got milk?

It was really slow today and I did not run out of milk! I did tell Bret I might but he was ok with it.

I had to take down an end of kleenex and put up sunny delight in it's place. I don't care if it say SunnyD now, they will always be Sunny Delight to me. And one day some kid will ask me why I call it that and I can act all old and stuff. I actually have no idea when they changed the name, I just know Zhaun kept calling it SunnyD and I kept thinking he was just being weird then one day I noticed it really was called that now. Bizarre.

I sliced my hand on a thing of juice and it stung for the longest time. I didn't think it was too bad until I was doing the kleenex end and it kept stinging and I looked closer and realized that my hands are small enough that when I gripped the boxes it opened the cut enough that I could see blood. It never bled, but the skin was broken enough that it could part and I could see blood. hm. It still kinda stings.

I will always think on the time we were all given gift cards for meeting our safety goal of no accidents for however many days and I was all confused because I'd gotten a metal shard or something in my eye that resulted in a corneal abrasion a month or so before that and Julie told me that it didn't reset our safety days counter because it wasn't OSHA related. She said, "You get all the freak accidents." To which I responded, "I'm just talented like that."

Speaking of OSHA, the other night I heard them call for someone to help on the soda/juice aisle for something on the top shelf. So I grabbed a stool and went out to help. I got there and a CSM was there helping her and he had climbed up the shelf and was standing on, like, the second shelf from the bottom and holding onto the top shelf with one hand while he got product down with the other and I was all, "...um... stool?" And he was all manly and like, "No, I got it handled!" So I rolled my eyes, muttered something about men and then said, "Mommy, what's an OSHA regulation? Well, dearest, it's what they make when CSMs do stupid things like that." Not in front of him, of course. I should have though.

So this morning first thing the grocery truck was there. Luckily I'd had time to fill the milk I was, ah, out of yesterday before this. We had a pallet come off that was leaning real bad and I got one of the big guys on night crew to come help us get it off, the driver helped too, the black guy, he's tall and big. We almost got it put away but it was just leaning really bad and it had non-foods at the top. I was going to call them back and make them downstack it but Bonnie and the driver told me to get the stacker and take the top pallet off. Ok, sure, I knew it wouldn't work because of the angle at which the pallets were leaning but I did it. And I was right. I would have forced my way under it but Zhaun was there and trying to make me nervous and warned me that I was going to knock over the two pallets of product next to one I had the pallet leaning against. So I stopped and put the stacker away. Then I got to do call non-foods back and Brad responded. He got all upset and said he didn't have time to downstack it and that he'd get the stacker and take it off. We told him it wouldn't work that we tried and he was all, "I can do it!" like we didn't know what we were doing. Bonnie got mad, yelled at the driver to back off, snapped at me to get away from the pallet cause it was going to fall, and got mad at Brad for trying it. So I went off and watched from a distance for a few minutes then went and did paperwork. Suddenly I heard a crash. Despite Bonnie's warning Brad he ended up knocking over two pallets of product. Luckily none of it was in my way so I was able to finish offloading the truck.

And still on this same truck there was a pallet turned sideways and the driver was going to try to get under it from the other side, instead of just taking it off and then dropping it and grabbing it from the right side. Now, I don't know who all here knows about what the inside of a semi trailer is like. The floors are ridged and if I don't walk with my feet at something of a diagonal my shoes are small enough that my foot falls into the lower parts of the ridges. These ridges run up and down the length of the trailer. This makes it very hard to get a jack to turn a pallet inside the trailer because the wheels get caught on the ridges. He pulled and pulled at the pallet. Me and Bonnie just watched him. Finally he stopped for a moment to catch his breath and I called out, "You might have to bring it sideways and turn it out here." He didn't listen to me and was all, "No I can do it!"

So me and Bonnie went outside to discuss our recent disgust in men and how they never listen to women. I was keeping half an eye out for the driver to finally leave the trailer. Not long after we went out he came off and he had the pallet sideways. hehe, me and Bonnie figure he'd realized we weren't watching and so decided to do it my way because of this. It was funny.