Alright, so as I stated before I was extremely hot before going to work. I was up to three showers, and the refreshing feeling wasn't lasting that long. I was more than happy to be at work in the air conditioned building. Well, let me tell you, that didn't last long. The general manager Rachel turned the heat up a little bit so the store wasn't as cool as it normally is. Which is a shame because as I was working, I was growing warm again. At least it wasn't uncomfortably hot.
Normally, I love working with Vanessa. She's one of the best, up there with Delores, Josh, and soon Ashley. But today, I was very disappointed with her. She's always been the fair minded supervisor. The one that mixes it up, not keeping the same people on register why the others get to move around the store.
So the store is a little tense when I come in. Courtney isn't her usual chatty self. Which I find weird because her first words to me were "I'm Courtney, I tend to talk a lot." Then Vanessa and the evil Leidy are being unusually chummy. Turns out, there was a little squabble before I went in today. Mainly, Courtney wanted to know if she could not be a greeter because it was wicked hot and she didn't want to push carriages in the heat. Well that didn't go over well, mainly because Leidy is a bitch and likes to sit on high on top of that white horse of hers. She has to prove that she's the boss and we are her minions.
So Vanessa was pissed about something Courtney said or had done, and so everyone was itching for a reason to either write Courtney up or fire her. Well after I had talked to her, Vanessa came over to me and was like "I just saw Courtney outside in her car with Mike from meats." Which I thought was curious indeed. So I'm non-chalantly taking the build of carriages out to put in the tunnel, I don't see Courtney or Mike until I turn to go in. Mike is coming down one of the isles and Courtney is pushing a long stack of carts up to the building.
Leidy comes up with Jason and points to where Courtney's car is. By this time, Courtney has gone back out for more carts and Mike is in the building. They don't see her, but Jason takes Leidy's and Vanessa's word that Courtney was in her car and not on break. So, I know that something bad is gonna happen. Everyone around us can feel it.
I go outside on my break and I watch Mike and Courtney push some carts up to the tunnel. Jason comes out and sort of yell's at Mike, asking him what he's doing out there. Mike informs him he's on break and helping Courtney. I'm not sure there is a prodical on working on your break, but it's his time so I don't see the problem. Mike goes in, and a short time later Courtney joins me as she's on her break. She borrows my phone to call her mom. She heard she was getting fired and now she wants to know if she should quit first or just be fired.
I go in from break, and Courtney's slowly climbing back to her chipper self. She's sort of hovering around my register, not in the way, but there talking to me, running errands, and just being helpful. I find it relaxing, not having to call on the managers for everything with Courtney there. But then Vanessa, Leidy, and Jason show up and they are starting to linger as well. Courtney has a few words with Leidy as Vanessa and Jason do my pick-up. Everyone leaves to the office, and when they come back out Courtney is following Jason into the office.
This is the moment I've been dreading all night. I don't want to lose one of my only friends at work. It's hard enough getting past my social awkwardness and make friends, now I'm losing them and am forced to make new ones. I know Courtney is either getting fired or quitting, and at a very minimum getting written up.
She comes out, and I know she's leaving. I give her my number so that we can chill any time she wants. I'll miss her. She tells me that she was in trouble because they hadn't seen her on the camera for 3.5 minutes. So unless they they have camera's facing the parking lot, it means she didn't walk in front of the doors for 3.5 minutes. It's not a real cause for writting someone up, or suspension [which is what she receieved] or even being fired. But Courtney didn't take the suspension, she quit and is moving on to a better job.
The rest of my night was uneventful until come closing time. Freaking High Horse Leidy [woot new nick name] was so busy flirting with Jason in the back, she missed two pages from Vanessa up front, she didn't lock the front doors [I did.], or do any of the closing announcements. So I'm putting the produce away and she comes up and starts barking orders to me. "Pick up these boxes; Take the empty bread trays to the back; Make sure you put away all the Mickey's before I help you shop the store." Which anyone would thing, "Oh, she's being nice and helping you." No, you are mistaken by this act of kindness in sheeps clothing. What she does instead is, pick up all the reshops she sees, and instead of putting them away as we go, she drops them in my cart ensuring that it's going to take me longer putting the stuff away. Steph comes to help me out, which is nice I suppose, but I felt like I was slacking all night long.
So Steph finishes them while I fail my produce test. Which is utterly retarded, how are you supposed to know what these vegetables are when they are all wrinkly on definitely on their way to start producing their own fungus. I get in the car, and waiting for me is Jeff and my little dog Nina. We head to McDonald's and I order an unsweetened ice tea and a grilled chicken ceasar salad. We get home and my husband has the most amazing surprise for me.....
..... AIR CONDITIONING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE ACTUALLY WENT DOWNSTAIRS AND BROUGHT IT BACK UP! I WILL NO LONGER.
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