Interrupted

My Life Thus Far
2017-08-07 18:24:53 (UTC)

In A Way I Haven't Been Before

I'm about 100% sure my kids have somehow downloaded a virus onto my laptop... it's not acting right. That's what I get for being too cheap for McAfee, I guess. So, as I run Windows Defender (and hope for the best). I'll attempt to write an entry... if the internet will stop freezing. Ugh. Kids. Is Summer over yet?


As with my last entry, nothing much has changed. I'm still fully engrossed in work. In a way I haven't been before. Not in the 11 years I've been with Victoria's Secret. Certainly not anywhere else I've ever worked. I'm invested not only in the well-being of my store, but in my own personal growth. I can honestly say that has never been the case in the past. As competent as I've always known I am, or are capable of being - I've always done only as much as I felt was required to get a satisfactory result. If I could get out of doing something, I would. That's still occasionally the case, but much less lately.

I feel like I've gotten smarter. I don't know if that's actually true, but overall I feel like I'm picking things up much more readily and I'm feeling less overwhelmed. Now that things have settled down in Christine's life, she's helping me get my onboarding completed. I've done a lot of it myself (because I have a strong desire to learn my role, and do well in it), but there's stuff that I can't do without her help. Like publishing/editing the schedule. That's what we worked on today.

Workforce Management was the module I feared. I was afraid of the unknown, but not in the way I used to be afraid. In the past, anything that frightened me must be avoided at all costs. I didn't feel that today. I was ready to face "the beast" head on. The scheduling software we use seems so much more enigmatic than just writing a schedule out on paper. But also, there's checks and balances in the software that you don't get when hand-writing a schedule. Like an alert letting you know that you didn't schedule a closer... or you overscheduled one of your managers... or a part-time associate has 35 hours. I know once I get more comfortable with it, I'll actually be a good schedule-writer. I kind of liked it!

The only downside to this position is getting to work at 7am on Mondays... and getting off at 5pm! I hope that's not a weekly event, and solely an isolated incident since I'm learning and moving slowly.

That's all for now. I just wanted to pop in and let it be known that I'm alive and doing well. Really well, actually.




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