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September 2008: A Call For Podcast Reviewers, Miss C Wants Enemies,
Miss C Is Queen Procrastinator, If Your Card Doesn't Work You May Not
Have Petrol, Staff Shortages, and The Boys Club Discusses Intellectual
Subjects Such As Flashers And Holidays A quick mention of something before I begin today's rantings and ravings. Could anyone who is interested please download today's podcast? I've been fiddling with a new text to MP3 converter and I think this one is awesome. I'd just like a little feedback from the community because, well, without wishing to sound like a suck up, you guys do rock at helping me test stuff. I think this new converter is amazing, and I'd just like some reviews. Thanks in advance. So last night was a pretty strange night. Miss C is back from her 3 days off, and despite the fact that The Bombshell is gunning for her, she still seems to want to make enemies. I really don't understand the woman. It all started because she wanted to work the warehouse, which I had already begun to do. Except she decided to ignore that fact and started working the crisps. So rather than just accepting it and moving on, she decided to yell at me "I am not working the tills! I always work the tills!" Funny, I thought that was me. Anyway, so rather than accept it after I explained after the hell that was last night, I was not working the tills either and that I had already begun working the racking, she ran to Slaphead who bows to her every whim. She got told to do the chiller whilst he did the papers and the tills, then I got put on tills. But that's not what really annoyed me about last night. What really annoyed me is that Miss C did nothing all night. Before the delivery she did the crisps. And that was all. A job that takes me about half an hour took her three hours. Namely because she spent all her time talking to Slaphead. But then when the delivery came in, she still did nothing. But I will get onto that later. All Miss C really did last night was talk to me and disrupt my work by talking about pointless things like Mamma Mia, things she had bought for her kid and Wii games. I might go see Mamma Mia with my mum later in the week, not too sure. And when it comes to kiddie MP3 players, I really don't care. Not a fan of dumbed down technology. I got a computer when I was 5 and a book of how to program in basic. And a book of assembly language for the next computer I got on my 7th birthday. So, not so much a fan of technology which looks like a teddy bear and the MP3 player controls are on the feet. Just get the kid a slightly larger but regular MP3 player and let him learn technology properly! Then I had a No Means Of Payment. Basically, a guy came in with a fuel card which expired yesterday. Not my problem, and he told me that he hadn't been issued with a new card. Still not my problem. My problem is extracting payment from this guy. So, he then asks me if it's ok for him to come back. I told him that he needed to fill in the form or we'd contact the police. He laughed and said not my problem, I'm just working for the company. I smiled and said "Yes, but it's you on CCTV, and it's you they will look for, so please, just fill in the form, it will make life easier for you." He then got in a mood and told me that he had a ferry to catch. I explained that we had to recover the money somehow, and that filling in the form was the least painful way of doing it, and that it wasn't my fault he hadn't given us a valid card. So, being the mature person he was, he broke the tip of the pencil on the form. So I went and got the big red bakery knife from where we keep it and sharpened the pencil again, then filled in my part of the form. And as I sharpened it, I did remind the guy that this was just making the process longer and that he had probably missed his ferry. I then printed him a receipt, and gave him his forms, and watched him run out of the store to his van. I hate people who make our lives more difficult. It's simple, fill in the form and we don't call the police. Make it harder for us and why shouldn't we make it harder for you? And of course that entire situation could have been avoided if we had someone in at 6. But no. Pedro in his infinite wisdom decided that we don't need someone on the tills at 6. The problem is, it all kicks off at 6. The builders, the communters, everyone begins coming in at 6, as well as the newspapers, and the milk. Plus the delivery is rarely finished by 6, so if you only have 2 people on the shop floor, or even if you have 3, one of those people needs to be on tills, one of those people needs to be making sure the papers are put away, and lastly, someone needs to be doing the milk. Which leaves us short. Lastly, I have had a stunning afternoon. I had to go back to work and attend a Boys Club meeting. I love this. I get to show off my creative flair right in the face of Pedro, who is slowly beginning to realise maybe there is more to me than the guy who can move the heaviest cages with ease. And our meeting was highly intellectual. We spent about 10 minutes talking about Big Brother, at least another 5 minutes talking about cute women customers who flash us on night shift, and where we were all going on holiday. We did actually discuss big issues too. Like how Queen Chav wasn't going to be organising the christmas party this year because Pedro is really gunning for her. And we're planning to have a party somewhere else, and include more people this year. I personally think we could include all the staff except for 4 people. All we need to do is make sure there are 2 people running the afternoon shift and 2 people running the night shift. And as I know that Miss C and Slaphead have no intention of coming, that's night shift sorted out. Permalink | |
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