Regular readers will know
that we have a guy who comes in who is incredibly well spoken, but is a
real hippy and has long-ish hair. Hence we call him Posh Long
Haired Hippy Guy. Kinda just fits. Anyway, so, when he saw
me tonight he was very happy, namely because he thought I'd been
fired. Then he wouldn't stop shaking my hand and hugging me,
which to me was a little bit wierd, but hey, he was being friendly
which is a change from a lot of the abusive customers. He also
offered me a new "deal" to get revenge on Slaphead, Miss C and The
Blonde Bombshell. A non violent deal. He said that whenever
he comes in, he's going to be one of those annoying, irritating
customers.
Now, I am guessing you would think that being a large corporation we
would do things professionally, like getting our banking right before
we have a bank holiday. Unfortunately not. We didn't get
any 2ps in. Which means what we have is what we've taken over the
bank holiday. Which according to the amount of 2ps we have in our
tills is virtually none. In the end, you have to beg regulars for
2ps.
Considering the above, I found out something very very interesting
about SF. Now, before I tell you what we have, I should tell you
that in our store, and apparently it's the same everywhere, the
computer which deals with the goods recieved notes is a 1ghz computer
with a laughable 128mb of memory. Running Windows XP. Now,
this thing is always on, which means that the hard disk never gets
defragged. You can imagine how slow the thing is. So,
imagine my surprise when I was playing around on the corporate
intranet, trying to find next week's weather report and found that we
have a long range weather forecast service. Not just this, it's
based on very complex technologies such as factoring in past weather
patterns, trends, patterns and cycles and many other things. It's
quite breathtaking, but none of this tech filters down to us.
Shame...
Slaphead and I rocked last night. We did much teamwork, and
worked really well together, which meant we completely rocked. We
got 11 cages on the delivery, and in the end we had 2 cages left for
the dayshift to do. And we did so well that Shoe told us that we
had actually really only left her a cage and a half, which she was
pleased with. Which obviously in turn meant we were pretty
happy.
But one of the best things was what happened when Queen Chav came
in. Remember how she blanked me? Well...a close friend of
mine made a complaint about her via the SF "contact us" link on the
website. White lies surrounding hard truth. He even named
her by name. I would say I tried to stop him, but it was a very
poor attempt at trying. Anyway, something has changed because
Queen Chav won't come anywhere near me. She is actively avoiding
me. Which I personally think is quite fantastic. Gotta love
my friends, especially Tom who is the personification of "When he is
good he is very very good but when he is bad he is horrid".
Definetly one person never to cross! Methinks Queen Chav is
finding out why.
Lastly, I want to mention something I saw on TV which I think is just
fantastic. Those familiar with UK tv will know about a show in
the morning called GMTV. On it they have a doctor called Dr
Hillary Jones, who is a guy who is possibly the most patronising and
smug man walking the earth. So, imagine my joy when from the
"headquarters" of his new diet he is launching from their website, he
did a video interview on TV and I saw in the head offices a bottle
which looked to me very much like a whisky bottle. I have much
experience of whisky bottles, and it fits the look perfectly. But
even if it wasn't a whisky bottle, the whole place looked like a rush
job. Monitors balanced on packets of paper for example. A
doctor who has a bottle of scotch in the headquarters of his latest
diet. Quite fantastic. I should point out that the bottle
wasn't on Dr Jones's desk, although it was on the desk directly
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