It’s dark. That is about all I can say as we head into a new year. Just sitting at work, listening to Pandora (so you may get Pandora updates in here) and trying to blog. Not that I like blogging from my phone, or that I like having time enough to attempt this at work, but what can I do about that?
Our saga begins on my Sunday night/Monday morning shift. Since I am almost strictly overnight, I never know which day to call a shift. On the schedule it is a Sunday shift, even though the majority of it takes place on Monday (11pm-7am). Anyway enough about that, usually on overnights I have a list of things I do besides the normal waiting on customer stuff, including making sure the coffee station is refilled and ready to go by 5am, sweep and mop the store, count all of our cigarettes and restock missing ones, run the daily reports from the previous day and check in and scan in any incoming orders. This particular Sunday/Monday however, i was more productive, I managed to change the garbage cans in the parking lot as well as get half of the walk-in cooler restocked as well. It sounds simple, but in both instances I have to leave the floor, which I am not allowed to do if someone comes in (I work alone and am not allowed to leave the store unattended). I knew I still had an order coming, so I retrieved the scanning gun from the office for the occasion. Everything was going swimmingly, or so I thought.
My boss, Beth, shows up around 6am, we do the normal hi, hellos, how was your weekend thing, she is followed by the Frito Lay vendor. Nothing unusual there, he always comes late (at least late for me as it is in the middle of morning rush) but he doesn’t have anything with him. Nonetheless I grab the scanning gun, prepared to scan in whatever it is we ate getting. He says he isn’t bringing in anything because we are closing, to which I say that is news to me. I explain to Beth what I have been told, so she calls the district manager who informs us that at 10am on Tuesday we are closed permanently. Mind you this is 6:30am Monday.
So what am I doing here Tuesday night you may ask? Apparently they want someone on site at all times until all of the crap is removed. Which should be a fun task since the employees were not the only ones who were left in the dark. Tuesday morning I had to refuse deliveries from Coke, 7Up and McKee foods as nobody told them that we were going out of business either. Right now I am here to prevent potential looting and when I step out for a cigarette it is eerily dark, with no lights, no glow from the pumps and the signage all turned off.
Not even sure what the future brings at this point. There comes a point in life where you get tired of starting over and I feel I am dangerously close to it. I have an interview set up for Thursday (thanks Doug) though I don’t know how long I get to hang out and prevent looting. It could be one week, it could be one month. There was talk of transferring employees to other locations, but not sure I want to work with people who treat employees in such a manner. Plus if I take a transfer not sure how that effects my part time job. I am tempted to just take unemployment for a while and sit on my ass. Explore my possibilities, maybe just get the hell out of here altogether. Who knows at this point.
