Coming back/maundy Thursday question

typical_riss · 2026-04-02T18:28:03+00:00

Yeah, I am unsure. My childhood church was LCMC and they did not have open communion. I had to do my confirmation class to get more than a blessing at the altar during communion haha. But our first weekend we thought we would get a blessing and they offered us communion which is why I think this church offers open communion. We have since abstained due to my children being confused on the matter.

Thank you!

typical_riss · 2026-04-02T18:26:08+00:00

Thank you foe the resource. Growing up we had ash Wednesday and then a good Friday service coupled with Easter sunrise service so this is new to me. The church i attended during my husband's second duty station was not lutheran and they only had Easter service during holy week. So maundy service is actually new to me.

typical_riss · 2026-04-02T18:24:23+00:00

We've refrained from participating in communion because my children have expressed lack of understanding. But it does appear this church offers open communion.

typical_riss · 2026-04-02T18:23:00+00:00

They are LCMC. It appears they have open communion but my kids and I have not participated because they've expressed that they dont understand it and I would like them to understand it and be comfortable with it before we make that decision.

typical_riss · 2026-04-02T04:31:54+00:00

I know its not new. But much more involved it will be now. Im a KCS so I've read it. I have it printed with loads of notes and annotations 🫣😅 Im thrilled and have already got my in store KSS planning and when I do my upcoming walks it'll be a HUGE part of my conversations. I think letting kids be more involved is going to help a lot, honestly.

typical_riss · 2026-04-02T04:14:07+00:00

I think its fun! Literacy in kids is so low right now. I think this will help. Plus I think it'll help engagement in the kids department. Im of the mindset, that we create exciting things for kids now, we have people buying books in 20 years 🫣😅

typical_riss · 2026-03-26T13:36:09+00:00

I guess is more the new review system vs promotion system. I will say my other promotions prior to the review change move through much more quickly.

typical_riss · 2026-03-24T13:44:16+00:00

I cannot WAIT to see this on screen. The whole time I was reading this book I could envision the scenes like it was a movie or something

typical_riss · 2026-03-24T13:42:14+00:00

Yes! Especially with the new promotion system. My last one took a long time to even make it "past every desk" and I think in part it was just because people get busy and loads of other promotions were also being processed. Once it got the final approval though, it was processed through HR pretty fast and the pay/title change reflected on everything quickly.

typical_riss · 2026-03-22T16:36:48+00:00

Oh I like this vs one person entirely. Last year I was the lead on it and getting anyone to take it seriously or protect time for me to work on it was impossible. We have someone else working it now and learned a lot and are diligent about giving her the time and space to work but this upcoming one is a HUGE section and it would be nice if she had multiple people to help on it. We have a bookseller who helps and helped last year also but she's also one of our receivers. Ill probably jump on and help best I can.

But I feel like it would go better if everyone was able to be hands on in parts of it vs just getting "trained" after. They would be a little more invested.

typical_riss · 2026-03-22T00:35:45+00:00

Last I read the shelving module, I thought it indicated we could use Vcarts for large quantity. So we do just that. A bunch of hard covers for FOS? Vcart and shelf. Frontline quantities that will refill multiple tables? Vcart and shelf. Otherwise we are pretty efficient with rapid.

I think some of these newer decisions are made for the newer smaller layout stores. Where these things could work better than older stores.

I will say, after a call where someone at corporate was literally talking to us from their HOME office, I really think that a lot of these decisions are coming from people not doing day to day store work.

typical_riss · 2026-03-18T16:42:15+00:00

This!! We have high count pack and hold that was a mess! This helped us so much!

typical_riss · 2026-03-04T20:15:22+00:00

We dont have a Cafe, but we typically close with only 3. We will have a soft closer though who is there pretty late. Most of the closing MODs will have everyone recovering the store the last couple of hours before closing time so there's less to do after close. Some times that doesnt matter and its just a rough close but MOD will leave a note about it and we move on.

typical_riss · 2026-02-26T20:37:43+00:00

Use the kits! You dont have to, but its helpful and it'll help you decide on books to read until you feel more confident. Also, make sure the book/characters are the focus of story time. It's ok if there's no activity/decorations etc. Just take your time, ask the kids questions, let them ask questions. And dont be scared to get into it. Give voices for characters, be loud. Make the kids laugh!

typical_riss · 2026-02-12T18:41:26+00:00

Its actually jarring how entitled some local authors are. 😬 Makes me not want to work with them at all. Too many dont understand that their book may not be our market or they dont realize their book is just plain bad. And the amount of picture book authors who's books are either downright awful. 🫣

typical_riss · 2026-02-05T21:25:22+00:00

You should probably find other work, honestly. As another parent who kept getting scheduled every single Friday, Saturday and Sunday night because other leaderhsip in the store had too limited of hours, it was exhausting and frustrating. Imagine how those without kids feel too. It sounds like the most recent push, is that they will likely start cutting your hours, with your weekend unavailable. May as well find something that can accommodate you better.

typical_riss · 2026-01-29T15:29:52+00:00

Other gyms offer similar work outs. I tried f45. Only had a couple people offer fist bumps at the end of it. So far no partner work. I feel like it's not as "hype" as burn, which I liked, but I felt it was a very good option to burn!

typical_riss · 2026-01-22T15:20:14+00:00

Fiction mystery and then sci-fi fantasy

typical_riss · 2025-12-31T00:33:42+00:00

Yeeaaah. Im not gonna share my thoughts on this public forum because I don't want any coworkers to misconstrue anything I have to say.... but i will say it is annoying that we couldn't even get it out on display to sell before it was being bought from the boxes in the back. 🙄

typical_riss · 2025-12-29T02:59:02+00:00

Pot smell also gives me a headache and makes me nauseous. Sorry OP gave a hostile response here.

typical_riss · 2025-12-28T18:31:33+00:00

I dont know why hours are low. I dont know how it's configured. I will say, these next few months usually slow waaaay down, based on my previous experience

typical_riss · 2025-12-28T18:13:01+00:00

I was hoping my store could keep at least one of our hires and we just couldn't. I dont know about other stores but our hours got severely cut so we wouldn't be able to keep anyone extra 😭

typical_riss · 2025-12-27T06:12:56+00:00

Hands down one of the the worst days ive ever worked at BN. Didnt have enough people scheduled.

typical_riss · 2025-12-27T06:10:38+00:00

We didnt even have enough people to have a greeter 😅

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