I applied for and was offered the position as manager of the brand new America's Best being built in Exeter! I start tomorrow! I'll be interviewing
my staff. Store opens on July 17! I am sooooooo excited!
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WOOHOOO!!!! I got it!
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Posts: 1136 (06/18/09 04:01) |
Well-done, GG, congratulations on landing the position!
"I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June." ~L. M. Montgomery |
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Posts: 40639 (06/18/09 05:14)
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Cool beans, girl! Boss lady, eh?
True Colors by Kristin Hannah ~ 343 pages ~ completed 06/11/09 Currently Reading: Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them by John Ortberg (184/234) and Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall (375/431) and The Vagrants by Yiyun Li (163/337) and Saints by Orson Scott Card (000/711) |
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Posts: 10195 (06/18/09 05:54)
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My mother literally screeched in my ear when I told her. I decided after all the interviews that I went on that I told everybody about...and then wound up not
getting the positon, I'd keep quiet about this one till I'd landed it. She was so funny. "What do you mean you knew about it all weekend and
didn't say anything?"
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Posts: 4680 (06/18/09 10:04) Kentucky Woman |
That sounds wonderful !! What's an America's Best though?
Gaye
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Posts: 1256 (06/18/09 01:53) Goddess of everything that flows |
Is it a contact/glasses place?
Congrats, GG! |
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Posts: 814 (06/18/09 03:07) |
must be gratifying. Good for you.
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Posts: 10200 (06/18/09 07:23)
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www.twopair.com
They are a value based Optical. For $69 you get 2 pairs of eye glasses with basic single vision plastic lenses and the eye exam. You can of course upgrade as much as you like. My store is budgeted to break $800,000 this year, $900,000 next year and 1 Million the third year.....of course, if we do better, I do better! Hired my staff today, I am now fully staffed! YAY! Got to go see my store, even if it is just a skeleton at this time. I even get my own office! YAY! Tomorrow I head to the Lancaster store and will work on paperwork/training there...then I have to go to Manager training, and then back for a week of training with my staff, and then finally we get all the inventory/fixtures for the store on the 14th and then we open on the 17th
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Posts: 50477 (06/18/09 08:12)
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This is great news, GG. Congratulations!!
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Posts: 4687 (06/18/09 11:22) Kentucky Woman |
that is so neat to be excited and happy - you Go Girl !!
Gaye
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Posts: 10206 (06/19/09 05:45)
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Thanks everyone...Dan called me last night (old boss in case it's been awhile since I mentioned him) he was drunk...first he yelled at me. Told me I was a
sell out. Told me he hates America's Best....blah blah blah. Then he told me he was proud of me. Then he told me he knew I could do it. And that I will
have a successful store. And I will make a good manager, because he molded me well. I am his success story! (And he's right, alot of what I am is because
of him, he's a great teacher, without being preachy, and he kept me sane alot of times that I could easily have gone over the edge). My new motto (and his
apparently because he repeated it over and over and over!) Adapt and overcome. Make it better than it was before. Perfection is impossible and trying to
acheive it will just make you fail.
ETA: The reason he was drunk is because his oldest who had some major developmental issues graduated preschool yesterday...and he'd had a party at the house....and knowing Dan had a few too many beers.
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Posts: 1144 (06/20/09 06:53) |
There is a lot to do to get this store ready but I am sure you are up to task, GG; hope it all goes as smooth as possible.
"I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June." ~L. M. Montgomery |
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Guttergoddess |
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Posts: 10233 (06/20/09 08:09)
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Well, we've hit our first bump. One of the girls has changed her mind about accepting the position, and the other one we interviewed for that position was
not a good candidate in my opinion. So now I have 2 interviews set up for tomorrow. Good thing I don't actually have to punch a time clock!
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Posts: 12039 (06/21/09 12:54)
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 O K .. so this is the job/position related to the high heels post 
CONGRATULATIONS (!) - how do you like your job so far? How did the 2 interviews go? Did you find good applicants who would fit for the jobs? It must be totally exciting to have the power to choose your staff .. .. oh god, reading about job interviews made me think of my unemployment time two years ago.
I was on here almost 24/7 back then 
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Unaccustomed earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (4-1/2 out of 5 stars) 
Obsession by Simon Beckett (3-1/2 out of 5 stars) currently reading: Snowman by Jo Nesbo |
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Posts: 192 (06/21/09 06:16) |
Congrats GG...how great for you. Good luck on getting your staff in place.
"Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time. ~Deborah Chaskin" |
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Guttergoddess |
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Posts: 10239 (06/21/09 07:41)
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Mags,
I haven't done the interviews yet, postponed 1 till my recruiter can talk to her and get a better handle on her, I think she'd be a good employee, but I need to double check with Angela. I'm loving it, it's a bit stressful, because this will be my responsibility....but I think I'm more than capable.
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Posts: 49106 (06/21/09 08:59)
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This is fantastic GG. You will be great with all your knowledge and your outgoing personality!!!!
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Posts: 159 (06/21/09 09:19) |
Yayyyyyyyy!!!!!!
Kat
Kat's website by Kickers! tender graces TG trailer "O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!" -Shakespeare |
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Guttergoddess |
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Posts: 10243 (06/21/09 05:12)
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Thanks guys...I'm hopeful...nervous but hopeful.
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