Monday, December 7, 2009

Classy Heavy Lifting

This blog is going to give away where I work. At the same time, I will not mention the company's name, therefore it these blogs will not appear when searching the company's name, and they will not be able to stop it!
If you have ever shopped in a sporting goods store, and the employees were all dressed in shirts and ties, you have found the company I work for. There is your hint haha. I know what you are thinking, and you are correct. The employees really do hate shaving every day and wearing shirts and ties (the guys that is, obviously). The girls, equally, hate wearing uni-colored tops and nice dress pants. However, it is the guys who do all the heavy lifting, and me, having a Y chromosome, must wear a shirt and tie. This provides a unique situation I like to call "Classy Heavy Lifting."
In the event that a customer has decided to purchase a basketball hoop system, a treadmill, a weight set, or just a shitload of stuff, it is our job to grab a hand dolly, throw our ties over our shoulders, and lift these huge items on to that dolly. That's the easy part. Next comes wheeling these huge items from the backroom to the front of the store without wiping out valuable merchandise. Once paid for, the real fun begins: "What vehicle will we be loading this in to today, Ma'am?" "Oh, it's that cute Honda Civic over there." DAMMIT. I don't know what stings worse; the shaving every day or the amount of my monthly spending that goes in to keeping my shirts dust free for my employer. Why can't we just be like target and where a red tee shirt and cargo pants? Because we are classy, that's why!

I would quit if we carried this thing at our store:

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