As The Station Turns 11/10

 It was a slow day, a very slow day. I guess people are saving up their travel budget for Thanksgiving. My first customer was a half hour after I started my shift. In the first hour I had two whole customers. So today became "do some side stuff" day, even though I'm at the Haunted Station and perhaps I'm being petty but I like that the Late Guy looks like he's doing a bad job. 

I went in the back room and partially organized the beverage back stock and threw away a lot of boxes that were mostly empty and just taking up space. I should go through the entire mess and sort everything by brand, what type of beverage it is (water, soda, juice, coffee, etc) and the supplier but I wasn't that ambitious. Plus the back room has one light for a restaurant size space and it gets too dark so I could only work while the sun was up. But, it's a start.

My next job was cleaning bird poop off the pump. Again, you'd think this would be a thing the Late Guy could do during the morning but he's too busy vaping and watching videos on his phone. I got a wet rag and headed out, and that's when the car pulled in. However they weren't customers, just checking their map. Then the next car pulled in, they were actual customers. They left, the place went to zero again so I went out and made the place look a little nicer. The thing to do is to take a bucket and some rags and give the pumps a real scrub down but I'm there for two night a week and that is a morning, when nobody is there, type of job. And guess who is there in the morning when there are no customers? Yep, the guy sitting out front vaping and playing on his phone.

When, yes I'm complaining about this again, I was the manager I pulled all the stock off the shelves, scrubbed them all down and then replaced them by type and popularity. The Late Guy just throws them on the shelf wherever he has an open spot, like they had been doing before I got there. Stuff is all over the place and a random mess. So since he doesn't come in on Wednesday I went ahead and rearranged several things. We have the flavored cricket novelty snacks but he had them hidden off to the side, I moved them over by the register where they actually sell. I moved several suckers from their hidden spot over to the rack by the door where kids will walk in and see them first thing. If he gets pissed that someone is rearranging his shelves he'll blame the Part Time Woman since he doesn't like her.

The Late Guy didn't fill up the ice on the soda machine, again. If the Dyslexic Woman didn't quit she'll be working Wednesday morning so I only half filled it. Let it run out on her. I may have left her a couple of other annoying surprises.

Since it was a slow day I didn't take in a lot of cash so I didn't make a safe drop and it was a good thing. I was cleaning around the counter and noticed the light on the safe printer was blinking so I checked it out, someone had put a new paper roll but left the plastic core from the old roll in the bottom. If I had done anything with the safe it wouldn't have printed out a report and you can't print a second one. Can you guess who left the core in the printer? 

Since it was dead all day I mopped the floor early. I had just finished the ladies room when a pisser came and headed straight for it. I was laughing because even though she was going to track up my floor she was wearing socks and they were going to be damp when she was done, and it was a cold night. And in case you are wondering, nope, she didn't buy anything.

The end of the night was the same as the start, dead. I finally closed a little early and got out on time. It was a boring day but it was a vast improvement over working Down Town.