I know this one is lengthy...but it gets a little humorous...so humor me and read so that I feel like someone feels for me............... So I work for a temp agency at the moment and I have to say I've had some fun jobs. The nice thing is its always in a different place doing a different job and meeting lots of new people. HOWEVER!!! you must always have a little salt with the sugar. Let me humor you a little.
I was scheduled to work the Home Depot Manager Convention at Mandalay Bay, my job description wasn't told to me at first other than a standing only job. I was to report at 5:15a.m. which I did. A a group of twelve of us were taken downstairs into the convention area where the scene was as follows... A large area color coordinated in three colors; green, yellow and orange. The tables were decorated with BRIGHT table cloths in the above colors....on top of the tables were giant weather balloons also the color of the table cloths.....now comes MY job. I (along with the 12 other workers) were given 10ft. dowels with giant signs on the top that read "GREEN" "YELLOW" and "ORANGE"...also colored. I was to stand in the middle of the floor hearding the middle aged men who have been awarded the position of store manager, just in case they missed the table cloths and the weather balloons...I bet you'll never guess what their reactions are to that.
So two hours of being a human info sign and it was time to change positions. The product walk area that held the materials everyone was there to look at was separated into sections that they had enclosed....the green area, yellow area, and orange area. Each group was to spend 90 minutes in their assigned area and they were not to leave their area....my job was to act as a human barricade and tell these men that they were not allowed to leave the area...in fact my line was "I'm sorry sir, you're not allowed to leave the area." ....but I have to pee....."I'm sorry sir you're going to have to speak to your management about that"......ELEVEN HOURS OF TELLING GROWN MEN THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE! any idea what their reaction was to that???
Day Two: a repeat of day one.....EXCEPT...........after the breakfast color coordinating human herding fiasco...and then moved into my human barricade position, they opened all the sections for a half hour so that the attendees could roam through each section. But by this point everyone was so sick of being told they were not allowed to leave they had all given up trying to roam.......So the supervisor comes up to me and says..."Could you please mingle in the sections and let everyone know they are free to roam about?" WHAT?!?!? ok....right......then I was to come back to the main entrance to make sure they didn't leave the main product area.......yeah...ok.
Half hour passes...my supervisor comes back to me and says..."ok, well the product walk is closing and everyone has meetings in ten minutes...I need you to go through and tell everyone they need to get out"...............................................................................right....ok.
I was sort of hoping for a photo a little more fun than this one...BUT anyhoo. This was actually taken last weekend during my trip to the so. cal beach coast. The weather was perfect and it wasn't too crowded....and the food was REALLY freakin' good. It was a nice little get away and I'm always up for feelin the sand between my toes :) You can take the girl from the ocean but you can't take the ocean from the girl. Recently I have been aching to go back to my old stomping grounds on the Eastern Shore where I grew up just to see if things are anything like what I remember. maybe soon.
