Its Only 365 Days
289: TOO TALL FOR THE STALL
289: THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011
Only if you are tall can you relate to this...going into a bathroom stall and noticing you can see right over the door frame. I noticed this this morning, that I could see myself at the bathroom mirror in the morning at work without standing on my tippy toes. I'm just taller than the door. This is always awkard especially when you stand up and you can see people at the sink in front of you and they look in the mirror and can see you. See, they dont' mention this is the heigh hand book, you just learn about the awkwardness along the roads of life.
So today was do or die day apparently. We started on the fast track to hiring new people for the GMT team. We are now down one supervisor and one assistant manager, and they want me to be assitant manager. So the meeting which I cancelled yesterday, was scheduled for today. I get put in the room with the second in comand to the entire organization. Talk about nerve racking. She's sitting there and she's basically telling me about me and why I should become assistant manager. Look, she says, you've worked here 4.5 years, you ahve all this experience, and 3 years ago, you began setting yourself apart from the others with your ability to tinker and see things from a much grander perspective. My meeting with you a month ago, really showed me how much in league you are with with company and your ability to want to grow and change things on your end. In the 3.5 years that you've been a gallery supervisor, we have never recieved one complaint from a visitor about you. I'm like, ok....but she says, I think your one fault is that you are different in the office then you are on the floor with visitors (she was referring to this one lady in our office that drives me nuts), so I agreed, but she says, you don't carry that to the floor. When you are on the floor you have the abilty to turn it on, and that's what we need, where do you get that from. I'm like I worked 4 years of retail prior to this job, so our complaints now are tame compared to the broom I had thrown at me, or the customers who cursed me out from time to time, or the lady who flat out told me she hated me...I'm like this customer service is nothing compared to what I dealt with on the daily and still had to smile and act like everything was just fine.
Long story even longer, she's like when are your ready to sign on the dotted line? She wants me to meet with all the General management team, and the director of the organization on Monday for my answer right then and there. I felt a little woozy. I did. So much to think about in so little time.
In health news, first workout went down today!!! I'm still sick, so I didn't think I would make it, but I wasn't really given an option if you know what I mean. I went through a 65 minute relentless workout of super sets. I was made to do 3 exercises at a time. One would be lunges, followed by squats, followed by rows for 16 reps of each of the three, followed by 12 reps of each of the three, followed by no break. We would immediately go into the next 3 exercises for the next body part, so it went warm-up, arms, legs, back, arms, legs, back, abs, and then cool down. We used everything from a barbell, to dumbells, to kettle bells, to resistance bands, to mats, to a platform, you name it, and in 65 minutes, maybe 7 of those minutes were actual stop, rest, grab some water minutes, the rest we were exercise to exercise, to exercise. At the end, lifting the soap in the shower was an absolute chore. I'm so serious about HBH...its only 3 months away now...
289: TOO TALL FOR THE STALL
289: THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011
Only if you are tall can you relate to this...going into a bathroom stall and noticing you can see right over the door frame. I noticed this this morning, that I could see myself at the bathroom mirror in the morning at work without standing on my tippy toes. I'm just taller than the door. This is always awkard especially when you stand up and you can see people at the sink in front of you and they look in the mirror and can see you. See, they dont' mention this is the heigh hand book, you just learn about the awkwardness along the roads of life.
So today was do or die day apparently. We started on the fast track to hiring new people for the GMT team. We are now down one supervisor and one assistant manager, and they want me to be assitant manager. So the meeting which I cancelled yesterday, was scheduled for today. I get put in the room with the second in comand to the entire organization. Talk about nerve racking. She's sitting there and she's basically telling me about me and why I should become assistant manager. Look, she says, you've worked here 4.5 years, you ahve all this experience, and 3 years ago, you began setting yourself apart from the others with your ability to tinker and see things from a much grander perspective. My meeting with you a month ago, really showed me how much in league you are with with company and your ability to want to grow and change things on your end. In the 3.5 years that you've been a gallery supervisor, we have never recieved one complaint from a visitor about you. I'm like, ok....but she says, I think your one fault is that you are different in the office then you are on the floor with visitors (she was referring to this one lady in our office that drives me nuts), so I agreed, but she says, you don't carry that to the floor. When you are on the floor you have the abilty to turn it on, and that's what we need, where do you get that from. I'm like I worked 4 years of retail prior to this job, so our complaints now are tame compared to the broom I had thrown at me, or the customers who cursed me out from time to time, or the lady who flat out told me she hated me...I'm like this customer service is nothing compared to what I dealt with on the daily and still had to smile and act like everything was just fine.
Long story even longer, she's like when are your ready to sign on the dotted line? She wants me to meet with all the General management team, and the director of the organization on Monday for my answer right then and there. I felt a little woozy. I did. So much to think about in so little time.
In health news, first workout went down today!!! I'm still sick, so I didn't think I would make it, but I wasn't really given an option if you know what I mean. I went through a 65 minute relentless workout of super sets. I was made to do 3 exercises at a time. One would be lunges, followed by squats, followed by rows for 16 reps of each of the three, followed by 12 reps of each of the three, followed by no break. We would immediately go into the next 3 exercises for the next body part, so it went warm-up, arms, legs, back, arms, legs, back, abs, and then cool down. We used everything from a barbell, to dumbells, to kettle bells, to resistance bands, to mats, to a platform, you name it, and in 65 minutes, maybe 7 of those minutes were actual stop, rest, grab some water minutes, the rest we were exercise to exercise, to exercise. At the end, lifting the soap in the shower was an absolute chore. I'm so serious about HBH...its only 3 months away now...