labour day = shit. noone has anything to do, its like a zillion degrees, so they come to the shops.
My day started terribly, and ended terribly. I got there just before 9, expecting my 2IC to come in around 9ish, maybe a bit later. I started doing food safety/other open jobs until I noticed that everything had been done. So I didn't think anything of it and just presumed she'd gone to get papers.
Then one of the grocery boys tells me she came in at 6.30 and did everything, went home, and was going to come back around 9.30ish for tills.
Weird. But then when she did come back in, she saw me, and then went "well if you're here I'm going home". And off she went.
Then there was absolutely no change to order.
Opened at 10. I jumped on express at 10.10, called my first express alert at 10.15, those staff did not leave checkouts until 2pm. The express line had actually split, half the people had continued the line straight towards liquor and the other half had split around the corner, alongside deli and meat. So there were massive fights in the middle of the express queue. And the lines for mains went down the aisles.
I taught our DM checkouts out of neccessity. She had no clue. She couldn't even remember her password to sign on to the checkout.
At around 11 I noticed we didn't have many bags. So I started ringing other stores to try and get some. But of course, being WA and a public holiday, something like 8 stores only in the metro area were open? And only three of them were within 40 minutes of us.
Noone had bags to give us.
Also at 11 I had one of our operators tell us she was doing her entire shift in bakery :| Like you could have told me this morning, I honestly thought she was only there until 10 (like it had shift 1 6-10, shit 2 11-3, i thought the second shift was us). And the afternoon supervisor rang to say that she got her uni timetable mixed up and couldn't come in after all.
By that stage my DM told me to ring ALL the afternoon operators and ask them to come in early. Two did, thankfully.
I went to lunch at 2.45, and took around 25 minutes before I got a phone call from the DM asking me to come back.
Then at 4pm we finally ran out of bags, no problem we thought, we'll just give out boxes and green bags.
EXCEPT THERE WERE NO BOXES AND ONLY ONE BOX OF GREEN BAGS.
so in the end we made people pay for the green bags. I got so many complaints that we ran out of those 'Serving you Better' forms.
Finally, 4.30, the centre's power went out. Woolies, being the only store with a reliable generator, got slammed. I cried, literally. By that stage we had run out of the boxes that we did have as well.
Before close, I rang our 2IC to explain that there was no bags until tomorrow lunchtime and there was nothing we could do about it and that we really did try. She hung up on me.
But today really showed that I have some amazing amazing young kids in my department. I have some new favourites, and old favourites that well, are fucking brilliant.
And noone wants to tell me if I have to work thursday or not!
Sorry for the epic epic post. But how was everyone elses day?
