Tutle & Canary; Sunday [ 09/02 ]

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

When Turtle came in to open the store today, she put up two very important, very large, very glitter-accented signs in the windows.

One read:
NOW HIRING!
Good, competent workers, for weekends and Monday shifts.
Great employee benefits, including discounts on merchandise
AND FREE SQUISHIES!
Inquire within!

The other was a bit more important:
NEW STUDENT SPECIAL!
A whopping 70% off on school supplies, dorm supplies, and groceries
for ALL new students!
Great Savings, always at Turtle & Canary!

Satisfied with her signage, Turtle settled in for a day of hopefully meeting some of the new kids and then working out how to track down her little brother later. She must have just missed him at the picnic yesterday.

Today's Squishy flavors: Fresh Meat, Red, Blue.

Turtle & Canary is open!

Comments

Mod Apu -- 09/02

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

That's what he's there for.

Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

You know you want to.

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

Hoshi was definitely going to need supplies since this wasn't the time period she was expecting. She grabbed pretty much one of everything in the store since she wasn't entirely sure what she was going to need. Fortunately, when she was unpacking last night, she found that Daniels had included an envelope of currency with her registration materials.

The problem was, Hoshi had no idea what the amounts were.

"Umm, hi. I'm new here and I'm not sure how to use these," she said to the girl at the counter, waving a couple of $100 bills. "Where I come from, they no longer use currency."

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

There might have been a faint moment of staring at the new girl after Turtle's eyes finished being distracted by following the waving of the pretty hundreds.

"...No currency?" she asked. "Then how do you pay for things?" She shook her head, reminding herself that she had a sale here. "Although those'll work just fine here. Let me total you up and I can show you how much you'll need."

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

"Where I come from, we have a society where everything is provided for us, so there is no need for monetary exchange. I'm still not sure myself how it came about," explained Hoshi. She was still a few years away from meeting her first Ferengi.

[OOC: I have to run out to work in a few minutes. Will pick this up when I get home this evening.]

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle was probably as close as she'd get around here, and her nose wrinkled at something that smelled terribly of socialism. "I definitely hope," she said a bit worriedly, "that you're still providing services to earn the things that you're being supplied with."

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

"Oh, we have 100% employment," said Hoshi. "Everyone works and everyone shares equally in the rewards."

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle arched a very skeptical eyebrow. "Everyone?"

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

"Everyone, and because you don't have to worry about earning currency, you can pretty much work at whatever you want to do," said Hoshi. "My mother wants me to become a concert pianist, but I want to be an exo-linguist."

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"...But what if what you want to do isn't...very helpful?" Turtle offered. "What if what you want to do is nothing?"

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Ohh a store with really cool things! Sora looked in through the windows and patted his pockets to sadly find no munny. But he was happy to see that they were hiring and went inside.

"Excuse me?" He smiled brightly at the girl there. "There's a sign that says you're hiring?"

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Potential fresh meat employee! Turtle returned the boy's bright smile easily. "Why, yes, in fact, we are! Weekends, and there's a Tuesday despite the error on the original posts shift available. Very great work atmosphere, great benefits, and paid training. I'm Turtle," she offered out her hand, "I own the store. Are you interested?"

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

"Yeah totally!" Especially with the paid training part. "And I think Fridays would work for me!"

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Friday's sound wonderful, got a great shift open for that day."

Within two seconds, Turtle had extracted from underneath the counter a very detailed, three-page application with carbon paper and everything. "I'll just need you to fill this out. Basic information, pre-interview questions, that sort of thing. Don't let the size fool you; a lot of it is due to having one section if you're from this world, and the other section to help with getting around a few things if you're not. Here's a pen. You can fill it out here or bring it back later, and I'll look it over and try to get back to you before Friday."

She beamed. She loved getting to be all...professional and stuff.

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

The application was almost more frightening than some heartless that he had faced off against.

"Uhh.. okay," He glanced over it again. "I'm not from this world so I guess it's not as bad as I thought," Sora smiled and took the pen as he choose a non buys looking area of the store to start filing out as much as he could, before giving it back to her. "How's all that?"

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

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"Hmmmm." Turtle took on a very important and thoughtful expression as she looked through it, stroking her chin lightly. "Well, Sora, this all looks very good. Would you like to start this week? We can have you come in on Friday and I'll show you the ropes if you're ready. I know the first week here can be a little crazy for someone new."

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[key-of-heart.livejournal.com]

Sora nodded and shrugged. "Sure! It can't be any harder than fighting off heartless right?" He was going to have a hard time remembering that not everyone knew what heartless were.

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[honoraryphd.livejournal.com]

Victor walked into the shop and picked up several notebooks and pens. If there was one thing any scientist obsessed with a specific idea needed, it was lots and lots and lots of notebooks. With the seventy percent off sale, this was a deal Victor simply couldn't pass up.

"Don't forget the new student discount," he said when he reached the counter.

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Wouldn't dream of it," Turtle told the boy brightly as she started to ring him up. "Did you find everything okay? Good selection, all that stuff?" These sorts of things were important to ask anyone new coming in, to find out their first impressions of the store and how to keep doing good thing, change the bad, so on, forth.

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[honoraryphd.livejournal.com]

"I found everything. The selection was adequate, yes," Victor said.

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Excellent!" Turtle said, very pleased and proud of herself and what she was taking as perfectly fantastic praise. "Good to hear. We really are the best place to get anything around these parts; everything has my own personal quality guarantee. Name's Wexler, Turtle Wexler. I own this place, you know, so if there's any way I can help provide a better shopping experience for you while you're starting out here at Fandom, you let me know."

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[honoraryphd.livejournal.com]

"Wexler?" Victor asked. "Ah. You're my 'big sister,' I take it. Victor von Doom."

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"You're Victor?" Turtle asked, grin widening. "Oh, good! This saves me so much time and effort for having to track you down later! Sorry I missed you yesterday? You making it through okay? And let me also tell you that you have got the coolest last name, ever. Seriously. von Doom." She shook her head. "Beats the pants of Wexler any day."

Re: Talk to Turtle -- 09/02

[honoraryphd.livejournal.com]

"Thank you," Victor said. He wasn't the type to turn down praise, after all. "I suppose I should ask you, is it true that there are squirrels involved with the radio?"

OOC -- 09/02

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

For the newbies: Turtle & Canary is a general/department store that sells everything other than duct tape. I don't know why the duct tape.