Work

Yesterday the rain wasn't really coming down all that hard, I just thought it was a nice embelleshment.

My newbie couldn't make it in till 4 so I worked an 8-4 today. And when I first came in Zhaun was offloading a truck. It was the second grocery truck of the day. And he hadn't stacked any pallets so we had no room. He did help me finish the truck, although he used the electric jack and made me use a manual one. Bonnie was mad at him for not stacking. We haven't been busy enough for us to have gotten in as much as we did, I don't know what he's doing. It was kinda busyish today, though.

I later had to deal with Doug Andru's stupidest driver. Oh, he just irritates me so bad. He won't listen. I tell him to put a pallet on the left and I come in and find he put it on the right. I had to yell at him to stop once when he started to run a pallet into my shelves. He's also the one who at one point refused to turn a pallet and grab it from the other side even though I warned him repeatedly if he didn't it would fall over. Guess which one of us was right. Today, he asked where to put a meat pallet, in the first one or the second one. (we have a hallway with two freezers and at the very end the meat cooler) I told him to put it in the one that's open. He said there weren't any open ones. I then showed him that there were two freezers and we can not put cooler freight in a freezer and that the meat dept. door was indeed open.  I don't remember what all else he did today.

I was doing markdowns and a man asked me if the kool-aid on the display was 21 cents for a case. What?? Of course not. He then asked if my eggs were salmonella-free. I told him yes. He said, "How do you know?" That seriously ruffled my feathers, the attitude he said it with. How do I know. Well because none of our eggs were on the recall, we don't carry those brands, and if we had any on the recall they would have been dealt with by now.

Right after that someone sneaked up behind me and suddenly there was a hand brushing past my ear on it's way to a carton of eggs.  As if that weren't bad enough she did it again!!!

Later I was getting some keys to lock the back door cause Produce never does that when they're done, and the add for the next week that we lock up and keep secret so Super 1 doesn't steal our adds (like they were doing before) and none of the vendors can see it (because it was vendors stealing them), yeah, Bret had it open and was showing a vendor everything in it and going, "Look at these prices!" Bonnie specifically clips each vendor's items and gives it to them so they know how to order. Zhaun leaves adds on his cart all the time, the office door was open and the box with the adds out and in easy finding range. I guess they stopped caring.

So we have commercials playing at work. Oh, yes, I love our commercials. This one I'm currently hating is the Western Union one. Actually there's two, but it's mainly the one that bothers me. It says what if you're shopping and your sister calls you from school in Alaska to say she needs 50 dollars for boots can you wire her that, and you say yes. No. I say, "So you went to Alaska and didn't bring boots with you? I'd say you need to go back to school. Besides which what kind of boots are you buying with 50 dollars! Don't they have Wal-Mart up there?" The other Western Union one is that your friend calls you and is in a jam and needs 50 dollars. Now, I don't have many friends, but I wouldn't give any of them 50 dollars. I don't have that kind of money, or that kind of friend.

Another one is just a spot, a pet spot giving advice about pets. It says that you're supposed to pull energy from the earth and focus it on your pet to heal it. o_0

Later I was ordering and this fat woman came up and started rearranging the Carb Masters yogurt. Yes, she took a raspberry and moved it into the vanilla spot, and then took another and moved it into the strawberry banana spot! And then just left them there!

I also had a few people attempt to reach through me to get to product. At one point I started feeling a little sick and had an anxiety headache.

I checked a little bit and one of the people was this sour looking woman whom I thought for sure was going to immediately find a CSM and complain about me for Lord knows what.

I had a bagger come back with a gallon of milk in a bag and I told him it was dripping and to dump it out. Several minutes passed and he didn't reappear. I went in search of him and upon opening my door discovered that he had created a little puddle of milk outside my door and left it. I couldn't find the gallon. I tried calling a CSM but no answer. I get in serious trouble if I ignore them and mild trouble if I don't hear them. But they ignore me and no one cares. I walked all the way up front to ask the bagger what happened to that gallon. Turns out he was trained to put it in the vendor damage cart after he dumped it out. What?? I asked him who trained him that way and he said he didn't remember, but that it was either Bonnie or Dustin. Yeah, neither would say that unless Dustin just wanted to make Bonnie mad. Bonnie knows everything and would never tell him to do that. I guess at some point I should let Julie know that someone's telling baggers to do that.

Oh, and those "nitrate free" hot dogs made Victor sick. We figure they used pink salt to color them. Which totally defeats the purpose of being nitrate free. Kinda like this tv dinner I saw that's smoked cheddar macaroni and uncured bacon. The smoked cheddar defeats the purpose of the uncured bacon! Anyway, Victor sent an email of complaint to Oscar Meyer. Pink salt in larger doses is actually fatal to him. As it is he's having a very, very nasty migraine.

I was typing with Bonecrusher on my arm until just now. He managed to wipe my entire entry. Thank God for ctrl-z.

Since Victor's sick we're not having a real dinner cause he can't stomach a lot right now. He's eating chips and dip and I just had some Campbell's Chicken and Dumpling soup and a banana. Normally I don't like soup and when I have it I drink the icky water first and leave the actual food for last so I can enjoy it. But the Campbell's Creamy Chicken and Dumpling is great. It's not too watery, though it just barely borders on being too watery, and when you add a little salt it's great.