yelled at a bagger today

Today was really snowy, it was so bad you couldn't see far and it was really windy too. On my way home the wind was blowing gusts of snow across the road and they looked a bit like ghosts, which was kinda neat.

Work was alright I guess? My back started to hurt and I realized I'd forgotten that it used to do that. This last week and a half as ICM was good for me.

Bret yelled at me a bit over not having any Land of Lakes butter that's on sale for a dollar. I explained that it's not in the ad and he stood there and looked through the entire ad to make sure and then said yeah I was right and that I can't possibly have guessed it would be on sale. He did warn me that I'd better have more eggs coming in. Which I did. Terrie got me two pallets added to my order for today.

I had a woman ask me if Dannon yogurt has cultures. I was like, "Um... I think most yogurt has cultures..." You have to have cultures in order to have yogurt, it's part of the process of how it's made. She didn't believe me so I picked up a container and showed her where it says "Made with live cultures".

Zhaun did grocery and returns so all I had to do was deli/frozen. Which I'd hoped would show up fairly early because Victor was going to be out and I wanted him to bring me dinner. I had told him to call before he bought anything just in case I was offloading a truck and couldn't take lunch right then. But the truck showed up at 1:30ish. Victor came in around 3 having not called. I'd been hungry since about 1, daydreaming about what lovely food I'd get. Would it be McDonalds? Burger King? Taco Bell? Little Ceasers? I'd also been kinda hoping he'd bring me a soda too. When I saw him holding a white bag I figured it was Taco Bell since they give out white plastic bags. Then I saw a second bag and asked what was in that.he said it was Peace Tea. I should have known then that I should just bring my ramen up to eat. But I didn't. I concentrated too much on the fact that he'd bought Peace Tea. Despite the fact that he'd said he was never going to buy it again. Because we found fruit fly eggs in it. He said that it's just protein and it won't hurt you. I refused to drink the one he'd gotten for me. To me, in my mind, he basically took 2.58 and burnt it. He drank both of them though, so they didn't go to waste. But I ended up with water for my break. And no real food either. He'd brought me a deli sandwich from Super 1. Which, admittedly, was far superior to ours, in both price and taste. But it was cold. And it was just a sandwich. There's a reason I started bringing soup to work was because I needed something hot to eat so my body felt like it got a real meal. Instead he brings me a cold deli sandwich? And Nutty Bars? Out of the entire Little Debbie line Nutty Bars are pretty far down on the list. I'll eat them, they're nummy, but I'd choose Swiss Rolls first. Or Brownies. Or Cosmic Brownies, which he can't have due to the Red 40 Lake. Or the cupcakes. Or the squares of stuff. Nutty Bars are something HE likes. And they're on sale for a dollar at my store, theirs has them 1.59 so he wasted yet another bit of money. So he plops these Super 1 bags on the table face up and I'm all, "Do you have any idea how embarrassing it is to have those bags here? Throw them out!" I told him about how Bret caught someone with Super 1 bags once and started screaming at them. He did too, he was in the Meat Department and he saw it, picked it up, and looked at the meat guys all like, "WHO'S IS THIS!!?!?!!!" Everyone in the room had the deer in headlights "omg he's going to kill me" look. I don't know who's it was, I ran away before anyone confessed. Anyway, Victor also failed to bring his receipt in with him. I had to remind him that I work at a grocery store. Isn't it common sense not to bring food into a grocery store without a receipt? Do you know the pains I go to to ensure my lunches are upc-free so I never get in trouble? That's why I don't bring candy bars or anything. That's why I open the ramen package at home and throw it out and bring the noodles and stuff in a separate container. And then he just comes in with this stuff. And he tried to convince me to keep the second Peace Tea and drink it later. Oh, yeah, that would go over real well with Bret if he came in my cooler and asked where the receipt was. Nevermind that I am not drinking bug-infested tea.

So my stomach was kinda weird and upset from not getting a real meal. Victor said he'd done it to save money. Cause you know spending 6.46 on two teas, a deli sandwich, and nutty bars is so much better than spending 5 dollars on McDonalds, Burger King, or Little Ceaser's.

I was upset from that and customers were being annoying. Then Bret came by pushing a broom and told me to face dairy. Cause Lord knows I had a half hour to spare. Hope he didn't want me to break down the load today. Telling me to face at one of the busiest times of day when the moment I get done I'd have to start all over again is insanity. I came back to the backroom to find him yelling at Zhaun, who wasn't even on the clock he'd just come in to shop. Something about having too much backstock.

Oh, and now I have to scan my backstock. Whatever from the load won't go to the shelf we have to scan. I hope they intend to give dairy two people every day again because that just slowed down our freight breaking down time considerably. It's going to take about three times longer now to break down freight. Unless I fake it like Zhaun has been.

Then finally I saw gay little bagger go to the back with gobacks. A bit later I went into my cooler to find a pack of burritos and something from the olive bar in my cart. Usually I let it go, I get upset, I grumble, but I let it go. Not tonight. This time I knew who'd done it and I knew it was wasting time but I was upset, this was the last of several events and I took the burritos and the olive bar thing and took them up front, found this bagger, and I asked him if he'd put them in my cart. He said yes. So, in a loud voice I said, "This is a frozen item. It can't go in my cooler or it will ROT and we'll have to throw it out! It goes in the freezer! And this is service deli's." I put the olive bar thing on checkstand 1 and took the burritos back to the freezer. It felt sooo good to do that. I'd had that pent up inside so long I almost can't believe I said those words.

After that I felt better, less like I was going to cry. I felt like I'd already cried and was finished, you know that sorta empty feeling that's still somewhat satisfying?

I'm so exhausted and tired. But I wanted to post all that.

Oh, and my green tea soap is really nice. It's slick and nice. Kinda wants to jump out of your hands though.