Our store manager has decreed that every single customer who wants to buy cigarettes or alcohol must be carded every single time they check out, no matter how old they are. Which means every time those people I work with that are old enough to be my parents come through my line at break, with just a few minutes to spare, not carrying their IDs, I ( Read more... )

I was told recently that a customer came to the store during the day to lodge a complaint about me with the store manager. According to them, I have light strawberry blonde hair, but anyway.

Here's what happened.

I was told that the floor crew would be waxing the grocery side of the front end (registers), and that we would have to open on the GM ( Read more... )

Name*Pending is a parody of life at Wal*Mart. Mainly focused around the overnight crew and our home lives, it's very, very funny. Most strips will probably end up being based on true stories - what happens to us at night is sure funny enough ( Read more... )

Ricky is making a webcomic. Just listening to him brainstorming ideas had me LOLing.

http://god-in-heaven.smackjeeves.com/comics/

Read it. I mean it.

Rachael Ray, the megahot superstar chef who's so popular right now, is actually a pretty great cook. I've been watching her show sporadically for years - she's got great, easy to make recipies, explains things very well, and I love her tv kitchen. It's so bright and perky. Like her ( Read more... )

It's warm enough for shorts here right now. We don't have snow days, we have RAIN days.

(right now the dirt road i live on is so screwed up from rain that I almost got stuck twice just trying to pull out onto the main road!)

Holiday Rule #7:
Do not take your children with you when you buy their presents.
a) if you must, do not get pissed at the cashier when the kid sees what they're getting.

I had a cashier yell at me for 10 minutes yesterday, and I couldn't yell back because I'm her supervisor and can't stoop to her level ( Read more... )

We're trying to find a new place to live. Got tired of the bugs and the ants and the spiders here, and the lack of proper a/c in the hot summer, and the way the house tilts, and the lack of shower, and etc. I mean, we can't even use the main part of the house during the day, even though we have a window unit in there ( Read more... )

I had this fricken weird dream the other night. This is as best as I can recall it ( Read more... )