2011-03-23

Originally published at a denizen's entertainment. You can comment here or there.

Was fortunate this morning. Driving in to the charity shop, there was a car coming the other way at the T-intersection roundabout. Car's body language made me think the driver intended to turn right, down the trunk of the T and across my path, but as hard as I looked I couldn't see any indicator blinking, not until it was already in that part of the turn anyway, and fortunately I'd stopped enough from the body language reading and straining for confirmation that we didn't get in each other's way, or it could have ended badly.

Was unfortunate today. When I arrived everything with the books I had done yesterday was undone, and someone in the morning had sorted them by height. So, I surrender hope of being able to implement my plans for an organised and topically presented book section, since it appears to be against policy. What's weird is people saw me doing my thing yesterday and didn't say anything about it.

If I am fortunate, conversation with senior store personnel will get me a go-ahead for that anyway. Meanwhile, I'm back to shuffling coathangers on the clothing racks. Hopefully not all the way to the end of June.

Conversation with another enforced volunteer on break, about fixing up the larger sizes section. She agreed and opined the signs should be redone to indicate sizes, rather than just lumping all clothes of the same kind together. (currently, clothes in the shop are organised first by broad category [e.g. mens, skirts] and secondarily by colour). Which has certainly caused me disappointment when customers ask if we have something and not only do I not know, but there is no way to know without examining everything individually, so I can't help them. I admit, I know hardly anything about clothes and the ways to organise and arrange them, and as a charity shop they are nearly entirely limited by what people choose to donate to them, but it seems like they have a labour force on idle and presentation shortcomings with solutions that could use that labour.

Clearly I need to compose some diplomatic enquiries for the senior staff and find out if there are good reasons we aren't or can't do these things.

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2011-03-23 22:58

Originally published at a denizen's entertainment. You can comment here or there.

FANTASY: n., 1. A story which, ultimately, is about dragons.

 

[science fiction then must be any story about mechanical dragons]

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