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It's going to be getting a bit interesting at the store over the next little while...for a bunch of reasons. We have two new staff hired on, and the verdict is currently out on how well they are going to do. Especially when they both claimed to have open availability during their interviews, only for it to come out that they really don't have that availability at all. Both want to work overnights, but we've got our f/t overnight person and we'd rather not go switching him around all over the place if we don't have to. Besides, the reason we ask for availability is to try to fit folks into shifts that work the best for both us and them. And seniority is a thing with us in terms of who gets the overnights - newbies don't get whatever shifts they demand. Both of them were told to wear plain black shirts/t-shirts for their shifts and to not wear sweat pants. Neither of them appeared to have listened - we managed to scare up uniform shirts for both of them, thankfull
I've officially been working with my current company for over three months - the probation period is over! And my application is officially in for the senior sales associate position at my store, but that's really just a mere formality at this point, even with my shitty credit history. Besides, I've been doing the actual job for a month now due to the missus formerly in the role up and fucking off without being honest about leaving the province entirely. The territory manager was in today to do some spot checks to ensure that the store is in decent shape, especially with the end of the holiday season and a few logistics issues with the current period's marketing material not arriving until yesterday as I was leaving work for the day. Not to mention that our large cooler is finally getting fixed after a month of it being completely broken. And he had a sit down with my boss to see how things are going. One of the topics was about me moving up into my new role and asking