So I’ve Been Promoted to Manager

Posted on 16 August 2010

Yup.  My first day was today, manning a new store for Computer Depot all by myself.  So I haven’t really “managed” anybody yet, but they trust me enough to leave me alone.  During the weekdays I’ll be co-managing with someone else on a different shift so I won’t be stuck there all day for 12 hours straight.

I’ve known about the promotion since the middle of June about 2 weeks after I was hired (If that’s not a record, I don’t know what is), and haven’t been able to say anything about it because the boss didn’t want me to.  But now that the store is open, and I’m in the position, I can say something now.

I think I’ve gained some experience already.  I had to deal with a leaky roof first thing in the morning because of the thunderstorm last night.  The rain shower this afternoon also caused the roof tile to collapse, so I got to clean that up.  Dealt with five or six groups of customers today, a really buggy piece of cash register software called Everest, and the store’s entire Internet being funneled through a dinky little cable bandwidth pipe and a cable modem and router that shut off when they got hot.  It was so bad, that I couldn’t even stream audio without having to reset the software, so you can imagine how downloading gigabytes of Windows Updates onto a bunch of PCs went.  And I will do the same tomorrow morning, bright and early at 8:30am.  I can’t wait!

I also can’t wait to share with you my writing news.  I’ve edited through six chapters today in my second pass.  This makes up for least week’s dearth of chapters and puts me back on schedule.  This second pass should be finished in two weeks if I keep doing 3 chapters a week.  I am not sure what day I will be working this weekend, so I will keep my goal at 3 chapters.  Otherwise I would have tried to do four or five.  If I still have Saturday off, I’ll go for four so I will have time to jump into the lesson for the third pass revision in two weeks.

I also started tonight on a new plan for Bible study.  I read the book of Galatians tonight.  I hadn’t been doing very well keeping up with daily devotionals, so I decided this week to spend one good chunk of time per week studying, and I’ve already gotten more out of Galatians than I would have if I had split it up over five or six days.

For example, it occurred to me that from a Christian perspective the entire feud between the Jews and the Arabs is pointless.  This enmity began when Abraham, spurred on by his wife Sarah, sent his second wife Hagar and her son Ishmael into the desert.  Jesus Christ came through Jacob’s line so that all nations would benefit (Galatians 3).  And now through Christ, the descendants of Esau can once again be reunited with their birthright as sons of God.  The simplicity and beauty of this reunification has eluded me until now, but there it has been, sitting there for 2000 years, and I thought I would share it with you.