Unfortunately, I can't go to bed yet, not if I want to be worth a damn tomorrow evening when I'm still at work until 7 pm. I need to stay up until at least 10 pm. That way I can wake up around 6-7 am, check my phone messages and see if I have a reprieve from working on a register because they've dumped a lot of price changes on us. They dumped over ( Read more... )

There really should be a maximum number of stupid people you're expected to deal with in the course of your workday ( Read more... )

I pulled on whatever was lying around when I got out of bed this morning. Long chartreuse shorts, and aqua tee shirt and hot pink & purple stripped footies. Packed together with an awesome head of bed-hair and I can see more discerning people spazzing out with apoplectic seizures. Awesome ( Read more... )

9:15 am this morning. I'm sitting in the manager's pit (it backs up to the front windows) getting the deposit ready. A woman walked up to the front doors of the darkened store and tugs on the door handles. They're locked, of course. She looks down at the sign that says we open at 10 am. She rattles them again. Same result. She cups her hands to her ( Read more... )