I woke up at 4:30am! My last day at Vera Bradley and we are doing inventory. It has been hectic the past couple of days at work since we got in a lot of new product, so that means even more things to inventory! I start walking around 4:50am in the streets of downtown San Francisco. The sun is not out and the buses are not running. I hold my cell phone in one hand and my pepper spray in the other. I put my headphones on just in case someone starts talking to me… I can pretend that I don’t hear them. I don’t remember what I was listening to though. Surprisingly, there is a bunch of people out on the streets… don’t know if that is good or bad for me, but I continue to speed walk to the Westfield Center. I get to the store and no one is there yet. I sit in front of the door waiting. Finally my manager arrives and we start getting ready for inventory before the scanners come in. I start taking all the tags out of the bags in our back stock room. Once I was done with that, I start recounting the bags in our store as the people with their scan guns finishing scanning. That is basically the whole process of inventory: scan and count.
We had to open the store at 11:00am, but it was a mess. I don’t think we opened the doors till 11:20am. I was frantically trying to put the store back together. The scanning people were still there trying to figure miscounts and other things. I used my Spanish skills or lack of, to this family who was visiting from Mexico. He got the gist of what I was saying and they bought luggage! My manager ordered us food from Nordstrom Café since all of staff was there…whoo hoo.. all four of us and my last day. We all had grilled cheese and artichoke soup. Yumm! I get all the things that my family wants from the store, make my purchase, then head to my apartment.
MORE TO COME…
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