Waterfalls Indoors

So to update all of you like 2 people, I will start with my first day of work. Yes, it was a week and a day after my last post, but whatever. Nothing interesting happened since then. Isn’t life exciting?

I didn’t get to work on our opening day, but Emma did stop by the store to say hi. I quote, “just went to Tilly’s, only to find out you’re not working.” ha. Anyways, so my first day of working was pretty eventful. So i showed up and about 10 minutes into my day, everything is normal when a random wet man decides to run into our store (no, wet is an understatement. he looked like he just jumped into a pool) and asks to see our water pipes or something. We’re all super confused. I go outside to find a waterfall coming down the stairs from the floor above us, draining into the parking lot. Apparently the guy said that a water pipe broke and the water could start leaking into our store if it didn’t start. Well ... he was right. It started flooding in our store. So everywhere behind the cash registers was covered in water. It was great. So a few minutes later, I’m helping a customer and I point to show them one of the mannequins at the front window and as I look past the mannequin, I see a firetruck parked outside our store. what the heck. So I go outside to see what the deal is. There wasn’t one firetruck, oh no, there were three. And not to mention one of my assistant managers was making it the biggest deal of life. So to keep you updated, we now have a drenched man, about 10 firefighters, and my crazy manager walking around our store. I felt like I was the only person who wasn’t surprised. For some reason I expect random events like this to happen in my life. And they never fail me. Its great.

Is Tilly really a girls name?

So today was my first day of training.
We all (about 20 something of us) walked into the conference room at the hotel and it was like a dance party. music Videos playing. music pumping. candy all over the tables. we each had our own personal folders. I was stoked.
However, it was rather boring.
6 hours of sitting and listening to information. Halfway through the orientation I thought to myself, "I feel like I'm getting brainwashed." And then I pretended like I was on a secret mission to get the information out of the Tilly's corporation and it became much more interesting.

Also, I made the district manager laugh. The first time, we were introducing ourselves and we were supposed to give an interesting fact about ourselves. (and let me tell you, everyone likes to have fun. how boring) I stood up and informed the class (thats what it was really, a class on how to be a Tilly's employee) that my favorite animals were penguins. My district manager laughed and said "That's my husband's favorite animal!" We have so much in common.
Later that same evening, we were going over dress code policy and my assistant manager didn't know the difference between flip-flops and sandals and apparently flip-flops are against our policy since they don't have a back strap. I told him that flip flops flip and flop while you walk. My district manager gave me a high five and laughed. I think we're well on our way to being great friends.

On another note, me and the girl next to me were talking about how we had no Tilly's-style clothes hardly at all. Just then we were informed that we were going to have a fashion show tomorrow and whoever could represent the Tilly's fashion vision would be the winner. I looked at her and laughed. I'm screwed.

What else happened at orientation?
Oh yes we had a lego building contest. It was a little bit anticlimactic. whatever. my team got 2nd place. apparently you don't get a prize for being the 1st losers.


p.s. I'm obsessed with this video for some reason I think its hilarious and have been secretly quoting it in my head for the past ... since whenever I heard it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnBb_DgckkQ