19.06.08: Smashed Lights, Customers Can Be Abusive To Each
Other Too, Slow Nights, Hold Ups, My Budget, Stupid Builders, Arguments
and Relaunches Of Blogs
Tonight has been another really slow night. I've been working the
warehouse, so I haven't had a chance to serve any customers.
Well...I say I've been working the warehouse. Actually, I've been
working the warehouse as much as I can. You see, someone (or
something) trashed the lighting system in the loading bay. And I
mean seriously trashed it. The light is hanging by a cable from
the girder it used to be attached to. And the lightswitch has
been smashed to hell too. My theory is either Rickaaaay or Crack
Baby tried swinging from it. I'd say that Crack Baby could
probably get away with it, but Rickaaaay is built like his
mother. BIG. As for the light switch, I have no idea how
the hell that got smashed up. Probably Rickaaaay or Crack Baby
moving heavy cages far too fast.
The only customers I have seen so far are actually arguing
customers. A couple decided to have a domestic in the biscuit
aisle. Apparently he had come in to buy a packet of biscuits, she
came in to do what he termed a mini weekly shop. And that set all
hell loose. She told him that if she didn't buy those things,
she'd be hungry, and he told her it might be a good thing because then
she'd lose some weight (a**hole, be proud of your podgy girl!)
It's funny, there are a lot of things that I tolerate at work.
Rude customers, drunks, drugged up kids, and I let all those things
just wash over me. But guys who are rude to their girlfriends
really make my blood boil. Thing is, they kissed and made up a
few minutes later, and then when they got to the tills and got to the
part where they need to pay he said "well, this is mostly your sh*t,
you can pay for it" then laughed. The most nauseating part of
this story is that the guy wasn't drunk, he was stone cold sober.
He was just an arse.
So, tonight is yet another dull night, and it shows no signs of getting
any better. We have a small delivery, it's midweek so there are
no customers, and a lot of the things that we do have been done by the
dayshift. Evidently they had as much to do as we did. That
or they are just making us look bad. And having worked at the
company for 5 years, methinks it's the latter considering that sales
are up £60,000 this week compared to last week, and up by about
£75,000 compared to last year. And then people ask me why I
am so interested in the business world.
One thing I did do tonight, purely for a laugh and to see the reaction
was to go up to The Blonde Bombshell with my fingers in the gun
position and aimed at him and said "gimme your money" as he did a safe
drop. He laughed and said "yeah, right" So I did sad puppy
dog eyes and said "pwease?"
And right now I am really struggling for material to blog about,
although, I am not entirely certain that it shows yet. I guess
one thing that is kind of relevant in the current climate is my
budget. I've been doing this for a couple of months now, and it's
really easy. All I do it limit myself to £10 per day to
include cigarettes. Sometimes I go over, but, here is the
interesting thing - I value money far more now. I picked up a
magazine the other day, a Linux mag with a few distros with it, and
went to buy it, then looked at the price and put it back. It was
£6.50. Now...here is the thing. Before the budget I
would have gone "meh, I can afford it" and bought it, but I looked at
it and was disgusted. Then went and bought a cheap coffee at a
local coffeeshop.
However, there were a couple of very interesting things that happened
last night. First off we had the John Pyatt guys in, like we have
every day. Anyway, they're stupid but shrewd. They've
already figured out that if they have a large cup and say it's a
regular coffee in a large cup then they can sometimes get it for
less. And now they have a new trick, they say the coffee is cold
in the hope that they can get a free coffee. They even make a few
as “proof” unfortunately, as I mentioned before, they're stupid and
left them on the side. So I stuck my finger into them after they
left and yes, ok, it didn't burn my finger, but it wasn't cold
either. Fortunately the one who complained decided that paying a
little less for it was better than not having a coffee. I cannot
wait for them to try it again tonight. I'll be waiting.
Then there was the argument between The Blonde Bombshell and
Shoe. The Bombshell wanted to swap a day with me, and I had no
problem with that. So, he asked Shoe if it was ok, and she
decided that because it was 16 hours before the swap she was going to
say no. He went off the deep end. He shouted at her that it
was ridiculous and stormed off the shop floor. So she grinned and
said “Guess I'll be doing the store walk on my own then”, and when she
came back she said the store looked fantastic, which made me feel good
inside because I faced up 90% of the store myself. I told her
that he was probably sulking in the loading bay, just as he came onto
the shop floor and told her he was coming in tonight and I'd stay
home. She told him that he wouldn't get paid and he'd be getting
me in trouble. So he yelled it was “f*cking stupid” and that so
she was she and went back to sulking in the loading bay. Then at
7am he came up to me and said “I go to home now” and left. So
when I was buying my cigarettes for the day Shoe said to me “Has he
gone home?” and I told her that he had, and she said “Well, he can't be
in a good mood with me then, he didn't say goodbye”. I told her
that he was like this all the time, and she grinned and said “He's got
two choices, like it or quit”.
Lastly, I just wanted to tell you all that the old blog is coming
back. And it will be more or less the same, just not work
focused. Many thanks to Franklin for the idea! Permalink |