Holy. Hell.
Today was obnoxious.
Today was obnoxious.
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Slept through my alarm this morning which made me late to work. I'm a huge nut for getting to work on time, if not earlier, so I was practically having an aneurysm about being ten minutes late. Even though I was running late, I did stop to get coffee (It's a morning ritual).
...so after stressing, I arrive at work about five minutes late and the opening manager is not there yet, which means I have no way into the building to clock in on time and start getting my shit done. Of fucking course.
Finally get in ... then while attempting to tend all of the animals (because I work in a petstore), I manage to spill my precious caffeine EVERYWHERE while dropping everything else (including a nice 30lb box of parakeet seed right on my toe).
Then when I was able to tend the animals, there was a slew of sick hamsters that needed to be removed from the sales floor & placed into the hospital room & get vet appointments scheduled. & funny, they all seemed as grumpy as I was today. I have the bites to prove it.
Then when the store finally opened ... well, there was a herd of wild children forming at the front door. Now, I used to supervise at ToysRUs. I had two years of that shit. Now, my tolerance for small monsters is ok ... I can deal with the occasional monsterous child. But I no longer do herds. & I most certainly do not deal with herds of children harassing animals (& myself) in my department.
I found out later that we give 'tours' of the store as 'field trips' for local day cares/boyscouts/girlscouts because these organizations usually need x-amount of field trips per season. Why they go to a goddam pet store is beyond me. Stop being cheap & take these monsters to a place they probably have never been ... Like a nuclear power plant or something. Not a goddam pet store ...
Additionally, the manager providing the tour (coincidentally, the one that was late this morning) grabbed one of the snakes for sale in the department & was waving the poor dearie around during the tour.
First off, today they needed to be fed. Snakes don't eat when they're stressed.
Second, stressing a snake out is going to make it snap. Allowing three year olds to be bit is not a good idea on our behalf.
Third, It's cold in the store ('cause we're expecting snow on Friday! Fuck). Not exactly reptile friendly.
& I know snakes don't dig small children. I'm a snake (according to Chinese zodiac) & I don't like kids.
& there was two of these hellacious rounds of small monsters. fml.
Needless to say, I got nothing done during my shift today. & now I get to go in later this week to get things done that should have been completed today. puke.
Slept through my alarm this morning which made me late to work. I'm a huge nut for getting to work on time, if not earlier, so I was practically having an aneurysm about being ten minutes late. Even though I was running late, I did stop to get coffee (It's a morning ritual).
...so after stressing, I arrive at work about five minutes late and the opening manager is not there yet, which means I have no way into the building to clock in on time and start getting my shit done. Of fucking course.
Finally get in ... then while attempting to tend all of the animals (because I work in a petstore), I manage to spill my precious caffeine EVERYWHERE while dropping everything else (including a nice 30lb box of parakeet seed right on my toe).
Then when I was able to tend the animals, there was a slew of sick hamsters that needed to be removed from the sales floor & placed into the hospital room & get vet appointments scheduled. & funny, they all seemed as grumpy as I was today. I have the bites to prove it.
Then when the store finally opened ... well, there was a herd of wild children forming at the front door. Now, I used to supervise at ToysRUs. I had two years of that shit. Now, my tolerance for small monsters is ok ... I can deal with the occasional monsterous child. But I no longer do herds. & I most certainly do not deal with herds of children harassing animals (& myself) in my department.
I found out later that we give 'tours' of the store as 'field trips' for local day cares/boyscouts/girlscouts because these organizations usually need x-amount of field trips per season. Why they go to a goddam pet store is beyond me. Stop being cheap & take these monsters to a place they probably have never been ... Like a nuclear power plant or something. Not a goddam pet store ...
Additionally, the manager providing the tour (coincidentally, the one that was late this morning) grabbed one of the snakes for sale in the department & was waving the poor dearie around during the tour.
First off, today they needed to be fed. Snakes don't eat when they're stressed.
Second, stressing a snake out is going to make it snap. Allowing three year olds to be bit is not a good idea on our behalf.
Third, It's cold in the store ('cause we're expecting snow on Friday! Fuck). Not exactly reptile friendly.
& I know snakes don't dig small children. I'm a snake (according to Chinese zodiac) & I don't like kids.
& there was two of these hellacious rounds of small monsters. fml.
Needless to say, I got nothing done during my shift today. & now I get to go in later this week to get things done that should have been completed today. puke.