It was a long week. Or it just seemed that way. The lady I work most closely with is on vacation for the holiday weekend (as she always is) and while the price changes on Wed were a bitch, Thursday and Friday were OK. It's just that I'm not used to working full days except occasionally (though I'd like to be) and when I do work full time it can get ( Read more... )

You have to understand that I am, by nature, a relatively lazy person. The majority of the time I will take the path of least resistance. As long as it's something I want to do.

Because I worked last Saturday this was supposed to be my 3 day weekend and it has been...mostly. My Asst Mgr caught me before I left work at 10 am on Tues to let me know ( Read more... )

My sale of lip balm in a tube has taken off a lot faster than I anticipated. I'm only charging $1.50 for each but I think after the first round I'm going to raise it to $2 because those little bastards are hard to fill unless you're doing them in large batches! They're very labor intensive. But the ingredients I use are also pretty damn superior to ( Read more... )

I like nearly everyone I work with at Lowe's. I even like the customers much better than those at Walmart (even though some of them might be the same customers). There's just something that comes over people who enter the realms of Mordor Walmart. At Lowe's I rarely lose my temper like I did damn near every day - and sometimes multiple times a day ( Read more... )

I don't know why I press myself to stay awake because 75% of the time it backfires. I tend to get droopy in the early evening but if I press on by 10 or so I'm awake again. I was hoping last night would be an exception but alas, no. I wound up staying up until midnight and then waking up around 4:30 am anyway. I dozed off and on until a little ( Read more... )

We had inventory this week and even though I wasn't directly involved in it it's still affected the rest of us because we've been a little short of the kinds of staff that could actually help with customers and everyone has had to pick up the slack. Yesterday I had a surprise stint on the registers for the majority of my day because 2 cashiers ( Read more... )

I woke early yesterday, a little after 6, and thought to bestir myself and get my errands done before the rain set in - supposedly around 11 am. Even though I wouldn't let myself go back to sleep I couldn't drag my ass out of bed until nearly 8 am. Then I just quickly ate a couple of pieces of toast, threw on my clothes and sallied forth into the ( Read more... )

Strange though that we should have a perfect fall day on August 4th. In Missouri. Land of heat and humidity in the summer months. It was downright coolish this morning when I left for work just before 6 am. Unfortunately I had to spend the first 2 hours of my shift manning self-checkout. It's the only register open until 8 am and so incredibly ( Read more... )

I made the strategic decision today to do nothing. Or at least as near to nothing as I can get away with. That includes not doing laundry. I just needed a day to recuperate before starting the new week. Of course tomorrow when I get home from work and have to do it then I'll probably be cursing myself as a sloth and wondering what the hell I was ( Read more... )

Monday was Employee Appreciation Day at work. They fed us which is always nice. When I first started working at Walmart they fed us on such a day too. At first it was nice even if it did all come from the store deli area - a taco bar, fried chicken with all the trimmings, etc. Then it became either Walmart brand frozen pizzas or those thin little ( Read more... )