I'm so bored it's making me sleepy.

So i finally have a date for going full time as a sales rep.
i can't tell anyone just yet however, just office politics.
But good news is that it's not far off.

meanwhile I'm stuck here at Hanafins every morning.
Recently, things have been quite slow (as in my post below).
And it's taking it out of me.

Things go like this;

Since my boss exploded at me for not having anything to do (not my fault!)
I can no longer hang out in my room doing nothing (i.e. blogging) with out the constant feeling that some one's looking over my shoulder.
This means that I no longer constantly listen to music (that way I get a warning if he's walking down the hall to my room).

I have two canvases to do today (both of which of course are sizes I've TOLD people I've sold out of...oh they were also sold by the branch managers themeselves..goes to show how well the manage things, negelecting to read emails etc).

these two canvases represent about - 50mins of work for me (35mins of that being printing, and a drying time). So tell me something, does this sound fair; (?)

The woman who did this job before I came here would have - turned upto work, signed in, gone out of 10mins and got coffee, came back, looked at the orders, booked them in, scanned the pictures, taken about 5mins to set each canvas up (this is now down to about 5seconds, because of a little forward planning on my behalf) started them printing, gone off to have a snak while chatting to the lab staff, put the canvas to dry, applied far too little fixative (protects the ink) gone away, had lunch! came back stretch the smallest one, gotten annoyed at the fact that the sales people had sold two of the sizes she's out of, then signed out and said she had to take her daughter to hospital (again) leaving the second canvas for the next morning.

This would take a good 5 hours!
For which she'd have gotten paid something like - $72

Now is it fair that because I'm capable of doing both canvases in 50mins that i only get paid - $13.75?

This is something that's annoyed me ever since my boss started basically telling me to get lost once the work is done.

It's weird...but

I've never had a thirst for knowlegde like I do at the moment!

It's bizzar, but something in me just wants to know stuff, about stuff.
Regardless of what it is really, I'm just semi interested in everything.
i guess it's better than being interested in nothing (wonder if Channel X has a Doco section...hopefully).

Any way, what're you guys upto?

I'm waiting for things to print (story of my life really).
Waiting for things...waiting for sales...waiting for sales people to learn their job a little better etc.
Waiting for management to plug up the holes in this boat, waiting for the holes to become so big that they can't just ignor them any more.
Waiting for people to pay up the accounts...okay here's something i don't get;

Canvas is the biggest profitting thing we have right?
it's massive, lots of money can be made with it.
So naturally we try to sell a lot of the stuff.
But the other day i went to check up on a late order of frame stock, only to find out that the account with that supplier had been on hold for a few weeks, which meant that I was going to run out of certain sized frames, and everything would fall to crap.
Now my question is this;
There is NO DOUBT money coming in with canvases, why is it that management thought it would be a good idea NOT to put aside the money it would take to buy the next lot of stock and save that specifically for keeping the canvas section running?
Why is it that they would use THAT money (canvas money) for any thing OTHER than keeping canvases running. Surly you can see my point here... they handle money badly, I lose out!!
If I lose out, that means they're not making much money, which means that THEY lose out...

Management is a science, but it's not rocket science.

And with that semi plagerised quote, I shall leave you.

:)

Enjoy.

Jonny.

I'm not a designer...

So I've just been asked by boss number one to design a thing for a camera sale.
Not a bad sale.
Basically, you join our Hanafin's Photo Club thingy, and get a free camera.
Of course it's weighted in our favour, but that's the point of retail right?

Any way, what made him think I can design?
I've done a few things for this company in the past, but not something that actually had to entise people. I've got a few ideas...but they all cost money, so i can promis you that it won't happen!

SO, i've decided to just start thinking about names for my album...yes...album!

"How to dig a hole." was the EP, although I liked the title.
Perhaps "relative I" - after the song from the EP?

Who knows, I'll work on it

Enjoy.

Jonny.