Job Stuffies

[tygati]

So. I work at a Home Improvement store called Jerry's. It's family owned and operated, and only has two facilities. ^^ Spent three days training at the smaller store in the next town over (about a 15 min drive - we have small towns) and then headed over to mine to start my first Official day today. Woot!

So, I am a stocker in the Lighting department, meaning lots and lots of lightbulbs. (Woo, breakables...) Up and down and up and down and up and down the ladder. Hee. ^.^ Carrying glass. >.> Me. <.< Yeah, I dun get it either, but at least I didn't break anything today. ^.^

Everyone is super friendly. And I mean that. For the last 2 hours of our orientation they pitched us out on the floor with 'trainee' aprons on to direct customers around. I swear every single employee on that side of the building came up to say hi and welcome and introduce themselves. o.O;; And the customers are almost as cheerful. It's a whole different world. o.o;

I'm also convinced that one of the hiring qualifications is appearance, because somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 of the people working there are zomgyummy cute. Including my supervisor. Who has a twin brother. Who also works in the store. x.x Do you have any idea how hard it is to think clean thoughts around him?

This company is so much of an improvement over Wal-Mart I wouldn't even know where to start gushing. Everything is better. Including the break room. Wally's had a single refrigerator for 300-400 employees to put their lunches in. Jerry's has three coolers, deeper than your average fridge, for 250-300 people. The staff areas are upstairs, with great big windows, and carpeted except for the floors and lunch room. They're clean, organized, and everyone seems genuinely happy to work there.

I really really really love this company.

Comments

[mechante-fille.livejournal.com]

Yay!! I'm so happy for you!! *squishes*


I'm also convinced that one of the hiring qualifications is appearance, because somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 of the people working there are zomgyummy cute. Including my supervisor. Who has a twin brother. Who also works in the store. x.x Do you have any idea how hard it is to think clean thoughts around him?

Ahahahahaha!!!! You rock!^_^

[tygati.livejournal.com]

^^;;;; Is it bad that I want to slash my supervisor?

[mechante-fille.livejournal.com]

Hm, I guess it would depend on if it would interfere with you ability to work with him.

I say slash away.^_^

[sixpence1323.livejournal.com]

Well, if I were surrounded by beautiful or cute people all day long I'd be pretty happy too.

And twins? Mmm. (By default, twins are always sexy or cute. Twins run in my family)

Sounds awesome - is awesome. And family owned? Wow. Where I live, everything is... well, huge. Nothing family owned exists here. At least, to my knowledge.

Hope you don't break anything - really. (I would have already...)It's cool you got a job you like/love. Happy for you!

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Oooh, twins run in your family? Send me one! or two! or more! ^_____^

Yup, family owned. Jerry Orem started it back in the early 60s, and his son now oversees it, though Jerry is still alive. ^.^

[sixpence1323.livejournal.com]

How sexy.

And even my grandmother is a twin - creepy, yeah, but they were IDENTICAL, completely, and beautiful when they were young. Like angels - and now (they're the crazy granny type) they use the same passsport. They send it back and forth and no one's the wiser.

(sighs) Too lazy to get two separate ones.

But sexy twins - Mmmm.

[skylark97.livejournal.com]

That's AWESOME!! *tackle glomps* Can I work there too? *_* If everyone's that friendly just when you start out, it's certainly a good beginning. Work atmosphere in those situations is everything, and personally, I think the customers pick up on it too. *hearts* I'm so happy for you. *twirls you about* ^_^

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Oh, the customers definitely pick up on it. It's just so different I don't think anyone could really understand without walking through those doors and experiencing it for themselves. It's incredible.

[stardance.livejournal.com]

Something about Walmart definitely makes the customers and the employees grumpy. Whenever I shop at Walmart, I can feel my mood slip and by the time I leave, I am crabby and glad to be out of there. I don't know what it is. I can only imagine how much it must suck to have to be an employee and there hours longer than the 15-20 minutes I usually spend.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Wal-Mart employees have to have extremely thick skins, or be blissfully unaware of the world at large. Or both. >.>;

[dameange.livejournal.com]

yay! congrats!

[chilayse.livejournal.com]

It's so great you're at a good job. Even if the job was 5x harder than wal-marts was...good people that care about their employees instead of treating them as disposable people will always make it all better.

And the eyecandy certainly helps..

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, eyecandy... *.*

[droaerion.livejournal.com]

Is it bad that my first thought was 'Ooh! Twins!' then thought 'Is the supervisor a guy or girl?' - it didn't even occur to me until I reread that that you might have just been going 'Yum, hot twin guy.'

[tygati.livejournal.com]

*lol* Identical twins, meaning both boys. ;) Apparently the brother is skinnier than my boss, which boggles me cause while my boss isn't quite a twig, he could still stand to put a little weight on. ^^;

[madmax0r.livejournal.com]

Oh,all this time I thought you were talking about *Ben* & Jerrys.

Anyway, go happy staffers! mayhaps they be on crack.

Have a great time with the breakables-that-should-not-be-broken :D

[tygati.livejournal.com]

*lol* No, no ice cream for Kitty. ^^;

Mmmm, ice cream.... *.*

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations! You are so lucky. Friendly people, nice break-rooms, and eye candy, who could ask for more!
My family has run our business for about 40 years (my Grandpa founded it). We try to do right by all our employees. The older employees are nearly family by now.

[graphitesmudges.livejournal.com]

o.O OHMYGOD Sounds like you really got lucky! >< Congrats!

[I'm also convinced that one of the hiring qualifications is appearance, because somewhere between 1/2 and 3/4 of the people working there are zomgyummy cute. Including my supervisor. Who has a twin brother. Who also works in the store. x.x Do you have any idea how hard it is to think clean thoughts around him?] ^o^ OHHH So that's where the cute people went! Dammit. D: D'you think you could stuff one into the mailbox for me? XD

[alice_montrose]

Congrats! Especially since the staff seems so friendly. It's important to get along well with your co-workers, after all. And the eye candy definitely helps! *smirk*

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

Maybe their absolute yumminess somehow diffuses into the air and breaks up into particles of happy sparkliness?

[eyestealer.livejournal.com]

Wow. That really sounds like a dream job *__________* I'm so happy for you aha! :DDDD

-cough- The eyecandy isn't a bad addition though. Muwahahahhaa.

[broken-moons.livejournal.com]

Wow. You go girl, for landing that job ^____^

[ruselkie.livejournal.com]

wow. talk about scoring. in all possible (hopefully) meanings of the word.

although if you are the human equivalent of meiki...and you're on LADDERS with LIGHTBULBS...

good thing there are hot men around.

congrats!!

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Picture a slightly-less-hyper Meiki on 16 ft ladders with lightbulbs. ^_____^ Hee.

[koneikaa66.livejournal.com]

I'm happy for you, it's seems this workplace has several good points:
"Zomgyummy" people are a really good one, and "genuinely happy to work there" people another one: now the two combinated is nearly as great as one of your story! ^_^

I hope the streak (?) of unbreaking lightbulbs days will go on, as well as the one of unbreaking leg/arm/neck and so one (ladders are powerful weapons!)

[koneikaa66.livejournal.com]

I wasn't finished but...
so on with my congrats' post, I hope you'll be inspired with awesome stories there with the yummy twins and all (the lightbulbs should help too ^_~;; _lame attempt at humor... I know...)

So CONGRATS !

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I broke my first lightbulb today. ^^; Oops.

[marasmine.livejournal.com]

Glad it is all so wonderful!

[nikerymis.livejournal.com]

::glomps:: Yay job! ^_____^ I'm glad that you like it and it's working out for you. ::grin:: I had a little something like that when I started working in May - I get to take my breaks whenever I want, and I don't have to tell anyone what I'm doing, or even really worry about anything but getting the work assigned to me done. ^____^

Though hey, now if you do any fix-it-up projects, you have handy access and possibly a discount?

::grin:: And twins? Heh. ^____^ I think I'm doomed forever when it comes to twins, which is kind of bad because one of my friends is marrying one-half of a twinset and another is dating the other half of that twinset. ^__^;;