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at the outlet 40 minutes away. All during our shift together yesterday, Store Manager kept making snide remarks about how "awful" the experience would be...it wasn't. There were a lot more customers, the store's a lot bigger (I hit 10,000 steps just walking to and from the dressing rooms and the racks) and even though SM swore she set it up so I could ring up customers at the outlet, the system wouldn't let me on. I honestly wonder if she did that on purpose...anyways, the customers were just fine and I really liked the young lady I spent most of the shift working with. The two older women who had the evening shift, I liked a wee bit less (one didn't speak to me at ALL beyond saying "oh" when I was introduced to her and honestly, she is the walking definition of "resting beyotch face"). I would work there again if asked...and I really wanted the extra $$$

Incidentally, one woman recognized me from the store I usually work in. She told me she'd just been telling her granddaughter (who was with her) that probably nobody would greet them like they're always greeted at "my" store. I just laughed and told her that's why I was at the outlet today.

And because I apparently don't like downtime (a lie--I LIVE for down time), I had an interview this morning with a super small company in town that needs an office assistant. It went very well, and I could tell that the lovely woman doing the interview liked me, but I'm not sure they'll hire me mainly because I don't have much computer experience. They *did* say they're willing to train...and they only had 10 people apply for the job, despite them searching for over 3 months now.

The upside to the job: it's only a 6-7 minute drive from my house. It's still part time, but the hours are the same each week--Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 8:00 AM-4:30 PM. It's a sit down, low pressure job, and supposedly the (super small) staff is super nice. They prefer everyone comes to the office but are willing to let people WFH if needed (they say we're going to have another awful winter this year). I live in one of the few towns in Ohio that doesn't have the RITA (Regional Income Tax Agency) tax; I've never had to pay that until I started at Chico's last year. And did I mention there's plenty of parking spaces and no angry drivers/pedestrians not paying attention to avoid?

The downside: the job sounds really boring, rather complicated, and TBH, rather superfluous. Basically, the company connects businesses looking for parts related to power supply to businesses that supply the parts, plus there's salespeople to loop in. Not sure why the companies that make the parts don't have their own salespeople to reach out to businesses but whatever.

One way or another, the company will let me know by mid next week if I'm hired.