Tuesday, February 20, 2007

back at work

I have just returned to work after being off on maternity leave, so escaped the Christmas mania thank god.
Customers are as stupid as ever not to mention the people I work with.
We have to do active selling as part of our jobs' this used to be somthing which was quite fun as we would use it in friendly competition with other stores, however it has now turned into a big stick for the company to beat us with, (so if you go into a well known retailer and get asked if you want to buy lots of different things when you get to the till, spare a thought for the poor bugger behind the tills who is under the threat of disaplinary action if they do not ask you).
However when at a meeting recently discussing what we can do enfore more selling at the tills, I mention that we used to do these things as a bit of fun to beat the store down the road, friendly competition between staff with a prize for the best performing or for just who could talk the talk for a bit of a laugh.
So the question thrown back at me was, "how can we plan this in?"
I sat there thinking oh my god are we actually planning to have fun here. Well apparently we were.
So Ive now written an agenda for our next meeting.
9am - Meet for coffee
9.30am - Introductions review agenda
9.40am - Business update
10.30am - Someone will tell a joke, (pre approved of course)
10.31am - Everyone will laugh
10.32am - Back to business update
etc.

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