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 I bought something from Amazon and when I got it the thing broke as I was trying to put it together so I had to send it back. The problem is that I have to send it via UPS which requires a pick up. I don't know when they'd be coming and I didn't know if I would be home when they showed up, so I arranged for a pick up at the Truck Stop which is open 24 hours and someone is always there. I was going to have to leave it first thing in the morning because again, I didn't know when they would be coming. So I got out of bed early and drove up to the station, and the Late Guy is working the morning shift again, and the Part Time Woman was there too. I went in and chatted with the Late Guy and ignored her. The tank alarm was going off again, this time it's a probe that isn't working. I decided to be a nice guy, went to the back and ran off an alarm report and it went off, I'll see if it stayed off when I go in this afternoon. And then I came home for breakfast, and...

 Because someone offed themselves I had to go to work early. No, it wasn't anyone who worked at the station, it was someone the Manager knew and she needed to leave for the funeral at 10:30, so I got to work a 12 hour shift. The thing that bothers me is there are three people who could have covered the four hours, two of them have been short because the Haunted Station is closed but nope, I had to go in. Oh well, overtime for me. The Manager told me she had gone by the liquor store to pick up some beer for the weekend. She ran into the Doofus (the guy who was fired for showing up to work drunk). He told her what a great job he had and how much they respected him there. Two things, I heard he was basically working as a janitor, cleaning, doing the outside trash and scrubbing the restrooms. The second thing is he keeps bugging the Boss to get his job back. He was full of crap when he worked at the Truck Stop and he still is. I wonder if his brother, Stinky, is still working at a fast...

 When I got to work everything was normal and peaceful. Oh wait, the tank alarm was going off again, and even though you hit the reset it would go off about five minutes later. They keep the door to the office open because the ice machine is in there and the room isn't vented so it overheats and shuts down. I closed the door, screw the ice machine. After an hour I went and hit the "YES, I KNOW, CENSOR IS NOT WORKING, SHUT THE HECK UUUUUUPPPPP!" button and it quit. I guess it needed to cry itself tired. Later in the day a driver made a delivery and I figured "crap, the alarm is going to go off again" but he did something to fix the censor and I didn't have to hear from the thing for the rest of the night.  The Little Debbies guy showed up, he hadn't been there for a while so the rack was mostly empty. There were several bags of outdated mini donuts and yes, I gladly accepted them. They had pumpkin spice and even though they are past their sell by date the...

Today requires a quick recap of the "cluster you-know-what" the stations have turned into thanks to bad management. It starts with the Random Woman putting in her two week notice, however she did it just as the state red-tagged the tanks at the Haunted Station and the place had to close so the Boss told her she could quit immediately and go to whatever job she was starting. The problem was that they didn't hire a new full time person to take her place, they would have had plenty of time to train them for the job but the company decided to save on the salary.  Fast forward a couple of week, the Boss figured the Haunted Station was almost ready to reopen but again he hadn't hire anyone, instead he decided to shuffle around the schedules of everyone else, thus putting us at the razors edge of having people available in case anything happened to anyone. And for some reason I once again got the stupidest of schedules. Originally the Boss wanted me to work Wednesday, Thursd...

 I had put my phone on Airplane Mode so if Bigfoot came down "sick" they couldn't call me at the last minute to cover the graveyard shift. When I turned it back on I discovered that Weekend Guy texted me saying that he was still alive. Why did he text me? I wasn't part of the whole "West Side Station being closed" mess. There's nothing like starting off your day angry.  Despite the "New Schedule" the Part Time Woman was at the Truck Stop. When I walked in the building it was the usual, neither her or Mrs Late Guy had closed their drawer. Even more, neither of them was behind the counter, so I was standing there, waiting. They were in the back room talking about the ice machine, it isn't properly draining again. When people started coming up to the counter I called back for them to come wait on their customers, and I still had to wait. Finally Mrs. Late Guy closed her drawer so I could go to work. By the time I got in I had a crowd, if they ...

The weather has been nice so I rode my Bad Hawg (electric trike) to work today. As I was pulling on the lot some big semi was swinging around on the other side of the building so I gunned it to make it past the pumps and to the back side of the building before him, sure enough he turned right to where I was going to go. And then the Manager left a big bag of trash on the handicapped ramp, the ramp I drive up to park my bike next to the building, so I had to get off and pull it up over the curb. My day was off to a great start. Later, about 6 hours later, I realized I left my key in the battery, thankfully nobody stole it.  Sheesh. When I went in the Manager was on the phone and trying to get authorization on a truck card. Thank goodness it was her because I hate those things. so I rushed to count in my drawer so I could open and she could close and not have to deal with anyone else. When she was done she told me that Bigfoot hadn't dumped the trash in the morning because he wasn...

 Back to work, weee..... The place was still standing when I got there, it didn't collapse because of my absence. I wonder how many people come back to work and discover that they weren't really missed.  I had to start the day cleaning the counter in front of the register. It looked like someone had been eating there, crumbs everywhere and coffee stains. People are slobs.  I guess the Late Guy has been trying to get the Haunted Station ready and he was upset, someone had left the door between the old restaurant area and the main store open and a bird had gotten in. I guess it was trapped inside for a while and made a mess, tearing open packages and pooping everywhere. And it's gone, the Late Guy is pretty sure there is a snake is in the building and caught the bird. Here's the thing, when the place was closed down I suggested that he check on it every couple of days, and he didn't. Now he has a mess to clean up and it's his own fault.  As far as I know the tank ...