Business as Usual

     I believe that I forgot to mention that about a month ago, we brought a new intern into the mix. Her name's LaShay, and she's a grad student at SCAD. She basically does what I do, though for the past week or so she's been mostly occupied with going through every piece of inventory in the office and checking that it's actually on the Les Nouvelles site for customers to see and purchase (and vice versa, making sure that everything that's on the site is actually in the office.) For some reason, we've been having a lot of problems with items showing up properly on the site, so Starr, Haven, and Mackenzie are manually going through our back-end website to check that items that weren't showing up on the e-commerce site are now properly represented.
     Katie still hasn't said a word to me herself about the fact that she's leaving at the end of August. Mackenzie says that she's most likely trying to figure out the game plan for what's going to happen before saying anything to us as a group. In the meantime, we still get vendor shipments almost every day, and I make sure that the contents match the in-voice, I bring up the smallest size of each item up to the studio so that they can be shot, and I put the rest of the merch in their proper places. We still have orders every day that need to be picked, packed, and shipped. In fact, there's a flash sale going on until midnight tonight, so Monday will be all about getting all of those orders taken care of.
     As far as our merchandise goes, we sell what I consider to be beautiful and unique pieces from brands that you can't find everywhere else. It gives that feeling of exclusivity and speciality. We have a wide range of casual to dressy apparel, shoes, lingerie, swimwear, shoes, bags, hats, and jewelry. This coat by Rag & Bone is for Fall 2015, and it's so beautiful. It makes me very impatient for fall!

     My training has been very touch and go while I've been here. I'd be shown how to pick out items for orders, pack them, answer customer emails, etc and then I'd take over from there. Obviously, I'd ask questions if I was confused about something, but for the most part I've been pretty self-sufficient.
     I've been very lucky in that I haven't really had to "deal" with anyone here. There's usually only 5 or 6 of us in the office at a time, and we're all very easy to work with. No attitudes, no drama, nothing to hamper us doing our jobs.