Cold Brewed!
The cold brewed version of this one really wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t this blend “at its best”. To me, this is best done up hot with some milk late at night. A warm, snugging kind of tea. Instead this one turned out more like chocolate and rose with faint strawberry accents, but normally it’s chocolate and strawberry with faint rose accents. Smeh. I prefer choco/strawberry.
I did appreciate having something indulgent and chocolatey at work anyway though (beware, long work rant to follow); yesterday was crazy busy! My assistant manager left me and the one other cashier working a list of stuff to do, but it was ridiculously long and composed primarily of stuff that he should have done during the day. That alone is frustrating, but then it turned out to be CRAZY busy so, even with me skipping my break and working straight through it, we couldn’t finish everything we were supposed to. Ugh.
Today is my day off, so thankfully I don’t have to face him when he’s probably gonna be pissed about the somewhat sloppy work done last night, and I left him a note explaining the circumstances, but sometimes he’s so thick headed and really just doesn’t understand how limited we are during evening shifts.
There’s only two of us working; and one person ALWAYS has to be at till – so that leaves one of us to do the long ass list of stuff for the evening. There’s three hours in the evening to do everything before we have to start closing procedures – and last night I had to refill all the pop/water (in the cooler, and three different displays around the store), do the daily inventory counts (which can take an hour on its own depending on what head office wants counted for the day; yesterday I had nine pages of counts to do when normally I only have like seven), refill the ballrack (which entails hand blowing up those giant plastic children’s balls), price/label all of the new displays on the end of aisles (this was the most frustrating thing on the list; they should have been pricing as they were setting everything up in the morning – instead I had to look up all the prices, and then write out pricing stickers/labels for ALL the new items which took a lot of time), shred outdated paperwork (again, something they should be doing in the morning when they’re more fully staffed – and also not my job; it’s his!), do all of the returns/put aways, and then all the normal closing stuff like write offs, sweeping, and mopping. Oh, and I had to put away a whole bunch of the aisle owner’s freight/ladders because they left them out. Again, frustrating and eats into my time.
And then, of course, my cashier had to take her break at some point (and I wont ask her to skip it; she deserves to take her break) and I had to cover till that’s another half hour gone and I should have had a break myself, but I didn’t take it to try and do all this shit. Seriously, out of my seven hour shift I spent the first two hours cashing people out (so no time to do stuff), then three hours scrambling around trying to do all this bullshit he left for us, and then an hour doing closing stuff (mopping/sweeping/write offs), and then an hour doing the closing paper work/cash balancing. Sometimes I just want to rage quit.
