Monday, November 16, 2009

A Memorable First Impression...

I had an uninteresting night last night, so instead I'm going to flash back to a story I could/should have written Friday morning.

Did I mention that I have a new boss?

I didn't know about it until Friday morning when he came in.

I'm having a fairly busy Friday morning and I notice someone slowly walking towards the store. I'm kind of keeping an eye on him as he slowly gets closer, while working through the line of customers I have.

The man comes in and walks directly to the side swinging door that we use to enter the "employee" part of the store.

He introduces himself and extends his hand. I see that he has one of our (new) uniform shirts on so I shake his hand and introduce myself. Then I get back to the customers.

I catch a quick break and look over to chat with him between customers. "You must be a new employee" I say, as that's the only explanation I can think of.

He casually replies, "Umm, actually I'm the new store manager."

WHAT???? I had no idea. Later when I could clock out my current store manager explained to me that she was transferring stores. It all makes sense and now I know about it, but I'm sure I did a double-take when my new boss first told me he was my new boss. I can only imagine how surprised he was that I had no clue.

Next shift is tonight.

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