Dairy... disaster?

When I first got to work Julie had me help her move file cabinets back into The Room because someone had moved them out into the hallway, which is odd. They were from Pharmacy. Anyway, I banged a soft part of my ankle into the corner of a shelf and now there's a little bruise there.

Then I spend the next 45 minutes making a bale. Apparently no one had made one and it was full yesterday afternoon. Everyone's excuse was that they didn't want to have to move four pallets out of the way. So the marker we have that tells you when to make a bale was well over the line so I had to take two cartloads of boxes out in order to get it to where I could even make a bale. And I moved the pallets and made a bale.

Dustin came in at noon. I got him started filling some of the holes while I spent the next hour and a half doing shelf reviews. We were insanely busy today and everyone wanted to be in the way.

Around 2:00 we started cleaning out the trailer. First we moved pallets onto the floor, which Brad was upset because they were blocking his product. Oh well. Then we had to haul new magazine racks for the checkstands out and onto the floor. Which was so much fun. I was trying to push one out of the trailer and had to end up climbing up and over to get behind it. Being dark in the trailer I judged how high up I was and how far away the floor was and I jumped. I get kinda scared if I'm jumping from up high so I figured I wasn't up too high and it wasn't far. I was wrong. You read in books how a second of time can pass like an hour? Yeah, I got that feeling once my feet passed the point where I thought the floor should have been. It didn't hurt though, so that was nice. No one but me knew it was an accident so I looked quite impressive.

Anyway, around 3 we started putting pallets in the trailer. We took our break at 3. And then got back to it. Around 5 the remodel team was in and started helping us. I felt annoyed and twitchy because they were moving my stuff. But I was grateful for the help. I had forgotten that you need to take the shelves out at an angle because they're too tall. It was a two person job. Oh, and I put all my empty shelving out behind the store.

One of the racks we were moving had a bunch of milk on it and as we tipped it it kept going. I tried to stop it so the person helping me wouldn't get hurt but it kept going and I scraped up my knees on it trying to stop it from falling. He ended up worse off though, for all I saw were a pair of legs sticking out from the pile of milk! I went around the pile and saw that he hadn't been crushed but was a little stunned. He seems fine, he said it was one of those injuries where you'll feel it the next day even if you don't feel it today.

So then 6:00 came and Dustin left. I still had some milk to haul into the meat cooler but the remodel people did that for me on some of it. Then Julie called me to show me where to turn the dairy back on, cause she'd turned it off. We also turned off all my fans, save the one that's hot wired to not turn off. They did that cause years and years ago some of the guys would get cold and turn some of the fans off for a while and they wired one of the fans to never turn off cause they got annoyed at us for turning them off. I admit I used to turn them off too, but that was back five or six years ago.

They brought machines into my cooler, and as I left they were grinding the floor. It sure echoes in there without anything in there. I was having trouble understanding what others were saying in fact. And it's bright and big and weird and I don't like it. I hope they at least give me a drain so I can spray the floor down, that would be nice.

I am exhausted. I was so bad off that I had the red spots on my cheeks going. I put lotion on them when I got home and even though the lotion was room temperature it felt so cold against the red spots that it almost hurt. The red spots are on the curve of the cheek close to the nose right under where your glasses sit, if you wear them. It's the similar look of one who's just run around in the cold and you can see the pores and it looks kinda raw. I used to get it a lot a year ago or sometime so it's good that it hasn't happened in so long. I was going to put aloe vera on it but I don't know where it is and Victor doesn't know where it is. I'm usually the one who keeps track of where stuff is and I know if I thought about it long enough I'd remember but I'm too tired.

Julie told me I could go home at 6:30 because there wasn't anything else for me to do and I said if she needed me to do something I could stay and she said I would make up the half hour sometime later she's sure. I'll say it again: Management comes from the land of sparkly unicorns. Everyone in grocery has 48 hours. I don't care about the half hour.