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5th November 2008: Tonight has been such a joy to work so far.  The actual real only highlight has been calling my lovely missus on my first break, which is always really nice.  See?  Under these many layers of cold, hard exterior, there is a slightly warmer, tiny bit softer interior.  The reason my shift has been so bad is The Flying Scotsman.  You see, he is a real, dyed in the wool pessimist.  And tonight's complaint has been his days off and holidays.  He complained that he had been given 5 days off.  He complained he had nothing else to do than walk his "doggies" and get drunk.  What a life the guy leads.  So he comes back, rested and hungover and says "I refuse to work bank holidays.  They can't make me.  I refuse."  So i explain that the six weeks holiday includes 2 weeks in lieu of bank holidays.  "No!  I don't get paid for 6 weeks holiday.  I get 12 days holiday!  F*ck them.  I refuse to work bank holidays"  I then asked what days he was contracted to, to which he said 2 days.  So then I explained he was given his holidays based on contracted hours, and other hours were paid as overtime.  He's going to see Queen Chav in the morning.  It's going to be great! Now, the Scotsman has been given 3 weeks training on dayshift, butn apparently learned nothing there, because if he did, he would be able to manually enter payments into the PayPoint machine.  He can't.  He had to ring the bell and interupt what I was doing to do it.  Newbies are so annoying.  Even after a few weeks of being here they still manage to bug the hell out of me.  Gah!  Then there was a kid who came in without ID and asked for cigarettes.  The Scotsman ID'ed him and he claimed he didn't need ID because he was over 18.  Some people STILL don't get it!  So he was refused.  Then he said "Oi!  Mate, you know me!" to me.  I'd never seen the guy in my life.  And told him so.  He then complained that we were ganging up on him, at which point The Scotsman told him that he was wrong because even if I did know him, it wasn't me he had to prove things to, it was him.  The kid sloped off and went home and got his passport, which was just in date.  But then, and this is the funniest part, his car broke down.  It's still in the car park busily being very broken indeed. Lastly, for now anyway, Queen Chav is in in the morning, and it's going to be awesome.  I am not in charge, I am not responsible for anything, and yesterday she would have found out that Rickaaaay trashed her car and wrote it off.  After not being allowed to smoke for 6 hours.  Stunning.  He is so dead, and she is going to be in such a foul mood.  Probably more so after he tells her he lied to the insurance company.  I cannot wait to see Slaphead get destroyed by her.  And destroyed methinks he is going to be. We have a massive problem with Racism in our store too.  So far the cleaner has said that it's a shame that we can't use the N word anymore, and that we can't collect gollywogs from Robinsons Jam jars.  I muttered under my breath "Yeah B'stards abolished slavery too!  Then The Scotsman said that they're going to assasinate Obama because he's black.  Their attitude really annoys me.  I mean, it's the 21st century people!  The problem is, The Flying Scotsman is racist, homophobic, intolerant of other religions and fully admits it.  The Blonde Bombshell is sexist, racist and homophobic and fully admits it.  Slaphead is tolerant, as is Miss C.  Then we have The Troll, the cleaner who is sexist, racist, homophobic and intolerant of other religions.  I mean, it's the 21st century, and you'd think we were entering an era of peace, tolerance and understanding, and you get hit by all this biggotry.  Sad really. Permalink |

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