5 minutes to close at work
Girl: "Uhh. Hi. Yeah. I need to use your computer for like, ten or fifteen minutes."
Me: "I'll give you three, but this isn't a computer. It's a cash register."
Stupidity. So she went onto a floor computer and was yelling at it, because she couldn't get onto the internet. I guess no one told her that bookstores routinely only have computers with the store's inventory, unless otherwise marked as an Internet Cafe. Sigh.
I don't like it when my co-workers aren't responsible. I mean, I understand that people get sick, sometimes very suddenly. But this has been the second Saturday in a row that this person has called in sick, with under an hour before his/her shift was to start. Because of this person's lack of foresight, we were stuck with two cashiers on a Saturday night. No fun.
Girl: "Uhh. Hi. Yeah. I need to use your computer for like, ten or fifteen minutes."
Me: "I'll give you three, but this isn't a computer. It's a cash register."
Stupidity. So she went onto a floor computer and was yelling at it, because she couldn't get onto the internet. I guess no one told her that bookstores routinely only have computers with the store's inventory, unless otherwise marked as an Internet Cafe. Sigh.
I don't like it when my co-workers aren't responsible. I mean, I understand that people get sick, sometimes very suddenly. But this has been the second Saturday in a row that this person has called in sick, with under an hour before his/her shift was to start. Because of this person's lack of foresight, we were stuck with two cashiers on a Saturday night. No fun.
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although this customer seemed a tad bit daft, i always wondered why we didn't have any internet access? the chapters downtown (festival hall) has it... so why deprive any online experience for the only chapters in scarborough?
i agree with you about the irresponsibility of co-workers. 2 cashiers on a saturday night is no fun at all. it happened a lot for me for some odd reason? me and the person i closed with had to miss our breaks and try to kill the line. which eventually died 10 minutes after the store closed.
those were the nights that i felt like pulling my hair out.
I'm sure it was the same person who let you down. I think we don't have internet access because we ARE in Scarborough? Imagine what the customers would look at on those damn things...? I think the whole Internet Cafe thing is a bad idea, it would create the added desire for customers to stick around for half an hour after we close.
Were you around when the Witch woman shopped at our store (the same one who tried to convert everyone in the store, due to her witnessing of many miracles)? She'd disappear about ten minutes before the store closes and then magically reappear via the washroom door about half an hour after we closed... I always disliked that woman.
Fortunately, we were able to keep our assigned breaks, because Heather stayed 2 hours late to help us out. I don't know what we would have done without her. Sigh.
My hair would be all pulled out, except we had a fairly easy evening, with only small lines and no one appearing and wanting to buy things way after close.
Hmmm...I think it's time to get your mind of work, and onto something more fun! Let's go out for sushi this week!
...wait, are you free to go out this week? ;)
This week, eh? Hmm... I think I can book some time in on Wednesday, assuming Chris doesn't mind me being late? We'll talk. *grin*
I REMEMBER THE WITCH LADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!! she had thick, black, curly (and VERY course) hair right? and she'd always come in when the store was about to close... she gave me the creeps.
i remember she got really upset when she supposedly put a shitload of wicca books on hold and they weren't there. i swear i thought she was going to put a hex on me.
:/
I don't think we're thinking of the same witch lady... The wicca one WAS scary, and I remember when someone had put her books away, and I remember your face when she was yelling at you... hehe. Maybe she did put a hex on you: you are doomed never to speak to hot singers. Torture...
But the witch lady I was talking of is the one who reads all the new age/religion books, an older woman... she hands out booklets that she wrote on the topic of miracles and how God saves lives every day, yadda yadda. She had me listening to her speech for like, 20 minutes before someone was able to see my desperate looks and call me away. There should be an international "help me" look. Or, at least at Chapters.
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