While my summer may have officially started a month ago, I feel that my summer at Gap officially started yesterday. Last night was one of the longest shifts of my life, and I'm just thankful it's over - we went in at 6:00pm and didn't leave until 5:45am. Yes, that is not a typo: we were there for almost 12 hours.
What does one do for 12 hours in a retail store? Well, I'm glad you ask: last night, for 12 hours, we switched out all of the woman's clothes to the kid's side of the store while a bunch of construction workers built up a wall. And so the remodel begins....
For the next few months we're going to be operating with about half the space. We're cut down to one stock-room, one full-sized store, and with a staff that is definitely not big enough. it's going to be stressful.... But luckily the move is done and over with - my feet hurt, my knees hurt, I'm bruised all over, and I pulled a muscle in my chest; but I'm still alive, and eventually I'll heal.
I'm excited to see how the store will turn out, but I wish my job didn't consume my life. It seems like all I've done all summer is work. I would love to take a trip down to Pennsylvania to visit my friends at some point within the next month, month-and-a-half, but I just don't know how or when I'm going to be able to. The upside to not going to Pennsylvania? I won't be spending all that money on gas and whatever else I would spend it on while there, and I would be making more money because I could work instead of taking the time off. But I would love to go down for a weekend either late-June, or some time in July. Only time will tell though....
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