Today was filled with good things and bad things. To start, it was Remembrance day (always a very somber day) and that happened to be a big plus for me since I had a 6 hour shift payed at time and a half because of the Holiday. Yay money! Also, today while I was opening the Kiosk the other opener was actually on time – which hasn’t happened all week! It was nice not having to rush to open both Kiosks so our company doesn’t get fined (malls fine you when you open late or close early). I also managed to contact my last two employees and confirm they’ll be at set up for the store this Wednesday. Yay!
On a negative side, today was my last shift in this mall because, on Wednesday, I’ll be starting at the mall where the Kiosk I’ll be managing is gonna get set up. I’ve really grown attached to this mall – and there are quite a few people that I’ve made part of my “daily routine” either by talking to them in their stores or getting food from them at the food court on break. Plus, no more 10% discount at Tea Desire! Boo.
Also negative, the manager at Centre didn’t do ANY of her weekly paperwork, so I got a call from head office (who were very grumpy and pissed) – and they then decided that since I’ll be managing a store soon I should have to do all her paperwork for her and send it to them via fax. Holy balls did that make for a stressful day: I was not anticipating doing any of Jen’s paperwork (she hadn’t done ANY of it – and it’s like 5 hours of paperwork that I had like 30 min. to do), and I had customers to help at the same time too so I had to balance paperwork and customers simultaneously. Also, I was supposed to train an employee (one of mine) today but she was sick – so she’s going to train with Jen tomorrow… Which is fine I guess, but that means I can’t be SURE she’s getting the training I would have wanted from her.
A consistently nice thing today was drinking my tea today. I made this and Blueberry Jam in the morning before work, and both were very good. For this one, I prepared it the usual way (1 tsp. approx 1 min. boiling water) – and only made one cup (because I had hoped to get one last discounted Tea Desire drink mid shift, but that didn’t happen since there weren’t enough staff present to cover breaks).
At first I didn’t think the Mate was doing anything for my energy – that would have been ok I guess, I mean I like the drink for its taste primarily. But about an hour and a half into my shift I found I had stopped yawning and wasn’t so groggy and sluggish. And then, about two hours into my shift I felt nice and alert. So good job mate!
I think this is truly best as a cold tea. It’s good hot – but just so much more refreshing cold (which is how I had it today).
