Our local rag, known as the Urinal, is a twice a week paper. It comes out Tuesday and Friday each week. The Kansas all classes state track meet was held last Friday and Saturday. Were there any results in the Tuesday edition? NOooo… That’s OK, the weekly Chronicle will come out tomorrow and not only have the results, but have more complete coverage. Unfortunately, the weekly paper beating the weakly paper is a common occurence.
More suspects
We have four new hires on overnights last week. It is too early to figure out if they will stay, but they seem a little slow. Hopefully their speed will pick up as they spend more time in the aisles.
Soda shortage
I forgot to mention in yesterday’s post that Sunday night is the slowest night for stocking freight. There was very little soda on the shelf last night and wasn’t much more when I left this morning. Hopefully Coke and Pepsi will fill in the gap today, but even their shelves were a little bare this morning.
Soda shortage
We didn’t have a lot of soda to put on the shelves Friday night and Saturday night there were no 2 liter, 12 pack, or cases of Great Value soda. There wasn’t much more to put on the shelf last night. So expect more empty shelves the rest of the weekend. At least Pepsi and Coke had plenty of product on the shelf.
Roadblock
On my way home I encountered a donkey in the middle of an intersection. He just stood there like nothing was wrong. I tried to find out where he came from, but none of the neighbors were home. I hope his owners get him back.
Daylight
For the next two months I get to leave for work during daylight hours. Since driving at night is becoming more of a chore I am going to enjoy it.
I love my job…
…they treat me right. I dream of (insert name of company here) day and night. If you ever hear these words from a coworker, run. But before you go, hide all of the sharp objects.
Calling in slick
Back at the bottled water company we had a loader that would calling sick every payday. The night shift got their checks Thursday night but couldn’t cash them until Friday morning. This loader would call in Friday night and come back Monday night broke. This continued until he failed to call in one night. Before our hero came to work Monday he had been replaced by one of our temps who preferred to work nights.
Weeding out the help-Peach Pit
At the bottled water company I spent most of the 80s and 90s at, we started people off as temporary help, hired the best and threw the rest back into the street. Some times it took longer than others to figure out if the dude was worth hiring.
One day we got a temporary from Jawja who we promptly named Peach Pit. He clearly wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, but he was willing to work. We were concerned when he said he had to go back to school because he flunked the eighth grade, but were willing to put him on the night shift. He had reached the point of being given more responsibilities including filling out the daily damage report. He managed to spell ‘leaker’ L-I-N-K-E-R. We stopped wondering how he flunked the eighth grade and wondered how he passed the first seven. We also refused to hire anyone from Jawja for the next decade.
Weeding out the help again
At the bottled water company I spent way too many years at, we would go through a lot of suspects to find one good prospective employee. Most wouldn’t last a day as the pace and endurance were a feature to weed out the unable or unwilling to work. Once you got hired, the pay wasn’t too bad for the times. I will take a trip down memory lane and post several of their stories over the next several weeks, starting with Peach Pit.
Footyfried 