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so...yup. the store where i work has been bought by a husband/wife duo. it's...interesting. when they bought the place, corporate said to fire everyone and hire all new people, but the decided to keep everyone. so...thanks for that. lol 'cept they're deciding to keep a lady that we were about to fire. oh well. hopefully they'll want to get rid of her as well.
the previous owner was kinda...stupid. lol maybe he was trying to a rebel or something, but he had a kinda bad habit of not doing what corporate told him to do. which sucked. i think because of that, he lost a lot of money and decided to sell.
the new owners, on the other hand, are very "corporate" about everything. everything must be done by the books. so...that means we get to learn a whole new way of doing pretty much everything. it's actually not too bad. a bit of it makes sense.
some things, like the baking...see, we're supposed to have one type of each cookie on a tray when baking. one tray for milk chocolate with macadamia nuts, one tray for white chocolate with macadamia nuts...it's really infuriating. their reasoning behind this is that "if they're on the same tray while baking, they'll end up tasting like each other." never mind the fact that they're sharing an oven.
basically, what this adds up to is a whole lot of wasted tray space and wasted time. we were pretty busy today and we kept running out of cookies. we were having issues keeping up on baking because of this rule. luckily, P, one of the new owners, said "this is dumb. as long as nuts and no nuts aren't sharing a tray...it's all good." so that was good. we'll just ignore the fact that nuts and no nuts share serving trays, yeah?
it's also taking us longer to close. only about half an hour longer, but when you're there for 9 hours...ya just wanna go home! he's having us start the closing process later than before, so we're staying later.
he's also talking about being more involved. which is gonna be weird since the last owner didn't really give a damn. like turning the back office into an actual office instead of storage. freaking crazy. oh! and he's gonna be getting rid of the 8 year old merchandise that's taking up space. and the espresso machine that just sits there are rarely gets used. talk about revolutionary.
we'll be remodeling, too. it's about time. the place is literally falling apart. he's going to see if he can find someone to do it at night so we can stay open, otherwise we'll have to shut down for at least a week.
ooo! oh! i forgot the best part! the wife, E! she's annoying. she's very chipper, which is great...but after a while, it gets a little aggravating. and she has a bad habit of stopping whatever she's doing (like baking when we have a near empty case) to help a customer, even when i'm standing right there. i think after i tell her "i got this" a few times, she'll learn. she's also decided to make herself manager. which just thrilled L, the current manager. what this means for my "assistant manager" title is beyond me. she's also going to be working 40 hours a week. which is fine and dandy but...well, i'm not really sure what that's going to mean. i've been working 40+ hours a week for the past month or so, and i'd love to keep that up, but if she's working 40...i dunno. i might have to cut back.
buuuuuut...the way the old owner had it, sometimes there'd be only one person there for most of the day. P, on the other hand, is insisting on at least 2 people at all times. which opens up more hours. so i'll probably be fine.
...at least i got a raise out of all this.
the previous owner was kinda...stupid. lol maybe he was trying to a rebel or something, but he had a kinda bad habit of not doing what corporate told him to do. which sucked. i think because of that, he lost a lot of money and decided to sell.
the new owners, on the other hand, are very "corporate" about everything. everything must be done by the books. so...that means we get to learn a whole new way of doing pretty much everything. it's actually not too bad. a bit of it makes sense.
some things, like the baking...see, we're supposed to have one type of each cookie on a tray when baking. one tray for milk chocolate with macadamia nuts, one tray for white chocolate with macadamia nuts...it's really infuriating. their reasoning behind this is that "if they're on the same tray while baking, they'll end up tasting like each other." never mind the fact that they're sharing an oven.
basically, what this adds up to is a whole lot of wasted tray space and wasted time. we were pretty busy today and we kept running out of cookies. we were having issues keeping up on baking because of this rule. luckily, P, one of the new owners, said "this is dumb. as long as nuts and no nuts aren't sharing a tray...it's all good." so that was good. we'll just ignore the fact that nuts and no nuts share serving trays, yeah?
it's also taking us longer to close. only about half an hour longer, but when you're there for 9 hours...ya just wanna go home! he's having us start the closing process later than before, so we're staying later.
he's also talking about being more involved. which is gonna be weird since the last owner didn't really give a damn. like turning the back office into an actual office instead of storage. freaking crazy. oh! and he's gonna be getting rid of the 8 year old merchandise that's taking up space. and the espresso machine that just sits there are rarely gets used. talk about revolutionary.
we'll be remodeling, too. it's about time. the place is literally falling apart. he's going to see if he can find someone to do it at night so we can stay open, otherwise we'll have to shut down for at least a week.
ooo! oh! i forgot the best part! the wife, E! she's annoying. she's very chipper, which is great...but after a while, it gets a little aggravating. and she has a bad habit of stopping whatever she's doing (like baking when we have a near empty case) to help a customer, even when i'm standing right there. i think after i tell her "i got this" a few times, she'll learn. she's also decided to make herself manager. which just thrilled L, the current manager. what this means for my "assistant manager" title is beyond me. she's also going to be working 40 hours a week. which is fine and dandy but...well, i'm not really sure what that's going to mean. i've been working 40+ hours a week for the past month or so, and i'd love to keep that up, but if she's working 40...i dunno. i might have to cut back.
buuuuuut...the way the old owner had it, sometimes there'd be only one person there for most of the day. P, on the other hand, is insisting on at least 2 people at all times. which opens up more hours. so i'll probably be fine.
...at least i got a raise out of all this.
oh mah gawd are you okay?!" i laughed it off and patched up my hand. 
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