Despite My Best Efforts

My manager said that to me at least twice today. First in reference to me possibly messing up the drawers and second because we actually got out on time.

I forgot to give several people their dollar change after conversating. And luckily they were all pretty cool about it. Except for one of my regulars, who snatched the change away from me and mumbled something crazy. And then she stopped by the front door and said something crazy again. I only feel sort of bad. I don't know what was up with me; forgetting to give people their change. Ridiculous.

The Last Day

The coworker that I complained about a few weeks ago, will soon not be my coworker. She put in her two weeks, and apparently today was her last day. She didn't work her full shift because she may or may not have been sick. Fyi, she is a lovely woman, but a terrible coworker. I wish her all the best.

My pants were flooding, and I was wearing mismatched Christmas socks. Not exactly what I was going for.

I saw three women wearing sweats and nice shoes. I hate that look almost as much as the jeans-under-a-dress look. The greatness of the wedge boot is drastically counteracted by dumb-looking grey sweats.

I saw a girl I used to hang out with in elementary school. We had a short but sweet conversation.

I'm looking forward to my three days off.

Newish Manager

I worked with a manager that has been there for a while, but this is only our second shift working together. We got out early, made jokes, and generally did good things.


A lot of gossip happened.

My feet were hurting again, so I walked differently and awkwardly, and now my hips hurt.

I bought some Snickers Nutcrackers because I had a coupon. I like them way better then regular Snickers because the nougat and chocolate ratio is different. And better.

Mexico

I helped a guy print photos of him and his fiance's family. The almost-wife and kids live in Mexico. The guy has a 3-month old with his woman. He wants to bring his daughter over here because he doesn't like the culture's view of women. Apparently he is printing out the photos for immigration because they want to make sure the marriage is for real. He doesn't like going to Mexico (so often). And he wants everyone to move here, because this is his home.

Whenever I asked my manager a question he would look at me like I was insane. Then he would lean his head in, rub his eyes, squint, then he would rub his temples.

I found 4 pieces of ABC gum on the floor. Ridiculous.

On The Phone

A customer came to the register while on the phone. She didn't swipe her store card, she forgot her change, and she barely acknowledged me. The customer behind her said that she couldn't do what I do, because people are ridiculous. True. Retail is not for everyone.

We got out late because the safe was short and I had to finish the tags.

There was green plastic cup of what looked like pop, possibly, in front of the chairs at Pharmacy. I pointed to so the tech could see what I thought was funny. He said it reminded him of the Tea Cup from Duck Dynasty.

Midshift

Yup, another midshift.

A deaf guy yelled at me. I realized he was deaf early in the transaction, so I made sure to speak clearly with my face towards his face. He pointed to the ad paper to make sure I was getting his coupons. But at the end of the transaction we realized I didn't ring up one of his mints. He freaked out! I told him I didn't mean to...and he said that I was making all these people wait. I told him I had to return his mint, and then charge him for the second one. I did the return really fast and by the end of the transaction he was telling me to have a good day. Obviously he had calmed down. I did feel bad, but he didn't have to yell like that.

A young teen came to register and she wanted to use a previous receipt as a coupon. It took me a minute to even understand that was what she wanted to do because it doesn't make any sense. She saw the savings on the last receipt and thought she could use that for this purchase. Which obviously doesn't work. There were a couple of other transactions that made no sense because people don't speak English and don't understand coupons or our coupon policy. But there were other transactions that were very well planned out.

I helped a guy find his Coricidin. While I was ringing him up, I told him we used to lock up the boxes because people had been using them to get high a few years ago. He said he remembers that because he used to get high with it.

I saw an anorexic and my co-worker told me she wanted to be a body builder. How different the perfect female form can be perceived.

Happy Black Friday

Yesterday (Black Friday) I was sick, we were short, and I dropped a gallon of Arizona Tea off the counter, which then exploded. Not such a great day.

Jack Sprat and his fat wife came to the counter while my co-worker was leaving and I was coming in. She (the woman) had something hidden under her arm, and she waited til my co-worker left. For a second I thought it was a gun. Turned out to be a vibrator (disguised as a 'personal massager').

Pretty sure I'm going to call in sick today because I feel icky, and I have sick days, and my workplace is germy.