my 1st day of work... ;) ..this is really it.. XD

whoo! what a day! XD

lemme see.. let's start off with last night..

last night i was trying to do this online training course thing that courtney (my manager) instructed me to do.. so i went to the site, created an account, and wen i get to the page aftr i log in where it says "Please click here for the list of available courses", wen i click on the link.. nothing happens.. i was guessing that something was wrong wth d site or sum'n.. i was kinda worried cuz i didn't really know how important it was to be able to do this course before i can actualyl work.. i tried calling courtney but the number on her business card is not a personal number.. and since bookstore hours were over, i couldnt contact her.. after trying different things, and trying over and OVER to get goin w/ d online training course, and yet it still wouldnt work, i decided that i wake up early in the morning to see if it'll work..

zzzzz...

next morning, gues what! ....... it still didnt work.. hahaha XD .. so as soon as the clock ticked 8 o clock w/c was the time that the store opened, i called the bookstore to ask about it.. the person hu answered said that i can just come in anyway and i can get set-up there..

bale by this tym, mga 8:10 na.. tpos i gotta leave in about 20-30 mins! so... SUPER RUSH! .. plantsa damit, ligo, bihis. ayos gamit, all in record time XD ..

i got to work on time and what 1st happened was that i spoke to ms. darla, who is anothe rmanager at the bookstore.. i askd her about the training course thing but she said that's something courtney can help me out with.. un nga lng, courtney was skeduled to come in at 10:30 pa! .. so she set me up na so i can just start workin kc sayang nga nmn ung oras.. so she made me a name tag, i got myself an apron, she taught me how to punch my work card in, sowed me where 'the cage' was so i can put my bag in it, and off i went!

these were the different stuff i had to do.. sub-jobs, if u will, kc nobody is really assigned to do only one thing.. evrybody does everything XD ..

1. overstock - this was the 1st thing i did.. overstock is as what the word says: "over-stock" .. ito ung mga sobra na books which are put on shelves arramged alphabetically according to 1st letter of 1st author's name.. these are excess books, being that the regular shelves are full already so ung sobra goes here.. what i had to do was get the list of authors, go thru each of the excess books, match em up w/ what's on the list, find where it is on the regular shelves, and put a yellow sticker on the shelf tag of that book, which meant na kapag ubos na ung from the regular shelves, someone can re-stock em by getting the books from the overstock shelves..

2. running the books - basically what this is is stocking up the shelves with books from the "back room" .. this room is the employees only room where the shipments of the books are recieved.. people working in the back room would get the books out of the boxes, count them up, and label them with its correct course number (e.g. ENC 1101 80000) so it can be put up on the shelves.. so my job was to get these books from the room and put em on the shelves.. another simple job..

3. filling the gaps - this is a more general job which also involves restocking the shelves but the purpose of this is mostly to exhaust the books on 'floor stacks' .. these are stacks of books na there are SO MANY of em, na it has to be stacked up on the floor.. so para naman mabawasan ung mga books from d floor stacks, u gotta get them and put it on the shelf where it's supposed to be if there is space for it..

4. loading the pallette - what this is is basically stacking boxes of books that are to be returned (i think) on a wooden platform called a pallette, and wraping the WHOLE thing with plastic wrap so as to make sure that the boxes won't move..

5. buybacks - buybacks are the books that the store buys back from the students for re-selling as used books.. what i had to do was separate the wholesale books from the retail books.. then i had to put the wholesale books on the shelves in the back room.. ung mga retail naman, these are the more ready ones for stocking the shelves up as used books.. there were only 5 retail books from the whole stack of books that i did.. what i had to do with this was basically just put some stickers on em and poof! it became koko krunch! ..... ok it didnt but it was ready for stocking XD ..

6. vacuuming - hahaha XD .. since i was staying all the way till closing, wen it was near closing time, i just vacuumed the merchandise / gift stuff area of the store.. .. .. and ON TOP of all this was...

7. helping customers - this i had to do while doing all these other things.. wen somebody looks like they're lost and they can't find their book, i just help em out to look for it.. this was cool kc i got to meet some people who needed the same books i need, thus not only making me know what books i need for my classes, but also letting me know of some people who myt go to the same class i will.. ^^

sub-jobs i haven't gotten a taste of:
- customer service counter, back room duty, and cashier..

co-workers i got to know the names of today: deryk, brad, vickie, john/jonathan, megan, nicole 1, nicole 2, kaci, danielle, ms. cathy, ms. darla, ms. courtney..

my lunch break was a 30 minute lunch break from 12:30 - 1:00.. but actually, ms darla let me do it earlier, so i did it from 12:15 - 12:45..

my sked for this week is 9-7 everyday till friday except thursday (im off on thursday / no work on thursday.. yay XD ..) tpos on saturday, 9:45 - 4:30..

and basically.. that's work.. XD