I am *finally* starting at my new store tomorrow morning. There is both excitement and freaking out going on. I have to keep telling myself that this is NOT a temporary assignment and that I am beginning a new journey of being an employee in the city of Chicago. As I have mentioned before, this is not my first time working in a city store, but the previous two stores, I was doing tastings for their Grand Re-Opening/Grand Opening. I will not be sampling at this store.
The freaking out is because I just got trained for a new spot on the front end and may be nervous on my first LIVE experience with actual customers and not just other people who were training with me. Also, it will be interesting to work with new co-workers again. It's been 3 years since I have joined a new store!
If you want to join me for the Grand Opening of the Dominick's in Lincoln Square on Thursday, I will be there from 8am to 2:30 PM.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Countdown Has Begun...
The countdown to my final day at Buffalo Grove is two working days. I leave Buffalo Grove in the safe hands of those who are currently there and those who arrive at that store after me. I *officially* start at my new store on Thursday for their Grand Opening! The store is opening at 8am in the morning All of their ceremonies will be held either that day or on Friday.
I joined my new co-workers at the kick-off meeting/party/celebration just a few days ago (Thursday). They moved their main parking lot to being on the roof. (*Very* similar to the Dominick's on Chicago and Damen!)
From the few co-workers that I was able to chat with, it seems like I will be working with a great group of people at Lincoln and Foster!
I will re-iterate. I am happy to be moving to a city store so that I am closer to home, but I will miss my crew at Half Day and Buffalo Grove! They were an awesome bunch to work with over the 3 years that I worked there. I was there from their Grand Re-Opening in September of 07! That store got the award for the longest period that I was at ONE store (minus various grand re-openings going on elsewhere).
(Major side note: Before I arrived at Half Day, I had actually been traveling with the Sales Specialists to a majority of the Grand Re-Openings from Merrionette Park (FAR South Side) to Gurnee and Aurora to downtown Chicago. All in all, I have been at over 12 stores in just under 4 years! All but 4 were "Temporary Assignments," meaning Sales Specialists Tasting Duties. ;) )
I joined my new co-workers at the kick-off meeting/party/celebration just a few days ago (Thursday). They moved their main parking lot to being on the roof. (*Very* similar to the Dominick's on Chicago and Damen!)
From the few co-workers that I was able to chat with, it seems like I will be working with a great group of people at Lincoln and Foster!
I will re-iterate. I am happy to be moving to a city store so that I am closer to home, but I will miss my crew at Half Day and Buffalo Grove! They were an awesome bunch to work with over the 3 years that I worked there. I was there from their Grand Re-Opening in September of 07! That store got the award for the longest period that I was at ONE store (minus various grand re-openings going on elsewhere).
(Major side note: Before I arrived at Half Day, I had actually been traveling with the Sales Specialists to a majority of the Grand Re-Openings from Merrionette Park (FAR South Side) to Gurnee and Aurora to downtown Chicago. All in all, I have been at over 12 stores in just under 4 years! All but 4 were "Temporary Assignments," meaning Sales Specialists Tasting Duties. ;) )
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Disconnection Experiment
As many of you know, I'm at Columbia College and just started my second year here. One of the classes that I am taking this semester is New Millenium Studies, also called "First Year Seminar." (Due to issues last semester, I am taking it again.)
One of our first big assignments was to disconnect from all forms of media including: Internet, Phone/cell phone, TV/movies, radio, music, etc for at least 6 hours (preferably the whole day). It was hard this morning to start that as I have a 4 hour class where we listen to music and segue between different music, commercials and promos. After I got home, I got in touch with one of my friends who was in the process of moving in the city. Considering I had moved last year from the suburbs to the city, I knew the procrastination attempts that are made when it comes to the moving process.
After I left to head to my friend's place I sent one final tweet saying starting disconnection process. That was between 2:40 and 2:45 pm. I ended up helping her pack up some last minute stuff (i.e. clothes/shoes). We moved a few *needed* items over to her new place so that she wouldn't have to wait for them. I got home from there, ate dinner with my folks, then it was time for Sadie's Obedient school classes.
It was hard leaving my phone on silent all afternoon/evening considering it's very hard to know if/when I will get called into work. (Luckily with my soon-to-be base store, if I get called in, I will be able to get there faster!) I was also expecting a call from one of my co-workers regarding a schedule switcheroo for the end of the week.
Those who know me know that I receive upwords of 300-500 texts a day because of my twitter usage. I enjoy my use of social media very much and it's hard to not check my phone for tweets for extended periods of time. I did check my phone a few times to see if any work-related calls had come in. Any questions? (At the end of it all, I was antsy for 8:45 to roll around so that way I could answer the questions my teacher provided and write this blog entry.
One of our first big assignments was to disconnect from all forms of media including: Internet, Phone/cell phone, TV/movies, radio, music, etc for at least 6 hours (preferably the whole day). It was hard this morning to start that as I have a 4 hour class where we listen to music and segue between different music, commercials and promos. After I got home, I got in touch with one of my friends who was in the process of moving in the city. Considering I had moved last year from the suburbs to the city, I knew the procrastination attempts that are made when it comes to the moving process.
After I left to head to my friend's place I sent one final tweet saying starting disconnection process. That was between 2:40 and 2:45 pm. I ended up helping her pack up some last minute stuff (i.e. clothes/shoes). We moved a few *needed* items over to her new place so that she wouldn't have to wait for them. I got home from there, ate dinner with my folks, then it was time for Sadie's Obedient school classes.
It was hard leaving my phone on silent all afternoon/evening considering it's very hard to know if/when I will get called into work. (Luckily with my soon-to-be base store, if I get called in, I will be able to get there faster!) I was also expecting a call from one of my co-workers regarding a schedule switcheroo for the end of the week.
Those who know me know that I receive upwords of 300-500 texts a day because of my twitter usage. I enjoy my use of social media very much and it's hard to not check my phone for tweets for extended periods of time. I did check my phone a few times to see if any work-related calls had come in. Any questions? (At the end of it all, I was antsy for 8:45 to roll around so that way I could answer the questions my teacher provided and write this blog entry.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Life of a complete multitasker
As I begin my sophomore year at Columbia, I have enjoyed the way my classes and job are keeping me busy. On a typical Monday through Friday, my day starts at 8:30 in the morning with school and, depending on the day, goes until about 5 at night. One thing I am looking forward to is my job transfer. I have worked for Dominick's in various stores in the Chicago suburbs for almost 4 years. I'm going to become a city Dominick's employee after being a Lake County employee since I first started in October of 2006.
Now to clear up that last statement. I have worked in a few city stores, but they were very brief. I worked at the Nagle and Devon location as well as Chicago and Damen. I am looking forward to my new work location, which will be in Lincoln Square.
Back to school. One of my classes that I'm taking is Production II which is a pre-requisite for working at WCRX-88.1 FM. I'll be looking forward to working there next January.
I can't wait to see what Blog number 2 & 3 are. They will probably be copied over from my blog on Facebook. You can also find me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/djshelly or @djshelly.
Now to clear up that last statement. I have worked in a few city stores, but they were very brief. I worked at the Nagle and Devon location as well as Chicago and Damen. I am looking forward to my new work location, which will be in Lincoln Square.
Back to school. One of my classes that I'm taking is Production II which is a pre-requisite for working at WCRX-88.1 FM. I'll be looking forward to working there next January.
I can't wait to see what Blog number 2 & 3 are. They will probably be copied over from my blog on Facebook. You can also find me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/djshelly or @djshelly.
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