As usual, since I last posted, life has been moving along at a rapid pace. Yesterday was my last day at the store and it was pretty good actually. Two of the cosmonauts took me for Dim Sum, which was awesome, and before that Vancouver Mom and I went for coffee. Then after Dim Sum I went out for desert with the two department heads from cosmetics and my Mentor decided to join us. I think she realized that she would have to come with us if she wanted to make it look like she wasn't relieved to be getting rid of me.

After all of the deserts and dinners I ended up once again in the office with my GSM and my HRM, the two that ripped me apart the other day. We had a good talk about what it was that they had expected of me and what they assumed I knew from what they had taught the trainee who was previously in the store. Because their phase one trainee had been properly trained for the next phase at The Bay they assumed that I should know everything they taught him coming in from Zellers. Unfortunately they were dead wrong. Because the two stores are so different and the expectations were so different at Zellers there is no way in hell that I could have been sucessful in this store. It's kind of like taking a person, putting them through the McDonald's school of training and then putting them to work in a fancy Thai restaurant. They're both restaurants but they are worlds apart.

Either way I am feeling much better about the whole situation now but I am still mad that they put me on probation. I've decided to tell everyone that I'm parole instead of probation because at least that way it sound like I at least did something bad.

Leaving the store was interesting. Even though I did have a very tough time with many aspects of the job there in the past number of months, I did make a lot of good friends. I really enjoyed the people at this store and plan on staying in touch with them. I was given an awesome gift of different skin care products and sent off with their good wishes.

Last night was an excellent night in fact. Lexi, I and an assorted number of friends got completely bombed and went dancing. We danced for about 5 hours at the club and now we're all extremely sore. It was worth it though.