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Apr. 12th, 2007 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
textileowlSo it's been about a month....
Updates:
Third? week of .
Enjoying them so far though I am regularly smacking the ice during Ice Skating 2. I counted four times today. One of them bad enough that I may have bruised bone...haven't yet seen what it looks like. My TC 685 class is more fun than I expected and actually makes me eager to learn about merchandising and buying. It has also made me irritated with work, but I'll get to that in a minute. TC 372 isn't much of anything really, a lot of busy work so far. The theatre 651 class I'm in is enjoyable as well, we'll be helping make costumes for Mary Stuart as they've dug up and rented as many doublets and pluderhosen as they can and are still running short. There is also time scheduled for a self project which will probably be my waistcoat that won't be finished for faire this year. So far classes aren't terribly strenuous, though I'm sure that will change in the next few weeks.
I transfered to the alterations department about a month ago. I am discovering an avid dislike of our manager, an avid dislike of the work, and a wish that I could do more of what my 685 class is teaching me about. At this point I am essentially a secretary. I take phone calls, appointments, move the workline, and organize paperwork. The alterations department is currently short-handed during what is their busiest time of the year. It is not a fun thing. I'm working less than twenty hours a week because of classes and guild, though once faire is over I'm still not planning on changing my schedule much because I will have to concentrate on classes as the end of the quarter draws near. My manager will interchangeably tell me that I might as well not work since I'm only able to be there for a couple of hours at a time (even though I work the busiest day of the week, Saturdays, without complaint) or tell me that I am a godsend or some variety of praise. Lately, if I ask if I should do something a certain way, explaining how I understand that it needs to be done, she'll tell me "no," and proceed to tell me the exact thing I said in more words and repeatedly with a worse vocabulary. One thing that really bothers me is that I'll be steaming or getting ready to steam a dress that a customer wants retouched, so I'll turn on the steamer to let it heat up then go and get the dress from the customer. I go back to the steaming area and the steamer will be turned off, which costs me several minutes while waiting for the machine to heat up. All the while, the sewing machine that she's been using for a minute or two at a time while she waits on customers has been running for hours. It frustrates me and I'll turn it off should I hear it, mostly because it adds so much noise to what is already there.
So I've been thinking about finding a new job. With being short-handed there is no one to train me in the repairs and alterations and they need a CSR and a couple more seamstresses before they will be caught up in the dresses. Even then, I doubt I will be trained because I'm a cute American girl who speaks English and is patient with people on the phone so why bother training for sewing if I can do all the other work? I want my job to be relevant to my field of study, and while I realize that may be hilarious to a lot of people, from what I hear at class, it isn't that hard. At least not for people going into the retail industry. So I'm gonna be looking at the Limited Brands and etc, trying to decide if it's worth it. I know it would be worth it to get out of David's. I'm not comfortable there, and I'm resenting the time that it takes away from classes and life, even though it is helping pay for both.
With the Bloomington Faire canceled for this weekend, I'm finding myself with a day off that, looking at my assignments and how many weeks left until faire, I can't really afford to not have. It may mean haggling with my manager to get off whatever weekend that it is decided to be rescheduled, but I think that getting Pyr's business off to a good start is more important at the moment than a lot of things. Being at the faires is important to me and will give another perspective as to how products went over with the people, what reactions there were, and gives us another person to watch the booth.
Gah, I hadn't realized how long this had gotten. Must have needed to talk a bit. Well, there it is.
Updates:
Third? week of .
Enjoying them so far though I am regularly smacking the ice during Ice Skating 2. I counted four times today. One of them bad enough that I may have bruised bone...haven't yet seen what it looks like. My TC 685 class is more fun than I expected and actually makes me eager to learn about merchandising and buying. It has also made me irritated with work, but I'll get to that in a minute. TC 372 isn't much of anything really, a lot of busy work so far. The theatre 651 class I'm in is enjoyable as well, we'll be helping make costumes for Mary Stuart as they've dug up and rented as many doublets and pluderhosen as they can and are still running short. There is also time scheduled for a self project which will probably be my waistcoat that won't be finished for faire this year. So far classes aren't terribly strenuous, though I'm sure that will change in the next few weeks.
I transfered to the alterations department about a month ago. I am discovering an avid dislike of our manager, an avid dislike of the work, and a wish that I could do more of what my 685 class is teaching me about. At this point I am essentially a secretary. I take phone calls, appointments, move the workline, and organize paperwork. The alterations department is currently short-handed during what is their busiest time of the year. It is not a fun thing. I'm working less than twenty hours a week because of classes and guild, though once faire is over I'm still not planning on changing my schedule much because I will have to concentrate on classes as the end of the quarter draws near. My manager will interchangeably tell me that I might as well not work since I'm only able to be there for a couple of hours at a time (even though I work the busiest day of the week, Saturdays, without complaint) or tell me that I am a godsend or some variety of praise. Lately, if I ask if I should do something a certain way, explaining how I understand that it needs to be done, she'll tell me "no," and proceed to tell me the exact thing I said in more words and repeatedly with a worse vocabulary. One thing that really bothers me is that I'll be steaming or getting ready to steam a dress that a customer wants retouched, so I'll turn on the steamer to let it heat up then go and get the dress from the customer. I go back to the steaming area and the steamer will be turned off, which costs me several minutes while waiting for the machine to heat up. All the while, the sewing machine that she's been using for a minute or two at a time while she waits on customers has been running for hours. It frustrates me and I'll turn it off should I hear it, mostly because it adds so much noise to what is already there.
So I've been thinking about finding a new job. With being short-handed there is no one to train me in the repairs and alterations and they need a CSR and a couple more seamstresses before they will be caught up in the dresses. Even then, I doubt I will be trained because I'm a cute American girl who speaks English and is patient with people on the phone so why bother training for sewing if I can do all the other work? I want my job to be relevant to my field of study, and while I realize that may be hilarious to a lot of people, from what I hear at class, it isn't that hard. At least not for people going into the retail industry. So I'm gonna be looking at the Limited Brands and etc, trying to decide if it's worth it. I know it would be worth it to get out of David's. I'm not comfortable there, and I'm resenting the time that it takes away from classes and life, even though it is helping pay for both.
With the Bloomington Faire canceled for this weekend, I'm finding myself with a day off that, looking at my assignments and how many weeks left until faire, I can't really afford to not have. It may mean haggling with my manager to get off whatever weekend that it is decided to be rescheduled, but I think that getting Pyr's business off to a good start is more important at the moment than a lot of things. Being at the faires is important to me and will give another perspective as to how products went over with the people, what reactions there were, and gives us another person to watch the booth.
Gah, I hadn't realized how long this had gotten. Must have needed to talk a bit. Well, there it is.