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18.06.08: Drag, Great Customer Service, The F Word, Anti Fraud Says Queen Chav Is A Fraudster!, Did Lewis Hamilton Visit? and The Blonde Bombshell has modest and charm

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Tonight has been one of those nights that just drags and drags.  It's because we have so little to do.  The warehouse has been worked, the chiller has been worked, even the store has been faced up a little.  It's just quite a tedious night.  We're not even busy.  I think we've had about 20 customers all night.  Dull dull dull.

Anyway, of the customers we have had, I think my favourite has been the guy who first off took a paper from me when I was bringing them in at 11pm, then was queuing whilst The Blonde Bombshell used my till.  So I opened another one and used it.  The guy couldn't have been more helpful.  He packed his own bag, paid with the correct money, and then thanked ME for being an excellent cashier.  I love customers like that.  They're helpful and then they thank you for being great. 

So, this evening I watched The F Word with my mother.  We're both Gordon Ramsey fans and at the end he yelled that people who want to eat on The F Word should apply for tickets.  So I did.  Unfortunately the site threw it's rattle out of the pram, so at the moment I can't apply for tickets, but when I can, I will.  And then try to use The Law Of Attraction to bring those tickets to me.  I already got my mother a lottery win.  Ok, so £10 was a little less than I was aiming for...

Now, whilst at work, we use a lot of computers.  We have to, pretty much everything goes through them.  Even the tills are Window PCs (WHY?)  Anyway, this includes receipts for goods we get in.  And we still have to sign them, but on a little digitiser.  This is due to the unique way that the company doesn't understand the 21st century and real digital signatures.  I digress.  So, the computer has an anti fraud scheme built in, so you can't just write a squiggle and pass it off as the store manager.  Now bless queen chav, I don't think she has been asked to do this very often, because she wrote her name on the digitiser, and...the anti fraud scheme rejected it as illegible!  But what makes it even better is that I am well known for having terrible handwriting.  My cursive writing is literally illegible.  And still the anti fraud mechanism recognises my signature as a signature.

But the funniest thing I have heard all day was about the most moronic crash you can imagine.  On the forecourt.  A woman was filling her car up with fuel when someone in a 2 week old brand new Mercedes drove into the back of her car which sent it shooting forwards and tore the fuel nozzle away from the hose.  And then forwards into a metal barrier we have in front of the pillars which hold the cannopy up.  I mean, you just couldn't make it up.  Plus, seconds after the fuel nozzle was ripped from the hose, the water tower errupted (in a small way) and shot water over the forecourt, which apparently some customer thought might be petrol and ran into the store to report that petrol was just spilling out everywhere.  Which then sent the guy in charge into a panic as well.

Lastly, we were doing the store walk this morning, and Shoe was telling us how amazing we had been overnight (seriously!) and we were discussing many things, but the store walk ended with Shoe's comment of "Well, this is just stunning" to me.  I was quietly quite chuffed because I did 99% of the facing up and Slaphead and Miss C constantly tell me that my facing up is terrible.  Apparently not.  Anyway, The Blonde Bombshell smirks and says "Yes, I know" so I glare at him and say "And you're so modest as well" which caused Shoe to burst into a fit of giggles.  Bless!
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