A Corporate Visit

It was National Adoption Weekend today.
Which meant that we had two of our adoption groups in the store looking to adopt out dogs and cats to perspective owners.

And usually, this isn't that big of a deal.
It feels like we hold 'national adoption weekends' every two or three months.
So I didn't think much about the event.

Until the managers were like "Hey, Corporate is dropping by today to visit us." 
Specifically they wanted to visit during this weekend...I'm guessing to see how we did the events? 

Which thankfully, we had two adoption groups in today with both cats and dogs and they were having a lot of customers coming through and doing pretty good in adopting out animals. 

But management wanted to go a step further.
So they got balloons.
They set up a photo area so people could take pictures with their new pet.
They even convinced one of my coworkers to dress up in a mascot costume to wander around the store.

You know. Made it look soooo fancy lol. So very fancy compared to previous adoption weekends. 

Which I'm guessing made a good impression.

Though it was odd...

As the corporate people apparently showed up....only to leave soon after showing up. O.o 
Not sure where they went....but there was word that they would apparently be coming back.

Which I hadn't been sure that if they had come or not.

Until a manager from another store called to check in and see if the corporate people had left our store yet or not because they were the next ones on the list. 

Which lead to me going to find the managers to check....only to find that the two managers that had been here earlier....were both now gone, and the current managers on duty...had no idea....they knew corporate had come by and left, but wasn't sure if they would be coming back or not.

So I relayed this confusing news to the manager of our sister store. That corporate was here, but had left, but may be coming back to our store....so no idea if they were going to their store or not.

Around 45 minutes or so later.
Head Manager came back into the store.
So I asked them if corporate was here or if they were gone. 
And he was like "Well...they're right there." pointing to Corporate.

So I went and looked up the number of our sister store and called them back to let them know that they had indeed come back to our store.

And probably like fifteen minutes to half an hour later....
Corporate left.

To which I then asked, if Head Manager wanted me to let our sister store know that they had left, as I had made them aware that the other manager had called to check in.

Head Manager said to go ahead and to tell them that it was likely that corporate wouldn't come visit their store today because it was already so late in the day.

So I called our sister store and gave them the news.
To which the manager was overjoyed.
(As visits from higher ups are always stressful) 

Lol it's nice to be the bearer of good news.
Yay that they didn't have to worry about corporate visiting. 

Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi