Language Mayhem

Good morning everyone! I am up far earlier then I wanted to be. I don't work until the afternoon. But it figures allergies hit me with both barrels at 7:30 this morning making all other sleep impossible. Plus my kitty kept rubbing on me and shit. Have you ever tried to sleep when the cutest thing in the world is trying to get your attention? I didn't think so. I will tell you why. You haven't met my cat. Well some of you have. Most of my Toronto crew have. Most of you Owen Sound peeps haven't. Jaime did. She loved her. But you can't not love her. Yesterday was a crazy tiring day at work. Long long shift and I had had three days off of being constantly on the go. My legs and knees and feet hurt a lot. but I think they will be better today. Hee hee. I got crazy fucking Japanese energy drinks. They will cure all. Haha. My boss told me she wanted me to stop drinking energy drinks and as much caffeine as I do yesterday. She is afraid of me keeling over from a heart attack. But she is afraid for selfish reasons. She would be fucked if I died. The store was in shambles when I got back from my three days off.

I was actually a little peeved. Everytime we write off or transport wine to a different location, a transfer slip is printed out and you have to sign and staple it to a long sheet and at the end of the month it goes to head office and they enter it into the system so it doesn't fuck up our inventory. Well these slips where just lying anywhere and everywhere. She didn't know where they went. Also in the mornings you are supposed to count out the bank deposit drop. All the money made from the night before that is left in the safe. You are supposed to write the amount and verify it in the log. It wasn't done at all when I got back. I had to go back and tally receipts to find out the amounts and fill out that sheet. It was a pain in the ass let me tell you. Everyone keep in mind that I am the newst staff member at my store right now because everyone hired after me is on leave or quit. So they should fucking know this shit. So it was a busy day. Because it was Saturday and between flurries of customers I had to get everything in tip top shape. Tonight is a bar-b-q at my Manager's.

It is also a staff meeting. One I am getting drunk at. Haha. But I am going to bring this up. Because I am worried about having to do all that again when I get back from Summerfolk. My Manager has been delegating for so long that I think she has just forgotten how to do some of the daily grunt work. Because it isn't really her job. But she has had to work actual shifts to cover how short staffed we are lately. But the other Wine Merchants should know. My boss hired someone new at her other store. Not the one I work at. I met her yesterday because the store is located right near the bus depot where I catch my ride to work. I always stop in to see if they need a bathroom break because quite often you are alone for many hours. Remember I told you guys that I told my boss to hire whichever one was the better looking woman when she told me to take a look at some resumes? Well Jesus Christ I think she took my advice. This woman is stunning. She is bright too. She will be good in sales I think. I am going to have to really stay on my toes to stay top in sales now I think.

I like a good challenge. But I was telling my boss that is why retail is dominated by attractive women. They sell better. They are sex objects. If that offends your sensibilities, so be it. But it is true. You will sell more wine with more gorgeous women on your staff, and you will keep me happier for longer because I get to work with and hopefully fuck the shit out of them. I have never had work place action before. Oh. Wait. Scratch that. I almost forgot about Christian Horizons. My boss always embarasses me by introducing me as her anchor and best seller. I think I have all told you what an anchor is. I get the most hours and am responsible for everything she is responsible for when she is on vacation or even just at the other store. Now I have to live up to something before I even know them. Haha. You know what I found out that I am really good at though? Training. I am good at simplifying things. Because quite often if you are taught out of some corporate handbook, they overly complicate things that are actually really simple and kind of intimidate new staff.

So I teach them how simple things really are with sales techniques and tips on remembering things about wine. And how to not get to pretentious about it with some customers or they will just think you are a wine snot and not buy. But that is something you will have to feel out on your own. There is this one guy who comes in and asks me questions all the time about wine but never buys. I always get this feeling he is testing me. He asks me sugar codes and shit. I know stuff that simple easily about every bottle of wine in the store. But he gets into a little more complicated things like regions they were grown in etc. What percentage of the grapes are from where. He even asked me how much of it is from imported and domestic grapes. Now we are an Ontario Wine Merchant. So we only sell Ontario Wine. It is always 100% cellared here. But even a lot of Jackson-Triggs wine is from imported and domestic grapes due to low yield crops. I learned that from this guys questions because he seemed to be trying to tell me something about that.

Any wine that is named after the region, 85% of the grapes must be from that region for it to be named that. For example, a bunch of companies got in trouble for calling their sparkling wine, Champagne. Champagne is a region. So much wine got pulled off of the shelves because it was incorrectly named. Same with names like Chianti and Bordeaux. Those are region names. A bottle of wine can't be named it without most of the grapes having come from the region. I think even Jackson-Triggs had named their Proprietors Reserve Sparkling Wine, Champagne at one point. Now it is correctly called sparkling wine. Summerfolk is so soon. I work everyday until then so it will pass the time quickly. Fuck my summer period has flown by and I don't feel I did to much. But when I look back, I actually did a fair amount of socializing considering the amount I worked. Which is why I am pretty tired I think. But I had a great year. Well almost a year. A year ago it was almost the point where I was back with Morgan again. Strange days. But I learned from them and now those days are just kind of dissapating into a mist in my memory that I can barely grasp anymore. Which I think is good. I learned from that period. I don't really need it to strongly exist in my memory anymore. It will free up room for things that are relevent to my life in the present. Well I think I am going to wrap this up for yet another day. Have a cheery day everyone. Ta!