It's that time of year where we're (finally) hiring more people in order to try and have enough coverage to deal with the uptick in holiday shopping that will be occurring for the next couple of months.
Which I do wonder how the pandemic is going to affect the holiday season.
Like with the increase in cases here and in other areas...I don't quite know what to expect that way.
And like usually the holiday season means we get in a ton of christmasy things and such.
But it also is shown by us getting in a ton more animals into the store. To the point where I often run out of room to put animals in because we don't have enough space to keep them all.
Yet...with the pandemic...everyone has been buying animals.
To the point where even now, nearly a year later, our breeders of our small pets are still unable to keep up with demand.
Of course, they have another month really before the expected uptick in animals being sent to the store should start.
Yet, today's shipment of animals they shorted me all my hamsters...
So it's not looking likely that we'll have an 'over crowding' issue this year if the breeders haven't 'caught up yet'
In any case.
Back to the new people.
We've been hiring new people this past couple of weeks.
Which means we need to train all the new people on how to do things.
Like work the registers and catch the animals and such.
But another thing that we also have to teach them....is where everything is.
Which, I get it. People are new, they're not expected to know right away where everything is.
But when I'm sensitive to noise, specifically repetitive noises....it does get irritating rather quickly to constantly have my new workers coming onto the radio asking if we carry such and such products, or where this product is located, or if we have this thing....
*sighs*
Honestly...I feel like we just need to make time and put the new people on a couple of stocking shifts where they're required to put away product in the store so that they can learn where the product is.
As I'm getting rather tired of having to explain where 'everything' is.
At least maybe we need to work to make time to give the new people time to explore the store and find where things are on their own so that they can commit it to memory.
As it's hardly useful to have more people if you end up having to do their jobs for them.
*shakes head*
Yah...it's gonna be an interesting holiday season trying to teach all the newbies and deal with customers at the same time.
Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!
-Sarnic Dirchi
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