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03.05.08: Dawn Blogging, Return Of The 80s,
Queen Chav Is...Nice? and Chchchchchanges
So, welcome to the era of my dawn blogging! I am currently sat in my
garden, it's 6am, and it's BEAUTIFUL. I have last.fm playing my
electronica playlist, which just enhances everything for me (I have an
affinity for anything electronic). Apologies for not blogging lately,
it's mainly down to my attempting to overreach. I often get home, play
poker, which provides content for another of my blogs, and then sleep,
full of intentions to blog when I wake up, and wake up too tired to
blog.
Thursday was just weird. It was just me and Caroline but I had a phone
call at 8pm from Mrs DJ asking why I had switched shifts with someone
next week (Uni stuff) and that I had a meeting in the morning with
Queen Chav over it. Great way to put someone in the frame of mind to go
to work, huh? And Mrs DJ is supposed to be a) a friend and b) in the
colleague circle which is supposed to improve stuff for SF staff
morale...
Anyway, I got in and Mrs DJ assured me that Queen Chav was thoroughly
angry at me for moving shifts, which gave me the chance to prepare some
mental trickery which I will describe later. Suffice to say that I used
to know little enough about the neurotypical mind and now I know TONS.
And I constantly use it to my advantage to get what I want when I want
it...
My first customer of the night was a guy who was the most arrogant and
worst dressed I have ever seen. He had a blonde mullet, a Hawaiian
shirt, yellow shorts and a blue jacket. Niiiice. So, I served him and
his card was declined. He ranted that his card NEVER failed (easily 8
times) and that he had a lot of money in his account (sure, they all
say that...) So we went to another till and repeated it, this time
without the card being declined to which he literally shouted "Yes!
Score! I told you, this card NEVER fails" I smiled and thought to
myself "You sir, are a tosser". He then took his shopping and strutted
out of the store.
But the strangest thing happened with my meeting with Queen Chav. I
went in and said I knew she wanted a meeting with me about the rota,
and explained that I did it because I knew she had a hard week coming
up, that the chairman was coming for a visit, and that she was the sole
member of management in for the first half of the week so rather than
giving her more work to do (rejiging the rota) in this tough week, I
decided to arrange it myself and lighten her workload. That's what I
SAID. I meant not a word of it. She puts me through hell on a weekly
basis, why wouldn't I relish the chance to make her life hell? Truth
is, I can't stand being in the same room as the woman, let alone
talking to her, so I asked people I like. The only reason I said what I
said is because it's so hard to be nasty to someone after they have
done something nice to you. In their face. And then pointed it out. As
I said, I understand motives well. So, she apologised for the meeting,
explained she was protecting me from Pedro's wrath, and apologised
again. Yes! Score! Then she called Miss C into the office and asked her
to sit down. At which point I knew we were in trouble. Queen Chav went
on and on and on about the visit from the chairman, how he said little,
but they thought it went ok. And then...she told us that dayshift
couldn't have kept the store looking so good without the groundwork
that nightshift had put in! As if that wasn't enough, she told us to
turn around and take one of the boxes of chocolates behind us as a
reward for working so hard. I have two theories. One - I know Queen
Chav read the old blog, and maybe she is lost now she has no info to
use on me. Two - I may have put in the open question in our store
survey that I was fed up of the institutionalised bullying in store and
that it had forced me to look for qualifications elsewhere leading to a
job elsewhere, just to get away from it. Now, these are supposed to be
confidential surveys, so if she has read it, she can't tell me, but
they now tally employees with replies and demand answers if they don't
match. So I think she read it, soiled her (big) knickers and realised
that she is dead meat. Bullying is an instant dismissal offence in our
company, and she has been accused of it by MANY staff...
Lastly, I want to mention changes that will be taking place on this
blog. Unlike the last one, the design won't be changing, as I am happy
with it's look, but I am going to be doing stuff behind the scenes and
along the sidebar. There are reasons for this, but I am not going to
elaborate on them, namely because they are quite boring. What I will
say is that there will be old features returning albeit it revamped,
and new features appearing. Watch this space...the store is about to
receive stock and a minor refit...
Tags:  Chocolates |  Store Visit |  Web 3.0
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