I'm trying so hard to learn

Thursday 10th July 2008

OH MY LORD!!
What have we done?? Why at this time of my life would I put myself through this?
We’ve hardly had time to come up for air since we arrived here last Thursday. I thought the whole move thing was overwhelming – that ain’t nothing baby, compared to the party we’re throwing now!
What the hell was I thinking??
Between staff, invoices, till balancing, banking, staff, finding mistakes on the till rolls, ordering stock, talking to reps, fixing mistakes on the till rolls, staff, facing up stock, putting orders away, making notes on changes that HAVE to be made, oh and did I mention STAFF!!
They are not happy with our arrival. You have to realise that it is a small town and some of these people (mostly women) have been working here for years, they have experienced a lot of management changes and they are well aware that we are very ‘green’ at all this. Then there is the noise to contend with, we hear everything living upstairs, then when it’s time for bed, we can even hear them talking, you obviously can’t make out what they’re saying, but you hear the murmur of their voices and the banging and clanging that happens in any kitchen. The trucks below our bedroom window and their engines idling are all things I’m sure with time we’ll get used to (let’s pray).

I’ve told Joe that I’m going to make a concerted effort to stick it out for at least 3 months but if I find that I’m either not coping or not enjoying it here, that I will just go out and get a ‘normal’ job. So we’ll see how I go.
Ok, it’s getting very late and I have another 15-hour working day to get through tomorrow – yay, what fun, I don’t know how I got so lucky?
Cross everything that I will learn well tomorrow and that things will start to make some sense to me! xx