Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Cleaning à la taille

As you know, I work at H&M. I am a 'vendeuse' who works 22hours on a CDI (Contrat a durée Indeterminée) This is an awesome thing to have. Apparently, once you complete your trial period of two months, it is really hard to fire someone who possesses a CDI. I work four days a week, with a staff of about 40 co-workers.


I started work the other day and there really wasn’t much to do. Not very many customers to help out, the place was quite clean since everything was organized the night before. So I asked someone who works in my department what we should be doing at a time like this. She informed me that today, we would be ‘Cleaning à la taille’.


Putain! C’est. Le. Pire. Cleaning à la taille consists of going through every rack of clothing and placing the garments in order from smallest to largest. We did this all day long, everywhere in the store. It was the longest shift I had worked so far (8 hours) and by the time the day was over, I wanted to cut my fingers off. But at one point in the day when I was thinking about how much this menial task was getting on my nerves (specifically while I was sorting through purple lacy tops), I realized that... I’m in France. I have the permission to work legally in a foreign country where I don’t really speak the language that well, not to mention the fact that I was able to find a job – in THIS economy- within two weeks of my arrival.


So right there in front of the lacy purple tops, I decided to take pride in the stupid task that I had been assigned. And I gladly placed the size 38 behind the size 36 and finished my long boring day off with a smile on my face. Because I did it; I had a random thought to visit Europe for a few months, which morphed into me moving to France by all by my lonesome. Actually going through with it, and finishing something that I started is what I’m most proud of. I think the thing I’m second most proud of was how organized that store was when I left that day.


À toute a l'heure!

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