Clusterfuckery

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

So the cleaning company is sending in a couple guys to strip and wax the floors at the store, starting last night.

Wonder of wonders, they actually showed up. And stayed working until about 8 in the morning. So the two people who came in for third shift while they were there could stay their entire shift and get about 90% of the truck filled and backstocked. And they did a good job on the floors.

Only problem was, today was the first day of a 48-page ad book. This is a big ad for us. So big, it got sent through the mail instead of inserted in the newspaper.

And seasonal, pet supplies, household supplies, sporting goods, and parts of grocery and HBA were inaccessible due to the wax needing to dry before it could be walked on.



Result: the three of us who came in to finish the truck got pulled away from the truck to spend close to two hours assisting with putting up ad signs. It's a good thing the truck was a small one and mostly done by the time we came in.

Plus the fumes from the wax and/or stripper tore at our noses and gave me a headache, but it went away as the fumes did.

Crap, why does all this stuff have to come down on us all at once?

[JustADude]

Crap, why does all this stuff have to come down on us all at once?

Murphy's Law and Finnagle's Corollary, of course. Why else?

ML: Any event which possesses a probability greater than 0 will eventually occur.
(Anything that can happen, will happen)

FC: The closer the event's probability is to null, while still being existent, the more likely its occurrence will have a negative impact upon other variables.
(At the worst possible time)

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

More of the same today...

We thought the floor crew would be waxing the floors on the apparel side last night; they did sporting goods, toys and electronics instead.

See, when they tell you they're going to work on the apparel side, that means they're really going to do toys, sports and electronics, so stay out of HBA, candy, pet supplies and seasonal because they may decide to wax housewares, domestics and pharmacy instead.

So when I came in, I had to move stuff back because the floor crew didn't. I had to spend about an hour moving the bikes back out to sporting goods, moving the pallets of folding plastic tables back, and putting all the artificial Christmas trees back in the appropriate spot under the display tables.

Then there was one more thing left to move--the display of soda over by the cart corrals, which got moved for some reason and the 12-packs were on these little plastic box-thingies that you can't move by pallet jack.

So I had to take all the soda off the boxes, move them, and replace the soda. As I was doing this, one 12-pack tumbled out of my cart and POW-Diet Pepsi explosion.



And as an added bonus, I had to clean the shit-smeared toilet seat and floor of the mens bathroom because our regular cleaning guy didn't show up this morning.