Go Ahead, Laugh with Us

Friday at work was a slight disappointment after a much-hyped "Black Friday is our busiest day of the year" spin. Good thing I have staff I can laugh - and cry - with.

Alexis, Ray and I are in the gift shop.
This conversation was over the radios:
Evan: Alexis, do you copy?
Alexis: yes, go ahead
Evan: Do you know what drawer these Dossin files are from?
Alexis: It's the same set, J-Lyon. Lyon with a "y".
Evan: Oh yeah, that makes sense...I just finished a file named Lyon.
Amy: starts laughing
Alexis: starts laughing
Ray: Oh my goodness, Evan, you did not just pull a Tiffany
That's when I fell on the floor and could not control myself anymore. The three of us were dying with laughter.

Really, it's moments like these that make being a boss worth it.
Another fun moment from Friday:

Alexis informed me that at the staff meeting on Tuesday that we'll be drawing secret santa names. And that the limit is 25 bucks. I said One - I don't like anyone there that much to buy them 25 bucks worth of anything. Two - I just moved out, so I can either buy someone here something or pay my bills. Um...I wonder which one wins. Three - I was debating what color tea kettle to write down for the longest time, giving Alexis and Ray quite the laugh about it. When I stopped talking about it, Alexis said, watch Ray, Amy is going to ask what colors again. Sure enough I did, then that made everyone laugh too. Fun stuff.

Ray actually greeted a visitor while sitting on the floor. I can't imagine how that looked. And I just laughed at him. After that person was gone, I said, Ray, I can't believe you just said that while sitting down on the floor with your legs crossed. Can you imagine how that looked? He said, no, I really can't. And started laughing.

Since no one actually wanted to be there on Friday and since we only had 207 people, it's a good thing we can all be such dorks and laugh about things.

On the other side of town, a conversation between my mom and the mail lady, after their small talk about how Thanksgiving went:
Sue: Do you have something to tell me?
Mom: No, about what?
Sue: Don't you have something to tell me?
Mom: Um....
Sue: Weren't you going to tell me she moved out?
Mom: I didn't tell you? I thought I did.
Sue: No, I had to find out about it from the forwarding request that I just got today.
Mom: I could have sworn I told you. But yeah, I think it's been about two weeks now.

Some people don't tell friends they are moving and they get upset. We didn't tell our mail lady and her feelings were hurt just as easily. Who says Metro Detroit is too big to know your own neighbor? Let alone your mail lady. It's a bunch of rubbish.

I had my first glimpse of what a weekend could be yesterday. Yes, it was my first Sunday off since September 17th and only my third in six months. I want to call a random person in my stack of resumes and just hire someone. We can go through the technical stuff later. Seriously, if that wasn't already at the top of my list, it is higher than the top spot now. I waited too long on that other girl who ended up going to another department within the Society. I waited too long to second interview any of my first interview candidates. Now I have to start all over again. I wanted six people hired by November 10th - but that was my naivety. Interviewing and hiring is a much longer process than I anticipated it being - but maybe only because I have to hire so many people at one time. Bah humbug.

Saturday is Noel Night. I have to have a plan for my Gift Shop liquidation sale. I wouldn't mind selling all that ugly shit, but then I wonder about having any stock for the rest of December. I will also have to work at least 13 hours that day. Who's excited about that?

Time to get ready for work now. Auf Wiedersehen.