sitting, thinking, listening

so it looks like my computer is loading up the video this time,
spent hours trying to do it the other day and it all failed.

2mb out of 9!!

5mb out of 9!!

9mb out of 9!!

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I'm a little worried!
just in case here the youtube version.


so I've decided that I'll do a little more and give you the treat of seeing into my day.

so i work in urban outfitters, Dundrum. it's one of the newest urban outfitters in europe. it opened last august (2007) Antwerp opened end of November. Belfast will be opening in February. i am the menswear manager. its fun. so basically i'm pretty much there most of the time, we're open for more than most peoples waking hours! but its probably one of the most interesting shops to work for. for instance we have this guy that works there and his job is to build stuff! he has his own workshop in the store. what this also means is that i can go and get a power drill or something and change something within the store myself. i think its that thing that makes the company that little bit different than everywhere else. the same idea is carried on in everyone of the stores and there is a guideline to go by but each store has their own creative control over what they have to do.

so i have a team of people who are amazing, we have a laugh and its good times. I'm not that much of a tyrant! my floor has 72% menswear and 33% housewares on it. myself and the housewares managers both started working in the other Dublin store, Temple Bar around the same time and have worked up from sales assistants to managers, so we know our shit! she has a bit of a hard time because her department is everywhere in the shop! while i have all my menswear on one floor.

another key thing about urban outfitters is that although you may be assigned as a certain department manager, you also need to be knowing whats going on in the rest of the place. because at any stage you could be asked if you had any more chiffon sleeve cardigans in stock and do you know what the number of it is. (this happened today!) keeps you on your toes and busy. i like that, i like being busy.

so our store is at Dundrum town centre, this is a very strange place. its slowly growing on me though. there could be a very interesting sociology study to be made from it. after moving out to there i was faced with a predicament of where i was going to get coffee. any one who knows me from town would know that i generally was either in work in temple bar or having coffee at heavenly in temple bar. so it took a good month or so to find somewhere in the centre that did nice hot food for my lunch and coffee. there is some good coffee places there but i need the food as well. i like one stop shops! i had found a place and as a bonus they did amazing muffins but the thing is i wasn't getting a deal. 2 out 10 coffee were free after you got the stamps and there was a meal deal but it wasn't working out as well for me. as i was saying earlier about the guy who builds stuff in the store he is also a gent and does a coffee run in the morning for us as were in long before anywhere is open and probably open an hour before them!

so he was going to the cafe across from us. good coffee. i had a bad experience during my month reconnaissance there but i decided i give it another shot. now when it comes to coffee i am straight up a best customer, very loyal! i drink a different coffee than most and because of that the guy there knew straight away where i worked because of my coffee. now i like that. great customer service. I'm in there at least twice a day if not three. and it has kind of giving me a liking towards the town centre. i can sit out there, have my coffee and some cigarettes (chain smoke on lunch!!) and watch all the people go by in and out of the centre.

my floor is really nice. i have a waterfall behind those windows! the store looks out onto the mill pond (Santa's grotto is been taking from it now, yeah Santa's grotto on a pond!!) its got this clean industrial buzz going on with all the concrete and wood and air conditioning ducting everywhere.
i get to talk to random people everyday, sometimes they tell me stories about stuff like their family or where there have been, anything really.

well that enough of that.

i've put the youtube version of the video up cause bloggers video uploader hates me!