Originally published at a denizen's entertainment. You can comment here or there.
On the bright side, at least I bring unequivocal improvement to the charity shop where I've been assigned.
Last week my supervisor asked if we had any old Alice in Wonderland books. Thanks to the work I have been doing organising material and thereby becoming familiar with what's around I was able to hand her the volume after about 10 seconds of searching, rather than the response anyone working there would have had to give before I started: "If we have it, it's around somewhere. You'll have to find it yourself". My goal is to minimise occurrences of that sort of thing.
Today was the first day back after several days of operation without me, so there was a bit more re-ordering to be done than usual. But I've been effective, so not enough to keep me occupied the whole day. Non-fiction has been giving me trouble, since most of what there is in stock out isn't what is selling, and where the gaps are there isn't much to replace with. Did some rearranging to try and fix that. May have succeeded. Also binned the fiction stock by first letter of author last name, has already dramatically increased my restocking efficiency.
During my break witnessed a conversation between others working there. Seems they don't believe Osama bin Laden is dead, thinking rather this is a popularity ploy and that Obama is lying. Find m'self rather skeptical about this.