Monday, January 12, 2009

NO WAR FOR NOW.......

we were really busy at work today. the director kept the sale from friday and saturday going. our daily totals have been so good with the sale, and the director's boss has complimented us on having the top sales in the metro atlanta area, he decided to keep it going.

the boss got a little testy with me today about 2 really stupid things. one of my pet peeves about thrift stores is the clutter and the smell. mostly the smell. the store was really rank today. it is beginning to smell like the goodwill store, and we definitely don't want that. i asked the boss for the can of oust (which he holds onto in his desk drawer afraid that we might actually use it). he told me he couldn't let me have it, he had to spray it. his boss had told him that we had to spray a certain way. omg you are kidding me? i usually walk down each row and spray the clothes all the way down. they are what stink, as well as the musty furniture. my boss says it has to be sprayed into the air at each corner of the room and allowed to seep up into the air vents and circulate throughout the building. there is only one problem with that bossman..........the air/heat isn't on, so there isn't any circulation. it is just going up into the corners and sticking to the top part of the wall. duh........

the other pet peeve is with sound levels. we have tvs for sale right in front of the cashier counter. they hook up several tvs to cable and electricity and let them play so that people will buy them. i cannot stand to have the sound on. why, you ask? in order for me to be able to handle the tv noise, i have to be able to actually hear it. i cannot stand to hear muffled clutter noise. and if it is loud enough for me to make out the words, then it is too loud.........so it is best to turn on the tv, but turn the sound down. if someone wants to listen to it, they can turn it up, and afterwards, i will turn it down again later. well the boss told me to not touch the volume and got really sorta angry about it. so i stood there and listened to drew carey hawk prizes on the price is right for about 20 minutes and then a customer wanted to check out another tv and disconnected that one. so the sound was turned off on the new one and i never turned it back up. the boss didn't say anything.......i don't even think he noticed it was off.

the 2 people who were having problems on saturday (the assistant director and the resident Christian), both came in late today, around 11 am (scheduled for 9 am each). it was almost as if they were both avoiding each other. i never heard any fallout from what happened on saturday, so i asked the assistant director if she said anything to the director. she said she did, but didn't go into detail with him as he seemed to not really have time to deal with it right then. so i didn't have to set up the bowling pins because heads didn't roll. but both of the persons involved were super nice to me all day. so i guess when the other employees are mad at each other i reap the benefits. sometimes it is good to be me..............

for supper tonight i fixed some frozen fried chicken fingers that i had gotten at the food pantry. the packaging wasn't marked as to what kind of chicken it was, but it looked normal enough. obviously it was drenched in hot wing sauce before it was fried. i thought seriously about calling the fire dept. to put my mouth out...............ouch. i think it tasted good, but my tastebuds were in such shock, it didn't register with my brain.

the weather is about to get nasty here. it was 68 degrees the other day for a high, now they are talking for 28 for a high sometime in the next 5 days. i mean, we need the cold weather, but not every other week and then florida weather the alternate weeks. no wonder everyone is sick. i have a new jacket i want to wear but it hasn't gotten cold enough. now, i will be able to wear it.

i think i will check out for right now. maybe if i think of something else i will stop by later.

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1 comment:

Sybil said...

And here was me waiting on news of the outcome of Saturdays confrontation....Ah well we will have to wait and see. Probably like lots of things it will be swept under the carpet..
I'm glad I didn't have the chicken fingers !! I don't like any hot or spicy foods!!
Love Sybil x