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I get the feeling I'm using newbie 1337, though. hm.

Anyway...

When I got to work yesterday I found that Zhaun had offloaded all the trucks. And only because Bret made him. One of them had been out back waiting since 3:30AM and Zhaun was going to make them wait till 11:00 when I got to work. Bonnie told Bret and Bret made Zhaun offload them. Bonnie told me Zhaun's wife called him to ask why he hadn't come home yet and he was all, "I had to do trucks so now I'm behind." Well, now he knows how I feel. Besides, I didn't make the schedule.

Kinda wish I did have two people yesterday, though. I wound up working from 11:00-8:30. And I almost skipped my break except I got hungry around 4:15 so I went to go eat.

I don't know why I was so behind yesterday. I can blame some of it on checking for nearly an hour. And some of on the 1st having came early again. We were really busy.

It will always astound me to watch as practically one after another these women coming up and buying 10-20 cups of yogurt at a time. I just want to ask them how many they eat in one day? One cup makes a decent snack, two is almost a meal, I've never ate three at one time but I imagine the larger sized ones manage it just fine. I'm beginning to see a recent pattern of people buying tons of it on Sundays. I look at my sales for the week and for almost every yogurt flavor I'm seeing 7-9 cups sold on every day except Sunday. On Sunday I'm seeing 14-23 cups per flavor.

I get the feeling I'm going to wind up cheating on my backstock review like Zhaun does. It won't be so hard. It'll become part of my routine, first thing when I get there as I walk the cooler I'll take my gun with me and scan random items that look like they probably had come in on the load the day before. Bret said that once a week I have to scan everything in backstock. ...so basically you want me to take inventory every week? Besides, all they have to do is pull up a large quantity report and then send an email asking why I have 230 of these on hand (because it's kroger 16oz regular sour cream and I sold 387 in the last week and it's on sale for a dollar). See, that simple. Why should I have to scan my backstock? So I can have Bret AND corporate yelling at me when I over order? I think I know best. Generally when Bret gets mad at me for over ordering and makes me cut my order back I wind up running out.

Bret did tell me excellent job, great job, I do wonderful, he thinks I'm a big part of the reason our inventory went so well I do my orders and scan outs better now than ever before I have a really good handle on it, and thank me, he appreciates me. I never know what to do when he gets like that (which happens once every so often). Usually I'm surprised, once I got kinda teary (in a good way), but I just don't know. Do I say thanks in return, do I smile, I mean, what do I do? I generally smile, and say thanks, I suppose I should say that it's good to hear that.

Anyway, the front end called me to call them so I went into the back to do so and on my way another customer stopped me to ask about some butter and I told her I'd be right back. So got the call and they wanted me to look for two cases of bk 2 liters of sparkling water. Wow, I hate people who think the back room is magical and we'll just happen to have two cases of something we don't sell much of laying around just so they can be special and buy massive amounts of something when they could just buy what they need instead of wiping us out and they should really learn they're not the only person on the planet and that they can special order to not only ensure they get the product they want but to ensure they don't inconvenience every other person who might want to buy that product as well as ensuring they don't inconvenience the employees who have to dig to find out if we have the product, already knowing the answer is no we don't. Anyway, I said I'd look for it and went to go put that butter out. I heard someone open my dairy door and I turned to find... a customer who's made me cry before! Remember tonic water lady? The one who insisted she was not going to get an empty box and put the water into it to make it a case because it's somehow not a case? Yeah, she was back. And she's the one who wanted the sparkling water. I almost wanted to break down crying again as I went looking for it. Fear drove me to climb up on top of a pallet, nearly falling off, looking for it. I found a pallet of 2 ltrs and I knew for sure she was going to insist I break it down for her. Anyway, as I thought, no water. I went back to tell her and she was all, "I've been in here every day in the last week and that's the answer I get every day!" Wow, if you're so incredibly desperate for this product that you've been in here every day asking for it you have bigger issues than us being out of stock every day. Besides which, if you can be in here every day asking for two cases, and I know the shelf hasn't been empty, why not buy two or three a day until you have your precious 16 2ltrs? She started to get her "I'm a rich spoiled snob and I can make you cry and fear me because I am far above your petty little job and I have a foreign accent which makes me special" look on her face so I told her to call Zhaun. It's amazing how people can't grasp "He works until 9AM" to mean "he works nights" and I have to explain this to them. Anyway, I told her to call Zhaun. I could have got Julie back there to talk with her but you know what? I'm not going that far for someone who's made me cry before. She can talk to Zhaun and he can tell her she needs to special order. She has the wide, flaring nostrils that are almost trademarked to mean "I'm a bad customer". Dunno if it's just that everyone with that physical feature gets irritated quick or if that trait causes the constant flaring, but more times than not that feature means trouble.

I had more people thinking the backroom is magical and we have cases upon cases of product waiting just for them because they're so special. Some guy in an electronic cart asking for four cases of tv dinners. For him I actually did go and climbed around in the freezer and dug out three of them, I couldn't find the fourth. You know, if people didn't pay massive power bills to run giant freezers to hold their tons of frozen product they buy maybe they could afford real food? Cause one banquet tv dinner isn't enough to fill you up, especially not a full-grown man, he'd need two or three of them to feel full. But a real meal would fill them up with just a little bit.

People are buying eggs like it's Thanksgiving. Not like it's Easter. *shiver* Ooh, Easter. With all the issues my back's been having these last few months I am truly scared of Easter. These last few years in the two weeks before Easter my back is in so much pain that when I get home it's all I can do to stumble my way from one room to the next where all I can do is sit with the heating pad. And sometimes it feels that a spring as sprung in my back, a sudden, startling pain, and I stand up straight and can't bend over for a few minutes. 99.9% of the reason for all this pain is because when I build the egg display on the floor in front of the egg case people insist on leaning over this display (which means putting one hand on the display for balance so they don't fall head first into the egg case) to get their 6-8 dozen eggs. Which means I come along, see the case is empty, and I have to lean over the display to fill the case. And since I don't have time to stock one-handed I lean over the display without anything to balance me except my, well, balance. Which strains the back muscles. And I have to stay in this awkward position while putting 4-5 cases of eggs on the shelf, leaning over this display people insist on ignoring. I generally switch between wanting to burst into tears and wanting to burst out angrily whenever I see someone reaching over the display because I know for every carton of eggs they take from the shelf instead of the display is another 5 minutes with the heating pad that night. It was so bad last year I wound up taking baths every day to try and ease the pain. Yeah, go enjoy making those eggs pretty colors so you can look at them for a few days before they start to rot and you have to throw them out. My back hates you. Last year I got the brilliant idea to build a half display, leaving an open space in the middle, but I don't remember how that worked out. I think Bret didn't like it. This year I'm insisting upon it and if they tell me to make it a full display without that open space to stand in so I don't strain my back I'll them that either I get my open space or they're filling the eggs cause my back can't handle that. Easter's in the end of April this year.

Speaking of back pain, my shoulders were in pain last night. Victor rubbed them and I felt something moving and it felt good. I think they're ok now.

I dropped a case of cream cheese on my foot last night, and it felt a little sore but it seems fine now.

And while we're on injuries I scraped up my hand pretty good, it's a small spot, but it's scraped and raw looking. Almost like a burn.

For not getting to sleep till nearly 10:00 I only slept until 7. I know I get lots of sleep every night, but I never feel like it. And I keep thinking I should really try to sleep less and then when I do I feel horrifying. As it is I'm going to be bringing a soda with me to the bath. With how my shoulders were, and my lower back (which Victor insists is my tailbone and not my lower back) aching I think it's time for a bath.

I have no plans for today except maybe packing some buckets. I didn't get my mega event items and I'm trying to think if it's worth it to make a special trip in just for that. I'm skipping the cereal I was going to get because it's on sale next week too, for an even better price. The rest of the stuff isn't anything I absolutely need. The only thing I might have really wanted was the margarine. Country Crock's cheaper than Kroger Value on the mega event and I did kinda want some, especially since I have a coupon. I'll see how Victor feels later.

Yesterday I washed four buckets and reorganized the livingroom a little. I moved the exercise bike to the other side of the couch to make for easier access for Victor since he wants to get more exercises in.

So, yeah, I'll take my book (ugh) and a soda and go let my back untwist in a nice hot bath.