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jecca_mehlota) wrote2010-02-14 03:58 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2010-02-14 03:58 pm
Kinda long, random entry.
WE START WITH A SILLY STORY. Because it's Valentine's Day and I can pretend it's sort of related. I remember this every time Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Meee-eeee-heee" comes on the radio... The first time I heard that song, it was, I don't know, 4 am or something. I'd been woken up by something, so I was really groggy and not processing everything quite right, and that song was playing (I need some sort of noise going on, so I just leave the radio on really low - the volume didn't help). I heard a song comparing/contrasting herself to her girlfriend rather than a song comparing/contrasting herself to someone else's girlfriend. I was really surprised that it was on the radio.
OH NO A STORY ABOUT WORK NOW: CHEESECAKE FIASCO (AKA Cheesegate, AKA Cheesecake 2010). (I only came up with the first of those. My coworkers are responsible for the other two.)
Quick infodump for those who don't know: I work in the bakery department of a larger store. My department closes at 7 pm, I'm almost always the last person in my department after 5:50 (sometimes earlier), cleanup and closing takes about an hour and a half (with some room for minor interruptions), and I know nothing about decorating / making cakes beyond how to write on them. I can tell you about the cakes, but I can't make anything for you, because I don't know where anything is and I don't know how to use any of it.
SO IT IS 6:20! A woman comes up and says she called in earlier and asked them to make some cheesecake slices for her (we sell slices of cheesecake) - one plain and one with... strawberries, I think it was. So I scamper off to retrieve them! Only when I get into the cooler (where they'd be), there aren't any cheesecake slices. Oh. Crap. I go back out, check the freezer and the counters (just in case!), but no luck. Apologising profusely (because this is horrible and I am mortified), I tell her there aren't any and somehow her order must have been lost or overlooked or put out and sold, and if she'd like I can page the manager (store, not department, as my department manager has gone home) and he can perhaps work something out with her or give her something for free or I don't know, but I am so, so sorry. She doesn't want me to page the manager, though, she wants me to make her the slices. I start to explain that I can't - but, no, no, she used to work here, she can tell me how to make them! No, I'm sorry, I can't make them. I'm not allowed. I've had no training. We back and forth on this a bit, then she declares she's going to go ask the produce associate. ... Because... he'll know how to make them? I don't know.
She goes over and fetches him, he comes back, looks around and goes, hey, yeah, no cheesecake! And pages the manager. So, uh. There's five minutes wasted right there. Store manager is very busy, so he doesn't come and doesn't come and I page him again after a bit and tell him there's a disgruntled customer down here and please for the love of all that is good come help us.
He finally gets over, she's still going on about how she knows how to talk me through it and I still can't do it without being allowed to and blargh. Manager decides we're going to make them. It's 6:30, 6:35 at this point. I have twenty-five minutes to empty all six trash cans and then sweep and mop the floors. SO WE GO INTO THE FREEZER - which is full - and have to pull everything out so we can look around in it for the box of cheesecake slices. None of us have any idea where they are. Produce guy knows one of the cake decorators and calls her on his phone to ask her if she knows where they are, or at least what the box looks like. Unfortunately, turns out the box (like most all of them inside the freezer) has absolutely no distinguishing marks. Store manager decides to try and call my department manager - only none of us know her phone number and we can't find it anywhere. Fortunately, one of the kids working elsewhere in the store knows her daughter and has it! So we finally reach my department manager (it's around 6:40 now) and the girl who's been huffing and puffing this whole time suddenly has had enough and wanders off (store manager has her name and number, so we can reach her later). At around 6:45, we finally find the stupid cheesecake slices and the produce guy runs off to find her, if she's still in the store, and the store manager is still on the phone with my department manager trying to, I don't know, work out what's even going on.
Produce guy comes back and announces she's left shortly after the store manager gets off the phone. So he writes a note telling the morning crew to contact her and ask if she still wants the things and leaves. I'm left with ten minutes to put everything back and finish cleaning.
Yeah, that's not happening. I put the freezer back into order, empty the trash, sweep, and clock out seven minutes late.
As the whole thing had gone on, I'd started to wonder if she wasn't lying about some of it. Would my manager really have neglected to make these cheesecake slices? Her fits and the fact that she ran off as soon as the store manager started trying to contact my department manager also had me suspicious. I asked later and - hey! Turns out that, no, she hadn't called (though she did work there once) and that, actually, she's done this before. ARGH!
I went with some people (some of them were friends, some of them were people I don't really know, though I did go to school with a few of them) to see The Wolfman on Friday after work! IT WAS ABOUT AS HILARIOUSLY BAD AS IT LOOKS. Oh, man, I laughed so hard.
I had yesterday off, so I really had wanted to sleep in a bit, but then yesterday was also the annual pancake breakfast (all you can eat pancakes, sausage, and bacon for five dollars and a non-perishable food item) fundraiser, so I didn't get to sleep in, after all. It was delicious, though. Then Mom and I ran around running errands and doing some other stuff before she dropped me back off in town! And the internet issues had been resolved while I'd been out. (Thursday evening - or maybe it started before that, but I was at work, so who knows? - the internet started flaking out. Friday, there was no internet. Late Friday night, my main computer - and only my main computer - had limited internet. Saturday afternoon, everything randomly fixed itself, but we still had it all reset by the provider, just in case.)
So, yes. Too much work, stupid customers (well, what else is new?), and then no internet = really, really long last week and a half. But is it over now!
Finally, here is that 5 Songs Starting With A Designated Letter meme! You know the drill. (MAN, lots of memes lately.)
* I've since replaced most of the downloads with YouTube links, but just let me know if you want a copy of any of them.
Radiophonic - Pet Shop Boys
Electric dance music! ALL RIGHT.
Redemption - Conjure One
What would I be if I were not assaulting you with more Conjure One? This one is sort of instrumental, depending on who you ask.
Roaring Forces: The Chase - Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future
SWIM FOR YOUR LIIIIIIFE OH GOD WHY (yes, moar dolphins. ALWAYS MOAR DOLPHINS.) I don’t think this is in here for any reason beyond being from Ecco, actually. (GIANT ELECTRIC EELS: NOT YOUR FRIENDS)
Run Maggot, Run! - Final Fantasy XI
Maybe I just like the title. One of the (many many many) battle tracks from FFXI - this is from the Wings of the Goddess (aka time travel is trippy aka DAMN YOU CAIT SITH. All nine of you) expansion. This is the obligatory non-dolphins soundtrack piece. IT WAS THIS OR PIANO RONFAURE. … whoops, guess it’s both.
Rain and Storm - .hack//SIGN
Have you ever seen this show? I guess that’s not entirely important. I really like it, but even ignoring whether or not it’s a decent anime, the soundtrack is beautiful.
Rapture 2007 – iiO
More trance. Because computers are occasionally stupid, mine won’t let it save with the proper capitalization of the group’s name. Yes, it does bother me.
ResuRection – PPK / ППК
MORE TRANCE.
Red July – Jillian Goldin
AND NOW SOMETHING COMLETELY DIFFERENT. I like her voice.
[I can't find this one on YouTube, though also, apparently she's Jillian Aversa now.]
rainy day – Ayumi Hamasaki
To conclude, here is some J-pop for you. Because I think she has a pretty voice, too.
Whew! We're done now.
OH NO A STORY ABOUT WORK NOW: CHEESECAKE FIASCO (AKA Cheesegate, AKA Cheesecake 2010). (I only came up with the first of those. My coworkers are responsible for the other two.)
Quick infodump for those who don't know: I work in the bakery department of a larger store. My department closes at 7 pm, I'm almost always the last person in my department after 5:50 (sometimes earlier), cleanup and closing takes about an hour and a half (with some room for minor interruptions), and I know nothing about decorating / making cakes beyond how to write on them. I can tell you about the cakes, but I can't make anything for you, because I don't know where anything is and I don't know how to use any of it.
SO IT IS 6:20! A woman comes up and says she called in earlier and asked them to make some cheesecake slices for her (we sell slices of cheesecake) - one plain and one with... strawberries, I think it was. So I scamper off to retrieve them! Only when I get into the cooler (where they'd be), there aren't any cheesecake slices. Oh. Crap. I go back out, check the freezer and the counters (just in case!), but no luck. Apologising profusely (because this is horrible and I am mortified), I tell her there aren't any and somehow her order must have been lost or overlooked or put out and sold, and if she'd like I can page the manager (store, not department, as my department manager has gone home) and he can perhaps work something out with her or give her something for free or I don't know, but I am so, so sorry. She doesn't want me to page the manager, though, she wants me to make her the slices. I start to explain that I can't - but, no, no, she used to work here, she can tell me how to make them! No, I'm sorry, I can't make them. I'm not allowed. I've had no training. We back and forth on this a bit, then she declares she's going to go ask the produce associate. ... Because... he'll know how to make them? I don't know.
She goes over and fetches him, he comes back, looks around and goes, hey, yeah, no cheesecake! And pages the manager. So, uh. There's five minutes wasted right there. Store manager is very busy, so he doesn't come and doesn't come and I page him again after a bit and tell him there's a disgruntled customer down here and please for the love of all that is good come help us.
He finally gets over, she's still going on about how she knows how to talk me through it and I still can't do it without being allowed to and blargh. Manager decides we're going to make them. It's 6:30, 6:35 at this point. I have twenty-five minutes to empty all six trash cans and then sweep and mop the floors. SO WE GO INTO THE FREEZER - which is full - and have to pull everything out so we can look around in it for the box of cheesecake slices. None of us have any idea where they are. Produce guy knows one of the cake decorators and calls her on his phone to ask her if she knows where they are, or at least what the box looks like. Unfortunately, turns out the box (like most all of them inside the freezer) has absolutely no distinguishing marks. Store manager decides to try and call my department manager - only none of us know her phone number and we can't find it anywhere. Fortunately, one of the kids working elsewhere in the store knows her daughter and has it! So we finally reach my department manager (it's around 6:40 now) and the girl who's been huffing and puffing this whole time suddenly has had enough and wanders off (store manager has her name and number, so we can reach her later). At around 6:45, we finally find the stupid cheesecake slices and the produce guy runs off to find her, if she's still in the store, and the store manager is still on the phone with my department manager trying to, I don't know, work out what's even going on.
Produce guy comes back and announces she's left shortly after the store manager gets off the phone. So he writes a note telling the morning crew to contact her and ask if she still wants the things and leaves. I'm left with ten minutes to put everything back and finish cleaning.
Yeah, that's not happening. I put the freezer back into order, empty the trash, sweep, and clock out seven minutes late.
As the whole thing had gone on, I'd started to wonder if she wasn't lying about some of it. Would my manager really have neglected to make these cheesecake slices? Her fits and the fact that she ran off as soon as the store manager started trying to contact my department manager also had me suspicious. I asked later and - hey! Turns out that, no, she hadn't called (though she did work there once) and that, actually, she's done this before. ARGH!
I went with some people (some of them were friends, some of them were people I don't really know, though I did go to school with a few of them) to see The Wolfman on Friday after work! IT WAS ABOUT AS HILARIOUSLY BAD AS IT LOOKS. Oh, man, I laughed so hard.
I had yesterday off, so I really had wanted to sleep in a bit, but then yesterday was also the annual pancake breakfast (all you can eat pancakes, sausage, and bacon for five dollars and a non-perishable food item) fundraiser, so I didn't get to sleep in, after all. It was delicious, though. Then Mom and I ran around running errands and doing some other stuff before she dropped me back off in town! And the internet issues had been resolved while I'd been out. (Thursday evening - or maybe it started before that, but I was at work, so who knows? - the internet started flaking out. Friday, there was no internet. Late Friday night, my main computer - and only my main computer - had limited internet. Saturday afternoon, everything randomly fixed itself, but we still had it all reset by the provider, just in case.)
So, yes. Too much work, stupid customers (well, what else is new?), and then no internet = really, really long last week and a half. But is it over now!
Finally, here is that 5 Songs Starting With A Designated Letter meme! You know the drill. (MAN, lots of memes lately.)
* I've since replaced most of the downloads with YouTube links, but just let me know if you want a copy of any of them.
Radiophonic - Pet Shop Boys
Electric dance music! ALL RIGHT.
Redemption - Conjure One
What would I be if I were not assaulting you with more Conjure One? This one is sort of instrumental, depending on who you ask.
Roaring Forces: The Chase - Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future
SWIM FOR YOUR LIIIIIIFE OH GOD WHY (yes, moar dolphins. ALWAYS MOAR DOLPHINS.) I don’t think this is in here for any reason beyond being from Ecco, actually. (GIANT ELECTRIC EELS: NOT YOUR FRIENDS)
Run Maggot, Run! - Final Fantasy XI
Maybe I just like the title. One of the (many many many) battle tracks from FFXI - this is from the Wings of the Goddess (aka time travel is trippy aka DAMN YOU CAIT SITH. All nine of you) expansion. This is the obligatory non-dolphins soundtrack piece. IT WAS THIS OR PIANO RONFAURE. … whoops, guess it’s both.
Rain and Storm - .hack//SIGN
Have you ever seen this show? I guess that’s not entirely important. I really like it, but even ignoring whether or not it’s a decent anime, the soundtrack is beautiful.
Rapture 2007 – iiO
More trance. Because computers are occasionally stupid, mine won’t let it save with the proper capitalization of the group’s name. Yes, it does bother me.
ResuRection – PPK / ППК
MORE TRANCE.
Red July – Jillian Goldin
AND NOW SOMETHING COMLETELY DIFFERENT. I like her voice.
[I can't find this one on YouTube, though also, apparently she's Jillian Aversa now.]
rainy day – Ayumi Hamasaki
To conclude, here is some J-pop for you. Because I think she has a pretty voice, too.
Whew! We're done now.
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I need more Conjure One in my life. And - man, actually I think that Ecco music is totally cool! It's epic and frantic and makes me want to run which is weird since I assume it is about a dolphin and I'm loving it.
I'm hardly the world’s biggest fan of J-pop, but Rainy Day is gorgeous! (Not georgeous, as I originally typed, which I assume means "possessing quantities of George.") And Red July is also gorgeous!
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It is my sincere belief that everyone needs more Conjure One in their life. LOOK, THREE (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?cwzimmmmnl2) MORE (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zwzdmmwnnjg) SONGS (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?kzwyhxnymuy), randomly selected! (It is about a dolphin! A dolphin swimming for his miserable little life because otherwise he'll be a snack for a giant eel. Epic, frantic, and certainly urge-to-run inducing is relatively normal in such a situation, I'd imagine. Video, if you're curious. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flbCetMH1mU))
I am fairly indifferent to most J-pop, but I really love Ayumi Hamasaki's stuff. She's very good at making pretty songs.
I am glad you like it!
late comment is late
And I'd like to do this meme, if you don't mind. ;-)
it doesn't count as late until I've updated a few times
I give you B!
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