I start by saying goodbye and good luck to one of the few managers who I consider myself lucky to have known and worked with for a long time, Shaun Clay. It's not often you can actually call a manager friend and mean it, but in this case I can. Both Kev and I knew him at Burton and worked for him on and off in different stores and departments. Lovely bloke who will be much missed, he is certainly going to be Chaddesden's gain, and I wish him all the best.
Work wise it was absolutely manic after around 9 am and didn't stop all day. The queues were massive and a lot of big orders. The usual ignorant zombies, who don't answer you when you say hello, but on the whole pleasant enough. I did have a laugh with one customer who said I had behaved very well with the lady before, who came out with all the usual cliche remarks, like 'it's very busy' I'll bet you'll be glad to go home' 'it's a beautiful day out there, shame you are stuck in here' blah blah blah, I just smiled and said what I'm supposed to and was patient while she insisted on giving me 40 coupons ( of which three actually worked) and every single copper penny she had in change so I had to give her a note in exchange. The customer behind looked at me and rolled her eyes, and then said after she'd gone I was very professional and kind. Nice to get a bit of praise, especially when everyone else in the queue, looks at you like you've just killed their first born!
Jane tried to shut my till to get me off to go home, but the queue was too big so, she got a young lass to come take me off, Kev and I just made the Calverton bus into town, and then, having missed one tram down the hill, we got the next in time to get the 4.40pm Cotgrave bus home. We got home around 5.30 pm, and had a chilled evening watching storm chasers ( on series 4 now of the box sets he got from CEX) as there was bugger all on TV. Because we had an early start that morning we had a relatively early night.
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