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Emotional overload
15 years ago
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The truth may come in clever disguises...
Today should have been great, it started out that way and should have ended that way...after all, I'm in control of that right? I'm part of a great service team, we all know each others weakness' and strengths, we always seem to cover for each other when one of us is gone or struggling with a project.
We began an enormous reset today @ 5 A.M. its in walls and windows consisting mostly of curtains and valances, sounds easy yeah? 14 pages of instructions and over 400 separate price labels that all had to be "bin" located...by hand in an outdated computer system. As the day and project wore on...it became clear why Lowe's corporate assigned 64 man hours to this 7 bay project...the work was dirty~slow going~and we had only 2 psa's (my manager and myself) to do the Lions share of the work. Two other hourly employees seeing us struggle offered to help us get to a stopping point at about 2 p.m.
We were both just spent...mentally, physically and so it seems emotionally as well.
To make matters worse, the store was very warm and busy today, customers seemed to be drawn to our work isle, other employees and managers just shook there heads walking by or offered only a comment like..."Can't you guys speed this up a little?" or "Damn, all you seem to do is tear stuff up around here~" Every body seems to think we work behind the scenes, invisible, or "in the back" what they never seem to realize is that anything new that magically appears is the result of our unnoticed labors.
When I got home, I was just done...I didn't even want to sooth my aching body and head with a cold beer, thats rare....so I turned on some tunes and this song by "Tokio Hotel" came up...it sums up 100% how I feel about today...and just how much I'm going to work to make Wednesday better. I owe it to my team, and to my store, but mostly myself....I put up a good front, but sometimes I just need to let out how much life can frustrate me, especially when I try so hard to do my best and give it all away....I feel sometimes it is just a ~World behind my wall~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlLkscjDWsA&NR=1
We began an enormous reset today @ 5 A.M. its in walls and windows consisting mostly of curtains and valances, sounds easy yeah? 14 pages of instructions and over 400 separate price labels that all had to be "bin" located...by hand in an outdated computer system. As the day and project wore on...it became clear why Lowe's corporate assigned 64 man hours to this 7 bay project...the work was dirty~slow going~and we had only 2 psa's (my manager and myself) to do the Lions share of the work. Two other hourly employees seeing us struggle offered to help us get to a stopping point at about 2 p.m.
We were both just spent...mentally, physically and so it seems emotionally as well.
To make matters worse, the store was very warm and busy today, customers seemed to be drawn to our work isle, other employees and managers just shook there heads walking by or offered only a comment like..."Can't you guys speed this up a little?" or "Damn, all you seem to do is tear stuff up around here~" Every body seems to think we work behind the scenes, invisible, or "in the back" what they never seem to realize is that anything new that magically appears is the result of our unnoticed labors.
When I got home, I was just done...I didn't even want to sooth my aching body and head with a cold beer, thats rare....so I turned on some tunes and this song by "Tokio Hotel" came up...it sums up 100% how I feel about today...and just how much I'm going to work to make Wednesday better. I owe it to my team, and to my store, but mostly myself....I put up a good front, but sometimes I just need to let out how much life can frustrate me, especially when I try so hard to do my best and give it all away....I feel sometimes it is just a ~World behind my wall~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlLkscjDWsA&NR=1
I worked in electrical dept. They were constantly moving crap around in that dept. All the work you did to get stuff sorted would be moved in a week or so anyway and they bitch why things were in shambles. They frigging run those stores the minimum amount of people possible and expect you work 10 jobs at once.
I honestly can't find words that'll sound fitting for this in my mind... so I hope it helps.
Hang in there, mate.
When I discover how to work with other
humans and not experience this type of thing
I'll let you know. Then I'll write a book and retire.
Sorry that work was hard on you.
Here's to a smoother workplace until and then even after the project is finished.
~Kyo