Work and colleagues

It is everything I expected - and more!

My two store managers are a great team with almost too much experience between the two to justify having them both as store managers of one store. I started work on the 7th and today (12th) is my first day off since then (we've been busy!).

Of the current staff, Steven and I are the two Danes in the Ormskirk branch. We have had a few other Danes visit and help out from time to time, but they aren't "ours".

Netto UK is different from Netto DK in a few different ways, all things that I personally consider better, like our bakery! We had bakery training this week and the goods are amazing! Was busy stuffing my face with donuts so this picture is from before we filled up all the trays with cookies, donuts, muffins, bread, buns and what not.

Should you get the chance, COME TRY!

Another exciting thing is the new shelf type, as I hope you can see from the picture, there is light underneath each shelf, also they are blue. These shelves are found in the Health & Beauty as well as the Baby sections.

As of writing we're filling up the shelves with goods so the store will look brand new as it is for the big opening friday. I'm excited as it will be my first store opening for Netto. Somehow I managed to always be in New Zealand whenever there was a store opening in Kolding.

Hurdles

Since last I wrote, some things happened that might be relevant:
I'm actually in the UK, and to be specific: Walton, Liverpool.

I'm not used to flying such short distances, or staying within Europe. I expected to have something to write about the trip here, but as it turns out the whole thing was very smooth and uneventful. So without further ado, here's what I did (hint, also your guide on how to get here!):
I hopped on the train to Copenhagen Airport, flew to Manchester (~2 hours), picked up my luggage and went to the trains, got on the one to Liverpool Lime Street and about 1.5 hours later I was at Lime Street station where I met up with Nick, my new flatmate and we could grab a taxi to Walton.

The place I'm living is very tight, but so is everything around here, that's a view of the street I live on, but they all look like that, so not very special by local standards but centainly something that stands out when you grew up on a farm. I thought these places only existed in Monty Python with people dancing on the roofs, singing about how they all dislike contraception. But no, that is apparently how much of Britain's suburbia looks.

So far so good: Moving and getting into the country; no problem. No the hurdles have more to do with bureaucracy around everything else here: National Insurance number, Bank account, phone contract. Well my next step is to get a "Confirmation of Address" so I can get started with the rest of the paperwork. I'll let you know once I actually start making progress and things happen.

Work? Hopefully starting soon. Apparently one can't start working without a contract and Netto has yet to fix mine, so, waiting :D