plumbing woes

So last year when either we had a cracked pipe cause the water froze the people who replaced that, or when they replaced the sewage stuff but I don't think the sewage people worked on the pipes, or when they had to cut away roots from the willow tree when the roots got into the pipes, they cracked another pipe and duct taped it up and left it that way. So it broke. And caused a lot of damage. The property management people will replace anything underground but everything above ground we're doing. The manager guy is helping us with all that. And unfortunately I'm the only one small enough to crawl under the house! I know the least about this, and have the least strength. But I'm hardy. And I have my hair in the double buns. Right now Victor's gone out to get another angle of pipe that we need so I'm back inside. And I would invite the manager guy in but the house is so much more of a mess than normal that I would rather he think I was ungrateful and rude than to invite him in and see our mess. If anything I can play on the I'm shy and simply didn't think of it routine. Which is normally the case anyway. Augh, I breathed in too much insulation under there I think, I'm still coughing a little. I have to go back under there to connect some pipe or other when Victor gets back.

Work:
When I got in I saw the remodel team had pushed an aisle over in front of my dairy doors. Thanks. I only had a few doors on each side that weren't blocked.

The grocery truck was in first thing too, so I had to do that. He had 3 pallets of dairy at the tail end I had to get in first. And Zhaun was back there telling me to offload the truck this way and do that with these pallets, and why couldn't he do it himself? So I go that in and went to try to face. As I started the long-haired Chinly (I don't know how to say that word and I don't know how to pronounce that word. Could be Chini. When I have to call them I slur the word a bit so no one will know I don't know what that word is) brother came over and pulled the aisle away enough for me to get to my shelves, and then he got his brother to come help him move the aisle away. Good. They're such good guys. I really like them, especially the longer haired one. The other one (I dare say the younger one?) seems quiet, I've never had interaction with him. But they're the guys who are taking care of what we get in for the remodel, keeping track of it, offloading it, taking stuff out of the containers as we need it, and generally helping out as needed. Bonnie really likes them too.

So then I had a good few hours, knowing that Doug Andrus was parked to the side and knowing he probably had turkeys since grocery had a balance of dairy. I figured that meant that Doug Andrus was full and they had to shuffle. Well, around 10:30 I got him in and indeed. He had 19 boards of frozen. So I told Bob, who said that he would get his freezer ready. Yeah, right.

Then I told Bret.
Me, "Bret, we have turkeys in."
Bret, "omg"
Me, "19 boards."
Bret, "omg"
I think Bret's been pushed over the edge. He's beyond being on the rampage. When he came in today he was sorta shocked and just kept silently shaking his head.

Then I told Julie about the turkeys and she swore badly. I think I've only heard her say that word once before. And for some reason it was highly amusing, to hear her to do that. I had to fight back laughter. I don't know why.

So Bret got on the phone and ran around trying to figure out what to do. As if we hadn't told him back in August or September that the trailer didn't have a refer on it. (we got little king to drop us a trailer for extra storage ages ago) But they were all in a hurry as if today was the first time we ever told them the trailer didn't have a refer. We had produce waiting to get in so they decided that he would drop his trailer and pick up the other one and take it back to the yard. So we had product on that trailer, it was stuffed full. Bret had called Zhaun back in and so I got him to tell me what needed to be taken out of the trailer so I got Newbie Joe to help me with that. He's too cheerful still. Probably thinks this is all so much fun. So we moved a lot of pallets out to the floor. And then ConWay dropped by with two pallets of keebler. And produce truck had six more boards of grocery. At least we had 8 pallets of salt I got Joe to take up front. Bret got the guys in stacking the freezers, poor Pam. (frozen manager) I was able to get the entire regular freight load in the grocery freezer and six pallets of turkeys in the meat freezer. Seven pallets of turkeys went outside to await the trailer.

Dustin came in at noon, as per the schedule, and I had him get right on dairy while I finished messing around with the turkeys and trailers. Bud (driver with produce) came back with the trailer at 2:00 and was in the process of trying to hook them up and something broke and he had to stay and fix it. So I got a lock from the shelf and gave it to Dustin, cause if we're sending product to the truck yard we need a lock on it. And Julie said to get one from the shelf. I'll transfer it into supplies on Wednesday, I was 20 minutes late leaving and didn't want to do it today.

I'm off tomorrow. I guess Bret was riding Zhaun about hours and he changed the schedule. So now Dustin has 11-7 tomorrow and I have 11-7 on Thursday. And next week Bonnie is on vacation. I'll be so glad to escape dairy for a while. And Dustin knows how to order so if I absolutely have to I can shove that off on him. I would really rather not, though, because he doesn't know how to order for Thanksgiving and next week will start our super sales. And he doesn't know our sales. This being my 5th year ordering for Thanksgiving in dairy (omg, have I really been dairy manager for five years????) I know pretty well how to do it. But receiving the week before Thanksgiving is always rushed and stressful. Not like it is in March and July, the other two months Bonnie takes vacations. I'll just work it in somewhere, I always do. What's really bad is now they've started a weekly ICM conference call. So I'll have to sit on that. But that's on Tuesday so I might be able to get my milk order in anyway. Skip my break that day and just eat during the call. That would work.