It's amazing how much is going on

I usually don't stress.. I definitely don't stress out. But, I think I'm beginning to stress a little. All I do lately is think about things at work or the new apartment or losing weight or this or that or this or that. Every time I wake up I immediately start thinking about any issues at work and what I can do about them. I have trouble getting to sleep most nights because my mind is just racing.

I don't like the feeling. I think in a few weeks everything will be fine. But, right now there are just so many things on my plate right now. Being sick the other day hurt me. I missed most of tuesday and was off work on wednesday. I felt so behind schedule and thought yesterday was Wednesday. It's tough. I have to worry about getting things done to help the day out as well as getting things done to help out next week and then get things done to help the future of the store. I'm guessing this is why most store managers fall apart and begin to worry about simply surviving rather than moving forward. I'm not gonna let that happen to myself. I'm recognizing the pitfalls and hopefully that encourages me even more to avoid them.

For the past week we've been hearing about this OER Auditor in town. basically it's a guy from Corporate Domino's going around the country making sure things are being run correctly at each store. Well amidst many groans, especially from me, since I just took over a POS store, he got in our area at the end of last week. Well, yesterday my regional manager decided was going to be cleaning bootcamp and she left to pick up a bunch of cleaning supplies. While she was gone, this guy shows up.

He was a nice guy and everything, but he had a job to do and was very detailed about it. There were so many things wrong with the store. He had me make 5 pizzas to show him the quality of the pizza I make. I made 5 perfect pizzas and got the full score on those.

But, everything else was a disaster. Luckily we got a few points on service and a few points elsewhere. We ended up with 1 star (5 star is best, 0 star equals owner having to take a class with the managers and paying 200$. Basically Terrible on all accounts). We barely passed. And the only reason we passed was because instead of marking our store as "an extremely dirty store" like he said he should have. He cut us some slack because my boss came walking in with paint and hard core cleaning supplies. Plus I think he liked her flirting (every little bit helps). I was disappointed with the score in general, but in the circumstances I was just happy we didn't fail. I knew the store was in BADDDDDD shape. I didn't get blamed at all and at one point the former store manager came in (i'm sure he got word the guy was there) and everyone noticed the smirk on his face. What an asshole. It's like ya, jackass this is your fault. The dude is a huge D-bag.

So, any ways I'm just glad it's over. Now I know what needs to be done and I promised Candi a 5 star next time. I hate failing tests and it will not ever happen again. Plus if I get a 5 star I get a 300$ gift certificate to Best buy, woot! I get 1000$ if I get 100%.

I figure i got about 6 months to turn this place around. In the one week I added to our service numbers I added 5% to our goals and only ended up 2% away from getting our service points. Without my 1 week we would'nt have gotten any points from that. Plus my perfect pizzas helped a lot too.

As far as our new apartment we are moving in April 10th. That gives me a little time to get that stuff together at least. Here are some pics of the soon to be flamm home.

We are the door on the right, bottom floor.