Bonnie's on Vacation

Eeee! I forgot! Deathly Hallows PT 1 on Friday!!! *bounce*

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I bet the ending of the first movie is when Voldemort gets the Elder Wand.
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I accidentally mouth-washed with Victor's mouth wash this morning, which is stronger than mine. So my tongue feels quite a bit better today.

Work:
I was the ICM today. So I had a fairly stress-free day. I was unable to get down the chip aisle to do my scans but that's ok, Frito rarely has holes anyway. They were doing all sorts of work everywhere, the construction crew. It was noisy. They stuck the horrid light brown paneling under the yellow walls in the back hallway. And for some reason there's super large wheat stalks painted in blue above service deli. Service deli was ripped to pieces this morning, so when the girls got in at 5AM they couldn't do anything, and Bret wasn't in till 7. I don't know how they spent those two hours, but Nora, our service deli manager, looked stressed all day.

Patty and Mike (who was our reset guy, but is obviously out of work till after the remodel and so was hired on to do stuff while he waits) were doing markdowns in the back room so I got to chat with Patty some. She's great. She says the funniest things and she just babbles on and on.

Patty told me something Bret wanted to do, but I don't think she let him. We had marked down some flower thingies and they were driving and passed a cross someone had put one on the side of the road and Bret wanted to pull over, pick it up, take it back to the store, and resell it. And this does not surprise me.

Patty causes so much shrink. She opened a bag of chocolate covered marshmallows, and told Bret later on that she stole them, and she doesn't care. She also refused to mark down anything that was damaged and instead tossed them, unless it was candy which she set out to eat.

I only had a few problems while receiving. Nabisco had a few discontinued items, and since it was a driver I don't know I told him to take them out. The regular guy might not have wanted me to take them out. But I refused them and now they'll probably have holes but I don't care. I don't know how to do a corrections invoice on a Nex vendor or if you're even allowed to. I had to do a corrections invoice on Schawns because he had all this pizza that was unauthorized, and I know I can do that with Dex vendors. I don't know how to authorize the product though. Do I submit it to corp or do the two companies work together to fix it and I stay out of it? I should have asked Teresa (icm at the next store over) when she called but I didn't think of it.

And Teresa had called me to make sure I saw the email with the Open Statement report on it, which I had and had already responded to a few hours prior. Good for her for checking on me though, she said her backup would never have caught that. Ha! I can't wait to tell Bonnie that. Bonnie tells me everything, shows me how to do every aspect of her job. Teresa keeps all but the essentials from her backup. And it shows. When we did the ICM certification last year me, Bonnie, and Teresa all passed easy, but Keri would have failed if me and Bonnie hadn't helped her out. (we were allowed to discuss amongst ourselves) In fact, I believe the scores went like this: Teresa 99, Bonnie, 96, Me, 94, Keri, 89, out of a possible 100.

We did get ads in today. Good. My Thanksgiving ad is the smallest I've ever seen it. This makes me suspicious. Very suspicious. I wonder what's going to go on sale that I won't know about until Wednesday? *sigh* I'll probably have to go in and order on Wednesday. I think I'll do the regular order on Tuesday, then maybe pop in for a few minutes sometime on Wednesday to see what surprise sales I have. I did the milk order today so that I wouldn't have to scramble to do it tomorrow. I already have the weekly conference call to attend. The call says to have receiving closed on the Friday after Thanksgiving. I think I'll forget to mention that to Bonnie, which she'll probably have it open, since she's had her Thanksgiving schedule drawn up for a week. But I want that day off.

I look forward to this week every year. It's one of the busiest weeks of the year and I get to skip out on it. Sure, Bonnie's the one who's actually on vacation, but it feels like I get a vacation too. Without this break from dairy I might go insane.