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moshintheteagaiwan · 28 days
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T. Kettle Part 12: Time To Go
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When I first applied for the managers position at T. Kettle, I was very nervous and kept wondering if it was a mistake. What if I left my job as an exterminator and things at T. Kettle didn’t work out? Could I get my old job back? Would I find myself unemployed for a while? Besides some encouraging words from friends, the big thing that pushed me over was that the company was so new at the time, having only been around for less then a year, and so as it grew they would need to hire for position such as regional manager.
During my initial interview with the company I had expressed great interest in moving up to regional manager should the job ever become available. I was told that when this position opened up that people within the company would be given the opportunity to apply. I was also told this frequently during my time with the company, as were other managers who were wanting to move up. Throughout the year the company had closed stores and opened more.
Maggie, whom you may remember was one of my seasonal staff, was able to get a managers position of her own at a new store that was roughly an hour from where she lived. It was a massive store and they gave her the same speech they gave me about how great the store looked and how the stock was there and everything was ready to go. She too was met with a dirty, partially set up store with no cleaning supplies, and even worse, because of the company no longer having a teaware supplier, she had only a little stock from a closed store to fill her shelves, but it was not nearly enough.
I congratulated her and wished her best, but I knew the best was never coming. About a week later while browsing in Indeed for jobs I saw a new posting from T. Kettle looking for a regional manager. I thought that was odd considering they had not told anyone that this position was now open. I felt so let down by this. My store had high numbers consistently. I had expressed my want to this position numerous time and was promised a chance to interview for it when the time came, and yet I never got a word. None of us did. I called the other managers and they too were shocked.
I decided to take shot and apply for the position on Indeed anyway to see what would happen. Days went by and nothing. I heard from no one. I was deflated and it was clearer now more then ever that not only was the company full of shit, but that it was gonna sink and I needed to abandon ship. As luck would have it my old employer had begun treating the mall food court and on several occasions I ran into my old boss who would always ask me if I was ready to come back.
I usually told no because in truth I didn’t want to go through the physicality of being an exterminator again, but on this particular occasion, he joked that an office position was open but figured I wouldn’t be interested. I told him I absolutely would be! Seeing that I was serious he said he would talk to the current office staff and get back to me, and a few days later he called me to offer me the job, and to let him know when I was ready to come back. At this time I decided to take one more shot at the regional managers position.
I emailed HR directly with my resume and explained that I had been promised an interview for the position and that if I was not given my fair shot that I would be turning in my 2 weeks notice. I never heard a word from and neither did any other manager. And so that was it, I was through. I put in my two weeks and shockingly the company got back to me within a couple hours to wish me luck and let me know who would be taking my position so I could train them.
I informed my team who were not happy but understood. I never kept them in the dark about the bullshit that was going on behind the scenes. Fast forward to three days before my time was up and I still had not heard back from the company on my replacement. I emailed that and they said they were still looking. I suggested having Maggie take my position as she lived close to the store and had already worked for me and with my team. They decided to take my recommendation and Maggie was transferred to take my position. It was a good thing too because her store never did get it stock and with only a couple months was shut down. And I returned to my old employer in a new position and never looked back.
I kept tabs on the store since leaving. For roughly another year my store remained open in the mall while more stores continued to close. My old stock was given the majority of the stock which helped keep the shelves full but there was still no new teaware supplier and still on going issues getting tea to stock the tea wall. Maggie’s partner also worked for T. Kettle behind the scenes and reported multiple people leaving or getting fired which created more delay.
A little over a year after I left my old store was shut down due to lease issues and transferred to another nearby mall, however it remained closed and employees unpaid until renovations were complete because in this case they had not moved to an old DavidsTea location but instead an old chocolate store, so the whole space had to be remodelled.
Finally after a long wait they reopened. I went to visit them and saw that they had been converted to also selling waffles and boba. I was also told that the company which at it’s highest had around 45 stores was now down to just 3. Upon this last visit I felt more confidant in my decision to leave then I ever had. I truly hoped to relive my Teavana days and create a new haven for tea lovers but it was not in the cards. This was truly a clear case of a company taking on too much and a subject which they new nothing about, and had no business being a part of.
But I am glad for the 10 months I had there. Yes, this was all within 10 months. I do miss my team and getting to hang with them and making new relationships with other mall employees. However, it wasn’t meant to be, but judging from where the company is at now, I have no regrets.
The End.
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tauntonbaykratom · 2 years
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Tuesday is for tea time 🫖 🍵🍃 www.TauntonBaySoapCompany.com or 207-669-8246 9am-5pm EST / Monday-Friday #tauntonbaysoapcompany #tea #teashop #teastore #teatime #tealover #tealoversclub #looseleaf #looseleaftea #teablends #herbal #herbs #herbaltea #botanicals #teabags #chaitea #chai #chailatte (at Taunton Bay Soap Company) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjAyAiMLUaC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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bonsaicha · 2 years
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handgiven · 3 months
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this is my new favorite food. thank you. ( for em! )
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ever since he fell, existing within a body has turned into a bothersome cycle of basic bodily functions, most of which he had not been bothered by previously, and now the weight of them descending upon him all at once made the every day even more of a drag. well, drag and anxiety to keep alive and not forget anything. john has been a great help in that regard. it is hard to tell whether that is because of his own imperfections in the self-care area, or because he just makes it a habit to take creatures unaccustomed to taking care of their very mortal body under his wing. either way, he was always there, and though, as manny did put it, his very presence was bad news and a danger to em, the sad truth remained that if john were not here he likely would have been a danger to himself, constantly forgetting to eat and to drink and later wandering why is he so drowsy, so frail, so passed out on the floor.
either way, he is grateful. he tries to show it, too, even if he does not speak it a whole lot, not wishing to bring that much upon john. but the gratitude is in the little things, besides sticking his neck out for the man with the rotten soul. it's in cleaning up the apartment when they both get back from this cursed place or another and john is just a little worse for wear than em is. it's in eager attention as he passes by the teastores in town, trying to find his favourite brand of mate, so that he may bring it to john. it's in keeping john company when he has no one else left because it is the one thing he knows how to do. he is the 'with us', without 'god'.
he's made it his mission recently to get more into cooking. a part of it may have had to do with the fact that he'd caught himself forgetting things that once lived embedded into his very soul, a living part of his reality, though the memory formed itself thousands of years ago. forgetting people, forgetting places... but for some reason the sense of taste remained loyal to the memory. he couldn't remember their faces but when he did manage to season the soup they used to make just right, he could almost feel their presence with him. beloved, long after their bones have turned to dust.
he wouldn't talk about this with john. perhaps he felt it was silly, or perhaps he has feared that saying it out loud would make the magic of the tasteful memory disappear. still, even john would have to notice the effort em put into spending more time in the kitchen, each night on a different meal. he's accumulated a great box of various spices that allowed him to effortlessly skip from one side of the world to the next within moments, and to smell it all together almost made his eyes water. the scent was strong but the melancholy of knowing the complexity of the whole world all at once was even stronger.
some variation of lugaw or congee is on the menu tonight. nothing too fancy, nothing groundbreaking. people have been making rice since the dawn of time. still, em feels, it is a dish with a heart. the warmth of it as it settles into the darkest pit of one's stomach (and he has seen the void resting within john constantine), the aromatics that travel towards one's nose with each spoonful, and embedded somewhere within it all the ghost of a smile so wide of a woman who'd walked the earth millenia ago, and who touched em on the cheek and called him a child. he feels moved even now, thinking about her suddenly so vivid, but those emotions come in such violent bouts that he is grateful when john's voice breaks him out. he smiles a little too wide, too, and remains with his head bowed a little while longer, trying to blink away the tears in his eyes.
his voice, soft. "it means the world to me."
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The King of Sweden celebrated 50 years on the throne this year and the teastore have made a tea to celebrate that. Among many other ingredients it contains lavender & also orange blossom❤️ My hamster Vendela’s name can be connected to lavender & Tussi and Rockstar both liked orange❤️ It smells like lavender❤️
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wolfman-al · 4 years
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Post-it pixelart in the window of a tea store in Frankfurt Bornheim.
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bouteaque-fi · 5 years
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Openday in corso...fino alle ore 22!! . . #tea #bouteaque #bouteaquetea #instafood #foodgram #buffet #tè #degustazione #teagram #firenze #igersflorence #vialanza #teastore #teashop https://www.instagram.com/p/B4DBg7-iVJV/?igshid=cvpam2ti02f9
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airytea-blog · 5 years
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Mmmm.... Creamy and dreamy https://www.airytea.com 🍋 #tea #greentea #whitetea #desserts #drinks #tasty #delicious #teastore #cake #bestcake #mmm #macha #recipes #teas #airytea #coffee #pie #cakeboss (at United States) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx-DYajIUBW/?igshid=193kxcrejvxd6
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scarletvanitea · 3 years
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🙏🏽I want to say thank you to our friends from 🫖 @yesyourmajestea and 🫖@thekrakenscup for sending lovely teas to our Workshop 💐 Without you guys it wouldn't even be possible. Keep up the good work!🍵🍓🍵🍓 ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ ⋆ #teasponsor #teashop #teastore #healthytea #healthyoptions #teaandtreats #highteaparty #teatimesnacks #instatea #teaworkshop #teaclass #besttea #teabrand #teaeducation #teatip #cutefood #cutebeverage #diabeticfriendly #glutenfreedessert #veganrecipes #veganoptions #teablends #hojicha #milkyoolong (at Atlanta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTz6_q8LSIa/?utm_medium=tumblr
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shawn7xu · 3 years
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🥤🥤🥤#milktea #guangzhou #广州 #streetview #streetphoto #streetphotography #chinesearchitecture #guangzhoulife #travelinchina #travelchina #streetclassic #blackandwhite #teastore #bnw #travellife #guangzhoucity #china #pedestrians #shopfront #travel2china #milkteastore #visitchina #discoverchina #mychinagram #instachina #chinatravel #chinatrip #captchina #explorechina (at Guangzhou, China) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO11XgKHEc5/?igshid=5n2g0lxbcmh0
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moshintheteagaiwan · 29 days
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T. Kettle Part 11: The New Year & The Missing Stock
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It was a new year and we had successfully gotten through our first Christmas season as a new store. As you would expect after Christmas, the shelves were bare and stock was scarce. We still has a handful of Christmas infuser mugs left and some left over tins of Christmas blends, but overall we sold out of nearly everything. I had to give it to the company, they really did deliver on excellent Christmas tin designs and gift boxes. The teawares left something to be desired but overall, I’d seen worse.
As January slowly passed, we spent the final remaining weeks with our seasonal staff. They really had come through for the store and delivered on everything I had taught them. Around this time one of my original team members had come to me with his two weeks notice as he had gotten a full time position in his field. I was sad to lose him as even though he wasn’t the biggest fan of tea, you would never be able to tell from watching how he sold it. He was a good kid and I wished him well. I initially took this opportunity to extend his soon to be open position to Maggie, but she turned it town because she didn’t feel she could handle two jobs at the time which was fair.
I then extended it to Zack who accepted. I was grateful to have him with us permanently as he was hard working, always early no matter how many times I told him not be arrive an hour early, and he was great to work with and was great with customers. Initially I decided not to extend the offer to him first because I knew Maggie really wanted to have a permanent position in a tea shop again, but she end up circling back around later.
Soon the store was back to three people, but because mall hours had extended and our sales were high I was able to schedule more hours and didn’t have to work alone four days a week anymore. At this time we were focusing on selling off the remaining Christmas stock and awaiting the arrival of new stock to replenish the shelves. But it never came....
Managers were submitting stock orders weekly, trying to push for more stock to refill our shelves, but as time passed and the shelves became more bare, we waited on word of when to expect our orders. But it wasn’t just teawares, ordering the actual tea became an issue too. We placed orders weekly but like the teawares, nothing was coming. Then one day a shipment of tea did arrive, only it was not what we had ordered, but was instead the new Valentine’s Day blends.
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It was something but didn’t fill much space. Finally though we got word of the missing teas and teawares on our next conference call. We were told that due to supply issues, as many retails stores were going through that at the time, stock orders had been placed but that when it would arrive was unknown due to lack of supply. This seemed believable at the time but as I’m sure your not surprised to hear by now, this was a bold faced lie.
The actual truth was that the company had become fed up with their teaware supplier failing to fulfill orders and thus decided to cancel their contract with them. However, before doing so they had failed to first obtain a new contract with a new supplier. This meant that not only did they no longer have their old supplier, but they now had no supplier at all, which meant teawares and stock was never coming. As for the tea itself which was supplied through a separate company, the delays were due to the company’s new manager of operations deciding that store managers were not properly capable of keeping track of and ordering their own tea stock.
This was due to an internal issue during the distribution of the Christmas stock. At the time, some stores received large amounts of Christmas stock, while other stores received less stock, and few received almost nothing. This issue was no fault of any store manager as we did not have the option to order Christmas stock, instead it was shipped to us automatically. In either case due to this error the manager of operations decided he himself must sign off on all tea orders made by stores, and he would compare the orders to recorded stock, and decide from there if he wanted to sign off on the orders.
Not only did this create more delay but it came with an extended delay because just before Christmas, Toys R Us was going out of business in the United States and the company had bought the rights to Toys R Us Canada. This meant the same team that was already responsible for our brand as well as three other bigger brands now also had to run operations for Toys R Us Canada. And as you can imagine this meant the new manager of operations had no time to look over and sign off on tea orders.
And so day by day out shelves became more bare and the tea wall became more empty. On occasion we would get random mixed stock from stores the company had decided to close, but this stock was usually very little and last no time at all. And with this everyday my faith in the company diminished and I couldn’t help but think to myself, I need to get off this sinking ship.
To be concluded...
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tauntonbaykratom · 2 years
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Summer is better with tea 🍃🍵💚 www.TauntonBaySoapCompany.com #tauntonbaysoapcompany #tea #teashop #teastore #herbaltea #looseleaftea #looseleaf #teapowder #herbs #herbal #herbstore #herbshop #herbalshop #botanicals #herbalproducts #naturalproducts #natural (at Taunton Bay Soap Company) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChFZQ4SpXwE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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jmaivohouse-blog · 6 years
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Processing of Dandelion root tea... We give you nothing short of the best.... #issafreshtea #no1herbalstoreinnigeria #teashop #teastore #herbaljunkie #herbalstore #jmaivo #jmaivohouse #dandelionroottea #dandelionroot #dandelionleaf #freshfarm #healthylifestyle #healthyeating #issababygirl #fresh #foodporn #teatox #teanaija #ketogenic #diabeticfood (at Ikorodu)
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Mum also bought this tea in the teastore. Translates to ’Strawberry / bubbles’ which may indicate champagne. Thomas loved strawberry and it smells amazing❤️
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bouteaque-fi · 3 years
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Il negozio @bouteaque_fi rimane aperto con gli stessi orari: da Lunedì a Venerdì 11-14 & 15.30-19.30 il Sabato 10.30-13 & 16-19 . . Oggi è rientrato il #tè verde al gelsomino 🌱, il tè bianco BaiMuDan, Ceylon UVA, nero del Rwanda, bouquet di tè che sbocciano 🤗 . Mi scuso da ora per possibili ritardi in mattinata, purtroppo può succedere per commissioni o consulenze che si prolungano o questioni logistiche: per conferma 3495094565 o [email protected]! . #tea #teabox #box #canister #tins #tin #lattina #firenze #NinaStyle #Bellariva #instalike #teastore #teahop #teaddict #tealovers #tealover #teapotcollector #tealosophy #tee #cha #chai #thé #teiere #cuppa #cupoftea #cuppatea #pasqua #regali #consegneadomicilio (presso Via Giovanni Lanza) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNBJK4PFnd_/?igshid=1o1zphezbw8pu
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