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Ok, so, last night was a fairly interesting night. Sorry for not blogging for a while, have been having issues here (mobile hard disk dying, new project, best friends birthday celebrations) which have conflicted with my blogging.
For my regular readers, you will know that last night I was only down to work for three hours. And I did. Queen Chav turned up at 1:45am, and made herself a coffee. Much to the annoyance of The Scotsman. He walked past and said "Tea, white, one sugar". She protested that she wasn't making a drink for anyone but herself. And that set the tone for the rest of their time together. He argued that on nights, and that she was now part of nights, if someone made a drink for themselves, they made one for anyone else who wanted one, and to get and make him a tea. Amazingly, she complied.
So she decided to try and buy him off by offering him a free cigarette break. Thing is, this is a guy who does what he wants, when he wants, how he wants. This said, he didn't expect me. I have a new toy called I-Doser. It syncs brainwaves to experiences and there are a LOT of different things to try. Last night I was experimenting with pure delta waves. They are linked to focus, attention, alertness, logical thinking and concentrating on the task at hand. Things which work believe I lack. So he tried arguing with me about doing the paper returns. He hit a wall of ice.
Me: "What are you doing? You are not doing the chilled, you are doing the paper returns"
Scotsman: "I am working the chilled, get on the tills and do the paper returns"
Me: "I am running the shift, and I am not allowed to do the paper returns"
Scotsman: "Well I am not doing them!"
Me: "I am not allowed to, I am running the shift, you will do the papers"
Scotsman: "But..."
Me: "Get on the tills, I will bring you the papers, you will complete the paperwork and bundle them. Then you can work the chilled"
Scotsman: "I don't need your f*cking help. I'll get the f*cking papers"
Me: "Fine"
Scotsman: "F*cking pr*ck"
He never bows down to authority, let alone completely backs off! And he demonstrated his point with Queen Chav. She asked if she could write the rotas out for next week for an hour. He said no, that she would work the same ways he did. She argued that she wasn't going to do the rotas tomorrow, and he argued that he didn't care, and for her to get on the tills. She backed down and served me. And just as she served me, six drunks came heading towards the till, each with a basket absolutely full of stuff. I grinned at her and said "Just in time for the drunks. Have fun. See you in a week!"
So, that is work stuff done and dusted. Now for the fun! The author of My Little Place In The World (fabulous little blog) had an open invite for bloggers to be interviewed. Now, I have never been interviewed, so I thought that I would take the oppertunity to be interviewed. Now, there are rules, and I have to open this up to anyone else who wants to be interviewed. The rules are as follows:
1. leave me a comment saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I’ll email you five questions, of my determination not yours!
3. You update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
So, anyone who wants to be interviewed, please leave a comment and I will come up with 5 fiendish questions!
And now for my 5 questions from My Little Place In The World:
1. Your blog is about things that happen while you're at work, what made you want to start a blog on this topic?
Well, my work can be interesting, frustrating, hilarious, annoying and sometimes just plain wierd, so I thought it might be interesting to write about all of these things that happen. Plus often when I told friends about the things that happened at work, they either laughed hugely, or questioned whether what I was saying actually happened - which made me think that perhaps maybe other people might like to see the other side of the counter in a store.
2. If someone was coming to your city (town) what is one thing you would recommend that they see before they leave?
Good question! My town is tiny! It is literally a mile wide, and has 18 bars in it! So, I guess I would say that they checked out the Sunday accoustic night at The Thomas Tripp. The bar is normally not quite as busy as a Friday or Saturday, and the music is either self written by the artist, or it is covers performed by local artists on an accoustic guitar. It makes for a very relaxing Sunday evening spent with a nice cool drink and chilled out music.
3. If you could land your dream job what would it be and why? Assuming that you weren't doing it for money.
Actually, I am working towards my dream job! I would love to become a full time blogger. I just love the idea of being my own boss, writing for a living, and making money from doing something I love without the hassles and pressures of having to be anywhere at a certain time, in certain clothes doing certain things. And by this I mean enough to get by on, I don't really want to become one of these mega rich bloggers who earn $100,000 a month, but maybe 2% of that would be nice!
4. I noticed that one of your videos of the day was Atlanta Thrashers highlights set to the sounds of Song 2 by Blur are you a hockey fan or you just like the song and Mats Sundin getting rocked in that video was just a little bonus?
Well first of all thank you for watching the videos of the day! It's always a worry of mine whether anyone actually watches them or not! I wouldn't say I am a hockey fan - the last time I watched it was when I was in a sports bar in Gran Canaria in November. But I do like Ice Hockey. I love the song Song 2 by Blur, and have been known to belt it out in bars - whether they have Karaoke or not!
5. If you had 5 million dollars what would you do with it?
Now you see, this is where I become boring. First of all I would give a million dollars to The Hampshire Autistic Foundation, and then I would put 2 million dollars in a high interest account which paid interest monthly and a 2 million dollars in a regular account. And then set up the monthly interest to be transferred into a third account which I would use as my day to day spending money and simply live off the interest created by the 2 million in the high interest account. And if I ever needed to make a huge purchase, that is what the 2 million in the regular account would be for. See? Boring!
And on that note - I think that is quite enough from me! Many huge thanks to My Little Place In The World for excellent questions. I had a lot of fun answering them!
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