Work woes and wallys

I’m pretty sure that anyone who is a manager will sympathise with this, but I really think that if my superiors just left me and my team to get on with it, our garage would run perfectly well, thank you very much. The trouble with our company is that there’s an entire level of rushed-in graduate management that has nothing to do with its time but find ways to justify its wages. (Hence the ridiculous yes-you-are, no-you’re-not, you-will-be-at-some-point farce about staying open overnight.) 
The latest ill-thought-through Idea From Above is to do with Hallowe’en. They’ve decided to force us to have a whole section of the booth devoted to costumes, merchandise, paraphernalia and sweets associated with October 31st. Plus to ‘cash in on the rolling Public Holiday market’ they want us to have a section of Christmas stuff up and running at the same time. They think people might actually come in and think “Oh my, with Hallowe’en approaching, Xmas must be just round the corner. While I’m here buying diesel and a Daily Mail I may as well stock up on candy canes and shitty chocolate liqueurs that I can hang on my dashboard Christmas tree.”
Head Office can quote facts and figures and trends and studies that show this would be financially worthwhile, but what they can’t show me is A WAY TO MAKE THE BOOTH BIG ENOUGH TO FIT ALL THIS SHIT IN, WHILE ALSO HAVING ROOM FOR THE BREAD AND MILK AND NEWSPAPERS AND SUNDRIES THAT WE STOCK EVERYDAY, AT EXORBITANTLY HIGHER PRICES THAN IN THE SUPERMARKET ACROSS THE CAR PARK.”
Anyway, I shan’t go on……

RC 6-10-16