This week/weekend has been intense. By about 8pm tonight the store started to quiet down and we got ahead of our work. Normally I close the store with a variety of people. However, I've closed with this same crew Wed-Sun. By tonight I think we just had a sigh of relief and were a little giddy.
Tonight after asking the HR person yet again I got a name tag with my name instead of one that announced I was a new hire (its been 60 days!) For the first time people started calling me by name rather than by my department "hey stationary" "hey H&B". However, after some thought I'm not sure I like the fact random irate strangers can call me by name, so perhaps I'll change it to "Mo" or "Roberta" or something.
My buddy in the guest department paged me on the walkie and asked "do you know this light up penguin...what about the head?" I could hear her laughing which did not help the transmission of info over the fuzzy walkie. I told her I'd go up there and see for myself"
By her posture I could see she was relaxed and a young couple stood at the counter. On the counter was the holiday tinsel and lights light-up yard penguin. The girl explained the one she bought did not have a head and the one she just got from the back had no head either.
She opened the box to show me there was really no room for the head. "So its like a headless penguin" she exclaimed.
Sensing they saw the humor in the situation I looked at her and with a straight face said, "and this is a problem? you can't just use it like that?"
The smiled and I studied the box a bit more. I suddenly realized that the head piece was inverted upside down in the body, but with all the wires and tinsel you couldn't tell. The day was saved and the girl bemoaned they had driven all the way to the store just to have me pull the head out of the belly. O well we had a good laugh.
I went back to the holiday food section only to be asked, "excuse me, what is a cheese chub?"
it was downhill from there.
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