Full Moon

WOW!

Somebody must have had the crazies locked up two days ago on the full moon, because they all showed up at the store yesterday. Even the machines were being weird.

Screaming matches, odd requests, rude people, (oh sorry they come in every day), stupid people, people who can't count or make up their minds or can't find stuff. People that wanted to start fights and people that wanted to finish them.

I hope they have it out of their systems because I am ready to take them on tonight. I REALLY don't like rude people!


An aside: morale at the store seems to be up a lot since Yappy Girl left us. She turned the speed contest into a cut throat competition and when she had herself convinced she was going to win, and should win, it became more intense. She already had her winnings spent!!

When she DIDN'T win: Holy Mackeral!! Tears, anger, fury. Then she had to go home early because she had been 'robbed'. Called in sick for the next two days and then left a message to replace her shifts for the following week. Showed up at work with a letter of resignation! (yay) demanding her records, vacation pay and a letter of recommendation.

My suggestion was to write that she was never caught stealing at the store. (Mean: probably. Fair: unlikely. Feeling about said comment: priceless)

As I said the morale is way up now. Amazing how much stress she brought to the store with her. We'll see how long before the customers notice she's gone. She upset several of them with the way she handles their groceries.



I made a mistake last night I haven't made since the first week I worked there. I had a customer that was making some muffins and had bought some extra things to put in them. He had a ready to make muffin mix, some walnuts, and mini M & M's. I weighed the walnuts and then scanned the muffin mix and then weighed the M & M's. Except that I really shouldn't have left the muffin mix ON the scanner/scale. Usually you can void it off but last night the machine or scale or powers that be didn't want that to happen. So we had to fudge around the weight and enter the info a different way. We got it to work but man, it was just silly stuff after silly stuff. Items wouldn't scan so you had to punch the UPC code in. Then you'd move something past the scanner and it wouldn't work. You'd go to put it in the bag after finally getting it to scan and it would scan again from a foot away. So now you have to void one out because you have two rung in. AAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!

Then there were some avocados coming through with two different codes on them. You would enter the first code and low and behold you have changed them to broccoli. So you have to void it out, enter the other code and let all the other cashiers know that one code is incorrect.

Also the past three days there has been a tremendous run on fives. All the bank machines in the area spit out either 20's or 50's. It makes it hard for us, but so far we've managed.

We should hear any day about the new uniforms; and the renovations are starting to look good. They brought in this big stainless steel thing the other day that has spaces for 6 different soups or chilis and several spaces for hot food.

It is going across the front of where the other salad bar was. I bet you that they are also going to have some fancy coffees, etc.




OLYMPIC UPDATE:

How about the U.S. losing out on even getting to run in the men's OR women's 4 X 100 relay. Both teams dropped the baton, in the SAME PLACE.

In the 200 meter dash the night before two disqualifications propelled the American 4th and 5th place winners to silver and bronze. At that caliber of race it is hard not to get caught up in the race and not watch where you put your feet. Such a disappointment for the athletes. BUT,,,,,, That IS what they train for. It should be second nature to run in the middle of your lane.