Management's Revolving Doors- Part 3

Okay, I haven't worked at the big book store since December of last year and it is now October. After I returned from Christmas break in Wyoming, I went back to the store to set up more time to work and found out that one of my favorite managers had quit December 22nd. Yep, 3 days left of crazy holiday season and the manager literally walks out in the middle of it.

Okay, I am going to be selfish for a minute and say that I was annoyed by this. I don't know the new manager at all and when I do finally get a hold of her on the phone, she says that they are cutting hours left and right. I was told that they used to have 1000 hours and that would be cut in half. Wow. What does this all mean? No hours for me to work at the bookstore.

Also, the new sales manager puts me off. Saying that since they were cutting hours they weren't using contigents (my status) anymore and that district wasn't allowing them to do call-ins.

Okaaaaay.

Missing the old manager aside, I am out of a part-time job that I do for fun. And that also meant that that the manager I liked had been there less than 6 months if I remember it correctly.

Ugh.

Then I just found out yesterday that that new manager quit. And the District head was let go. Wow...again.

What the hell is wrong with this local store that its going through managers like marshmallows at a campsite?

And selfish thoughts again, what am I going to do? I don't have a part-time bookselling job for the holidays which is when its sometimes more fun (but infinitely more stressing) because of the craziness of it all.

And, geez, how many managers has that been since I started? Well, looking back at these blogs, I started in October of 2006 so that's 3 years. In those three years, I have seen 9 managers come and go. That's about 2 a year. How can that be good for any store, much less a book store? Morale aside, let's be honest. Every manager has a different way of doing things and just as the team gets to know the manger, they leave. Some much for team building. I can't even imagine what the head office is thinking.

Two Spaces After a Sentence

I have a good friend who is German and after she asked me to review an email she was about to send, I started spouting rules about English Grammar left and right. Dear God, who knew that grammatical stuff was still circulating around in the old noggin?

Of course, I couldn't do a half-assed job; so, I had to correct that fact that there weren't two spaces after every sentence. Really! Two spaces? "Yep, I told her, that's the way it is."

But after researching it on the internet, I discovered I am officially antiquated. I learned how to type on a typewriter, and apparently because we now use computer fonts instead of typewriter fonts, the use of two spaces is obsolete.

Why does no one tell me these things? I am a dinosaur and no one tells me? What are friends for is not to declare me obsolete? Antiquated? Old-Fashioned? Retro?

Wait, hmm, Retro, I like that one. Perfect. I am retro. I get a cool label AND it get to use two spaces after my sentences!