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So two days ago(just after midnight now) was the whole 'Hurricane Irene' though by the time it reached here in NH it wasn't all that bad and was just a low tropical storm.
Even at the good sized store my work is, and how busy we often get, we usually only have 2 people on maintenance for a whole day. One is 8-5 and the other, usually me is 1-10.
I thought of calling out but because of the day being Sunday I knew I would have to work with one of my least favorite Maintenance workers(who is a subject for a whole other post). It seems he had called out, and I knew from how he acts he probably would, so I knew I would have to come in. I walked because it had barely been sprinkling at the time but by the time I got there it was pouring so I was soaked.
One of my managers berated me for having wet clothes, but she was having a horrible day too. So I was soaking wet at work, had to handle the crazies that come in during a 'hurricane' and the bored teenagers and others who have no power.
Now we have a sporting goods section with it's own counter, and one row has bullets, BB guns and similar items, including a 'Rem Oil Spray' we have like 3 different sizes of that on a shelf. TWICE yesterday someone(probably a bored teenager but you never know) decided to spray a 15 or so foot isle down with it, and nobody noticed them in the act.
Now I am not talking grab and spray one spot I am saying turn the WHOLE ENTIRE ISLE into a freaking ICE RINK. It was a spray and blended in so you couldn't even tell until you stepped on it, but it seemed like they didn't miss a single inch of the isle. Somehow in a 3 1/2 hour span or less they managed to do this twice. This is a cleanup that took 45 or up minutes each time, and I already had to do the work of two people.
-Now for random grumblings and wtfs?-
Okay, This may be hard to understand but there is a trash can a large, lidded grey one RIGHT INSIDE THE VESTIBULE. Do you really have to walk another 10 feet, ignore the sign on the small, black totally different kind of barrel that is for backpacks and school supplies for donation to a cause and toss your trash in it? I mean it has a rather large sign right above it, and a large sign on the front of it. The kids who will get those supplies don't need your chip bags/antiseptic cart wipes/random papers etc. in it, seriously, if you walked just another 5 or 10 feet inside you'd see another nice, large matching lidded trash can you could use.
I saw my first witness SC at work during the day from hell!
There was one item at a register that was in the wrong spot it was the only one of it's kind among a bunch of other items and he gabbed it and when it rang up as more he started to yell at my very nice, quiet coworker. From two rows or more away I could hear him yelling.
SC: No! It says $2.50 RIGHT HERE! RIGHT HERE! RIGHT HERE!
Every time he said right here he jabbed his whole arm at that spot, and his voice was extremely whiny and condescending. Sadly the CSM let him take it for the lower price even though someone just left it there
Another SC was actually a child, a boy of about 6 or 7 at the most.
As a female I have to put the maintenance cart in the entryway to the men's room when I was cleaning, we have a Subway in my store and a mother took her son through it to the restrooms. She wouldn't let him go into the men's when it was blocked and didn't ask if I was in there, just told him he's have to use the girl's room with her.
After I pushed the cart out I saw the boy in the hallway right there drinking from one of the water fountains, so I apologized.
M = me SB = The boy.
SB: *sulk* I had to use the girls' room
M: I'm sorry about that, I tried to tell your mom I would leave but you were already in there (not my exact words I didn't think I'd have to remember just.. yeah xD)
The boy went back to being quiet his mom finishedi n the restroom and they went to order in the Subway. A little bit into my cleaning the door to the girl's room cracked open, and it was the boy with a smirk on his face.
SB: Have fun cleaning the toilets!
And then eh was gone, back to his mom. o_O
Warning the text past this level might have gross stuff mentioned in it. Just a Warning, it also has the most D8 worthy of it.
DCustomers who use the bathrooms I clean,
Please do not trash said bathroom with toilet paper, or enter right after I am done cleaning and shove a wad of paper towels or toilet paper in EVERY SINGLE TOILET. It can be annoying to go and flush it down every time you do.
To whomever broke the child seats in all 3 of the 4 handicapped restroom stalls that have them, you suck.
Also, to the one that left a very obvious crack spoon hidden in the seat cover holder? Yeah, I found it and I got it to our AP guy, so he got it to police. I hope they found your fingerprints on it. Please don't shoot up where i have to work, I don't want to find your stuff and needles.
To the thieves, Are the $5 or less items you usually end up stealing, hell, usually only $1-2 items REALLY that worth it? Have fun with your Goody hair ties, I guess?
To the thieves who steal a pregnancy test and use it in the restroom. I am SO glad that every time I find one of the peesticks hidden in the restroom it has always been negative (except once, congrats!) I assume the ones where I don't find the stick, just the packaging it means you were found positive, and took it to the baby daddy or your family as evidence? If you can't afford a freaking pregnancy test, off-brand or otherwise you SHOULD NOT BE HAVING KIDS.
To the thief who, around last Christmas time stole 15 of the loose $20 DS games. They were all crappy titles anyway but HOW THE HELL did you manage to get all those into the Subway restrooms without anyone noticing you?!
Yes, the new pad dispensers in the ladies' rooms are tiny and suck, but that doesn't mean you should ignore them and leave your bloody tampons or pads shoved in the toilet. I can't flush them down I have to pull them out, even with gloves it's gross.
To whomever(or multiple whomevers?) decided to smear poop all over the wall in the men's room. You know? I wear gloves, I also have handy sprays that are counted as a bactericide, fungicide sanitizer (and kills some STDS according to the label) You had to use your hand or some variation thereof. Even if it was a prank I think you got the short straw.
To the pothead, Well the pee filled drug test you left in the men's room showed you as negative for THC I guess? Hopefully you're not trying for a job here. </3
To the person who dropped a $5 or $10 baggie of weed in front of my work. Uhm, thanks I guess?
Oh and whoever left an adult diaper, horribly soiled half in the toilet bowl soaking up water, and half smeared over the seat? That was juts gross.
To the person that got pee on the ceiling.. HOW!?
I think I am done for now :P I didn't even write the worst of what has happened in those rooms. x_x
Even at the good sized store my work is, and how busy we often get, we usually only have 2 people on maintenance for a whole day. One is 8-5 and the other, usually me is 1-10.
I thought of calling out but because of the day being Sunday I knew I would have to work with one of my least favorite Maintenance workers(who is a subject for a whole other post). It seems he had called out, and I knew from how he acts he probably would, so I knew I would have to come in. I walked because it had barely been sprinkling at the time but by the time I got there it was pouring so I was soaked.
One of my managers berated me for having wet clothes, but she was having a horrible day too. So I was soaking wet at work, had to handle the crazies that come in during a 'hurricane' and the bored teenagers and others who have no power.
Now we have a sporting goods section with it's own counter, and one row has bullets, BB guns and similar items, including a 'Rem Oil Spray' we have like 3 different sizes of that on a shelf. TWICE yesterday someone(probably a bored teenager but you never know) decided to spray a 15 or so foot isle down with it, and nobody noticed them in the act.
Now I am not talking grab and spray one spot I am saying turn the WHOLE ENTIRE ISLE into a freaking ICE RINK. It was a spray and blended in so you couldn't even tell until you stepped on it, but it seemed like they didn't miss a single inch of the isle. Somehow in a 3 1/2 hour span or less they managed to do this twice. This is a cleanup that took 45 or up minutes each time, and I already had to do the work of two people.
-Now for random grumblings and wtfs?-
Okay, This may be hard to understand but there is a trash can a large, lidded grey one RIGHT INSIDE THE VESTIBULE. Do you really have to walk another 10 feet, ignore the sign on the small, black totally different kind of barrel that is for backpacks and school supplies for donation to a cause and toss your trash in it? I mean it has a rather large sign right above it, and a large sign on the front of it. The kids who will get those supplies don't need your chip bags/antiseptic cart wipes/random papers etc. in it, seriously, if you walked just another 5 or 10 feet inside you'd see another nice, large matching lidded trash can you could use.
I saw my first witness SC at work during the day from hell!
There was one item at a register that was in the wrong spot it was the only one of it's kind among a bunch of other items and he gabbed it and when it rang up as more he started to yell at my very nice, quiet coworker. From two rows or more away I could hear him yelling.SC: No! It says $2.50 RIGHT HERE! RIGHT HERE! RIGHT HERE!
Every time he said right here he jabbed his whole arm at that spot, and his voice was extremely whiny and condescending. Sadly the CSM let him take it for the lower price even though someone just left it there
Another SC was actually a child, a boy of about 6 or 7 at the most.
As a female I have to put the maintenance cart in the entryway to the men's room when I was cleaning, we have a Subway in my store and a mother took her son through it to the restrooms. She wouldn't let him go into the men's when it was blocked and didn't ask if I was in there, just told him he's have to use the girl's room with her.
After I pushed the cart out I saw the boy in the hallway right there drinking from one of the water fountains, so I apologized.
M = me SB = The boy.
SB: *sulk* I had to use the girls' room
M: I'm sorry about that, I tried to tell your mom I would leave but you were already in there (not my exact words I didn't think I'd have to remember just.. yeah xD)
The boy went back to being quiet his mom finishedi n the restroom and they went to order in the Subway. A little bit into my cleaning the door to the girl's room cracked open, and it was the boy with a smirk on his face.
SB: Have fun cleaning the toilets!
And then eh was gone, back to his mom. o_O
Warning the text past this level might have gross stuff mentioned in it. Just a Warning, it also has the most D8 worthy of it.
DCustomers who use the bathrooms I clean,
Please do not trash said bathroom with toilet paper, or enter right after I am done cleaning and shove a wad of paper towels or toilet paper in EVERY SINGLE TOILET. It can be annoying to go and flush it down every time you do.
To whomever broke the child seats in all 3 of the 4 handicapped restroom stalls that have them, you suck.
Also, to the one that left a very obvious crack spoon hidden in the seat cover holder? Yeah, I found it and I got it to our AP guy, so he got it to police. I hope they found your fingerprints on it. Please don't shoot up where i have to work, I don't want to find your stuff and needles.
To the thieves, Are the $5 or less items you usually end up stealing, hell, usually only $1-2 items REALLY that worth it? Have fun with your Goody hair ties, I guess?
To the thieves who steal a pregnancy test and use it in the restroom. I am SO glad that every time I find one of the peesticks hidden in the restroom it has always been negative (except once, congrats!) I assume the ones where I don't find the stick, just the packaging it means you were found positive, and took it to the baby daddy or your family as evidence? If you can't afford a freaking pregnancy test, off-brand or otherwise you SHOULD NOT BE HAVING KIDS.
To the thief who, around last Christmas time stole 15 of the loose $20 DS games. They were all crappy titles anyway but HOW THE HELL did you manage to get all those into the Subway restrooms without anyone noticing you?!
Yes, the new pad dispensers in the ladies' rooms are tiny and suck, but that doesn't mean you should ignore them and leave your bloody tampons or pads shoved in the toilet. I can't flush them down I have to pull them out, even with gloves it's gross.
To whomever(or multiple whomevers?) decided to smear poop all over the wall in the men's room. You know? I wear gloves, I also have handy sprays that are counted as a bactericide, fungicide sanitizer (and kills some STDS according to the label) You had to use your hand or some variation thereof. Even if it was a prank I think you got the short straw.
To the pothead, Well the pee filled drug test you left in the men's room showed you as negative for THC I guess? Hopefully you're not trying for a job here. </3
To the person who dropped a $5 or $10 baggie of weed in front of my work. Uhm, thanks I guess?
Oh and whoever left an adult diaper, horribly soiled half in the toilet bowl soaking up water, and half smeared over the seat? That was juts gross.
To the person that got pee on the ceiling.. HOW!?
I think I am done for now :P I didn't even write the worst of what has happened in those rooms. x_x
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