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Showing posts with label People. Show all posts
Showing posts with label People. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Post-Olympic Depression
The 2nd best thing about this short trip was that even though it was work-related (and expenses paid), it totally didn't feel like it. Funny cause I just got my cheque from the last pay period and it surprised me because I had expected it to be way lower as if I had taken a vacation over Reading Week but duh, I still managed to kick in a good 30hrs while I was there. Besides being able to go out in the Village before or after our shifts, we were also all given a full day off to spend at our leisure - with the exception of working around the scheduled time in our itinerary for attending an Olympic Event. Everyone that got sent out were given tickets to see one (Thank you BH!), depending on what was happening around the time of your waves. I got to go see the Ladies Alpine Downhill skiing, which was a Medal Event happening at Whistler's own Creekside hills:
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Born On The Streets
Having been open for only a couple of years now, both the Aritzia and TNA stores in Whistler couldn't have had better timing to make it big with the Olympics bringing in people from all over the world (see next post) to it's tiny town. You actually have to keep an eye out for them, since they're tucked away in the middle of souvenir shops and I'm not gunna lie... even I missed them my first time around the village, walked right past them and got lost. With that being said, foot traffic isn't even close to being as crazy as what we were all used to from back home (especially for the TO girls), and even though we were all incredibly excited to be sent out to help run the store, we all joked around about how they were doing it to give us a break, haha. True or not, it was certainly refreshing to be out of a mall for once and I especially loved the idea of literally being able take a breath of fresh air while running across the street from store to store to grab a size or say what's up. I also fell in love with the whole Whistler mentality that they have going on there: think chill and down for anything, which I was able to feed off of straight from the local girls* there and decided to take home with me. Let's see how well that works out back here in the city, shall we?
Friday, February 19, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Management
{4463, 3407, 6079, 2195, 7433 & 6205}
Okay, I confess. They are so much more to me than just numbers. I've been so damn stressed, emotional and confused lately, and what it really comes down to is just having them all to talk to on the Floor and to discuss life's adventures & opportunities with. Because in reality, although sometimes even I forget, I'm still one of the babies and I really do need their advice, support, guidance - ANYTHING, especially when the people that I should be getting it from the most just don't understand. Gosh, I'm pretty sure that they've all seen me cry my eyes out at the store throughout the years (and maybe at a recent shift)... c'mon Diaz! So to Madeline, Judy, Tif (always), Nikki, Hayley who's not shown, and Deb...thank you.
PS. Holla at my girl Jess T. for taking the photo at our staff dinner and bc she told me that she'd love a shoutout on here, haha.
PPS. The real 'baby' of the group was on the 1st wave out to Vancouver/Whistler today and she's constantly been keeping me updated via text so that I know what's up ("Apparently we're staying in ____'s _____!", "Nothing to sit on at the station", etc).
PPPS. Oh and Deb is in Europe. Madd jealous.
