as many of you know, i've been going, going, going for the last six weeks. i haven't stopped and it doesn't look like there's going to be any stopping for another little while at least. six weeks ago or so i started at walsworth yearbook publishing. the first two weeks were an intense week of training. the first week was all price book (where our prices come from) training.
this book is a huge book of rules upon rules of charges and credits and information on programs and shit. it's easy-ish to navigate and find what i'm looking for but at points its line upon line, paragraph after paragraph of information... all of which i need to know stone cold. it's a lot but it's manageable i think.
anyway, the first week i kicked ass. i pissed a lot of the people in my group on the first day. they thought i was a know-it-all (which i am) but i also sort of answered all the questions and got all the money and was basically just being a big pain in the ass. kevin and i, especially, butted heads. we sat across from eachother and kevin wants to be the star of the class and so do i. by the end of the first day he was raising his hand even if he didn't know the answer to the question just to try to show me up.
he has since admitted to me that he wanted to strangle me. i started to make his life easier, however, when we worked together on homework and studying. basically once i started supporting the group rather than making them feel inferior, they ended up warming up to me. i like to help people, really, so it worked out.
by the middle of the week we all started to have a lot of fun and someone decided it would be a great idea to stay out the latest on the day before we had to be up at 5 am to drive three hours to the plant in north-central missouri. it was a lovely day.
the second week was a review for me. we went over how indesign works, how our enhancements work, etc. the only thing new to me was the online design training, which was of course toward the end of the week when all of us were suffering.
training is intense. there is so much to learn, so much to remember, and so much more than just training going on. especially for our class (all 12 of us) there are 11 new personalities to learn and figure out and get to know and support. it's all very overwhelming, tiring and scary. but we made it through, all 12 of us stayed both weeks.
next came the summer sales meeting at which we were all just as wild and crazy. the only thing was we added 100 or so people to our numbers. all of the sales reps were there, all of the management, everyone! and monday night was the awards banquet and the theme was full throttle. everyone was dressed in biker garb. i decided, however to wear a white marilyn monroe halter dress from j. crew with the temporary tattoo they gave all of us on my left shoulder blade.
it was a great night but the exhaustion set in the next day and recovery was impossible. the days were full of our new computer system, inks, training... a whole lot of staring at our computer screens trying to figure out a whole new system to the company.
anyway... now it's the third day of sales training and i've been kicking ass this week too. i was really stressed that i may not do as well this week because i have no sales experience at all. but i have done better than i thought at memorization and, thus, have been succeeding more than i thought i would.
so that's the update on why i haven't been returning any phone calls or really calling anyone at all.
i hope you will become a regular reader. i hope i become a regular blogger.
xo
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