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Store Manager | 21.08.08: Slow Shifts And Bad Burgers, Slow Workers, Fast Linux Distributions and Slow Laptops Tonight is a really bad night for blogging. I prayed for a quiet, easy night. By god did I get it. Today is my day off, so I really didn't want to have to work hard the night before my day off. Looks like that's happening. You see, the delivery is tiny tonight. Really really easy. And then there is the stuff we do before the delivery. Also easy. Although it would have been easier if something else hadn't happened. which I will detail later. About the only really good thing that is happening today is the main offer we have on. 2 burgers for £1. This is good because although the beef burgers are horrible, the chicken burgers are just about edible. Although I will say this Speedy Snacks - "Prime British chicken?" And where did you find them? A joke shop? Rubbery as all hell. And no included mayo. A disgrace! Miss C has taken 3 hours to work the chilled. I kid you not. Now, I know there was a lot in there, but even so, it should never, ever take 3 hours. The Bombshell is gutted if it takes longer than an hour. It really annoys me that she took so long, because I have had to work the tills and work the racking too. And because I have had to do both on my own, not a lot got done, because the customers have been playing tag. One leaves, another arrives. I swear that woman could drag any amount of work out for as long as possible. Although oddly, when she wants to leave work, she's not as enthusiastic about dragging meetings out for as long as possible. Shame I am. It seems like Miss C is on a go slow for good tonight. First off I suggested that I did the chilled with her, and then we both did the ambient. For some insane reason, Queen Chav has made Miss C in charge of the nightshift whenever The Bombshell or Slaphead aren't around. Well, actually, the reason is that management hate me, but anyway. So, Miss C decided that this was a stupid idea, and decided to do the chilled on her own. She did helpfully tell me that if by 5am she was struggling, I could help her. This isn't what annoyed me. What annoyed me is that she said it would be no problem for her. It took her three hours. That is what annoyed me. It took her three hours to work what was a really small chilled delivery. So, it was no problem, but it took her three times as long as it would have taken me to complete her part in the delivery. And then to complicate matters, we didn't get finished because she finished her stuff at six thirty, then toddled off for her break. And when she came back I told her to face up the chiller, and she snapped at me "I was going to! Remember who is in charge tonight!" The woman is just beyond belief. And the worst part is that I have her on Friday too. Well, she isn't going to get away with being lazy on Friday. I intend on making sure of that. On other, unrelated matters, I have been battling with my laptop for the last few days. Not the main one I write this blog on. That one is actually working better than ever, namely because I installed the ultra slimline Puppy Linux on it and now it is ridiculously fast. Puppy is loving the dual cores, and the gig of memory. The only problem is no sound and no wifi, although this isn't really an issue because I prefer the speed gain from a wired connection, and I am considering buying a USB sound card for this laptop so that Puppy can become my distro of choice. Ok, it's not Ubuntu and is never going to be, but the fact that the laptop boots in 20 seconds and shuts down in about 10, it's worth the lack of name. No, the laptop I have been battling with is my IBM Thinkpad. The thing is hugely infuriating. It only cost me £80, and it's relatively underpowered (300 megahertz processor and 196 meg of memory) but it's a beautiful looking machine, and I just know that Puppy would blaze on it. Plus it has an enhanced battery, which gives it about 4 hours of battery life. Stunning for a laptop. Although if Dell make a Linux version of their recently announced 12 hour battery life laptops, then I am sold. It can weigh as much as a small family car for all I care. Ok, maybe not, but I wouldn't mind it weighing maybe 2 kilos. 3 at a push. I mean, great battery life is one thing, but if it's a laptop, it's gotta be portable too. Anyway, so the Thinkpad won't boot from USB drives or a CD drive. Annoying. So I bought a little external floppy drive from eBay for a tenner. Works like a dream, and hopefully I can use it to install Puppy from a floppy. Or rather boot Puppy from a floppy, then load the rest of the files from a USB drive. Permalink | |
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