Nowhere to shuttle
In the forest of khaki, gray heather, Chambray is that the gap on the shop Fifth Avenue and 54th Street, 6 feet 4 inches Jeff Einstein is a walking, talking redwood. The snapshot of a potential customer the invisible frontier of his department, he approaches to offer support. Too bad”Ich am not sell cars, jokes, il”avec a pear man, after a pair of khakis - 40-inch size, wrists, wrinkles - less than 15 seconds.
It is something self-awareness of Jeff’s act as if it tries to prove to himself, he practises with his work. Or maybe it is an overcompensation that cost a little slow to tell me in a few weeks earlier. (”Now I work in retail,”he said enigmatic.) Any declaration makes sense. Jeff is not your type Gap seller.
When his coat finish, we only move a bar nearby, and Jeff told me the history of landing the job. The Gap was ready for the Christmas rush near the end of last year, and it was for a group of cargo interview. ”There were about 20 people in space, remembers Jeff”,” and each of us have had about us and our recent position. It was a cashier at McDonald’s, a woman had worked in Baby Gap, a collector selling tickets Loews, a gift wrapper Barnes & Noble. Then, it was for me. I said I was a former Executive Vice President and director of interactive marketing for Rapp Digital, a digital media company of 300 employees and an S. and L. $ 40 million.”
Jeff, 50, has lost his job at Rapp Digital almost two years, making it one of the computers 21000 industry professionals in New York City has been released since the end of 2000. In percentage terms, the figures are still strong. Between December 2000 and January 2003, the industry has cut 41% of its positions.