What do people do all day? (with apologies to Richard Scarry)

[hooverwheelaway]

My Job...

So I moved to North Carolina... with no job <br
I was lucky enough to get a fantastic job through a friend of mine down here (they tried to recruit my friend, but he declined)... I'm the Operations Manager at ULTA, a store that sells lots and lots of things (over 18,000 SKUs)! We mainly sell fragrance, prestige cosmetics (higher end), Personal Care Appliances (Hairdryers, Flat irons, curling irons, etc...), Professional Haircare (shampoo, hairspray, gels, pomades, etc...), Mass Cosmetics (the L'Oreal, Max Factor--things you can get at Target or Walgreen's), and Mass shampoo, soap, and other body care accoutrement. We also have a salon in the store. <br
So, I trained at one store in Raleigh... but got hired to work at a brand new store that's less than 5 minutes from where I live. I was part of the nifty process of completely setting the store. That was an amazingly detail-oriented undertaking--that we accomplished in a week and a half.
We've now been open for 3 weeks... and business is just starting to pick up <br
Here are some photos of our store, and a shot of the managers I work with from our Grand Opening day <br
~Fre <br
Our Store:

 

[hooverwheelaway]

Store Set

Here's me sorting signs for our endcaps. Notice the bare shelves <br

 

[hooverwheelaway]

Grand Opening

Here are the managers from our Grand Opening <br
L to R - <br
Me, our Merchandising Manager-Meredith, our district Manager-Kelly, our General Manager-Chip, our salon manager-Allison, our prestiege cosmetics manager-Sylba, and our assistant manager-Fred <br
((I know... I go my whole life, never meeting another Fred near my own age... and bam! My assistant manager's name is also Fred S.)) **Go figure**

 

[hooverwheelaway]

Back Room

Here's one half (looking towards the office) of our back room <br
Nice and organized <br

 

[mielabor]

My desk...

 

[mielabor]

View from window..
Note that the building is actually standing on the bottom of a former lake. It isn't obvious from this picture (taken from second floor (street level is zero) but the water in the background is higher than our street level.

 

[mielabor]

Same view from street level..
Now you can see that there is a dike in the background.

 

[mielabor]

Our parking place...

 

[petek]

OMG Robert, how'd you manage to sneak that purple chair and candy bowl past your office austerity police. LOL. At least you got the window view.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Fred!

Be still my heart--a job working among hair-care products! I should do that when I retire <br
veg

 

[veg-o-matic]

Here's my cubicle, taken with a camera phone. <br
Doesn't look much like Robert's does it

 

[perc-o-prince]

I (Chuck) am a Pre-and-Post Education Transportation Specialist.

 

[perc-o-prince]

Just in case you didn't figure it out, I'm Otto from the Simpsons!!!

 

[goatfarmer]

My office....

...has 18 wheels! Not as fancy or deluxe as some offices, but it's my home away from home for about 10 hrs a day <br
kennyGF

 

[goatfarmer]

Our product.....

Some of what we make. We manufacture aluminum extrusions. These tubes are destined to be awnings for RV's. Just one of the things we make, and I deliver <br
kennyGF

 

[washernut]

After owning a care home and also working in the hospitality industry I'm fortunate enough to be able to take a break and work at home now. I care for a 91 year old lady that lives here in my home with me. I cared for her husband for 7 years in their home before he passed from Alzheimers. She insisted to her son that she wanted to stay with me rather than go to a care home and I agreed to do it. Since my own mother passed 1 month after her husband and my father a year later leaving me with virtually no family at all it just seemed like the right thing to do. It has been a year on October 8th and I haven't regretted a second of it. Gives me more time to read AWC
Bill

 

[DADoES]

Night.

 

[DADoES]

Day.

 

[foraloysius]

This picture was taken today. The quality is not so good, it's a phone cam picture. I coach unemployed people, I have been doing that for over 10 years now.

 

[foraloysius]

A better view on the desk. We have a clean desk policy, no personal stuff allowed.

 

[foraloysius]

This is the building from the outside. I'm working on the ground floor of the high building.

 

[maggie~hamilton]

TO WHIRLCOOL:

Wouldn't you just PLOTZ if you looked out your cockpit window and saw something like THIS whizzing by.......! (Or have you??! <br

 

[maggie~hamilton]

My Office No. 1

My home office. I have a Mac and a PC, both share a common keyboard, trackball and monitors with a clever switching device I found (the PC can only drive one monitor as it only has one monitor card). Note the old phone, fan and typewriter, all of which work <br
On the other (right) side of this room is my vacuum cleaner display <br

 

[maggie~hamilton]

My Office No. 2

Part of the office of my graphics client, BUCKLEBEAR (see link). This is where I spend most of my time, on a wonderful Mac G5. In the next room over is a long work table for cutting and assembling comps, samples etc. Isn't that a cool rug! Sitting in the chair is my boss, BUCKLEBEAR <br

http://www.bucklebear.com

 

[maggie~hamilton]

My Office No. 3

The organ loft (up in the rear, in balcony position) at my church <br

 

[maggie~hamilton]

My "work station" at church! (Yes, it's a real pipe organ!!

 

[maggie~hamilton]

And, last but not least, here I am busy at work <br
This church building, btw, is a FABULOUS specimen of 1957 Populuxe architecture. Think brick, copper, turquoise, terrazzo and modern stained glass. See link for more photos if you're interested <br

http://137.com/faith/page2.html

 

[whirlcool]

Charles: <br
I certainly would! On numerous occasions I have seen lights in the sky, but keeping an eye on them always reveals them as another aircraft. I have had another one of our a/c flash their nav lights at us as they pass by us in the opposite direction a few times.
When I work the ANC flights, I sometimes see the Northern Lights from the sky. Very eeeerrrie looking. And yet even if we are at 40,000 feet or so they are still above us! <br
Nice photoshop job!

 

[mielabor]

Oh Louis <br
Talking about austerity, how do you manage to survive in that boring environment?

 

[maggie~hamilton]

Foraloysius, I personally could not survive in such a bare, spartan space totally devoid of anything personal. That to me is draconian dehumanization, in the extreme <br
Most companies have come around to the realization that workers function better in comfortable, homey environments, and positive-minded, forward-thinking employers actually encourage personal touches -- photos, knicknacks, etc. -- as long as people don't go overboard.