My past couple of posts have been about me having to come with the grips that my store is changing. Let me tell you what happened yesterday which put me over the edge and back.
I had to work for four hours at my work at home job yesterday til about one in the afternoon. This puts me at a disadvantage with my store as I am not able to be there like I would like on a regular basis since this particular gig I have is on a VPN or virtual private network that I have set up on a desktop at home.
So I walk in yesterday to find that my friend that has the car repair shop in the rear had let people up front to shop when the store was to be closed. Fair enough don't let money get out of your hands is his motto. But the customers had climbed on chairs to get things out of the ceiling that I could not find which left me frantic thinking that items had been stolen. A dresser had been sold (great) but there had been items on it that were just flung all over the store. Not only that but people had stopped by and dropped off their items to be placed on consignment in massive black garbage bags and boxes of dishes, fabric and unnecessary items that could NOT in any way be sold. (we are not in anyway a dumping site for your garbage that you don't want to go through)
Inside my mind I hit the roof, I mean I was steaming. For goodness sake I still had not finished the clean up from yesterday's intake and now there was more to clean up and handle.
I had to think so I packed up KJ and left the building quietly so I could think.
In my mind I'm thinking, "What in the world am I doing here? This is too much for one person to handle if I can't be here on a daily basis to monitor things and see what is really going on and make some rules for leaving your things, which should not have happened anyways but it did."
Again let me reiterate that this store was not supposed to be a consignment shop this was to be a place for people to come in and see their own wares at a decent booth space rate and since I took on the store front I have to be a woman of my word and see this through no matter what it turns out to be.
I finally came back to the building after talking to Imani and telling her after school come straight to the store when you get off the bus. So the four of us and Lili and KJ, four being Isaac, Tootie, Myself and Imani built shelves, rearranged items not by booths but by "department". Tootie and Imani did some staging and got all the clothes out and hung them up. Isaac got one of his pc's he never uses and brought it in for me to set up for use on my VPN that I use at home so I can come in to the store and work even on the days that I am supposed to be closed since they are coming in anyway to shop. We set up one of the offices as intake and KJ's room for play and his naps and toys and the other which is an adjoining office which is my brother's office for computer repair I just set up in there to work in silence since he and his partner are doing more sound systems in the auto shop than computer repair.
I took the kids home and Tootie left herself,... very nice of her to stay and I returned to finish setup of the computer. Issac came back and sat with me and talked about how the barbershop is coming along and how I needed to update the store website to reflect the changes. We stayed there til about 2 in the morning. I felt bad cause really he was waiting on me to finish was needed to be done to get up and running. I begged him to go home and get some rest, he refused. Such a gentleman he is especially since he to preach earlier that evening and then drove 40 miles to get the pc and come back to the store. I say that is pretty nice of him.
So now I am set up to work from home or my offices at the store with no real reason why I cannot get the work done either way since I can take breaks and work the floor and when the store is open I don't need to be working VPN gigs at all.
So there you have it in a nutshell.
My nutty life thus far, but it has to work and did I mention that this place also houses the city website that I maintain with Tootie and Imani's help and we do events with the city and county government as well that right now stand at about nine for 2009? Yeah, we are busy and that I believe is good. Now busy is going to turn into results and THAT I can't wait to see.
Thanks for listening to me.
Til next time
Mamma
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