There is a KFC by my house that reopened recently after renovation. I happen to discover that their chicken is freaking delicious. The only problem is actually obtaining the chicken. You can’t just walk into a KFC and buy some chicken. You have to earn that chicken. The cashier girl is nice but still new [...]
I had this disheveled-looking woman come through the self-checkout machines today. She looks at me and throws her hands-up. I am use to this reaction. People hate self-checkout machines. I offer to give her the personal checkout treatment. She makes the comment that “you guys sure don’t make it easy.” I hear comments like that [...]
I use to hate pooping. Oh geez, not another crap! It takes forever and requires an entire roll of toilet paper. Soon as you stand up you realize you were not really done and have to sit down for another round. Forget crapping at work because that will use up your break. I could change [...]
We got word earlier this week that the HR lady got fired. I have to give her credit for being consistent… no one at the store seemed to like her. That is pretty hard considering how little contact most of the employees have with each other. For starters her answer to any problem was that [...]
The other day a wire came down from corporate: No more dogs in the store starting next year. Apparently my coworkers are a bunch of dog-lovers because this is being dubbed the Puppy Holocaust. I am completely indifferent on whether or not dogs are allowed in the store. The only thing I am concerned about [...]
As a cashier I have several hundred people who know me on a one-way first name basis. That makes me famous like a celebrity except for me, at least, there is nothing advantageous about the situation. I like every aspect of my life separated from one another. The exposure from being a cashier makes it [...]
At our store we have a HR person. The company reminds us constantly how lucky we are to have a HR department. The store employees tend to disagree. The HR lady is a rather unpleasant woman that we all try to avoid. She was born without a sense of humor. She gets haughty if the [...]
Our key duplicating machine has been at it again. It has an act, think R2D2, it puts on with chirping and whistling to attract customers. The machine had a rather amusing nonverbal interaction with one lady this week. She had her back to the machine enraptured over the myriad of options we offer for winterizing [...]
There are some people who work retail who like to constantly ask coworkers to swap shifts with them. These retail coworkers are typically the least reliable because they are unwilling to schedule their lives in advance like the rest of us. After much grief I have decided not to swap shifts with anyone unless they [...]
We got one of those key duplicator vending machines at work today. It was quite an ordeal. The receiving department did not know what to do with the giant lime-colored machine when it arrived unannounced. No one had thought out where it was to actually go when the installation team showed up to install it. [...]