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Home | Friends & Family | School | Work | Fun | Wolves Of course when I graduate I'll be teaching biology somewhere, but for now it's...
That's right: Tractor Supply Company. "Whoa... this guy must be a real hick!" Not quite, I don't go around in bib overalls and a straw hat. But after growing up on a small farm, it seemed to make sense. It's a nice quiet store, about a 2 minute walk from our new apartment, and the people are great. I used to work at a store called Central Tractor in the same building, but it was bought out by a company run by monkees and went bankrupt shortly after. A few of us got hired over to the new store, so with the crew back together again good times are always at hand. Our Spokespersons? George Strait and John Lyons. Big names? I guess. However, it means having to listen to nothing but horrible, twangy county music ALL DAY! If I have to hear another song about broken trucks and hearts I may rip my hair out. Honestly, I don't listen to country when I can help it and I know words to as many country songs as I do 'real' music. If you're a country fan you have both my apology and my pity. So what's it like working for the premier supplier of wares for farmers, rural homeowners, and contractors? Not bad. I'm usually on register (yes, they're computers, technology is slowly infiltrating the farm scene), but I do a little bit of everything else. Usually this means loading 't-posts' and looking up parts. Downside to this: all of the customers expect you to have every make, model, style, size, shape, and color tractor ever made, and every part for each of them, memorized. The typical phone call: "Thank you for calling Tractor Supply Company, this is Ryan, how can I help you?" "I need a subsystem gas chamber filament for my 1947 John Deere model 37A, do you have any there?" "Um, *cough*, well..." "It should be the same as the rotor bearing holder in the carbomatic flagellator holder on the old model 5A's, I believe." (Uh, yeah, sure..) Anyway, you get the idea. I grew up on a small farm, not inside of a library of tractor part encyclopedias. This is information that any good hick should know, which is further proof I don't fall under that category! Our store opened its' doors for business on May 18th, 2002, and had it's official grand opening the first weekend in June. As of the beginning of October we had already served over 50,000 people. |
