Finally!!! Today was the last day for Ed at the store before heading back to Florida for another month. Not that I dislike Ed, but dang if he wasn't coming up with all kinds of stuff for me to do these last couple of weeks. The kicker was today at work, everything was running relatively smoothly, coolers were done, extra stuff was coming up from the basement, when all at once it just spiralled downhill. First both of my trucks showed up at exactly the same time, 7 Up and Sledd. I managed to get the 7 Up order unloaded, broke down the invoice, counted the cigarettes in from Sledd and just started checking in the grocery order and putting it away when first our salesperson from Sledd, Jay, showed up to write up returns and run through May's specials with me for any bookings I might like to get. That wasn't too big a problem because he would be doing returns first, which meant that he would be downstairs for a little while. But I no more than dodged that bullet then Ed came in and wanted Sammy and I with him.
First it was hang the new deli menus, and put out the paper copies, then it was take signs to our other store for a new Pepsi promotion we are doing. When I get to the other store I end up getting roped into doing work on their computer system, some of the cigarettes were not scanning into the system, so another time consuming fix for me. I manage to get that squared away (though there are still a couple of unresolved issues to be dealt with, it works for now) then back to my store where Jay is ready to go through the May specials, then Billy shows up to pick up a cigarette order he placed with us last week (150 cartons) that he hadn't gotten yet. Take care of that and then I manage to get to work on the grocery order finally. After finishing that up I get roped into then putting up the pepsi promotion signs in our store, followed by taking a locksmith upstairs in our building to fix a door that wasn't locked. The lock was apparently fine, but no one seemed to have a key for it, so we had to call and have a new lock installed, lest anyone decide that they could start using the upstairs as their own personal sleeping space. Not that it is great up there, no utilities or anything of the sort, but it isn't snowing up there either, which makes it warmer than any other place a homeless person may end up downtown. And given where the door for the third floor is located, it would be almost too easy for someone to go up there without being seen by anyone in our store or the porn shop above us.
And when I get in tomorrow morning I know that nothing will have been done because there wasn't anyone scheduled to relieve Sammy and myself, so the coolers will be a mess, especially now that we are selling 20 oz. Pepsi products at 2 bottles for $2.22 (they usually retail for $1.49 each).
About the only good thing to come out of today was that I got my Marlboro safari bag. Yay to free junk. At least this weekend I was able to finish another book, which has since been update elsewhere on the page so I will not spend time rehashing that which has been hashed already. And I did put in another order with Amazon for 3 more books, but I have been slacking on getting more gift cards recently, so my account is now somewhat depleted. Looks like I have four books to build up some more money before I am, officially broke or forced to go to a real, live bookstore for my reading purchases. Of course in 30 days or so, Ed comes back and the madness begins again.
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