Bad bad night…

Oh my god it was a bad night.

To start the night off the computer was telling me I didn’t have enought people to get the freight up, I was short by two.

Then I had a call-in.

Then one that showed up left after the pre-shift meeting.

Then another one left at lunch.

I managed the mess as best I could. Everything that came back untouched was lined up all nice and neat and ready to go.

The senior manager who I thought was interviewing for that new store next week actually started his interview before I left the store. I hope it goes well.

Our regional Grand Poobah is in the area. He’ll be visiting Carla’s project store when they do their big re-opening ceremony, even though they’ve been open the whole time. I missed the one for my project, and the one for the store I’m in now kind of sucked, but we had mariachis though so that made up for some of the suckiness. Honestly, I think a mariachi band to cut to every ten or so minutes could even make C-SPAN fun to watch.

Anyway, the poobah is visiting stores and it’s usually bloody when he does. I know for a fact there is one store he went to that he was so displeased with that at the end of the visit he asked the facility manager to walk him to his car and the guy never came back. They got a call from the district mananger (my district manager, it was a local store) saying the missing facility manager would be on medical leave for the next twelve weeks. Ten weeks later they posted an opening for that store. That’s two facility managers gone after visits from regional in less than a year. You could not pay me enough to transfer to that store.

I really hope he gives us a pass today.