Work work all week long...

So, basically...all I do lately is work and crash when I get home! Sucky, I know...however, some good things are happening...I took care of a 'situation' in my store, which I am proud of, as well as all the other good things that I turned around and/or made better there...overall, the last 7ish months were good ones work-wise, I always believed in myself to step into the Store Manager role and to do an A+ job, but seeing it happen makes it so much more exciting and uplifting. I wanna make a portfolio of what I've done and go back to the people who didn't believe in me, or thought I had plenty of 'potential' but never gave me a shot and say: plffflllttt...in your face! My store crushed our LY numbers the whole time I was there, and was VERY close to making our plan, another great thing to see a store that has a plan AHEAD of LY so much that we beat our LY AND almost made our plan! So, overall good there... Regarding the whole 'situation'...I learned a lot about trust...stuff I already knew but thought some people were better than...obviously I was WRONG! Can't trust hardly anybody! Not even people who have 'gone through a situation and know how to behave'...because apparently they don't care either! And apparently toher members of management don't realize the severity of their actions when they leak ANY information in an extreme situation! In the end, whatever I guess, everything that needed to be accomplished was pretty much accomplished and that's that...and now I'm off to bigger and better things!! Our new store opens at the end of April (prob more like first or second week of May) and I'm excited!!! It's the biggest store in the company (40k square feet...180 employees!) until our NYC store opens (that'll be 90K square feet...tons of employees!!)...I'll be a Co-Mgr instead of a SM, but really a bigger opportunity and I keep going up up up in pay and hopefully position! And who can complain about that! It really is nice to have faith behind you and a company with people who actually believe in you and invest in you genuinely! So, lots of work ahead, but good things! Two Saturdays off in a row (miraculously!) and that's awesome! I won't see that every again, unless I get out of retail, but ya know, that'll never happen! --*ADH