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8th October 2007: A Return To My Roots And A Gift

Ok, so, after doing some thinking about the direction of this blog, and reading the lovely review from Vandaweb.co.uk, I have decided to go back to the roots of this blog.  Commenting about work and throwing in the occassional news story when it grabs my interest.  So, again, thank you Vandaweb.co.uk for refocusing me on why I began blogging in the first place! 

So, work was reasonable last night.  When I say reasonable, this is reasonable for work that we are talking about here!  I get in, and I'm immediately asked whether I can start right away!  I haven't even had time to get a cigarette out of my pocket, let alone begin smoke it!  So I inform the supervisor who is on that I am no longer a supervisor, nor intend to be.  Which leads to me having to fill her in on the story.  We then discuss Richard.

See, Friday night, Richard comes in and is drunk.  REALLY drunk.  So I decide to confront him.  Mix things up a little.  I couldn't have expected what happened.  I walk past him as he is telling Kelly he'll drive her home.  I comment that he's obviously drunk.  He tells me that he won't give me a lift home, and that I can walk home, because I am a f***ing lazy f***ing c***.  Charming language in front of customers.  So I smile sweetly, and say "whatever, Dick".  I  love plays on words.  So he storms after me with the following tirrade: "you f***ing what?  You f***ing what?  Dick?  DICK?  You call me Dick again, and I'll knock you out you c***.  How dare you be so rude to me!"  Evidently missing the point that using the F word and the C word are far more offensive than the shortening of his name.  So I simply smiled again and told him to run back to his playpen.  He then kicked off about something or other to do with a magazine in the toilets that I had no idea about, but he seemed to.  One of these mags where all the women have sillicone breasts.  Boring to me personally, give me New Scientist any day of the week.  Or Autosport.  He then came back about 2 hours later and began his rant about the magazine again.  The boy evidently has no life if his Friday night involves getting drunk and coming to work.

So I finally get out for some fresh air AKA Nicotine.  As I finish, Caroline comes in and tells me how she went to the hospital Friday night with ruptured insides.  Poor thing.  Then later on in the shift, she lends me her DS and gives me some advice on Animal Crossing.  We talked far too much last night, got far too little work done, and as a result, I had to do all the facing up.  Which meant the store looked so so, but my real talents lay in putting stock on shelves.  I rocked last night.   I worked the whole chiller, and then face up the whole store except the chilled drinks.  But to be fair to Caroline, she didn't feel very well, so I 'm not having a pop.  Then the delivery came in, and we had bugger all chilled, talked far too much and took far too long to get it out.  At which point, Caroline needed to keep ducking out to the toilet, due to still not being well.  Which meant the meat had been out for about 2-3 hour before going back into the chiller.  And that the milk was left out for at least 45 minutes before anyone even started to work it.  Now you might be thinking that this is due to lazy staff, or that this is just at our store.  A mutual friend of mine and Caroline's works at Tesco in New Milton and told us that he was on the freezers all night, and most of the stuff was melting by the time he got finished, and that by that time, he couldn't be bothered to face it up properly, so just did a half arsed job of it. 

So then I came come and had a nice sleep.  Very nice dream too.  Involved Lindsay Lohan proving to me that she didn't have breast implants...  Although we argued, then she blew some black dust on me that made me depressed.  Unfortunately crossed over to when I woke up.  I have also found a stunning new station on Musicovery - Dark Energetic Rock Hits.  Awesome.  Got some U2, some Placebo, some Andreas Johnson, some Stones and some Joy Division.

Lastly, my gift to all of you readers.  A thank you for everyone who is supporting this little project of mine.  This is the advantage of working in the retail sector!  Cadburys are giving away "Prizes and a half".  Idea being you text the last 4 digits of the barcode to them, and you might win a prize.  So here are a few 4 digit codes for you to text.  You can send one a day to 65060.  Good luck, and I hope you will all win something nice!

8168
8175
8182
8199

Anyway, I think that about covers today.  Tonight I plan to watch some more Heroes and perhaps some Lost too.  Far too behind with Lost than is actually good for me!  Might catch a movie too.  Oh, and thank you to all the people who came here yesterday.  Wow.  Seriously impressive!

Tags: Animal Crossing, Tesco, Nintendo DS, Musicovery

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