Wearing Slippers at Work

My milk load didn't show up till 10ish and wasn't finished being checked in till 11. Usually he shows up around 6:30 on Tuesdays I think. But it was Sam, the backup driver. By time I got to him to tell him, "If you're going to be late call us, my wheelers and pallets have been on the floor since 6 waiting for you." (to give him room to get the milk down to the milk section I pull all the wheelers and misc pallets out and then when the milk is in I put them back in) And I gathered from his wince that Bonnie had already yelled at him so I went and asked her and she said she had. Good.

I spent forever front-filling the yogurt. It took so long. And my poor thumb edges. Some of the tips of my other fingers hurt too. From the way you have to open the yoplait cases to case-fill. I almost think it might be easier to just fill it normally and toss the cases. Either that or I'll build up calluses. For now it just hurts though. And my hands got so dried out, I had to keep applying hand lotion.

Bret got mad at me for not having enough yogurt and every time he walked by he'd tell me I'd better have more. It's not that I under ordered. I have the same amount of yogurt I normally do. The issue is that I have more room than I normally do. So a shelf with two facings of each kind of yoplait would look full with what I've got. However since almost all of them have six facings now, well, that's the whole case right there. And then that leaves no yogurt behind the first row to make it look full. So of course it looks kinda empty. I suppose I was supposed to be able to know how to order for the new organization right away, just like that. I guess if it takes a week or two for everything to settle into place that means I don't know how to order. He probably just needed someone to take stuff out on and I was an easy target at that moment.

For two days before Thanksgiving it's really, really slow and quiet at work. We even had moments where the checkers were on the line waiting for people! It is insanely slow for what day it is.

Victor was out because he got in on an early Black Friday deal and so he came by work and we went shopping for our Thanksgiving stuff. He wants to make cranberry sauce, so we got him berries. We bought a little frozen turkey thing. I have canned cherries cause I want to make a pie. We got stuffing. Potatoes. We have rolls, they're hawaiian rolls too!

My right arm hurts from filling yogurt. Because we no longer have somewhere to sit cases while we fill I can't use two hands to stock anymore because one hand has to hold the case while the other stocks. So my right shoulder hurts.

I wore my snowboots to work today and I was certain that I'd be amongst the only to do it. But turns out quite a few people were wearing their boots. Especially the baggers, but that's understandable since they have to bring in carts. I realized that my boots are a tad too big because my feet were slipping around in them. I might stuff the toes a little for tomorrow. But I am really glad I wore them because my feet kept nice and warm all day. It was almost like wearing slippers to work.

They hung a floor-length mirror that covers most of the wall right in front of the door when you open it in the women's bathroom. It makes me jump when I open the door cause I see movement and think someone's in front of the door so I want to step back to let them pass and then I see myself. Weird. I am glad they finally hung mirrors in the bathroom though, it was awful not having any. The one over the sinks is nice.