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So today I could say that I went through a roller coaster of emotions! I laughed, I cried, I was pissed off, and everything in between. I come into work today for my shift at 4:30 till 10. So, I look at the break out and I'm assigned C & D. I walkie my LOD and she tells me to grab the re-shop first, and then get into the zone.
So I get through all the re-shop in my cart and begin my zone. I started with D38 and made my way up to the bed sheets. Now looking back, I think I spent too much time from D38 with the clearance isles, the shelf's, and then the disaster area, the candles. I got into candles and I was just trying to zone it, but I found more and more things in the wrong spot, which just halted my zone completely.
While I'm trying to fix this, I got called up for back up, and had to wait there for an extra 20 minutes for a guest to call their credit card company because it didn't go through and such. So I get back and I finished those isles and it got to be around 7:30. I went and took my 15 minute break and come back. As I'm walking back, my LOD asks where I was in the zone and I told her and basically I got the reaction I expected.
She was worried and started freaking out, while I stood there and told her it'll be fine, I'll make sure it gets done, don't worry. So she's basically trying not to flip out on me and then is just all perky and says "Okay!". So, now that she's basically on me, I knew I had to get this done asap. By this time, I had gotten back to my isle and just busted into tears (luckily no one was around) and I knew that all my stress that was piling up on me was where those tears were from. So, she started zoning C for me since I hadn't even gotten to C yet. So, I finished D, sweating like crazy and met her in the towels.
When the store closed, she had two full carts for me to take for C & D. So I came up and grabbed my re-shop and just explained what happened and that I was sorry for the slowness. She understood and when I said I'm a bit of a perfectionist, she nodded and agreed I was and said that when we're closing, you just gotta push everything to the front and go, go, go.
Once I left the store and sitting here now, I'm glad the night is over, I'm glad she was kind enough to help me with C and I'm glad the zone was completed and the re-shop was gone as well. I've been here for 8 months now and I'm mostly Sales Floor and it just bugs me that I can't get out of this perfectionist mind. It's just like I can't help, but try to make it look perfect and it's frustrating because I don't want them to think that I'm moving slow cause I'm lazy or what not, but I actually care about doing my job correctly and that I'm trying.
I realize I'm not perfect, I make mistakes, I'm not a fast zoner, but I'm trying every time I go in. I just hope that I can get out of my head and just do it. Once she was on my tail, I just sped up, it was just like BAM and I sped through the rest of the zone. So I think I just need to get into that mindset and just think "It's not gonna look perfect, no matter what you do".
Thanks for reading guys! Any tips, advice, or input is appreciated!
So I get through all the re-shop in my cart and begin my zone. I started with D38 and made my way up to the bed sheets. Now looking back, I think I spent too much time from D38 with the clearance isles, the shelf's, and then the disaster area, the candles. I got into candles and I was just trying to zone it, but I found more and more things in the wrong spot, which just halted my zone completely.
While I'm trying to fix this, I got called up for back up, and had to wait there for an extra 20 minutes for a guest to call their credit card company because it didn't go through and such. So I get back and I finished those isles and it got to be around 7:30. I went and took my 15 minute break and come back. As I'm walking back, my LOD asks where I was in the zone and I told her and basically I got the reaction I expected.
She was worried and started freaking out, while I stood there and told her it'll be fine, I'll make sure it gets done, don't worry. So she's basically trying not to flip out on me and then is just all perky and says "Okay!". So, now that she's basically on me, I knew I had to get this done asap. By this time, I had gotten back to my isle and just busted into tears (luckily no one was around) and I knew that all my stress that was piling up on me was where those tears were from. So, she started zoning C for me since I hadn't even gotten to C yet. So, I finished D, sweating like crazy and met her in the towels.
When the store closed, she had two full carts for me to take for C & D. So I came up and grabbed my re-shop and just explained what happened and that I was sorry for the slowness. She understood and when I said I'm a bit of a perfectionist, she nodded and agreed I was and said that when we're closing, you just gotta push everything to the front and go, go, go.
Once I left the store and sitting here now, I'm glad the night is over, I'm glad she was kind enough to help me with C and I'm glad the zone was completed and the re-shop was gone as well. I've been here for 8 months now and I'm mostly Sales Floor and it just bugs me that I can't get out of this perfectionist mind. It's just like I can't help, but try to make it look perfect and it's frustrating because I don't want them to think that I'm moving slow cause I'm lazy or what not, but I actually care about doing my job correctly and that I'm trying.
I realize I'm not perfect, I make mistakes, I'm not a fast zoner, but I'm trying every time I go in. I just hope that I can get out of my head and just do it. Once she was on my tail, I just sped up, it was just like BAM and I sped through the rest of the zone. So I think I just need to get into that mindset and just think "It's not gonna look perfect, no matter what you do".
Thanks for reading guys! Any tips, advice, or input is appreciated!