Finally some attention to the shop assistants!
Lately the florentine newspaper “Nuovo Corriere di Firenze” have been given out a serie of articles about the shop assistants and their world.
Every day the giornalist Emanuela De Pinto has been in research among many shops in Florence, Italy, interviewing shop assistants of all kind, from super markets to exclusive fashionable boutiques it’s not the importance. Emanuela wants to know what’s behind their life, experience and why they have been choosing this kind of work.
Why does she want to know this? Unfortunatly and very often this job is underestimated and taken for granted. Many think that it is an easy job and that anyone could do it. Wrong. It’s true that you don’t need any graduation but a lot of patientence, education and passion for what you do, “if not this job isn’t easy to hold on to either physical or psycological“, says Cristina Tizzi our shop director of the shoe shop Romanofirenze in via degli Speziali, Florence, to the giornalist. On Sunday the 3rd of May you could find the article in “il Nuovo Corriere di Firenze” about us…
Every new article and new story give more or less the same result. It’s a very social work that allows you to stay among a lot of different kind of people from different nationalities. It’s very difficult that you get boored and it keeps you in good shape running scales up and down the stockroom all day long. It’s a work that helps you to grow: to learn new languages, to get knowledge of new products and in our case you will end up with a new pair of shoes in every corner of your house!
As in all type of jobs you will find pro’s but also con’s like; when everybody are out shopping we are at your service, hence the working hours are uncomfortable, no week-ends or holy-days off. Although with all your passion for this job you will find hard days when it’s very difficult to keep your smile in public and obviusly we cannot hide in a office!
