Today was a great day.

I arrived around my usual early time and was put to work right away typing up the company's attributes and the values of those attributes on an excel file format. This will help the sales associates not only in New York but also in Chicago and most likely eventually LA better express the good qualities about every dress they have in their showrooms. this in turn should help sell the dresses and that in turn makes a better profit.

After I finished that task, I helped Jenny begin to clean out her office and on Thursday I will continue to help her organize, I shredded old folders of resumes and papers and paper work that she hadn't looked at in 2 or more years. Reorganizing as she put it will help her to be more efficient and she'll know where everything is once we get rid of all the things that don't need to be in there, we can make room for everything that does need to be within arms reach and that way she will stay better organized, which in turn will make her work more organized and she won't expend energy on looking for things.

I did some typical swatching and filing of papers, as well as creating some new client folders.

Today I did learn something new. I got to charge credit cards for purchases. How one goes about doing that... Is you pull up the bride's account on the computer and depending on if it is a bride or bride's maid that you are charging you view the billing info for the appropriate transaction. Enter the Credit Card number into the machine and the Expiration Date. Then you enter the amount and then it prints, attach it to the sales receipt and if all the clients within the folder have been charged and all cards have gone through the machine fine you place it in the accountants box to be invoiced. However if you are still missing payment from any of the members of the party or someone's card was declined you have to contact them to clear up the issue.

I'm learning a lot and I really like that I'm getting a lot of different sides of the business, from production, to sales, to accounting/billing, to almost secretarial duties and some design aspects as well.

I did show Jenny my designs that I accomplished over the weekend, maybe on Thursday I can ask her what she thought. Also need to ask her about the last week of July and need to sit down with her, Kate and Debra in order to fill out the paperwork for Caz.