Thanks. Just got my next schedule. Friday and Monday.
I can believe it. DG used to be a decent go-to place if I only needed a couple of basic things, but since they opened in every crossroads, they have totally gone downhill.
Congrats on surviving the first couple of days. They’re by far the hardest. The fact they want you back is hardly surprising but is heartening.
Excellent!
Something that I’ll have to keep an eye on: I don’t get a whole lot of time in advance to make time-off requests. My manager asked me to simply tell her the week before. And I have several appointments and choir-related things I’ll need off for the rest of the year.
If you have a regular day or time that you need off (for instance, “I can’t work after 6pm on Tuesdays”, let your manager know and that will make things simpler for them.
I very much agree with advice. Working around someone’s regular blocked out times is much easier than changing the agonized over schedule after it is published.
I’m glad you are settling in OP. Any job requires learning and it sounds like you are doing just fine.
Yay! You’ve got this!
Is making a cup of tea cooking?
I’d say yes, that’s a type of cooking. Or heating up a pot of coffee. Why not? If you heat up a bowl of soup so you can drink it, that’s certainly cooking, and there’s really no difference, especially if it’s just broth.
We get the weirdest thread drifts here sometimes.
Does that mean you worked tonight? If so, I hope it went a bit more smoothly. Weekends (and Friday night counts as “weekend” in a lot of retail settings) can get a bit more hectic.
Yes, I worked tonight.
Cooked a couple pizzas all by myself. But I made the mistake of removing them from the wrapper as done by Employee A and not the way Employee B taught me, and Employee A’s way lends itself to accidentally forgetting to remove the cardboard “pizza stone” from underneath the pizza.
Which I did. I’m lucky I didn’t set the building on fire. Would not have been good for future employment references.
I had a customer come in while my coworker was on a smoke break, having won $100 on a scratch off ticket, which I didn’t have in my drawer because I do regular drops of big bills. The next customer needed to put money on some kind of gift card, which I didn’t know how to do. So I needed to call in my coworker from his smoke break to handle first the second customer, and then the first, who got the cash the second customer had just given him.
Biggest event of the night, however, by far, was when a customer pulled into our parking lot having just hit a deer. She had her son with her. Both were unhurt, but the car was apparently nonoperational, because they spent some time waiting there without it being on. I was out doing the outside trash when I saw her out of her car on the phone with her insurance company. I gave them the address of the store, brought her out a Coke fountain drink, reassured her, and told her she should feel free to make use of my employee drink benefit for the duration of her visit. After a couple hours, the tow truck came and got them.
We were expecting a shipment today around 9, but it hadn’t arrived by the time I left at 11.
You’re a good person.
Hey, alright!
And now you know to do it that way and not this way. Employee A, I’m guessing, has done this for a long time (and likely removes pizzas from wrappers in their sleep, literally, dreams the task) but since that is problematic for you, now you know how to accomplish this task in a better way.
Well, that worked out conveniently!
Heck, I don’t know the address of the store where I currently work … and come to think of it, never knew the address of the last place where I worked for a year, including a brief stint as manager.
… probably should’ve. But it’s a small town, and fairly easy to describe.
Anyway, you did better than lotsa people, and the free drink was very kind of you.
I bet you’re gonna be one of those beloved managers, before you even know it. You’ll train newbies who will make the exact same mistakes you’re making now, and you’ll just chuckle indulgently and gently correct their errors.
I didn’t have it memorized; I had to look it up on my phone calendar, but I was quick to remember that I had that information handy there.
I texted my store manager shortly after my encounter with the lady with the damaged vehicle, and she told me much the same thing you two are telling me: “You did good.”
When I make myself tea, I first fill the pot with boiling water and let it sit. I dump out the water, place tea leaves in the pot, then add water at the appropriate temperature for the tea. I cover the pot with a cozy and steep.
I call that cooking.
You know, just one of these days, I’d like to have a day in which no one gives me grief for carding them.
Or someone else!
This happened so early in yesterday’s shift that I forgot to mention it in my post about Friday, but yesterday I carded someone for cigarettes who, to my eyes, appeared to be under 40. (That’s the law.)
Someone unrelated to him, checking out with the other cashier, gave me grief and said, “Hell, you can check my ID [and sell them to him].” Well, fuck, that’s the best way I know of to go directly to jail and not collect $200.
I don’t know who the hell he thought he was, sticking his nose in, but I had the guy go out to his car to get his ID, and you know what? He was 39.
What I would have liked to say to that guy?
“You know, you smokers and booze-drinkers scare the hell out of me, you know that? You wanna poison yourself, poison yourself! But all it takes is one split-second’s misjudgment on my part and I could pay a hefty fine that I can’t afford, lose my job, and go to jail. It’s easy for you to stand there and judge me for following store policy and the law when it’s not your freedom on the line. So shut up, and let me do my job.”
Yeah, why is it that the seller faces fines and jail time and not the person making an illegal purchase?
I agree. @ekedolphin you are a really good person. Thank you for being kind to strangers.
And now you see how it’s done. You are doing very well. Hey, the cardboard issue will be forgotten by all but you. Good job!