We got EVACUATED from Work!

Wednesday night, around 8 o'clock at work,
We (the employees) smelled smoke, burning-fire kinda smoke in the store.
We looked up and the lights showed how smokey the store was getting.
I checked with all the departments: produce (mine), meat, deli, bakery and saw NO sign of smoke from any of those places. I ran to the front of the store to tell manager about it and she already knew! [she's definitely on top of her shxt].
All employees were barely coming to here about the same news.
Our manager promptly made an announcement on the intercom to alert all customers to immediately evacuate the store because we have smoke and have no idea what's causing it. Customers left the store mid-grocery shopping leaving carts full of groceries everywhere. Then the employees left as our manager called 911.

5 minutes later...

cops came in the quickness




in total we had: 9 cops cars & 3 firetrucks that came through


had us employees waiting for about 45 mins & if rained!
in effin AZ

CONCLUSION:
the smoke was due to one of the AC belts burning and catching the AC units on fire.

the whole thing was a nice lil bonding experience tho
being evacuated & all

alive & well,
Mikeman

BEER on shoe!

Yeah, it's just as it sounds.
I was working sunday (pushing carts @ Safeway) and some guy entering his vehicle hands me his cart and as he's emptying empty bottles & can on the ground. Now somehow during the exchange he miraculously spilled BEER on my SHOE!

BEST believe I was like:
-ewwwwwwwwwww!
-gross!
-WTF?
-Oh Hell nah
-shocked
-how random
-why me?
-on the verge of telling him off
but i kept it professional and took the cart and went on about my day.... only after going to the bathroom for repairs (wipping them down with soap & water

Plus, isnt drinking and driving BAD?!?!!

in total disbelief,
Mikeman

1st day on the JOB

So yesterday was like 4 hrs of online training aka bor-ring! Procedures, protocals etc... So boring that I'm not even gonna get into details. Just know I learned the store's history and stuff. Then thursday I did more online training and learned actual training for the job like bagging, pushing karts, greeting customers, pricechecks.

So after an hr of online training. They threw me out to the fishes - no official training. It was a whirlwind of work consisting of...
1) pushing carts and learning the secret to pushing them is to pick up, direction & push! Oh and I'm telling ya pushing carts aint no joke. Imma have some guns after pushing all those carts :)
2) bagging & there's a technique to bagging too. I CAN'T tell u what it tho...that's company policy.
3) pricechecking which I didn't know to do hehe :)
4) sweeping all the aisle up & down.
5) helping customers find products & offering to show where things are or to taking their groceries to their cars.

So I was doing this throught my work schedule going around frantically doing this, doing that. I felt like a ______ (if u catch my drift massa) haha and it just an eventful first day of work!
I worked 4 - 8 and it was wasn't tiring untill I got home and my feets (yes feets not foot) were sore.

& that concludes my first day as a courtesy clerk @ Safeway