Yeah... I'm Already Melancholy About Leaving S&S
The wonders of work. Linda and I talked for like 2 hours about everything wrong with our store and S&S and it was awesome…. also…. a pretty good group of people…. and some of the most annoying people… but it was a good night.
So… I get there and Paul Dwyer is ringing and Matt Leone is CDHing….. oh crap. I took the keys from him immediately and never gave them back unless it was to let him do something. I’m horribly possessive of my keys. I do not play well with others.
And Matt….. just not the greatest CDH. Too much talking…. not enough sense to put down the audits and stuff and get on register. We were slammed. PD was already ringing. Then Blair comes over and is all… why are none of you bagging for Paul. I say we will be in just a minute. I tell Matt to put down the audit… he was only doing the paperwork after already having counted it…. but he just wouldn’t stop… I had to tell him 3 more time to just put it down and get on register. Not a good sign.
Matt has issues with not being able to let go of a task when he needs to do something else. Both me and PD told him to forget audits from like 5 to 6 PM…. it’s just too busy… and he’s too slow… I can occasionally get away with them because I’m super fast. Also….. the most important thing is customers and not waiting… not paperwork. If you have to put people on registers that are not audited…. you gotta do it…. it happens. Customers always come first in that. I don’t know how well he’s gonna be able to handle the rushes.
Also… he never stopped talking. He was driving Jen nuts. Adam was just ordering him around and dealing with him by “playing” with him. Jen just could not stand him talking constantly. I had him train a new girl on bagging on register 8 and it was just a non-stop monologue for like 10 minutes.
Then I got to watch Matt and Ben fight with each other over who was more CDH… it was entertaining. They were all… I’ve done this part more… no I’ve done this thing more… no Laurel trained me at this… well Paul trained me for this. So amusing.
So Jared was on carts… yeah… more thunder and lightning at like 7 or 7:30. He never went back out on carts for the night…. it was just constant almost. So he stayed on the front…. he’s a good worker there… always keeping busy and doing stuff…. plus he ran selfscan for me… because for some reason we have the person leave at 8 PM with those. And at 10 PM…. Linda shut down selfscan. She was all… they’re just a pain… most stores shut them down at 9 PM. I was all…. I want that. Why do we not do that? So if I have the bodies…. I’m allowed to shut those down at like 9:30 or so. Fuck yeah.
Rosa, Adam, and Lily rounded out my cashiers for the night. Rosa just does her job…. cleans when I tell her to… and she’s good…. low maintenance. Lily was there with me until midnight…. same thing… she gets everything done… usually by 11 and then reads magazines for the last hour…. plus she’s wicked friendly and talkative. I enjoy her. I’ve got her again tomorrow. Adam….. is like never a cashier for me. He’s always stuck on selfscan and carts to the point I like forget he knows how to ring. It’s all…. oh yeah…. he is a cashier but never gets scheduled as one? Oh PD. And now he’s getting all the foreign girls to teach him inappropriate phrases in foreign languages…. tis amusing. And when Adam told me about it…. Lily got all blushing and was all… don’t tell him. It was so cute.
I’m sure she’s under the general assumption that I’m like a manager. Very few people realize that I’m just a mook like everyone else. I get keys and tons of responsibility…. but really I’m still just a cashier. I get paid no more…. I just get all the responsibility for no benefit. Plus…. I really really do not give a shit. I only get everything done because it’s my job and I get in trouble from the managers. I miss old Sundays with Kenny Bauer…. I sat on my ass and did nothing. And all of my cashiers rang and when there were no customers we just sat there and chatted and did nothing. Those were fun times…. sadly now I get Linda… I love her in lots of ways…. but she makes me work… and I don’t mind…. but I miss fun non working nights.
I so wish I had more nightshifts with the awesome cashiers. It just makes the night fly by so quickly when you have awesome people around. It’s why Wednesday days have been my absolute favorite shift…. there’s just tons of awesome people and the shift just flies by. I’m so looking forward to it again this week.
Oh yeah… this is an insert from yesterday. Kristy Levinson came in to work yesterday…. which I give her credit for. Her dog died Friday… and she was just crushed. I mean completely crushed. Billy Gravelle had to call in for her for Saturday. So she came in Sunday… and after like an hour was all crying and asked for a break… I let her go and told her to take her time. So she came back after like 15 minutes and said she couldn’t do it. I told her it was fine… gave her a big hug and let her go. Again… I was really surprised she came in at all….. I would because I deal with my pain by working it off…. but she’s obviously one that can’t do that. In a couple of days hopefully she’ll at least be a little better.
Also… so in front of service desk there’s this balloon stuck up in the 4th of July decorations. It was driving me nuts… so tonight I decided I was going to fix it. Got up on an egg crate…. broom handle with tape stuck on to the bottom end…. attached it to the balloon… with considerable effort finally caught it and pulled it down… until the string got stuck half way down. I was so pissed…. and it was stuck good. I settled for cutting the balloon off and just leaving the string.
So…. to now continue the cart story…. Jared was inside the entire time… so at like 9:45 it had let up enough… I went out and spent maybe 45 minutes and pwned every single cart out of the lot…. it was awesome. And that was the perfect time…. because soon after I finished the lightning started up again. I went back out at like 11:45 to get the last three carts and it was all rain and lightning again…. just all night. It totally killed business and made it slow as fuck…. which also often equals boring as fuck.
So yeah….. my doom talk with Linda. It started at the register while both of us were bagging for Lily. Team bagging is awesome. She was talking about how she wanted this new girl they were putting in GM trained for cahier to so she could help if we get busy. So I asked her if we still call up other departments to bag… because this entire summer…. not once have I seen that done. Linda was all shocked and was all… of course we do. Produce, grocery…. always. Then she thought about it some more and was all…. wait a minute…. I think you’re right…. I can’t remember doing that here myself or seeing anyone else do it. We call the managers… but never the other departments. So she was all.. yeah… start doing that again. I was lamenting the days of Darrin Songer where we implemented the system of writing down all the help we had in each department on the lineup so we knew who to call. So yeah…. we should be doing that.
So then we talked for a while about the new no hassle policy how to make judgment calls on it… how to let it go for customers that look genuine and have a small difference in price. Like Linda got one today where a woman thought the notebooks were 10 for $1… so Linda checked on it first because they were 10 for $10.
Then it moves to price accuracies and I was asking who did that and when was it done and could I just take shelf tags off if they were wrong… because we’re always told to leave the shelf tag up. Yeah… Linda was like fuck no… pull the shelf tag immediately and leave it on the price accuracy for Dale. Hell yeah… every time a shelf tag is wrong… I can pull the tag off. About time. She even told me to call the department and have them fix it if it’s during the day. More fuck yeah. The policy should be fix it immediately…. but we always get store managers that don’t know how to fix it and just have us leave it. No more of that shit for my last week or so. I’m removing tags immediately.
Then from here we started talking about all the shitty managers at this store and where all of out shitty ways of dealing with things were. Linda was surprised I was here from the beginning. She didn’t realize I was here when it first opened as S&S. I was bitching about how Richy Abraham hated everything and said fuck it to fixing anything. So she was saying that our store was a starter store….. where people learn and then move on. I laughed and asked why some people like Bob Hied-de-camp didn’t learn and move on. She laughed and tried to explain that our store was also….. and she kept searching for a word….. I filled it in and said we all know we’re the punishment store. She just bust out laughing. Yeah…. she didn’t realize it was common knowledge that we’re the punishment store for everyone who pisses someone off. I told her that every single store manager that has come to this store has said they will be gone in like a month. They all think it’s like rehab….. but S&S often feels more than a month is needed for rehab. So then Linda was asking why she was here. Apparently she’s been at our store longer than any other store. She’s never been at the same store more than 4 weeks in a row… and she’s far past that at ours. She’s used to doing what Bill Wimer is doing now…. moving all over the place every night.
Also… my last reflection on Linda. Why no one gets how awesome she is….. you only see it after like 10 PM. After 10 PM she just crashes. There are no customers… we’ve already cleaned everything… so for two hours we basically stood there and talked and did nothing while Lily read magazines. During the day when it’s busy she’s all business… but after like 10… she has a tendency to just run out of energy and stop caring… and she’s really awesome when that happens. She’s all chill…. just content to stand around and chat and let everyone do whatever.
So yeah… I also left my official list of what hours I will work next week… my very last week this summer at S&S. It’s so sad. I’ve just fucking enjoyed the living hell out of this summer. I just goddamned love working there. It’s a shitty job and everyone complains and hates it…. but I fucking love it so much. I could spend the rest of my life there. I would seriously be happy to live the rest of my life as a Front End Manager. It’s sad… unambitious and a waste of the gifts I have…. but God… I’d be happy with it… and it’d be a lot easier and a lot less painful than fighting to succeed in a field that wants to see me fail. It’s tempting at times. I’m gonna miss it. So many awesome people there.
So… I get there and Paul Dwyer is ringing and Matt Leone is CDHing….. oh crap. I took the keys from him immediately and never gave them back unless it was to let him do something. I’m horribly possessive of my keys. I do not play well with others.
And Matt….. just not the greatest CDH. Too much talking…. not enough sense to put down the audits and stuff and get on register. We were slammed. PD was already ringing. Then Blair comes over and is all… why are none of you bagging for Paul. I say we will be in just a minute. I tell Matt to put down the audit… he was only doing the paperwork after already having counted it…. but he just wouldn’t stop… I had to tell him 3 more time to just put it down and get on register. Not a good sign.
Matt has issues with not being able to let go of a task when he needs to do something else. Both me and PD told him to forget audits from like 5 to 6 PM…. it’s just too busy… and he’s too slow… I can occasionally get away with them because I’m super fast. Also….. the most important thing is customers and not waiting… not paperwork. If you have to put people on registers that are not audited…. you gotta do it…. it happens. Customers always come first in that. I don’t know how well he’s gonna be able to handle the rushes.
Also… he never stopped talking. He was driving Jen nuts. Adam was just ordering him around and dealing with him by “playing” with him. Jen just could not stand him talking constantly. I had him train a new girl on bagging on register 8 and it was just a non-stop monologue for like 10 minutes.
Then I got to watch Matt and Ben fight with each other over who was more CDH… it was entertaining. They were all… I’ve done this part more… no I’ve done this thing more… no Laurel trained me at this… well Paul trained me for this. So amusing.
So Jared was on carts… yeah… more thunder and lightning at like 7 or 7:30. He never went back out on carts for the night…. it was just constant almost. So he stayed on the front…. he’s a good worker there… always keeping busy and doing stuff…. plus he ran selfscan for me… because for some reason we have the person leave at 8 PM with those. And at 10 PM…. Linda shut down selfscan. She was all… they’re just a pain… most stores shut them down at 9 PM. I was all…. I want that. Why do we not do that? So if I have the bodies…. I’m allowed to shut those down at like 9:30 or so. Fuck yeah.
Rosa, Adam, and Lily rounded out my cashiers for the night. Rosa just does her job…. cleans when I tell her to… and she’s good…. low maintenance. Lily was there with me until midnight…. same thing… she gets everything done… usually by 11 and then reads magazines for the last hour…. plus she’s wicked friendly and talkative. I enjoy her. I’ve got her again tomorrow. Adam….. is like never a cashier for me. He’s always stuck on selfscan and carts to the point I like forget he knows how to ring. It’s all…. oh yeah…. he is a cashier but never gets scheduled as one? Oh PD. And now he’s getting all the foreign girls to teach him inappropriate phrases in foreign languages…. tis amusing. And when Adam told me about it…. Lily got all blushing and was all… don’t tell him. It was so cute.
I’m sure she’s under the general assumption that I’m like a manager. Very few people realize that I’m just a mook like everyone else. I get keys and tons of responsibility…. but really I’m still just a cashier. I get paid no more…. I just get all the responsibility for no benefit. Plus…. I really really do not give a shit. I only get everything done because it’s my job and I get in trouble from the managers. I miss old Sundays with Kenny Bauer…. I sat on my ass and did nothing. And all of my cashiers rang and when there were no customers we just sat there and chatted and did nothing. Those were fun times…. sadly now I get Linda… I love her in lots of ways…. but she makes me work… and I don’t mind…. but I miss fun non working nights.
I so wish I had more nightshifts with the awesome cashiers. It just makes the night fly by so quickly when you have awesome people around. It’s why Wednesday days have been my absolute favorite shift…. there’s just tons of awesome people and the shift just flies by. I’m so looking forward to it again this week.
Oh yeah… this is an insert from yesterday. Kristy Levinson came in to work yesterday…. which I give her credit for. Her dog died Friday… and she was just crushed. I mean completely crushed. Billy Gravelle had to call in for her for Saturday. So she came in Sunday… and after like an hour was all crying and asked for a break… I let her go and told her to take her time. So she came back after like 15 minutes and said she couldn’t do it. I told her it was fine… gave her a big hug and let her go. Again… I was really surprised she came in at all….. I would because I deal with my pain by working it off…. but she’s obviously one that can’t do that. In a couple of days hopefully she’ll at least be a little better.
Also… so in front of service desk there’s this balloon stuck up in the 4th of July decorations. It was driving me nuts… so tonight I decided I was going to fix it. Got up on an egg crate…. broom handle with tape stuck on to the bottom end…. attached it to the balloon… with considerable effort finally caught it and pulled it down… until the string got stuck half way down. I was so pissed…. and it was stuck good. I settled for cutting the balloon off and just leaving the string.
So…. to now continue the cart story…. Jared was inside the entire time… so at like 9:45 it had let up enough… I went out and spent maybe 45 minutes and pwned every single cart out of the lot…. it was awesome. And that was the perfect time…. because soon after I finished the lightning started up again. I went back out at like 11:45 to get the last three carts and it was all rain and lightning again…. just all night. It totally killed business and made it slow as fuck…. which also often equals boring as fuck.
So yeah….. my doom talk with Linda. It started at the register while both of us were bagging for Lily. Team bagging is awesome. She was talking about how she wanted this new girl they were putting in GM trained for cahier to so she could help if we get busy. So I asked her if we still call up other departments to bag… because this entire summer…. not once have I seen that done. Linda was all shocked and was all… of course we do. Produce, grocery…. always. Then she thought about it some more and was all…. wait a minute…. I think you’re right…. I can’t remember doing that here myself or seeing anyone else do it. We call the managers… but never the other departments. So she was all.. yeah… start doing that again. I was lamenting the days of Darrin Songer where we implemented the system of writing down all the help we had in each department on the lineup so we knew who to call. So yeah…. we should be doing that.
So then we talked for a while about the new no hassle policy how to make judgment calls on it… how to let it go for customers that look genuine and have a small difference in price. Like Linda got one today where a woman thought the notebooks were 10 for $1… so Linda checked on it first because they were 10 for $10.
Then it moves to price accuracies and I was asking who did that and when was it done and could I just take shelf tags off if they were wrong… because we’re always told to leave the shelf tag up. Yeah… Linda was like fuck no… pull the shelf tag immediately and leave it on the price accuracy for Dale. Hell yeah… every time a shelf tag is wrong… I can pull the tag off. About time. She even told me to call the department and have them fix it if it’s during the day. More fuck yeah. The policy should be fix it immediately…. but we always get store managers that don’t know how to fix it and just have us leave it. No more of that shit for my last week or so. I’m removing tags immediately.
Then from here we started talking about all the shitty managers at this store and where all of out shitty ways of dealing with things were. Linda was surprised I was here from the beginning. She didn’t realize I was here when it first opened as S&S. I was bitching about how Richy Abraham hated everything and said fuck it to fixing anything. So she was saying that our store was a starter store….. where people learn and then move on. I laughed and asked why some people like Bob Hied-de-camp didn’t learn and move on. She laughed and tried to explain that our store was also….. and she kept searching for a word….. I filled it in and said we all know we’re the punishment store. She just bust out laughing. Yeah…. she didn’t realize it was common knowledge that we’re the punishment store for everyone who pisses someone off. I told her that every single store manager that has come to this store has said they will be gone in like a month. They all think it’s like rehab….. but S&S often feels more than a month is needed for rehab. So then Linda was asking why she was here. Apparently she’s been at our store longer than any other store. She’s never been at the same store more than 4 weeks in a row… and she’s far past that at ours. She’s used to doing what Bill Wimer is doing now…. moving all over the place every night.
Also… my last reflection on Linda. Why no one gets how awesome she is….. you only see it after like 10 PM. After 10 PM she just crashes. There are no customers… we’ve already cleaned everything… so for two hours we basically stood there and talked and did nothing while Lily read magazines. During the day when it’s busy she’s all business… but after like 10… she has a tendency to just run out of energy and stop caring… and she’s really awesome when that happens. She’s all chill…. just content to stand around and chat and let everyone do whatever.
So yeah… I also left my official list of what hours I will work next week… my very last week this summer at S&S. It’s so sad. I’ve just fucking enjoyed the living hell out of this summer. I just goddamned love working there. It’s a shitty job and everyone complains and hates it…. but I fucking love it so much. I could spend the rest of my life there. I would seriously be happy to live the rest of my life as a Front End Manager. It’s sad… unambitious and a waste of the gifts I have…. but God… I’d be happy with it… and it’d be a lot easier and a lot less painful than fighting to succeed in a field that wants to see me fail. It’s tempting at times. I’m gonna miss it. So many awesome people there.