*yawn*

[vanillafluffy]

This morning, I was awakened by an individual next door mowing their lawn at 8:55 AM. When I finally started to drift back off to sleep, my (dedicated for work) phone rang, which is what typically happens when I don't unplug it after my shift. Gah! So I am vertical and sleep-deprived, but what else is new?

Last night was good for $800+ in sales, which is fairly decent.

I got a review for Earth Mama Blues; this makes me happy, because it indicates that there IS a readership for Posse, however small.

Next Thursday, I have to go down to Melbourne for training for Trendicrap. O joy.... (And it's freaking pointless---they could send us a memo: "These are the trends, blah, blah, blah---" because the only thing that ever really changes is the names of the colors, and those are daft. They were seriously over-estimating the vocabulary of their average customer when they decided to call this season's purple 'hyacinth'.)

I'm meeting Red to swap books before we turn them in at the used book store. Timing is still TBA, either tomorrow or Monday. I'm campaigning for Monday, 'cause I'd rather sleep in tomorrow.

Comments

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Yay you for great sales. At least there's some correlation between the numbers you generate and the validation/renumeration you receive for it, which is not the case here at the DOD.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Meh, they always want more. Nothing is ever good enough. They listen in and score you on assine crap like did you use the caller's name twice, did you ask them if they want to sign up for emails and the all-important, did you say "I can help you with that!"? My criteria is a lot simpler: if they wanted to buy something, did I sell it to them, and if they had a problem, did I fix it? And did I *not* sound like I wanted to choke the crap out of them in the process. There's one chick who demonstrates such notable lack of enthusiasm on the phone that they put her on help desk, and she doesn't sound any happier there. (She's not that helpful, either. When she answers, I know I'm going to have a hard time resolving ANYthing.) I can usually keep the 'perky' in my voice regardless.

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Well at least I don't have my calls "monitored for quality assurance" because there ain't no quality around here babe!

I can do perky up to a point and then my "real" attitude sometimes sneaks in and that's when the trouble starts.

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

Usually when I get into trouble it's when I make a joke to someone with no sense of humor, or they just plain don't get it.

[starhawk2005.livejournal.com]

mowing their lawn at 8:55 AM

Gah! My personal fave - construction work starting at 7:00, and complete with trucks reversing and blaring their 'I'm backing up' sirens while I'm trying to grab more sleep! *grumbles*

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

*eyeroll* Just around the corner from me, over someone's back fence, they recently tore down the trailer park that was there and are preparing to put up low-income housing. THAT was fun.

[starhawk2005.livejournal.com]

I'll bet. *sympathizes*