I swear, if these auditors and senior management types had a working brain cell in the lot of them, they would show up with ABSOLUTELY NO WARNING. That way, they would see the place as it usually is between the announced visits.

Anyway, the store’s camera room is overfilled with gift sets of perfume and cologne, among other things. It’s an actual safety hazard for anyone that needs to go into there for anything. When I mentioned this to management, I was told that the district manager said that “Every store in the country is like that.” I wouldn’t want to be the one needing to access the Loss Prevention file cabinet in a hurry, as it’s buried under the fragrances.

We got out Wednesday night at 10:45 PM (usually the latest is 10 PM), as a bunch of us stayed late spiffing things up for the dog=and-pony show on behalf of the inspector from Corporate HQ.

Anyway, stripping the cable ends, putting on the connectors, cleaving the fiber ends and polishing those fiber ends is easier than it looks on the videos we saw in class demonostrating the procedure. Not bad for only having about two hours sleep the night before.