Masterminx

earn you good money?

For the last two days I have been working on a project with a team of a dozen or so temps for the folks at the agency. We have been carrying boxes, and cutting open boxes with box cutters, and highlighting lists. We set up display tables full of merchandise from Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood, and hung shirts and jackets on racks. I put up price point signs and hung j-hooks to slatwall fixtures.

Basically, we created a store from a big empty mall space full of boxes. It looks beautiful. Really, it does. They opened a day early because we rocked it out so quickly. I had a blast. The manager singled me out early on, and had me handle to the more thought-oriented tasks, while the rest of the crew did the laborious stuff. I still carried boxes and did my share of lifting and unloading, but I got to do a lot of different things, too.

My feet are killing me and my back is stiff and sore, but I know I earned my pain. I've enjoyed it.

Today, the manager sent everyone else home but asked me and one other girl to stay behind. We will be working the register for at least one more day, possibly three days, while they work out some worker's compensation insurance issues that are keeping them from hiring employees of their own. So, yea! I get to work a little bit. Too bad the pay is so low.

I just wish I had some little neices, nephews, or cousins that I needed to buy gifts for. (Or some lame, Disney-loving adults.) Some of this stuff is really cute or clever, and almost all of it is dirt cheap.

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