Shove It

Last week/weekend was a delightful time at Macy's. It was the last of the semi-annual Customer Satisfaction Survey's. As Marshall Fields, we had to have 1000 surveys filled out every spring and fall to gauge who people felt about our store. Our raises were mostly dependent on those scores and how many credit accounts we open. Macy's thought it'd be a great idea to do one last survey. A sort of last hurrah from the old Marshall Fields days in case we would all miss begging people to fill out a survey. Besides, people here aren't angry enough about Macy's taking over, lets give them the chance to formally bitch about it on a survey.

Being a full time Macy's Express person, I got to solicit these surveys twice last week. I loved every minute of it. Not often do you get the opportunity to get rejected by hundreds of strangers a day. Not every job allows you the wide range of responses such as glares, blatant ignorance of your existence, and people who start running away when they see you.

In all fairness I generally do not participate in surveys at stores. But I'm polite about it. Or, if it looks short I'll do it. Ours was 12 questions. Quick. On a 5x7 piece of paper. Short. Report card format. Easy. But I understand if you don't have 30 seconds to give your opinion about a store you either like (you're shopping there) or hate (you can't accept change). If you don't have time be nice about it!!!!! The people soliciting these surveys DO NOT get paid enough to deal with your rude behavior. In case you don't follow my meaning, here are some examples that I was subjected to that you should not follow:

- do not say "I'm in a hurry" then run past the person only to spend the next half hour shopping in their visual field...at least go to a different floor if you're gonna lie

-do not say "am I gonna get something if I do it? no? then forget it!"

- do not say "I did it yesterday" if we were not doing it yesterday

-do not say "no I won't take your survey! I hate Macy's! I hated Marshall Fields too! I want Dayton's back!" (btw lady, its been 7 years since Daytons was gone. and why are you still shopping here if you hate it?)

- do not put your hand in my face and curtly say "no" before I even ask you a question

-above all else DO NOT walk up to me and say "I'm disgusted! You can shove it!" and walk away. (found out he was "disgusted" with us because his bank declined his check for insufficient funds. Yes...your financial irresponsibility are my fault sir"

There you have it...do not do these things to the poor people soliciting surveys. They don't wanna do it anymore than you do...TRUST ME!

Kick Ass Vacation!

The first big thing we did was visit Seaworld. As soon as we walked through the gates, Henry put on his Japanese tourist costume (the camera) and started clicking. By the end of the trip between Henry, his friend Jimmy, and myself we had over 600 pictures. I was able to narrow it down to my 140 favorites to print. Don't worry...blogger would never support that many, so here are some of my favs.

I fed and pet a ton of dolphins. It was so much fun!



The Beluga whale kept swimming to the glass and pressing his head against it.

The Shamu show was awesome! I realized i wanted to stage manage it cuz there were so many cool light and sounds cues...especially the night show: "Shamu's house of Douse". And guys can you imagine have a killer whale's mouth in your crotch?

Dance dolphins dance!

This is one of my favorites. Seaworld was a very good day!!!


After Seaworld we went to this kinda sketchy Mexican place. I like that the sign says "Healthy Mexican & Seafood" There was nothing healthy there and who would get seafood from a place where you had to put a token in the bathroom door to use it???

Are you actually gonna eat that? Honestly though, the food was pretty good. Potato Tacos. For the Irish Mexican in all of us!

Time for the happiest place on earth!

Capt. Jack Sparrow made me happy!

Henry was unsuccessful at pulling the sword from the stone.

I like that rather than purchase the picture of us on Space Mtn., Henry just took a picture of the picture. Those 2 in front wet themselves from the looks of it!

My princess castle

Us and the goof and me and Mickey...both in their fancy 50th anniversary costumes!

I finally got my ears! I was adorable! And so is this pic...another great day!

Watching the sunset at Seal Beach

We went to the tide pools at Corona Del Mar again. I saw a sea slug and called him my squishy cuz that's how he felt....squishy.

After petting squishies we climbed rocks.

It was a great vacation and it was really hard to come home...especially hard to come home to cooler weather and work. I love visiting California and seeing Henry. Being with someone...ya know? But all good things must come to an end so that we can begin looking forward to another visit! I can't wait!!!

Home Again

I back from sunny california just in time for the 55 degree weather! Its odd that yesterday i was at the beach in shorts and a tank and today i'm wearing a builky sweater. I've been doing laundry and editing pictures all day since i luckily was not scheduled at work. (its always nice to have an extra day off after vacation to recoop). I'm sure I'll post a full blog tomorrow or wednesday, but the long and short of it is that I had a great time! I fed a dolphin, met Mickey Mouse, and spent time with the "boyfriend" (for lack of a better term).

Spending the week with him was the best part...and here's a little preview...when we got to his house he covered my eyes and brought me into the room where he had set this up:
All of these little lanterns and tealights. A great beginning to the week! More later!