WeIrD ThInGs

What a week at work. It was so eventful and I only worked 3 days this week which is unusual. The first thing that happened to me on Tuesday was this old lady was telling me how she was going to be going into a "home" and that she was excited to be going. She was telling me and my carry out how she found God at this "home" and that you can't have any pencils or paper there. It wasn't long until I figured out that she was talking about going into a crazy home. She then told us that she volunteers to go and that she doesn't have to, but her husband wants to send her anyways. She also said she made a lot of friends there and she will be home before Christmas but she might go back because she is going to miss being there. I just stood there and let her talk because I had no clue what to say to her besides "you're crazy".

Working in a public place I guess you have to expect the unexpected. I had a guy come through my line and before he started to unload his groceries I heard him fart. It was not a normal fart either. I believe he had shit his pants. As soon as he farted I watched his face and his eyes grew big. And when he unloaded and came up to the checkout he was kind of shuffling his feet and moving very slow. It smelled disgusting. My eyes started to water and needed a fresh breathe of air. I tried not making it noticeable but it was very hard. The guy hurried up and paid me and left. You could definitely tell he was holding his butt cheeks together. It seriously smelled for 10 minutes after he had left. Grossest thing EVER!!!!!!!!

At Spartans college students and high school students are not allowed to be front end manager, but I was on Saturday. It felt pretty cool telling the old lady which everyone hates at work what to do. All the high schoolers though wouldn't listen to me reason being you aren't our manager, therefore we don't have to listen to you. :/ Work is just its own kind of stress. But hey, that's why I'm going to college so I won't be in a grocery store for the rest of my life.

Some people

These past few days at work have just been crazy. Between everyone getting ready for early doe season, youth hunt, and goose season you only see camo. I had this little kid come through my line at work and say "Can you see me?"
I replied "Yes, I can see you"
Little boy " Dang it, I'm wearing camo so you can't see me"
I replied "You are only camouflaged in the woods not in a grocery store" and he started to cry. I didn't think I said anything mean but then again he was like 10.

I had this one lady come through my line on Friday and she really liked my name. She was older and was like "wow, I really like your name"
I said "Thanks, I was named after a carburetor"
the lady laughed kinda rudely at me and said " You were seriously named after a car part? You poor poor girl. You parents have a good sense of humor. But, you are the cutest carburetor I have ever seen though."
I said "Thanks I guess??" I was kind of confused on what just happened.
Then she said "I like the spelling though cause it writes smoothly on paper." I just tuned her out after that I was very annoyed with her at the moment.

Then I had this guy tell me that he likes my name.
Random guy "I like your name too bad I only see it out in the woods"
I said "What? only out in the woods? I don't understand what you mean by that"
Random guy "You were named after a flower and I see you when I go out to shoot some damn deer!"
I said "I've never seen this kind of flower so I have no idea what you are talking about"
Random guy "Well, I have to go but you need to go live in the woods"

Yesterday (Saturday) I had this lady look at me and I thought she was looking at my glasses but to only find out she wasn't. She said "I like the way you put on your eyeliner!" I was so confused on that. I've never had someone say that to me. Working with the public I tell ya.

Yesterday at McDonalds Food & Family was quite the day. I was training some new lady and she was kind of pissing me off. She was like I already know everything and you don't need to teach me. That DID NOT fly well with me! I told her that she needed to shut up and listen and not to talk back to me because for the moment I was her boss. So she soon found out that I was being serious and didn't talk except to ask me questions. Also, my boss told me to quiz her since she "knew" everything. So I quizzed her and she had no clue on where most of the stuff went like the damaged- frozen, produce, meat went back.

Since yesterday was Saturday that meant that the Kinde Polka Fest was going on and everyone was going to be there. That was the big talk around the small town of Bad Axe. Everyone knows how to Polka except for me. I had one of my co-workers teach me how to Polka. So there I was when it wasn't busy practicing how to Polka so I wouldn't embarrass my boyfriend and myself. Its only a three step count.....Who knew?

On Friday I had an old man tell argue with me. He was like "So your name is Holley?"
I replied "Yes, why"
Old man: "Like the flower Holly?
Me: "No, like the carburetor Holley"
Old man: "No! You were named after the flower Holly and you are just as beautiful as the flower, unlike the carburetor"
Me: "Well, thanks I guess." I always get people arguing with my name and how it is spelt. They just need to know that my name isn't going to change just cause they don't like it.

Friday was kind of  slow and when its slow we have to find things to make us busy. Well we did everything on the check off list and had the store looking tip top shape. Well...my boss came in and he was mad "I don't just pay you guys to sit around and do nothing, get to work"
well me being a smartass said "Everything is done, what do you want us to do?"
he replied "Go home then". So needless to say I thought I was going to lose my job, but I didn't. Two other co-workers joined with me and left. Oh the joys of working in a grocery store.

The Begininng

When I was 15 my parents told me that I needed to get a job. I applied at McDonalds Food & Family Store. Took me 3 months to get an interview with them. For a grocery store its actually pretty hard getting in. When I went for my interview an was in there for two hours. I had to go around the store and ask questions to the customers like: Why do you shop here? How long have you shopped here? Where do you live?. I nailed the interview and a week later I started something new. I started out as a carry out and worked around 35-40 hours, it was summer and all I did was work. After about a month they decided to train me as a cashier. After my summer was over my mom told me that I didn't really need to get a job in the first place. I thought "well I already have it I should just stay". School they had me working 15-20 hours and going to school was difficult.

Many people tell me that I spell my name wrong. They say that my parents must have been drunk when they were spelling my name. Or they laugh at the fact that I was named after a carburetor. Another thing I get asked a lot is if my middle name is Noel, because they think that I was born near Christmas. I just don't understand why no one likes my name just because it has an "E" in it.! But its okay cause I like my name. I like being unique, so far I haven't met anyone with the same spelling as me.

It was only a few months into it when I had to take a quiz. The quiz was when I had to know where everything was around the store including what aisle and what the general location where it was at. I got like 5 wrong out of 30 items. The lady that hired me in said if I could've gotten one more wrong she would've fired me cause I didn't know my job well enough. I was kind of furious at her for that. I thought I did a pretty good job for only facing for about 20 hours. Facing is where you have to go around the store and pull everything forward so it makes the aisle look professional.