Ick.
There were people lined up outside the store, waiting for us to open the gate at 6am.
We had everyone who works at the store there for opening — the manager, five salespeople, and two lab techs — there and on the floor, and all of us were constantly busy for the first few hours. When things started to slow down, there would be one or two of us that had a few minutes to breathe before they got caught up again.
By 10:30/11-ish, things had slowed down to a more moderate pace, so I went home for an extended lunch (along with two other employees). Came home, had leftover turkey dinner with Prairie, and then fell asleep for two hours. Got up (unwillingly) and went back in at 4pm.
And spent the next six hours selling virtually nothing. Sales-wise, the latter half of the day was a complete bust for me — where the morning was a lot of buyers out for the sales, the evening was all the shoppers. Meh. Sales is definitely not where I want to work for the rest of my life. Right now, I’m just hoping some (or most) of the people I talked to in the evening actually come back.
Finally closed the gate at 10:00, got out by 10:15, went home, had dinner, and fell over into bed. Long, un-fun day. But at least it’s over.