Time for yet another bitch session on one of the most lazy, shiftless, stupid wastes of a human being to be employed at my store--our carryout guy, who I will start referring to as "Numbnuts" from now on.
Today, however, I was doing carryouts and Numbnuts was just supposed to do pulls. We are running our biggest two-day sale of the season today, with lots of doorbusters, some of them being furniture items, and being as I expected lots of carryouts today I asked Numbnuts to pitch in and give me a hand if a bunch of carryout calls were to come in at once. He said "Sure, okay, no problem."
Later, I got two calls for carryouts one right after the other. They both turned out to have multiple items. I took them both and just put the items on one flatbed. Then another carryout call came over once--twice--three times without being answered. Then the manager on duty paged for me to answer the third call in kind of a peeved tone of voice, so I had no choice.
As a result, I had to drag two heavy carts of furniture up to the front, pulling one and pushing the other and not moving too fast so that the cart I was pulling wouldn't slam into my achilles. Along the way, I saw Numbnuts down one of the aisles, chatting up a female coworker (Numbnuts is normally slow and stupid, but when he has a female asking him for help he suddenly becomes Mr. Helpful for some reason). I yelled for him to help me, and only then did he cut short his conversation and help me.
That wasn't all from Numbnuts today. I'll start a second post to keep this one from getting too long
Today, however, I was doing carryouts and Numbnuts was just supposed to do pulls. We are running our biggest two-day sale of the season today, with lots of doorbusters, some of them being furniture items, and being as I expected lots of carryouts today I asked Numbnuts to pitch in and give me a hand if a bunch of carryout calls were to come in at once. He said "Sure, okay, no problem."
Later, I got two calls for carryouts one right after the other. They both turned out to have multiple items. I took them both and just put the items on one flatbed. Then another carryout call came over once--twice--three times without being answered. Then the manager on duty paged for me to answer the third call in kind of a peeved tone of voice, so I had no choice.
As a result, I had to drag two heavy carts of furniture up to the front, pulling one and pushing the other and not moving too fast so that the cart I was pulling wouldn't slam into my achilles. Along the way, I saw Numbnuts down one of the aisles, chatting up a female coworker (Numbnuts is normally slow and stupid, but when he has a female asking him for help he suddenly becomes Mr. Helpful for some reason). I yelled for him to help me, and only then did he cut short his conversation and help me.
That wasn't all from Numbnuts today. I'll start a second post to keep this one from getting too long
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