the white copy

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OK, so tell me, why are the cashiers at any 7-11, stop n go or any other convenient store always coveting the white copy of your credit card slip? I'm serious, they sit there, watching you sign, hand stretched out waiting for the white copy. I always try to separate it and hand it back to them and in those brief seconds, they are in a panic, waiting for it. Do they really think I'm going to run out with it? Like I have some preference to white over yellow? No one even mails those things in anymore, it's all automated. I don't get it. Covet the white copy I guess.

Tonight, I closed at work. There were three of us, one was new, I was the only manager and had at least 10 people waiting. It's 7:30 I and I know there's no way we are closing at 8. The one thing I can't stand and would never ever do is walk into any retail outlet 15 minutes before they close knowing you have 45 minutes worth of business to complete. Please, don't do this to us poor retail workers. It sucks balls. Anyway, there's a lady waiting, I've seen her in there before but am not sure what she wants. I'm trying to finish a 2 line deal and I hear "customer care to register 5" That's code for I need a price override. I go over, pass the lady waiting she's ranting, I'm not catching the full reason of her rant, I assume it's because of the wait. I smile gently at her and say, we'll be right with you, she seems happy enough. Then I hear her, she is freaking out, I mean freaking out. I hear her say "either let her out or let me out" (the door was locked by this time) Seems another girl had brought her pet boa wrapped around her neck into the store. It also seems the girl with the snake was the girlfriend of one of my employees. That will be fun to explain to Jeff tomorrow.

Everybody (almost everybody) was in meltdown mode at work. Clint, who I adore seems to be lusting over a friends exgirlfriend. The friend is also a coworker. Jeff was freaking out because our former hostess who has moved over to sales was selling non sanyo phones. Sanyo is having a contest right now. The store and rep with the most points wins a 42 inch plasma TV. Jeff has lost three times, he wants one, bad. Now, don't get me wrong, Sanyos are by far the best phones we have, so it's an easy sell, we have 9 days left and he is in meltdown mode. Page our host for the day was wanting to slap all the customers because they were waiting and giving him those "why can't you open and register and help me you prick" looks. Now, Page had the girlfriend who brought the snake in. Kristen our former host who is now a rep freaked out because she accidentally cancelled a customers line.

I was great, happy, smiling and racking up 6 activations in the meantime. Everyone notices how much better I am. Even Jeff. He ask me today "are you going to be a diamond this month?" "I'm sure going to try" Diamnond, we are measured against our goals. If you suck, you are a coal. If you are the best, you are a diamond. When you finish the month a diamond, you get to go to lunch with all the other diamonds from the Houston area, the district managers, the regional manager and the area vice president. It is usually somewhere very nice and a great way to get your name out there. I was a diamond for 12 months in a row. No one in the Houston area had ever done that before. My district manager took me to lunch and I got emails from all the higher ups, it was awesome. Once I made my year, I burned out, hard, then all the shit with Ashley started. I haven't been a diamond in like 3 months.

Ashley came home tonight from Chanell's closet LOL She and Larry went to dinner, then she went out to a movie. I went for drinks with some of my boys from work to discuss the Clint dating the exgirlfriend situation. I really do like my crew, even when they are melting.

These updates seem so boring and mundane now that the drama is gone, I like it like that.