Shake shake shake, shake your hands

Thanks Jazz, for all the support and believing in me!
And to you, who haven't seen her, she is as excited as I'm her child going to school on my first day.
Anyway, the first day was seriously madness, soooooo many new things to keep in mind, all the lottery stuff, different cigarettes and the till system etc, but I'll get there, time and practice and I'll be better. Oh, and Jazz till trained me :D And she was there if I needed anything, so my second day I was like, don't leave me here alone. But others were great, probably pissed off the yesterday's supervisor with my 'help needed' bell ringing, but hey, at least I'll learn from my mistakes. The only terrible mistake was that someone's paypoint top up didn't go through, so if the person sees that, I don't know what happens, hopefully I'll survive :/
But yeah, hands were shaking, even on the second day I felt that I'm more nervous than on my first, but it was quite quiet night, so that helped a lot to take things easy and not to be so nervous and at the end of the day my hands didn't shake any more. And I could work on the shop floor, yaay.
So I think this is it :)

Oh, remembered sth else, someone said that I'm just like Jazz :D I was like, well, we have been living together more than a month, so it seems she is bad influence on me :D

Ems

Lottery madness

Since Emma apparently does not have anything to say about her first day at work, I thought I would, and she pointed out that I haven't contributed to this blog as much as she has, which is kinda true :P So today is her second day and first shift without me. Don't worry she'll be fine :D If survived the first training days and screwing things up at the till so will she. I believe in her! Anyway the biggest question Ems had at the end of day 1 was: "Why do they (the customers) play so much lottery???? Why???" To our readers who are not familiar with the british lottery system, I'll explain: National Lottery on wed and sat, pound each, Thunderball on wed, fri and sat, pound each, Euromillions on tues and fri, 2 pounds each + lotto hotpicks which are the hardest because you never understand if the customer wants one line with three numbers or three lines etc. So whenever I have to do it I print something out and hope to god it is right :D, then you have +5 on the normal Lottery - they're all on one machine, and when someone comes to you saying: one lucky dip tonight, 2 three number hotpicks, 5 for Friday, then you're like wtf does he want??? especially on the first day, now, after 6 months of working there, I have finally mastered the lottery machine, yay! But wait there's more! There's also the Health Lottery, which comes through a totally different machine and takes ages and since it is not played that often, you tend to forget how to do it properly. Do we have that much lottery options back home?
Then on the machine that Health Lottery is on, called Paypoint, we can also issue mobile phone top-up vouchers, pay bills (here some people have electric keys, yeah I dont know how to explain it better, but its some kind of a token that we put in the machine, and add money to it and apparently the customer goes then home and puts it in his electric meter or whatever :D), so now that I'm finally living on my own, and actually get bills sent home by post, I just go to work and pay them there, no need for the internet bank, seems weird to me to be honest. But hey that's how things are here ;)
So I'll try to get Emma to write her comments on the first two days of how her hands were shaking, how she could not get things to scan and who she did and didn't ID.
Stay tuned!

Jazzz...

Tomorrow is da BIG day

I have my black trousers and new shoes and my little bit too big uniform blouse :) So everything should be ready for me to be in the business :D
Had my induction today, which went...basically the system went crazy and the mouse didn't work, but other than that, it's done, yaay.
And tomorrow morning we are going to work together with Jazz, as she said, she feels like it's her child's first day at work.

So wish me luck :)

Ems

ROFL

Just laughing while Jazz is trying to get her nails done. Seriously, you couldn't possibly swear so much when you paint your nails because the nail polish is thick and she can't do it properly etc.
At least I'm having fun :D

Getting a job, part 2

I was sitting in our living room on Tuesday morning when Jazz came speaking with someone on the phone and pointing to me. I was like, what have I done now??? But, it was her boss, who called to tell, that I could have a job. Went to the store, all the details and stuff, but I have a job now, how great is that. Will have my induction on Monday and then training starts on Tuesday and if I'm unlucky I will be working with Jazz on Saturdays, no, I'm kidding, would be fun to work together.

So I will keep you guys up to date with my experience of becoming a sales assistant.

Ems

Why u here not there?

That awkward moment when I'm home alone and Jazz's flatmate retuns. I was freaked out, but luckily she was very friendly and didn't have a problem with me staying here. And she left on the next day, without even seeing Jazz because as you know, one of us has to work :D

But oh boy, you should have seen the look on Jazz's face when I went to see her at work to tell her that her flatmate returned. She was like wtf, she was supposed to be in London and then asked if her room was clean and empty :D So I wasn't the only one who panicked.

Ems

Work hard!

Hiya, maybe you've already noticed that Emma posts most of the stuff on here, maybe you haven't or maybe you don't care, but still I'm going to tell why is that. Because I have a job that is so needy that even if its my one day off in a week, and they know that I'm not in town, they still call me to see if I could somehow come in. NO! please just please I want a full day to myself where I don't even have to think about that little convenience store. Don't get me wrong I like working there (I recently got promoted to a supervisor, yay), but a girl just needs her space from time to time ok?
Some funny/weird moments that I can remember:
One night there was a cycle race around town and the commentator happened to be just outside our shop, it was horrible, because in every 5 seconds he shouted "Work Hard", "They're working hard", "Work hard, work hard, work hard", don't you have anything else to say? It lasted for 3 hours and everyone working at the shop at the moment were legit pissed off and stressed, even the customers felt sorry for us :D
The weird moment when a customer calls me sweetheart, luv, babe?! (seriously wtf?), you can stop, you do not have to address me at all, just say please or thank you.
When I don't understand what a customer wants or don't recognise the brand/product immediately, then tell them we don't have and pray that we actually haven't got it as well
When my boss texts me 9AM in the morning to call him at the shop, and I misunderstood and texted him back that I'm not going to work today, I was sleeping okay! and then he rings me back, says stuff (like offers Emma a job! What? yes spoiler alert, Emma and I are now colleagues as well, if she doesn't do an epic fail) and says bye! I replied Bye Tsau! (the last one meaning bye in my native language) and then put the phone down and then making that face of what the heck did I just say :D (as some of you can vividly imagine my reactions here ;) )
Thats it for now because I kinda blanked out and can't think of anymore happenings at work, but I will! Thats a promise, and then I'll post them!

Jazzz