Friday the 13th Hellgreens Style

I'm normally not a superstitious person, I didn't even realize it was Friday the 13th until my Facebook friends posted about it. 

The last several Friday the 13ths were pretty uneventful, however this one is worth writing in about.

I thought it would be a pretty good evening, because I was scheduled to work the floor instead of the checkout (yay, I can hide from the crustys in the back room!).  Being the floor person also meant I was the back up checker (or IC3 in Helgreens terms).

Friday is our "Smart Fill" day.  That is when we get about 10-15 totes that is just merchandise to help fill the shelves, usually just a few pieces that another store had an over abundance of overstock and was willing to share. 

I was working the Smart Fill totes for the baby aisle.  I open a tote, pick up a box of toothpaste (yes, Hellgreens considers toothpaste as "Baby", don't ask me why) and it is all sticky and gooey. 

Before I can figure out what it is, I get an IC3 page.  No time to wash the sticky off my hands (as there is a "Nobody waits" policy at Hellgreens), so I'm trying to wipe this stuff on my pants as I'm heading toward the front of the store. 

First crusty has a greeting card, says "Your hands look dirty, I don't want you touching my card", so she had to hold the greeting card  while I try to maneuver the hand scanner to scan the UPC.  

Finally get back to my tote, find out that it is a leaking bottle of Vanilla PediaSure.  Find another soaked box of toothpaste, put it off to the side to damage out, get another IC3 page. 

I get up front and the checker gives me an attitude about taking so long, so I told her "Sorry, but I have a tote full of leaky PediaSure that I need to get cleaned up before a customer gets into it (yes, customers have gone through our totes thinking they were mark downs).  I FINALLY get uninterrupted time to clean it up. 

While I was covering lunch for the cashier, I end up with an IC3, which was more like an IC10.  I paged three times and nobody responded.  Finally the manager notices the line is as far back as the aisle she was working in (She was in aisle 6, the register is even with aisle 2.)  She wasn't happy when I told her that 3 pages were unanswered.  My next one after that was answered within a minute.
Later in the evening as I was facing the store (was a complete mess), started straightening Valentine's Day only to find that an entire box full of bubbles had busted open.  The vacuum cleaner stopped working, got that unclogged (with the help of the closing manager).  Finally get the store cleaned and we all go.  Driving home, the inside of my car window fogged up.  Pull over for 10 minutes to let it defrost.

Got to work today to find out that the opening manager thought the store was a complete mess when she came in, she wanted to write up everybody who closed last night (she didn't....but since the closing manager said the store was fine, we can't really say "No, it's crap, let's stay longer")

She took a ton of pictures of what she didn't like, and of course last night's cashier tried to blame me for her bad facing "This section wasn't faced well last night"..."This was your area last night, don't try to blame me for it".

Nobody said anything about the aisles I had last night though so I have no idea what wasn't good about my area.

Oh, tonight, our new Assistant Manager locked himself out of the office.  He couldn't do anything until the other Assistant came with his key to unlock the door.  Since the safe is in the office, he couldn't do any cash pickups or make change...much to the 'joy' of the crustys, who seem to think Hellgreens has it's own bank and an unlimited supply of money.

--Drugstore Diva

 

 

 

Comments

[Spritzy]

I keep a kitchen spounge in my glovebox to clear off the inside of my car window if the inside gets frosted or fogged over, works quite well.

[candieaddict]

@ Alvis - I think they mean like those little toy bubble bottles with the stick that you blow bubbles with.

@Drugstore Diva - Jeez, that was like one more problem after another! I feel so bad for you!