Tuesday, December 02, 2008

running circles

Training five people in the middle of a Christmas rush is a new experience for me. I like to think of myself as a patient person, but this new job may test that. We're only the first week of December and I'm already running circles, chasing people down to complete this task or show them how to correct an error or just to answer questions or resolve a customer's problem. It's fatiguing. I only have to do this for the month of December during the Christmas rush so let's see how long I last.

This morning I imagined myself going for a run after work. In the a.m. it was fairly warm and I was pretty well rested, but after being on my feet (or maybe that's my toes) all day I have been slowed to a shuffle. It hurts to stand so tonight I'll skip the run and try and get it in tomorrow.

2 comments:

Wandering Coyote said...

Ah, Xmas in retail...How well I remember it...Ugh.

Good call re. your feet. I hope you get to run tomorrow.

Bex said...

I hear ya. We open an extra temp store during the holidays so it's two staffs with random crazy issues. We've held it together so far though. Only three weeks left.