sweetdulce
Shared on Mon, 02/04/2008 - 20:51It's been a while...The last week that I was at work, January 14-18, I trained my replacement. I think he was a bit overwhelmed with it all, especially with how busy we were during that week with all of our clients coming back from vacations. Sometime during that week Z mentioned something about showing him the new website I had sort of designed. When Z left, the guy asked me how he was supposed to have time to do everything. I tried to make him feel a bit better and told him that all of the things I was teaching him don't happen all in one day...He looked scared. But I've talked to him a few times since then, and he seems to be getting the hang of it. Even when I picked up my last paycheck Z was still mad at me. Oh well.
The week after that, January 21-25 I worked at my new place. Well, basically got a feel for things before I came down to Florida for training. I have 2 employees, both of who are considerably older than me. I hope they don't hold any resentment when I do come back and begin to implement some things for the better. There are a few things that the previous owner has requested that I change for the good of the business, mainly our point of sale system.
My brother came down to training with me. We left on Friday the 25th at around 5 pm. We drove to Ft. Worth (5 and a half hours) stayed the night and got up pretty early Saturday morning to drive as much as we could. ended up making it from Ft. Worth to Milton, Florida, just east of Pensacola. About a 12 hour drive. We got up relatively early, and drove on down to Bradenton/Sarasota Florida. That took us about 7 hours with minimal stops.
We're staying in a 2 bedroom/2 bathroom condo about 6 miles from Cortez Beach. Surprisingly the condo is considerably less expensive than a hotel, plus we get to make our own food instead of relying on finding a restaurant to eat at or picking up fast food everyday. It's nice and big as far as condos go... Most every evening when we get back from our training, we open up the patio doors and relax. The weather is absolutely perfect here. It's definitely going to be hard to go back in a couple of weeks.
We had training all last week. Our class is the largest class they've ever had. It's great to see all the diversity and everyone's backgrounds. I feel pretty comfortable in being able to call anybody who is in our class later on down the road for any advice I might need. Plus the people at corporate are completely awesome. We quickly made friends with everyone, and had a couple of them over to watch the Super Bowl last night, including a very excited native of New York. This coming Friday we're having a pizza and beer get together with our classmates.
Over the weekend, we spent most of our time at the beach. We visited Mote Aquarium and walked around the Siesta Fiesta down at Siesta Key. I think I could come over here every January/February. I now understand why we saw so many cars with Ontario, Quebec, New York, Michigan, Massachusetts...etc...license plates.
Today began week 2 of training. Should have tons of hands on to do. It's been a good experience so far, I'm glad I'm here. :)
I have pretty limited internet access. When I do get a chance to be on, I'm taking care of business emails. Hope everything is going okay for everyone!!
The week after that, January 21-25 I worked at my new place. Well, basically got a feel for things before I came down to Florida for training. I have 2 employees, both of who are considerably older than me. I hope they don't hold any resentment when I do come back and begin to implement some things for the better. There are a few things that the previous owner has requested that I change for the good of the business, mainly our point of sale system.
My brother came down to training with me. We left on Friday the 25th at around 5 pm. We drove to Ft. Worth (5 and a half hours) stayed the night and got up pretty early Saturday morning to drive as much as we could. ended up making it from Ft. Worth to Milton, Florida, just east of Pensacola. About a 12 hour drive. We got up relatively early, and drove on down to Bradenton/Sarasota Florida. That took us about 7 hours with minimal stops.
We're staying in a 2 bedroom/2 bathroom condo about 6 miles from Cortez Beach. Surprisingly the condo is considerably less expensive than a hotel, plus we get to make our own food instead of relying on finding a restaurant to eat at or picking up fast food everyday. It's nice and big as far as condos go... Most every evening when we get back from our training, we open up the patio doors and relax. The weather is absolutely perfect here. It's definitely going to be hard to go back in a couple of weeks.
We had training all last week. Our class is the largest class they've ever had. It's great to see all the diversity and everyone's backgrounds. I feel pretty comfortable in being able to call anybody who is in our class later on down the road for any advice I might need. Plus the people at corporate are completely awesome. We quickly made friends with everyone, and had a couple of them over to watch the Super Bowl last night, including a very excited native of New York. This coming Friday we're having a pizza and beer get together with our classmates.
Over the weekend, we spent most of our time at the beach. We visited Mote Aquarium and walked around the Siesta Fiesta down at Siesta Key. I think I could come over here every January/February. I now understand why we saw so many cars with Ontario, Quebec, New York, Michigan, Massachusetts...etc...license plates.
Today began week 2 of training. Should have tons of hands on to do. It's been a good experience so far, I'm glad I'm here. :)
I have pretty limited internet access. When I do get a chance to be on, I'm taking care of business emails. Hope everything is going okay for everyone!!
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