Crack 2.0
If you gaze down upon the bunks at the front of the store, the ones that contain all of our wallets, you will suddenly discover what it's like to look at a wicker basket at 10x magnification. It's a veritable basket-weaving of black on the men's side. On the women's side it resembles something a Kindergartener would make, having been given a pile of strips, each one a different colour, and wove a basket.
Either way, I'm not really of the mindset to deliver massive brain damage and physical trauma to the designer(s) who came up with this new way of presenting out wallets. I think this checkerboard pattern of having 3-4 wallets with their spines facing up, and then a stack of wallets with their sides facing up proves that the designer(s) have already suffered much brain damage and physical trauma in their childhoods.
I blame a lack of TV and violent video games.
Actually, I lay blame on the majority of district and store managers who were at a meeting this past week, and were shown the new design pattern for the wallets. And 90% of them
liked it. Possibly even
loved it. I am pleased to defend my store and district manager, since they both quietly agreed with each other that this idea was crack-induced crap.
Lori especially holds not-so-subtle displeasure towards it. If she could get away with dousing the wallets in kerosine, lighting them ablaze and claiming it was an accident, the store would have had a hell of a marshmallow roast this afternoon.
I for one cannot wrap my brain around this pattern that is not only visually and aesthetically offensive to me, but is a pain in the proverbial ass to maintain. Not to mention we can only display 3/4ths of the wallet styles we originally had out. I'm hoping someone comes to their senses and recants before I have to dust off the ol' Customer Appreciation Pancake Maker, and turn it into the Managerial Appreciation Pancake Maker.
On the plus, side, the checkerboard pattern now allows us in fits of boredom to play chess on the front bunks. At least there's a distinctive silver lining in this cloud.
Today's Lesson: shoe manufacturing companies do not actually use the best possible adhesive for glueing the soles to the rest of the shoe. Mainly because (apaprently) anywhere up to 90% of all people are rather allergic to the glue. So as a result, they use a less allergy-inducing but conversely not as effective glue. (The things you learn from some Scottish customers.)
posted by Phillip at 4:09 PM
