Week 3

This week at Anthro on Wednesday right when I came in at 8, I started my usual task of watering and grooming the plants that are scattered around the store. A couple of plants had died to the point of no return so we took them downstairs to clip the dead parts and see if it would rebloom. Then after the plants were finished all 4 of the interns working began to paint the gray balls once again (we started off with 5000 pieces). One person painted, while another dried with the blowdryer, while another person cleaned and the last person drilled holes. We got a pretty good system going and every hour or so we'd all switch so we didn't get bored doing the same thing. We worked on the plastic balls all day long because window assembly starts very soon!
On Thursday, I helped Michelle (visual merchandiser - clothing) and Anne (head visual merchandiser/display) rearrange several sections of the store. We had a very large shipment of clothing come in so when we were finished the store would look drastically different. I did a variety of small tasks including size runs, hanging and folding clothing, fiding "hiding spots" (which basically means finding spots to put old clothing so its not the focal point but still displayed somewhere) and putting together rolling racks. Also I steamed two outfits and dressed two mannequins which showed off the new merchandise we got. The last part of my day I spent helping Javier and George do a crazy amount of back stock.
On Friday, once again all interns were instructed to keep working on the ball process (with less than 200 to go!) which consisted of us in an assembly line working hard to get the display done.We finished them all by the end of the day and it felt awesome. Monday I assume we will begin stringing them.