Saturday the 10th off . The 3rd was the day I promised to go to a beach festival with my good church friend and the 10th was the craft show I was already signed up for. I could've worked the Saturday of my first week there but they didn't schedule me...that also gave me hope that I might not be "the Saturday gal".
I hope you realize that you too are a sweetheart for filling in for one of your sweetheart coworkers. It sounds like you know what you have to do if they start asking you for Sundays too often.
You are so kind--thank you!
Because age discrimination is a very real thing, especially for women, I’m surprised in a good way that Chico’s workforce skews this old. They really have to be commended for hiring an 84-yr old to sell their clothes. I’ve personally never been in a Chico’s so I had no idea that both their employees and customer base are 40+ years old. I looked Chico’s up to learn more about them since I’m over 40 (sixtysomething is over 40, right? 😉) I didn’t realize that they started as a boutique on Sanibel Island. It sounds like they still have a boutique-style of customer service as opposed to, for example, Macy’s.
I didn't know that about their origins either. I knew they make a lot of their training videos in Florida...maybe at that first store?
My store manager has told me she prefers to hire older women, mainly because it's hard for older women to find jobs. B wound up needing to find a new job in her early 50s...she was living in Connecticut at the time (I don't know where in Connecticut) and lost her job, then her husband got sick and they needed money quickly. The Chico's in Connecticut took a chance on her and it turned out to be a great move, both for B and for the company.
I don’t know if NYC has any Chico’s but I’ll have to check. It sounds like a company I would be happy to support. Maybe your sweetheart personality is one of the reasons they hired you. Either you got lucky with this particular Chico’s store or, like Trader Joe’s, they only hire people who fit in with their corporate sunny personality profile.
<blushing> IIRC, they won an award, or at least got some kind of special recognition, for being one of the more diverse companies. I love that (and I love a lot of their clothes).
I understand that you don’t plan to stay in retail long but isn’t it nice to know that you’re already being thought of as having management potential?
It is! And I'm definitely appreciating the experience and getting to know more about how sales works in general.
