In February I had a promotion. Shortly afterwards, my boss told me that she'd booked a two and a half week vacation. Which means, of course, that I'm in charge.
Not such a big deal really, I work two days a week when she's not in and I'm in charge, not a big problem. I'm not so worried about keep the staff in line and busy, there's lots of things we can do, if worse comes to worse we'll do spring cleaning.
Mostly, I'm concerned about sales. The last several months of last year were absolutely dreadful, and Week 1 of this year was also dreadful thanks to the ice, snow and other shitty weather we had last week. There have been emails and phone calls wanting to know what's going on. And of course, next weekend is Easter. Which means that we're supposed to sell a ridiculously large amount of books.
That really shouldn't be a huge problem. Surprisingly people actually do buy and give books at Easter. There are even parents who buy their kids books instead of chocolate. If my parents had done that when I was a kid, I'm not quite sure what I'd have thought. And obviously, I am rather fond of reading. But, Easter without chocolate bunnies? Bizarre.
So, we'll see what happens. I take command tomorrow, here's hoping with the weekend coming, nice weather in the forecast (there is nice weather in the forecast, right??) and the appearance of an impending resolution in Iraq it will make people want to open their wallets and spend some money.
And in doing so make me look like an absolutely brilliant manager. (Yeah, so I can pretend...can't I?)
Posted by Michelle at April 9, 2003 09:58 PM