What a day it was at work. I walked into a note from one of the other managers, BM, asking me to figure out some shifts on his schedule. I obliged, because we need to make sure we have proper coverage everyday, but these were some important shifts. As I dug through the schedule there we some screwie things on there, which I had to rewrite a few days and add a few shifts to other staff members, who would be there six days had I left it. Then of course my boss will look over my schedule to make sure we are staffed and takes a look at the hours and dollars spent in labor. We still had some issues with the schedule with our supervisor having a considerable amount of overtime.
Some of the responsibilities as the opening MOD we have to make sure we have what need to start the day. My line check was pretty much non-existent, my sales meeting was off the hip, but still impacting, but I had to get ready to interview some one at 11:30 a.m. Then a credit card machine went down in the middle of the lunch rush. At the same time, because we are a ticket outlet for the Great American Beer Festival, everyone and their grandma seemed to want to purchase tickets. I had KM bugging me because a regular had to wait an extra ten minutes for his food, and I had to make sure the server was okay, he wasn't but seemed caught up.
After all this, I had a second orientation, at 2:00 p.m. These seem to put the breaks on any momentum to the day. It's three to four hours of me talking, fielding questions and getting a new staff member around the culture, good habits and expectations of the company. All at the same time, there were people calling, staff members needing help and the usual stuff that seems to be small and unimportant if I'm not in an orientation.
After all of this, I had still had to balance the books for the shift and settle some accounts. There is a moment the opening and closing MOD talk to each other, and I still had to make that happen. Then there was leaving notes like this about the shift. To add to all the stress of the day, I was over an hour late in getting out of the building, which made me late to Bible Talk with the teens. AGRH I had the weeds.
The best part of the day was to read my Bible next to my wife when we got home from church. I reread Nehemiah about dealing with the poor and needy. I realized he wasn't only motivated by being reverent to God, although that needs to be enough, because voices were raised, Nehemiah was prompted to see what was wrong on an emotional level as well as a spiritual level. I am not one to be motivated by emotion as I am by panic and stress. I need to grow in my compassion and empathy when it comes to wanting to help those who need. It is impressive to see a man like Nehemiah, who was called to do something incredible by rebuilding the wall, being a visitor, and being involved with the needs of the citizens of Jerusalem. What a man of God.
