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So, to all intents and purposes, last night was pretty
slow. We had rushes of customers, meaning that we had a lot, then
it died down, then we'd get another peak of customers. Which is
really annoying when you are trying to count then bundle newspapers to
be returned. Especially when you get drunken chavs coming in
going “Oi mate, you got a Sun there?” and you've just finished counting
the Suns and have already written it into the paperwork. We had
many drunken chavs last night.
And speaking of drunken people, I had the one customer I hate above all
others. This guy is a real moron. He comes in every Friday
and Saturday, his head barely reaches the counter, and he has Short Man
Syndrome. And every time he comes in, he heads straight for me
and tries to irritate me. Night before last I got him back, he
asked for Vodka and Malibu, and I said Ok. He looked shocked and
said “Really?” and then I laughed in his face and said “No! Just
kidding!” Not used to being told No is our little friend, so he
refused to move from the counter. Until he was removed by another
customer. His latest trick is to say “Caution, wet floor” every
time he sees me. So last night, after hearing it three times, I
smiled and said “Well, you be careful you don't slip then little
man”. He let out a frustrated shout, and stropped off into the
sunset. Thing is, this guy keeps threatening to complain about
me, so I gave him the chance a couple of nights ago, and pointed him in
the direction of my supervisor. He refused to talk to him, saying
he wanted to complain to head office instead. Because they're
gonna be interested in what a drunken midget has to say...
Last night it was Slaphead and I working together. He's a great
worker, doesn't always say a lot, but being a fellow Nicotine addict,
he gives a lot of cigarette breaks. He kept asking me if it was
Ok that he was supervisor. Thing is, he's older, and has a lot
more experience of working in teams than I do. Anyway, he's a
nice supervisor, so I have no problem with him running the shift.
I just like pushing myself to the limit whilst having as little
accountability as is humanly possible. Accountability and
responsibility aren't things I like, I prefer making everyone else look
slow with my pace. Which I did. I got a literal pat on the
back from Slaphead last night because he said I worked so relentlessly
hard. I did empty 2 cages before the delivery, and worked the
entire warehouse, and returned all the papers. And faced up the
entire store single handedly. In 6 hours. Which I think was
pretty damned good, especially considering I had a 15 minute break and
a half hour break within those 6 hours, and several cigarette
breaks.
But easily the highlight of last night was the notice in our
canteen. It was the report from the inspection we had 2 nights
ago. And it was fantastic. 1 out of 10. With 1 being the
worst score possible and 10 being the best. We used to average 9
or 10, but this is our second 1 in a row. Apparently, the store
wasn't faced up (Queen Chav's fault), the bunkers weren't full
(Rickaaaay's fault), the bakery stuff was low stocked (The Model's
fault) and the queues were too long (Mr DJ's fault). So now Mr
DJ, Mrs DJ and Queen Chav are all forced to have a meeting with Pedro
to explain. I can't wait. And the best bit? It took
place at 5pm, too far away from our shift for any of them to go “But it
was nightshift!”
I got offered a new job yesterday. Kind of. My brother
works for Carnival Cruises in the reservations department (not booking
the cruises, looking after customers) and told me he was going on a 2
week cruise at the company's expense, as per the norm for newcomers,
but he missed out on when he started. Anyway, I asked if they
needed any new starters, and he said that they did, and that if I
wanted to join, he could get me and interview and get me past the
interview really easily.
Lastly, the new rota has gone up, confirming I have the next week off
(expect posts written in many strange places) and also has something
quite odd. Rickaaaay and Crack Baby both have one shift on the
rota, today. The rest of the hours are blank. I've seen
this before. And it's not good. This normally happens
before someone is fired. Guess Pedro looked at the CCTV and
couldn't pick between which one of them drank the drink so fired
both. Nice one Pedro. I bow. Permalink Tags: are offline at the
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