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cimoreneBoss says he was thinking of having me start shelving and pricing and register training after midsummer, so next week I guess. It does make sense, although thank goodness, the lady who was training me is back this week. Even with two people at minimum and three people for the brief period before I go home, it's a bit of a stretch.
The garden department here is just slightly permanently understaffed, and it's a bit Wal-Mart. There isn't REALLY enough space to put all the plants that are supposed to be for sale, so of necessity, some of them end up too crowded or getting too little sunlight or too much of it and dying from that, and some of them get over- or underwatered and there's never enough people to be rotating them all constantly enough so that they all get enough air and light. There's enough things that need watered that one person can spend essentially the whole morning on it, and if that person is me the second person will get called to the register to check people out enough that she won't have enough time to make sure everything has price tags, so there's a bunch of things without them, or with the wrong ones, and they're always falling and not getting replaced.
At this time of year though, the garden department brings about half again as much money as the next most profitable one.
The two regular workers don't have time to register train me because there's too much to do, and because I'm not register trained they're at the mercy of the main store's cashiers to spell them so they can take their breaks, and generally speaking, the cashiers never show up to let them leave on time or promptly when requested. (I think this is a symptom of a relatively small number of cashiers in the store compared to how much stuff they have to do besides cashiering and to a high customer flow that's pretty steady - as opposed to poor management of extant resources I mean. It's resource quantity.)
The garden department here is just slightly permanently understaffed, and it's a bit Wal-Mart. There isn't REALLY enough space to put all the plants that are supposed to be for sale, so of necessity, some of them end up too crowded or getting too little sunlight or too much of it and dying from that, and some of them get over- or underwatered and there's never enough people to be rotating them all constantly enough so that they all get enough air and light. There's enough things that need watered that one person can spend essentially the whole morning on it, and if that person is me the second person will get called to the register to check people out enough that she won't have enough time to make sure everything has price tags, so there's a bunch of things without them, or with the wrong ones, and they're always falling and not getting replaced.
At this time of year though, the garden department brings about half again as much money as the next most profitable one.
The two regular workers don't have time to register train me because there's too much to do, and because I'm not register trained they're at the mercy of the main store's cashiers to spell them so they can take their breaks, and generally speaking, the cashiers never show up to let them leave on time or promptly when requested. (I think this is a symptom of a relatively small number of cashiers in the store compared to how much stuff they have to do besides cashiering and to a high customer flow that's pretty steady - as opposed to poor management of extant resources I mean. It's resource quantity.)
