My New Worklife!

Greetings.  Tonight has been blog night.  Trish - thanks for reading:)

Its a little after 10pm on Sunday night and I am about to go to bed. Hooray - I have been so sleepy lately.  I think its because my body is getting used to standing on my feet for 8 hours a day. 

On Monday I started my job AT Anthropologie (not to be confused with starting a job IN Anthropologie - no bones here...) I love it! Its a very creative and upbeat company.  The people I work with are fun and I am learning a lot of new things.  It has been so interesting to build a store- the store opens officially on June 30th. 

I am the Manager In Training for the store.  There are multiple managers - a visual manager, selling manager, operations manager - and I am somewhat of an assistant to them.  I help manage our team of associates under their direction.  I am learning all the operations - how to manage the floor, be the manager on duty, open, close and a lot more!  We also have had visiting management from corporate to help us with the store opening process. The two person team who has been with us is actually the official store opening team.  They have worked together for the past 6 years refining the most efficient way to open a store - its been great to work side by side with them and learn best practices. I am way excited.

I have received positive feedback from my managers and from Danielle (one of the traveling duo) in regards to my skills and work.  That has been really great to hear as I want to do a good job and it feels great to have a head honcho say I am doing really well! :)

The goal is to move from being a MIT in the operations department to a position on the visual team.  I want to be a part of setting displays and creating the environment for the store.  I am charting a course in that direction!

Good times!

love,

Shan