Week 2: Overtime

So my internship is now in FULL swing. No one has to tell me what to do anymore because there is PLENTY to do! Since my last post, I took a survey of the associates' perception on the "Shop your way rewards" program for my end project. I also finished my 30 day training on the Sears intranet way before 30 days! Woot! I've started hating computers! I learned PCN, stock locating, and pushing freight which is not very hard but kind of boring after going through all of our products, from soft lines to home goods including appliances. My favorite tasks still involve working on the floor with customers; Sears has the best customers ever!

Just from interacting with the customers, I can tell Sears has a very loyal base. In the store, from what I've seen, Sears is very family-oriented and friendly. Every morning my manager says, "Remember: a name tag and a smile!" It's very important to make the customer happy by any means necessary so Sears is also loyal to their customers.

I happen to LOVE my coworkers! There are still a few I haven't won over but I'm still working on it. :-) We just got a corporate trainee that just graduated from the University of Tennessee and she's done the internship already so she gives me plenty of tips! It's exciting! I'm getting to work with the visual team a lot too. It's been good times....except this week our district manager came because we're having the CEO and some other head honcho guys check out our store because it's doing really well. :-) It's good and bad. It's good because, yay! The store is doing so good, they want to see how we run. It's bad because our very nice district manager (she really is nice) took away my off days to help get the store ready. I don't mind but I'll be working more than I do now, which is already a lot! So, next week I'll be doing job rotations AND running around helping with sprucing up the store. Ahhh!

Luckily, I'm living at home and don't have to worry about cooking or anything after a long day. I have to get on taking some pictures to post! I'm looking forward to booking my flight to Chicago for the three-day intern conference which I'm very excited about! ...until my next post...*sleep*