Happy Halloween!

Well, I had to work tonight on halloween, but you know what? It was not that bad!! That's right folks, a somewhat decent day at the ol' Slave factory! Aside from the fact there were stupid people coming in around 6, and 7pm saying "Where's all the candy?... What do you mean you're all out? Where did it all go?" Um... It's at the people's houses who did their shopping ahead of time!!! Idiot. I dressed up like the second greatest man in the world..... For those of you who know me, this shouldn't be too hard to figure out. That's right... Mr. Johnny Cash! I even brought my guitar and the folks at work loved it. I even got paged over the intercom "Johnny to till # 3 please". Yup it was an over all great day. I hope you folks had a great halloween as well

Cheers

-Andrew-

Another Day, Another Dollar

Well, another fine day at Slave-On, and you know what that means! Another day with stupid people! So this lady come up to the till carrying her green handbasket. and a 4 litre jug of 2% milk. This is all fine and dandy until she trips over something... I don't know what... and the jug of milk just splashes all over the floor. So I jump to the rescue, pop up a "Wet Floor" sign, take the milk back to dairy reclaim, and go find a mop. Sounds pretty boring and un-interesting doesn't it? Well here is the best part. While I am carrying this leaking jug of milk (and I mean it was dripping everywhere) to the back, this lady stops me and asks "Do you carry vanilla beans?" So I quickly tell her no, and keep going but she grabs my shirt and says "I looked all over the store and just can't find them".... Meanwhile this milk is still pouring everywhere, so I tell her I'll be right with her as soon as I drop the milk off at the back, but she still insists "I'll be quick, I just want to know what isle the vanilla beans are down".... So finally I can't take it anymore, my hands are soaked in the milk so I do a run and talk "I'msorryitdoesn'tlooklikewehaveanyyoucantrylookinginthebulksorryhaveagoodday" You know? Where someone wont stop talking so you have to say it really fast and get away before they can say anything? First of all HELLO LADY, CAN'T YOU SEE THE MILK POURING OUT OF THIS JUG AND DOWN MY ARM?????!!!! Second of all, I've already told you we don't carry vanilla beans, YOU DON'T NEED TO SHOW ME EVERY OTHER SPICE THAT WE DO HAVE!!!!! You are probably wondering what happened to the lady who dropped the milk in the first place. I'm wondering the very same question! When I got back up to the till to mop up all the milk on the floor, and wipe down our DVD rack that got splashed I noticed that she was gone, and abandoned her basket at the till. Were you so ashamed that you could show your face in the store anymore? I tell ya lady, many people have done a lot worse things at that store.
There was one more rant I was going to share with you today, but I got carried away sharing this one with you that I forgot the other one, so I'll post it when I remember it.

It's late, so it's off to bed I go. I'll post again when I remember the other rant.

-Andrew-

First Officer's Log Star Date 316192.0

After Adam suggested that I post a blog of all my Save-On-Foods rants and raves, (mainly so I don't go and tell everyone the same story 10 times over) I finally founds some time to create one. You guys with your office jobs think that you have it tough? Let me tell you!!! Try working in a grocery store for 3 years then come tell me how tough you have it! Oh boy am I sick and tired of stupid people coming up to me and asking stupid questions! My friend Sam mentioned a story similar to this in his blog: I was at work walking towards the staff room and this guy stops me and say hi... Sounds normal, EXCEPT he kept staring at my shirt and uniform, shirt and uniform, he must have did this at least 4 times over, and then asks the most astute question of the century.... Ready? Brace yourselves! Here goes: "Do you work here?"!!!! DO I WORK HERE????? NO I DON'T WORK HERE, I JUST GET UP EVERY MORNING, PUT ON THIS UNIFORM AND NAME TAG, COME TO THIS STORE FOR 8 HOURS BECAUSE I THINK THE CLOTHES LOOK GOOD!! OF COURSE I WORK HERE YOU MORON!!!! We grocery store employees should have a right to slap these idiots silly, and the kick their rear ends all the way to tiananmen square!
Today I worked from 8am-7pm, and first thing this morning, some guy who always comes to our store at least 5- 6 times a day with bottle returns comes up to me and says "The cashier last night allowed me to return my milk container here... she gave me 5 cents a piece for them"... this is very odd because at Save-On we have BIG signs clearly stating that we do not accept and milk product container... we just simply don't have the facilities to process them, and on top of that, milk jugs don't even have a deposit on them, so why the hell do you think that you could get refund for it??!! So any ways, I point to the sign and tell him this and he says "We'll I don't care what your sign says, I was able to do it last night, so I want to do it now!" I told him no and he says "I want you to call upstairs to a manager and find out what he has to say." So I call Kevin and he says "Tell he we will be happy to throw them out for him, but we will not give him a refund for them", so I tell him that and he muttered something under his breath and walks away! First of all, this guy is in our store all the time returning bottles, he should know better!! Second of all, why the hell is Save-On doing bottle returns??? There is a perfectly fine bottle return depot just down the hill. Then from 8-12 today I had no help which is fine except.... It got extremely busy around 10:30, and I was running around like chicken with my head chopped off for every cashier, doing price checks, perishable put-backs, grabbing green baskets, it was non-stop. So anyhow, I was running to till 6 to grab a bin number for a cashier and some lady stops me and asks "Hey, are there any packers on today?" ... So I tell her yes.... And she says "Then why the hell am I packing my own groceries?" Talk to me like that some more lady and see how far it gets you! And beside you aren't even packing your own groceries, THE CASHIER WAS DOING IT FOR YOU!!!!! I'm glad the cashier on 6 found the number and didn't need me to run and get it because right after the lady said that, instead of packing for her, I made it deliberate to skip over her till and pack for the one infront of her.... Stupid people. I tell you Adam, I can't wait for your next trip to come visit, I could really use some good company and R&R. Maybe if it doesn't snow we can hit the golf course again? That would be pro.
I think that there should be a button we press at the till, and if some comes through and is a complete moron, we can push this button, and next time they come through the till we can say "Oh I'm sorry, your card has been marked, we don't serve morons at this store". That would really make my day. Anyhow, I'll leave with these thoughts to ponder, have a great night everyone, and I look forward to sharing many more rants and raves with you folks.

Commander Ross Signing off.

-Andrew-