megan

As of Tuesday morning, I am now the new…are you ready for this one…Sales Associate of the linens department at Burlington Coat Factory. A glorious title, I know. I am absolutely LOVIN every single second of it-imagine me saying this with an exaggerating tone. So here’s how my daily work schedule plays out…I get there and clock in. I then walk to the linens department. I fold towels or fix people’s messy messes. The other day, I had the honor of folding probably about 500 curtains just to throw them into a box for people to quickly unfold them and ruin my joy. Oh and my first day on the job, I spent about three hours rearranging and organizing candles. My next day at work, my manager tells me that I did it wrong so I spent three more hours reorganizing my original work…and who would of thought that you could mess up the candle placement on a shelf. Not I. Anyways so about 4 or 5 hours into my shift, I take my 30 minute lunch break, quietly eating in my car like any other unsocial cool cat would have done. After that I go back to my endless list of highly noble top-secret, hazardous tasks such as climbing a 5 foot latter and using an incredibly sharp gun to price very valuable items (discount store?). And in the midst of all this excitement, I have the great pleasure of being completely isolated! I work completely solo, so I don’t socialize with anyone for a total of 8 straight hours. GLOOORY!!!! So I guess that an accurate assumption can be summarized, and completely relevant, that my (quote from an anonymous someone) “Napoleon Dynamite/Eeyore personality” is quite fitting under my current circumstances at Burlington. You gotta fit the pants to get the job done right yo. To further demonstrate my point, yesterday as I was eating my lunch, I got hot so I went to turn on the air conditioning in my car. Well little did I know that when you lock the doors with the traveling lock/unlock system on your handle dandle little key ring there, it automatically activates the car alarm. How the car can do this by the push of a button, well the world may never know, but as I turned the car on, I think you can guess what happened, yep…the sound of my alarm, with my horn honking and the flasher lights flashing, got the attention of people. Some laughing, others just staring. The thing is, I’ve never had an alarm system on my previous car, so it took me a minute or two, maybe three to figure out how to deactivate the impressively loud car alarm. So for all of you who are like me and didn’t think that such knowledge was useful, it is so all you do is 1) take the key out of the ignition 2) look for the unlock button on the traveling handy dandy lock/unlock system (usually located on the key ring) 3) push the unlock button…and if that does not work, go back and make sure that you successfully completed steps number 1 and 2 prior to step 3. Just remember 1,2,3 just like a,b,c (you can contact Riley if you would like further tutoring). So a humbling situation, but I asked myself a very simple yet qualified question…what would Dwight Shrute have done if it were him in my shoes. Well anyways, that’s what these last couple of days have been like. Back to Burlington tomorrow.