Ever notice how it's the little things in life that amuse us so much? More to the point, ever notice how it's the silly little idiocies in life that amuse us more than anything else? Well, this is not as much ''the little blog that could'' as it is ''the blog that enjoys going up the down escalator in your local mall.'' Will it have anything of real importance? No, probably not. But enjoy the ride never the less!

 

With one day to go before Mel & I spend a week down in Connecticut with her family (and thusly ensuring we have the most uncanny knack for randomly picking dates that Gaffney is putting in an appearance up north...this makes, what? Three times in a row now we've managed to miss each other going in opposite directions?), you'd think I'd be taking it pretty easy at work. Sit back, relax a little more, let the minions do all the heavy lifting for me.

Ah, Head Office...is there no small joy you can't take away from me?

On Tuesday, a sizable mailbag from Head Office arrived, and one of its content pages was a "Hey, look at this! The weekend you're gone, the entire store needs to be changed around! Isn't this just fantabulous?" visual merchandising guide. So yes: by Sunday, the Powers That Suck expect our bunks to be switched around, our luggage to be rearranged, and the back half of our purse wall to suddenly become the front half.

It's not that I don't trust my staff to do this. It's just that I've done this visual merchandising more than any of them, and I know what our District Manager wants to see. And I honestly don't know if "being gone" would be a valid reason for leaving it until the end of next week, to be done when I get back.

So, the day before I leave for CT, I spent my shift rearranging the luggage wall...and the bunks...and the purse wall.

I'm very tired right now. Sleep. Oh yes...sleep....




(P.S. you suck, Head Office)

Labels: I'm getting too old for this rearranging-the-store shit

posted by Phillip at 4:35 AM

 


Coraline is balls-out awesome.

See it in 3D, if your theatre has it.

Please see it in 3D sooner rather than later too, not only to support a great movie made by a great production company, but especially because at the end of the month The Jonas Brothers Movie 3D arrives...and the odds are very good it'll muscle Coraline out of the 3D theatres. Just imagine: you'd want to see creepy button-eyed people and acrobatic mice and French & Saunders in the scariest baudy house outfits you've ever known...and instead you get an all-boy teenage pop band with a side order of a theatre packed with screaming pubescent girls.


Terrifying, I know.

Labels: It's Cor-a-line not Car-o-line

posted by Phillip at 4:33 AM