Monday morning update:
* there is a stomach thing going around at my store, so call-ins have gotten crazy because people are staying home rather than yarf all over the empty shelves
* we had a refrigerated truck scheduled for today (milk, eggs, meat, produce, frozen foods, etc). It might or might not come today.
* if that truck comes, it could be tonight and I will have to go help my produce manager deal with unloading our portion of it because our assistant produce manager has the yarfing thing. This is in addition to the 8-9 hours I will have to put in today
* with no truck coming, I have no idea what the heck Kari (produce manager) and I are going to do today since our walk-in cooler is darn near empty
* I'm assuming we will devote our shifts to telling people "if we had any potatoes, we would have them out on the shelves" and "no, we don't have any mustard greens or we would have them out on the shelves"
* we had 7 pallets of toilet paper come in Saturday morning and they were gone by the time we closed Saturday in spite of the fact that we limit each transaction to 3 packs
* people who aren't hoarding are positively pi$$ed but thank heaven they aren't blaming it on us or taking it out on us
* my carpal tunnel is flaring worse than it ever has and I've had some bad flares before. Because I have been nonstop repetitive motions since Friday morning when our last truck came
* that same truck that came Friday had around a half ton of potatoes and we had started running out of potatoes by midafternoon. That's somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 pounds of potatoes. Y'all know them potatoes gonna go bad before they get cooked and now NOBODY GETS FRESH POTATOES BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GREEDY JERKS THAT ARE HOARDING POTATOES THEY CAN'T COOK BEFORE THEY ROT
* I'm hoping that Kari decides that today is a good day to organize our back room the way WE want it so that it works for us because I cannot sit around and nicely tell people "if we had any bananas, they'd be out on the shelf" for my entire freaking 9 hour shift
All employees at my grocery chain got notified today:
* no vacations or requested days off until further notice
* any employee with 'manager' in her job title is working 7 days a week, end of discussion
* all us lowly peons have been 'asked' to come in an hour early and stay an hour late
* all employees are to be at work on truck days, end of discussion
Our chain has greatly cut the number of hours we will be open for business every day, so at least they're doing some small something to keep from burning us out too fast.
Please, don't freak out over rumors of shelves being empty. Shelves are only empty because people are freaking out over rumors of shelves being empty. There are plenty of groceries. However, thanks to people freaking out over rumors of shelves being empty, those groceries won't be at my store for another 36 hours. I have no idea what the hell they expect me to do for 11 hours tomorrow, since we literally have almost no produce to put out on the shelves because people have freaked out over rumors of shelves being empty.
We literally got two shipments of produce yesterday, and we are literally out of almost every last bite of it. And some witch actually had the audacity to snarl at me and ask me 'is this all the potatoes y'all have?' It took everything I had left in my overworked and under-rested (and underfed) body to NOT bean that witch in the head with the onion that was in my hand and tell her 'no, this isn't ALL the potatoes I have but I thought a better thing to do was HIDE THE POTATOES SO I COULDN'T SELL THEM'
Y'all are all too graceful to snarl at a grocery employee like that, but please, don't freak out. There are more than enough groceries, but thanks to panicked shoppers those groceries are in transit instead of on my display shelves.
