Brrrrr.......-naby

Oh it is really getting cold now! But still, poor Denisheen has it worse this week. The place she is is about -6C every day. But she'll be home on Saturday (woot!!), so not long left of it now! There's loads of snow where she is too, and she promised to bring me some back in a box, so I'm very excited about that! :P It will get colder here though!! :(

Not much happening this week. I went to a staff meeting on Sunday. It was supposed to last 3hrs but we were done in an hour and we get paid for the 3...score! Canadians are so weird though, when the manager said we were finished and was there anything else we wanted to talk about or do, instead of everyone jumping up to go home, the suggestions were things like: Can we do skits where we deal with customer problems? Or: How about we clean the store a bit? Do some mopping and dusting? ...What is wrong with these people??! Let's go HOME people!! Which we eventually did, minus the skits and cleaning :P

I started work on Monday. Longest 5 and a half hours of my life. The shop has ok clothes, but they're very expensive brands, so not a lot of customers come in. It's so boring all day. And I hate how pushy you have to be with the customers, it's totally against the Irish culture, it's hard to get into it coz you feel pushy and mean being in the customer's face all the time, but apparently that's what they want! :P The days will be quite long methinks, and it's just boring coz I have no responsibility at all in the shop. There's even only a certain amount of the team allowed/trained to use the till, so I won't even be on the till. It's literally just being on the floor helping out customers...well at home, people aren't idiots. They can find what they want themselves, and if they can't or if they have a problem, they ask. But here....I don't know how people put up with the staff being in their face the whole time!! Oh yeah, and the staff get such a kick out of imitating the Irish accent; and getting it completely wrong...next time they do it I think I'm just gonna punch them in the face...that'll learn 'em ;) ...I seem to be developing a very very short fuse with these people...hmmm :P

Anywho! I was off the rest of the week and I'm off tomorrow (Friday) as well. Working Saturday and Sunday. Hopefully it'll be a bit busier on the weekends. So did nothing very exciting or productive all week. Can't wait for Denise to get back!!! :D :D :D I know she's freezing her arse off up there!

Hope everyone is keepng well at home. Miss ye all loads!
Chat soon! Hugs!!
Slán! Denise & Jo xXx