Ballin'

I started my job at GNC yesterday. My shift was 8:45 – 5:45. I left home at 6:45 to walk down to the train and was expecting to get on the 7:03 train towards Sydney. Well THAT didn’t happen! The bloody thing blew right by fer cryin’ out loud! So that meant that I needed to get on the next train at 7:15, no problem because I was going to have to wait like 25 minutes at Sutherland to catch my next train. Actually, as I found out, BIG problem! This train was much slower and I actually missed my connecting train and had to wait for the next one. I called the store and Jillian (manager) was alright with it and understood as it was my second time coming out there. So I got there at 9 and we started doing a little paperwork. In my interview I was told the base pay for casual workers (it’s weird, they have casual, part-time and full-time here, part-timers are GUARANTEED hours, casual are not) is $9.67 plus I get commission AND double pay on Sundays. I was happy with that! So we started doing paperwork and under salary she wrote $19.67 hourly! WTF! Ya buddy! I just misunderstood the guy yesterday, it’s actually $19.67 per hour! Close to $40 an hour on Sundays! Which I’ll be working 5 hours every Sunday! NIIIICE! That’s plus a healthy commission as well! So we started working away and turns out it’s not terribly different than back home. The cash register system here blows Canada’s away, and is easier to use. I’m already getting the hang of it. I helped a bunch of people, mainly sports guys, same as back home. I pretty much said the same shit and it made the same sense (go figure, haha). There are a few products I need to get used to but they have a lot of the same stuff we have (Ultimate Nutrition, PVL, Cytosport, EAS, Muscletech and of course GNC). So that was a super long day but really good. I did however come down with some sort of head cold. I’m super congested and have a headache. I work again tomorrow so I’m going to try and rest up good here today. I woke up this morning and there was a note under the door from Kym (housemate) for Julia saying that a guy left a message on the phone about a possible full-time job available! SOLID! So she’ll get that later today and give the guy a call. It’s nice! Stuff is finally coming together! I finally feel confident about out money situation! I’ll only be working 16 hours per week, but will be getting paid as though it was 21! So that’s pretty sweet. I’m guestimating $400 per week net (after commission is added and taxes are subtracted) from my pay, which would cover rent, food and internet/phone for us. So that means that whatever Julia makes is travel/fun money (errrr, saving to pay off OSAP money)
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Terms:
How you goin’? : How are you?
Heeps : Lots

Shoe sizes are different, I’m like an 8.5 here.