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Money is money and take what you can grab I say.

So even though work was crazy and we had Corp doing a walk through. One nice thing did happen to give the feels. Earlier one of my regular customers came in with a stack of lost dog posters. My boss had to tell her that sadly we couldn't post it in our windows but we could take one for our break room if she wanted. She didn't end up leaving a poster with us but right about an hour before my shift ended today, One of my girls from bakery came over and told me these customers were trying to wrangle in a lost dog away from the parking lot and it had no collar. The dog followed behind her and surely enough it was THAT dog from the posters earlier. So I'm trying to wrangle the tiny thing, succeed (after it piddled from being terrified) And I'm trying to wrack my brain to see how we could contact the lady from earlier since she didn't leave a poster with us. Luckily one of the customers who were trying to help wrangled it offered to go to one of the posters she saw on a nearby street behind my store and called the number. Within minutes the owner comes to collect the dog and was in tears. Saying that he just moved here recently and that the dog saved his life once. Definitely made my day worth it when we get a lot of times where people will try to look for lost dogs but usually no one finds it that fast.

No I can totally see it. Sometimes the names come easily. Sometimes you have to wait to see what the name appears to you.

What's the newbie's name?

Indeed but I'm sure she'll have plenty other sagas of the Opossums

I definitely got too used to doing morning and Scan shifts at work. Today was the first time in forever I got a shift started at 1:30. And of course dealing with the closing team that is usually the worst because they don't want to do anything in closing duties. Work wasn't horrible at least. But after all that and getting ready to watch new GoT on my friends HBO Now account. I click on the ep and even though I made sure they resubscribed their account it keeps telling me that they have to renew. T_T so no new GoT right now. At least I have tomorrow off.

There's a lot of promotions that I agree are BS. the "Have to buy 4 to get it at this sale" or the "DIGITAL ONLY COUPON" which of course drives my older customers nuts and our higher ups just go back n forth on "do it for the customer" and "uphold policies" shit. Just make it the fucking sale price, one and done, keep your people coming regardless of competitors. But I know that's not how it works.

I have no idea if it was a similar change here. I just know it's always been that way before the merger. The company that owns Safeway/Albertsons now tho is Cerberus so idk if they gave any shit about things like that.

No I mean in the 18 years I've worked for Albertsons-turned into-Safeway it's always been Weds for ad changes. We rarely do 2 day sales anymore. Once and awhile they'll pop up but hardly ever anymore. Whoever created the first coupon though I hope their soul burns in hell.

I believe it's a all grocery store thing since most of the ads I get in the mail the Tues before cover Fred Meyer/QFC which is Kroger, Safeway/Albertsons (not kroger), Rite Aids and Bartells. With Safeways/Albertsons we've done the Wed ad changes for years. Only time it sucks is when we have Thanksgiving and/or Xmas falling on a Thurs so then we go 5 days without a new ad until the following Wed. In general we have about 4 ad promos to switch prices and the like (even if one isn't specifically a physical ad) -1/mo Big Book -1/mo GM (General Merchandise aka most non-food items and is the not physical ad but it's something we do every month) -Every Wed weekly ads -$5 Fridays (Then I change the sale prices on Sat mornings)

Well considering I'm part of union I really can't stay late unless something happens and even then there's a lot of other conditions that have to be there for me to be able to stay late unless they wanna pay me overtime.

Honestly I've gotten semi-used to waking up early. I've been doing the Scan team for roughly 2 1/2 years now and there's a few pros to it - More productivity than being in a checkstand - Pretty much all shifts begin either 3-1 hour before we officially open the store so I don't have to interact with customers as much and when we do open it's what early birds there are that come in but pretty much don't tend to bother you unless they need to. - I get out earlier in the day with gives me the rest of the time to either run errands, somewhat have a social life/plans afterwards - I get to have my music on me until we open the doors. - Having Scan shifts in between cashier shifts helps my sanity of the stupidity of the checkstands with either people or coworkers drama. Cons: - Dealing with weirdo/druggies/shoplifters when we open the store - Getting up early - Occasionally knees or thighs aching from constant squats. - Still waking up early on days off or if I'm scheduled later in the day shifts. (My internal "sleep in time" is roughly 5:30-6 am)

So yesterday was a day off, spent it cleaning around the apt. Then working on one of the side projects I've either put on pause forever ago or decided to add to in order to push off depressing thoughts when I'm home and don't get a lot of social time with peeps. This side project was upgrading one of my headpieces from my ren-faire garb. Added some bling and what not so I'm proud for getting one less half assed thing done. *stares at the pile of TBF* Today was ASS O CLOCK 3am Scan team shift at work since it's Ad change day, but we also have a wave of resets happening this week so we had about 5 aisles to rescan, print, and rehang on top of our usual stuff. Normally resets aren't so bad since most of them are like 1-2 sections an aisle to redo but one of the aisles was the first half of the Chips/Snacks aisle.....woof.... Home now, stuffed my face with breakfast while binging new anime and chillaxing with tea while the weather is on and off sprinkles of rain right now.

Only way I can get through one of those "cups" at Jack in the Crack is if I haven't eaten/drank anything almost all day.

He does know that the cat's giving him free fertilizer right? Also sorry to hear about the guy you look after. Hopefully something gets through to him.

It's amazing how much people act the way they do to other humans. Granted I'm no saint myself but I try really really hard not to go out of my way to be a dick.

WTF does he have against cats?