It's Below My IQ, but Above My Paygrade
For those who don't know what I do for a living, I'm the Lawn & Garden manager at my local Walmart. My job essentially entails managing the merchandise, sales and my rag-tag group of sales associates for both the gardening and seasonal seasons. From April to August, we focus on gardening and plants, and the rest of the year, we run seasonal (Harvest, Halloween, Christmas, Easter, etc). I have a team of five associates under me and an assistant manager over me. For the most part, it's not a difficult job. The hardest part is figuring out how to transition from one season to the next without making a total mess or sitting on a metric shit-ton of unsold merchandise. Lucky for me, I'm a compulsive planner, so clean transitions are what I excel at, and one of the key reasons I was asked to take over that hot mess of a department in the first place. This position is far from the first management position I've ever had. I've been in various retail management posi...