My credit blend (which, for those who don’t know, is the percentage of transactions on till done with the HBC credit card, I think measured on a weekly basis) was down for the week I was working while off from school. It’s supposed to be somewhere around 22 – 25% at least, mine was at 9%. So Marianne, my supervisor, came up to me and told me that if I don’t get it up this week they’ll be scheduling me for re-training.
Now, lately we’ve been having a lot of sales on video games and accessories for them. The primary audience, as most of you can probably guess, is kids and young adults, probably around the 12-25 year old range. I’d say at least 65% – 70% of the people who buy stuff from me fall in this category. Now, everyone from 12-18 can’t have a credit card, so they automatically take down my blend. And with the 19-25 people, while they COULD have an HBC credit card, many of them aren’t going to be ready to keep track of more than one or two cards, which would likely be the typical and virtually staple Visa and/or Mastercard. This again takes my blend down.
I am thus left with about 30% – 35% of the transactions that I have a reasonable chance of getting a credit purchase from. However, this does not mean that 30% – 35% are going to use said card. The majority of people would rather use cash, their debit, or whatever their usual credit card is. And some people just plain don’t want to use or get another fucking credit card. Maybe they have enough to deal with.
I do everything I’m supposed to while I’m on till, and if the customer doesn’t want to use their credit card, or already has the cash or other card of their choice out, I’m not going to irritate them and push them to use the card, thereby putting them in a bad mood and not wanting to come back. If they don’t want to use the card, that’s not my fault. And I’ll be damned if I’m going to go in for till training again. If they schedule me for it, I’m telling them not to bother because I’ll be gone in two weeks. It may sound juvenile and such to make a big deal over this, but there are a LOT of problems I have with both the store itself and the company as a whole. This is just the straw that’s breaking the camel’s back. And it’s a matter of principle: I am NOT being retrained to irritate people buying stuff from me.
So, after (I assume) a mixture of hearing Dawn talk about how she’s going job hunting, talking to Krista, and spending 4 hours doing absolutely nothing, I realized I hate my job. Not only dislike, oh no. I hate it. As soon as I get my N, I’m gonna hand in my two weeks and go look for a job elsewhere. I just don’t want to stay there anymore. The work sucks, and I get paid nowhere near enough for it.
Also, I have a crush on my friend, and I hate it. Hurrrrr. -_-;
So, Shendra (a girl I was once friends with, but who turned into a general whore of a human being) is the daughter of a woman named Julianne. Julianne is pretty much the Queen of Drug Awareness and Prevention.
And Shendra is the girl in the hospital with broken ribs and various bruisings because she did acid and decided that horse looked darn tasty. Somehow, I still doubt this will put her off drugs. She’s a stupid girl like that.
This is why you don’t tempt Irony. It’s just a bad, bad idea.
Alright, so, since I’m so angsty, I’m gonna let some of it out in a bulletin about people. Since it’s people who are making me so pissy. And this is in no particular order, and don’t ask who they are, because I won’t answer any questions about this. If you think it’s you, then maybe it is, but I still won’t answer. Okay? Good.
1. I don’t care about your problems. I want to, but I don’t, and I’m sorry.
2. Honestly, I’m just disappointed in you.
3. I’ve grown to hate you, yet I don’t. Paradoxical, I know.
4. You aren’t funny. You. Are not. Funny. Just shut up.
5. I appreciate everything, even though you don’t even know you did anything.
6. Goodbye.
7. Good riddance.
8. You, too, have disappointed me. I’m not sure where you’re going to go, but I’m mortified that you might end up fucking yourself over, and even more horrified by how likely I feel it is to happen.
9. Stop it. There’s nothing wrong with you.
10. Not everything is a personal attack. Learn to take things with a grain of salt.
11. Quit being so histrionic. I know it sucks, and you have my sympathy, but you aren’t helping anything by acting like this.
12. Just fuck off already.
13. I can’t figure out why I still talk to you. I hate to do so.
14. Ugh. I hate having feelings for you. Stupid unrequitedness.