Working at Harvey's- Prologue

I walked into Harvey's Retail store two months before my 19th birthday, it was my first job. I was excited and afraid, but most of all shy.  Harvey's was own all over the world, it was just like Wal-mart, and was constantly competing with them.  The store was big, and this store alone probably had about 100 associates.  There were many different departments, I was a cashier.  I did a lot of work on the computer, a lot of training.  They told me I had to go up to the customer service manager, those with purple vest's, whom were my supervisors.  I went to a little podium, and met a black women, about 5'6 thin, with the look of someone who's born children.  She had braids, and was a dark brown, pretty, perhaps 40, but looked 30.  "You are our new cashier, I see, well lets see where we are going to put you." While she figured that out, I looked at the registers, there were 20, and most of them were on.  The cashiers had on blue vests, and most of them were women.  They also had a customer service desk, two girls there too, no surprise. "You can go with Rose, register 8, come with me."  It turns out that the Customer Service Manager's, or, CSM's name was Sheryl.  She didn't seem too bad, she gave me the impression that she would either like someone or hate them. "Rose, this is Iris, she's a new one."  With that Sheryl left, and Rose took at look at me.  Rose was about 5'4, not skinny, but not fat, white, with beautiful long hair that she wore lose.  It was wavy, and a light brown color, she had a heart shaped face with a forehead that stood out a little, and dark brown eyes.  I on the other hand am 5'2, light skin, light brown eyes, and jet black curly hair waist length that I always wore in a bun, with bangs that I always straightened.  I was chunky, but well shaped, which helped me look lighter than I really was, and saved me from being fat, to being chubby.  Hey, fat, was fat, but many people have said I wasn't and some people have told me, its the way I'm shaped that makes me look chubby, voluptuous, and not fat.  I liked that. "Hey girl, I'm Rose."  I nodded at her, "I'm Iris."  With that I observed her, and she began to let me ring, at times teasing me with the customers saying I was new.  One guy actually said I was "fresh meat" the bastard.  Later on I enjoyed training with this older cashier named Elizabeth.  She was white about 5'9, thin with a pouch, but she had a kind face, she wore glasses, and had short blond hair, she was hyper, and she cracked me up. "HEEEY I'M ELIZABETH." "Hello, I'm Iris." She began to ring out customers, as I observed her.  "Its not much to it hun, your feet will kill you at first, I see you limping, but you'll get used to it, and the nine hour shift will go by, at least you have an hour lunch, and two fifteen min. breaks paid for. Not the lunch I mean though, just the breaks. Now you see the older cart guy, the shorty over there, that's my husband Jean, he's french." Jean turned out to be the opposite of Elizabeth, he was quiet, and he was short, but he was a nice guy.  Later on I trained more, but this time with a small Dominican lady named Isis. "Gou know, dee customer's can get verrry rrrude sometime, so gou have to be tuff, don' let it get to gour 'ead.  Muchacha, te digo, I mean I tell gou, dis people are sometin else." This lady also made my day, she would talk to me in Spanish alot, seeing as how I was Spanish.  She had an accent, but people seemed to like her.  She was short maybe 5 feet even with glasses, nappy short hair, and dark tan skin. She had one son who was 8.  It was almost time for me to go, thank god, my feet were killing me.  I had met some of the other managers, there was Linda, another manager,a talk white lady, she seemed cool, and Lydia, she might be Italian.  I had a half hour left, and in that time they had me picking up returns, items left behind by the customers around the registers.  I was told to bring them to the service desk, and as I did, Rose was there, and she had just gotten smacked in the face.  Everything was quiet, the big managers were coming.  For my first day this was pretty eventful.1