July 31 2009: My Value As An Employee
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As if my ego couldn’t get any bigger after the positive feedback from my temporary job resulting in it becoming permanent, I’ve received further affirmation of my value as an employee from my weekend job at a baby store.
I won two movie passes (though I only got the tickets today), as the employee in my state who had the best value for hours ratio last week. That is, the employee who managed to have the highest per hour average sale, wins the tickets – with about forty employees across a half dozen branches, many of whom have been with the company for well over a decade and thus have greater product knowledge than myself. Yet, I won. The weekend casual who’s been with the company the shortest period of time.
Off the top of my head, I would have averaged about $500AUD an hour in sales for them last week. Considering I get paid between $21AUD and $34AUD an hour (depending on the day, and not including superannuation), I’m a bargain for the company!
What’s best I think, is that while I may have won individual honours, the branch I primarily work in won “best store in the state” honours – meaning we actually reached and surpassed our weekly target (we got to 133%), and got a gift card to spend as we please. In retail particularly, I think getting recognised as a team is more rewarding than individual recognition – you work together to achieve store targets, you tag-team on customers to make sure that they get enough attention, and you combine your energies to make the store a success and to boost figures.
Now the question is I guess, what movie am I going to see with my free tickets, and what am I going to buy with my portion of the gift card?
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Way to go, Amanda! I’m really happy everything is working out for you lately :)
Stephanie on July 31 2009 #
Wow that’s awesome! I am glad that you are enjoying yourself, making money, and that things are working out!
Caity on August 1 2009 #
Yay! That’s fantastic news!
Meggan on August 1 2009 #
Whoo! good job Amanda :D
And I don’t know if it’s playing there, but the summer movie I’m dying to see is “500 Days of Summer.” I also want to see “Adam” but that isn’t even out yet, haha.
marilyn on August 1 2009 #
Oh myyyyy…that’s amazing. Keep it up! d-(^.~)o
Noellium on August 1 2009 #
Congrats! Ha, i could never be a sales person, wanna share your secrets on how you do it? ;)
Amanda on August 1 2009 #
Whoa, you are seriously getting the royal flush – great boyfriend, permanent position at your job, valued employee, parents being cool… awesome! Congratulations on everything going so smoothly!
Becky on August 2 2009 #
Congratulations! And jubilations! And more Cliff Richardness, etc, as such. Becky is right – seems like everything is going awesome for you :) I’m stumped for films though.
Lilian on August 2 2009 #