person in charge of teaching us how to use the cash registers is on leave) and theoratically dreary work. For something as simple as organizing and shelving books, man has complicated the whole process. Sigh. What are we to do in this world!
Amongst what was covered for this first day was mainly stuff about the company policy, getting us to know where's what and who's who - basic orientation things. Plus some 'hands on' work of shelving the books. Final word? If you can't handle physcially straining hours well, I don't think the job is really for you. I say that because it's not guarenteed if you get the shelver job or the cash register job, which is obviously less tiring physically (except that you stand the whole time).
I'm tired. I need to take a nap. There are a few more things I need to say.
Agggh. Just finished my first day at Borders. My feet are KILLING ME from all the shelving I had to do. Seriously kids, try and put back whatever books you took out from where they belong? It's not awful fun to reshelve and 'alpha' books lost in the peons of the Dewey Decimal System. I feel the burn in my feet, legs, and arms so much. It's just like that talkshow I watched last night, Issac I think? "Oh I feel the burn, I feel the burn!"
Honestly, the job isn't hard - it's just slightly physically taxing. This is probably due to the fact that our supervisor (I refuse to call her a 'trainer') was there along with the GM so all five of us were busy and feverishly sorting and shelving books despite this other guy (ah, bookshelving veteran I suppose) was leisurely reshelving lost books. As you noticed, there are 5 n00bs. Well, 4 technically, since one of them is a return employee (a very cheerful and jovial doctor-to-be!); 4 girls, a guy
Orientation's going to last for three days, of which we'll be learning mainly shelving (because the person in charge of teaching us how to use the cash registers is on leave) and theoratically dreary work. For something as simple as organizing and shelving books, man has complicated the whole process. Sigh. What are we to do in this world!
Amongst what was covered for this first day was mainly stuff about the company policy, getting us to know where's what and who's who - basic orientation things. Plus some 'hands on' work of shelving the books. Final word? If you can't handle physcially straining hours well, I don't think the job is really for you. I say that because it's not guarenteed if you get the shelver job or the cash register job, which is obviously less tiring physically (except that you stand the whole time).
I'm tired. I need to take a nap. There are a few more things I need to say.
