LALALA District Managers Are Fun......
So…. work was tense…. awesome… and crazy. 15 y/o’s….. District managers…. Linda…. oh there was crazy everywhere….. but it was greatly rewarding… and then I got smashed after. All good.
So to start….. I get to work and as I’m walking in to punch in…. Joan Field gets down to her knees and bows to me and says I’m a God…. that’s how happy she was to see me. I was like…. crap….. that means it’s gonna suck today won’t it. But she was just unequipped to handle all the kids that I handle well.
Her main problem was Matt Blackmon and Alanna. They spent the entire shift chatting…. Matt just let Alanna ring on his register and numbers for no reason. Joan yelled at him and he was all… I trust her. Plus every time Joan went down to separate them….. they ignored her… they have no respect for Joan… which sucks…. because I love Joan… even if she’s not the best CDH. Plus…. Matt has attitude issues…. he’s fine with me because any crap he gives me I give right back and vice versa…. but still….. he shows no respect to people like Paul Kelly and Joan who deserve respect.
Anyway… Matt was gone as I was in… so Alanna didn’t have Matt around and she’s always fine with me. For the duration I also had Chris McNamara, Alex Grotevant, Tyler Dennis, Zack Farmer, Amanda Damery, and Ryan Silva. Trevor was on carts. It was a very good crew. Sadly Dick England came in at 4 PM with Kyle replacing Alanna and Ryan.
So… the big news….. at like 3 PM…. In fucking walks Steve Isomone. I saw him walk in and just went cold…. I was like….. fuck….. fuck fuck fuck…… and I’ve got only inexperienced chatty 15 y/o kids. Crap. I went up to each one of them individually…. spoke quietly to them….. told them the district manager was in… that that meant we had to be absolutely perfect…. no chatting…. no lazing about… always keep busy… always be doing something. I told Dick and Kyle the same thing when they came in. All I have to say….. these kids fucking came through perfectly. I mean… no wandering around… no standing around and talking….. no goofing off…. they were scrubbing registers, putting up boxes of plastic bags…. it was awesome…. I was all filled with pride. They all were just perfect…. and Linda didn’t have to say one thing to a single one of them… I mean she cam up to me and was all… oh God make sure everything is perfect…. but I’d already beat her to it…. because I saw Isomone before she did and immediately told my entire front end…. because that’s what one does.
Though there was one snag…. Chris came back from break… went to his register…. no customers… and he picked up a magazine and started reading it. I was on him….. before he’d even turned the page. I came right up behind and him and quietly told him he couldn’t possibly be reading a magazine at his register while the district manager was right up in the manager’s office looking so that I would have to scream at him. Yeah…. he put it down and went back to being a good little cashier after that. But that really was the only thing out of place. Otherwise they all did perfectly…. I was just so happy.
Then… I got to hear stories of Todd Spring as CDH back when he worked here….. when Isomone was in…. Todd thought it would look good if he just screamed at every person…. so he just went around to each cashier and screamed in their face about how useless they were and everything they were doing wrong. What a dumbass. God I hate that kid so much sometimes. Plus he’s been hanging in our store trying to pretend he’s all awesome and important now that he works somewhere else. And all the people he talks to here… none of them like him. Fucking idiot.
So yeah… the one downside of Isomone was at 5 PM as I lost two cashiers and got only one more. I was switching registers but had gone down to two and was just getting Dick to go on register to get us back to 3 lanes open. Yeah…. Linda flipped on me…. she was all… OMG you must have five registers open now…. even though we had like no customers…. so she made me put people coming in at 5 immediately without auditing. It was so stupid. Derek was the unlucky victim…. but I got him off shortly after so I could audit the drawer.
Then… having audited it… and asking Chris to count the sweep so I could get the amount in the sweep so I could have accurate audits… Linda got all pissed and was…. just hold off on the audits….. she’s so annoying sometimes. It’s like…. concentrate only on customer interaction…. not like safekeeping money… but then if I do that… she yells at me for not doing sweeps and audits….. she’s like never happy sometimes. Also…. no matter what she tells me… I refuse to stop auditing and putting people on unaudited drawers….. only if I have to out of necessity…. but if I can avoid it by doing audits…. I’m gonna fucking do audits. Why not? Oh Linda.
So Isomone left at like 5:30… and it calmed down after that…. was much more fun with all the kids I love. Paul came in at 7PM and after that I kinda just shut down. I was in service desk helping Ben do Western Union while Fawn was on break… then because I was unneeded on the front… I just stayed outside of the desk and talked with Fawn and Ben for like an hour. Paul Never noticed…. and Chris Carpenter doesn’t give a fuck…… it was a nice close to the sift of stressing out over Isomone.
Also…. Fawn drama. There’s this crazy schizophrenic bitch that thinks Fawn’s boyfriend is really her boyfriend. Anyway…. someone called at like 6:30 PM.. asked when Fawn was working til… I answered… and asked if she wanted to talk to Fawn…. and the girl just said no… and hung up…. it was weird…. so I told Fawn and she freaked…. called her boyfriend and they both thought it was this crazy girl. Like 30 minutes later the girl ended up getting arrested… she was at Fawn’s boyfriend’s house banging on his door with a baton. It was crazy.
But yeah… despite crazy tenseness… it was just an awesome shift. My new cashiers that I feel a parental mother hen connection to were just so awesome and made our front end look just perfect. Plus…. a whole shift of bagging for Tyler and Chris and Alex… I was drooling over all three…. they’re just so fucking cute…. and all such good kids. And like Joan had the lineup with Dick on register 9 and all my cute boys on the other end of the front….. yeah… I said fuck to that. being able to manipulate the lineup is fun…. Alex on 9, Tyler on 7 and Chris on 6, and then Derek on 8. Now that’s a nice lineup. Dick got 5…. because 4 is just too broken to use.
But yeah…. after work…. I was just ready to enjoy myself…. hit up the boost. My parents eventually showed up. And then they left and I stayed with Krissy… the awesome local bar slut and a bunch of guys on leave from the military that were all partying together…. one from PA who I got to talk about Warren with… and one from Hawaii who was just fucking hot… especially after alcohol. I was al over the place alcoholwise too…. making Amanda sad because she likes consistency. 1 PBR, 1 Rang Pom, 3 Toasted Almonds, 3 Black & Tans, 1 Jolly Rancher Martini, and a glass of merlot. Also…. I started a trend with the toasted almonds…. all the guys from the military ordered some for themselves after I did…. plus they bought me 2 of those drinks. It was cool.
So to start….. I get to work and as I’m walking in to punch in…. Joan Field gets down to her knees and bows to me and says I’m a God…. that’s how happy she was to see me. I was like…. crap….. that means it’s gonna suck today won’t it. But she was just unequipped to handle all the kids that I handle well.
Her main problem was Matt Blackmon and Alanna. They spent the entire shift chatting…. Matt just let Alanna ring on his register and numbers for no reason. Joan yelled at him and he was all… I trust her. Plus every time Joan went down to separate them….. they ignored her… they have no respect for Joan… which sucks…. because I love Joan… even if she’s not the best CDH. Plus…. Matt has attitude issues…. he’s fine with me because any crap he gives me I give right back and vice versa…. but still….. he shows no respect to people like Paul Kelly and Joan who deserve respect.
Anyway… Matt was gone as I was in… so Alanna didn’t have Matt around and she’s always fine with me. For the duration I also had Chris McNamara, Alex Grotevant, Tyler Dennis, Zack Farmer, Amanda Damery, and Ryan Silva. Trevor was on carts. It was a very good crew. Sadly Dick England came in at 4 PM with Kyle replacing Alanna and Ryan.
So… the big news….. at like 3 PM…. In fucking walks Steve Isomone. I saw him walk in and just went cold…. I was like….. fuck….. fuck fuck fuck…… and I’ve got only inexperienced chatty 15 y/o kids. Crap. I went up to each one of them individually…. spoke quietly to them….. told them the district manager was in… that that meant we had to be absolutely perfect…. no chatting…. no lazing about… always keep busy… always be doing something. I told Dick and Kyle the same thing when they came in. All I have to say….. these kids fucking came through perfectly. I mean… no wandering around… no standing around and talking….. no goofing off…. they were scrubbing registers, putting up boxes of plastic bags…. it was awesome…. I was all filled with pride. They all were just perfect…. and Linda didn’t have to say one thing to a single one of them… I mean she cam up to me and was all… oh God make sure everything is perfect…. but I’d already beat her to it…. because I saw Isomone before she did and immediately told my entire front end…. because that’s what one does.
Though there was one snag…. Chris came back from break… went to his register…. no customers… and he picked up a magazine and started reading it. I was on him….. before he’d even turned the page. I came right up behind and him and quietly told him he couldn’t possibly be reading a magazine at his register while the district manager was right up in the manager’s office looking so that I would have to scream at him. Yeah…. he put it down and went back to being a good little cashier after that. But that really was the only thing out of place. Otherwise they all did perfectly…. I was just so happy.
Then… I got to hear stories of Todd Spring as CDH back when he worked here….. when Isomone was in…. Todd thought it would look good if he just screamed at every person…. so he just went around to each cashier and screamed in their face about how useless they were and everything they were doing wrong. What a dumbass. God I hate that kid so much sometimes. Plus he’s been hanging in our store trying to pretend he’s all awesome and important now that he works somewhere else. And all the people he talks to here… none of them like him. Fucking idiot.
So yeah… the one downside of Isomone was at 5 PM as I lost two cashiers and got only one more. I was switching registers but had gone down to two and was just getting Dick to go on register to get us back to 3 lanes open. Yeah…. Linda flipped on me…. she was all… OMG you must have five registers open now…. even though we had like no customers…. so she made me put people coming in at 5 immediately without auditing. It was so stupid. Derek was the unlucky victim…. but I got him off shortly after so I could audit the drawer.
Then… having audited it… and asking Chris to count the sweep so I could get the amount in the sweep so I could have accurate audits… Linda got all pissed and was…. just hold off on the audits….. she’s so annoying sometimes. It’s like…. concentrate only on customer interaction…. not like safekeeping money… but then if I do that… she yells at me for not doing sweeps and audits….. she’s like never happy sometimes. Also…. no matter what she tells me… I refuse to stop auditing and putting people on unaudited drawers….. only if I have to out of necessity…. but if I can avoid it by doing audits…. I’m gonna fucking do audits. Why not? Oh Linda.
So Isomone left at like 5:30… and it calmed down after that…. was much more fun with all the kids I love. Paul came in at 7PM and after that I kinda just shut down. I was in service desk helping Ben do Western Union while Fawn was on break… then because I was unneeded on the front… I just stayed outside of the desk and talked with Fawn and Ben for like an hour. Paul Never noticed…. and Chris Carpenter doesn’t give a fuck…… it was a nice close to the sift of stressing out over Isomone.
Also…. Fawn drama. There’s this crazy schizophrenic bitch that thinks Fawn’s boyfriend is really her boyfriend. Anyway…. someone called at like 6:30 PM.. asked when Fawn was working til… I answered… and asked if she wanted to talk to Fawn…. and the girl just said no… and hung up…. it was weird…. so I told Fawn and she freaked…. called her boyfriend and they both thought it was this crazy girl. Like 30 minutes later the girl ended up getting arrested… she was at Fawn’s boyfriend’s house banging on his door with a baton. It was crazy.
But yeah… despite crazy tenseness… it was just an awesome shift. My new cashiers that I feel a parental mother hen connection to were just so awesome and made our front end look just perfect. Plus…. a whole shift of bagging for Tyler and Chris and Alex… I was drooling over all three…. they’re just so fucking cute…. and all such good kids. And like Joan had the lineup with Dick on register 9 and all my cute boys on the other end of the front….. yeah… I said fuck to that. being able to manipulate the lineup is fun…. Alex on 9, Tyler on 7 and Chris on 6, and then Derek on 8. Now that’s a nice lineup. Dick got 5…. because 4 is just too broken to use.
But yeah…. after work…. I was just ready to enjoy myself…. hit up the boost. My parents eventually showed up. And then they left and I stayed with Krissy… the awesome local bar slut and a bunch of guys on leave from the military that were all partying together…. one from PA who I got to talk about Warren with… and one from Hawaii who was just fucking hot… especially after alcohol. I was al over the place alcoholwise too…. making Amanda sad because she likes consistency. 1 PBR, 1 Rang Pom, 3 Toasted Almonds, 3 Black & Tans, 1 Jolly Rancher Martini, and a glass of merlot. Also…. I started a trend with the toasted almonds…. all the guys from the military ordered some for themselves after I did…. plus they bought me 2 of those drinks. It was cool.