Domestic Geek

I should've known. I actually remembered to say aloud Rabbit Rabbit today (at 12:00:10 AM, freaking out Marcus as he was drifting off to sleep, mind you, but I said it!) and no luck. Booooo rabbit.

I dragged my warm, cozy body out of bed at 4:30, cleared the 6-8 inches of frozen snow off my car (after realizing I no longer have a snow brush and had to snag the one from Marcus' truck), and drove all the way across town to work through several dark intersections.

Something seemed amiss as I pulled up in front of the building. The outside looked wrong and yet every light inside the store was on. Hmm, weird. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the recessed lighting along the sidewalk wasn't on. That's why it seemed darker than normal. I go in and hear the beep of a the computer's battery backup and find a note from the manager--power outage last night (could've called my cell and left a message, but no). Well, that explains all the lights being on. Of course, the circuit that the computer system and the dough mixer are on is still out. Damn it--I can't do any work.

So, I wait. And wait. And wait.

The manager arrives and is pissed that only half of the power is back on. He leaves and then comes back in with an extention cord to run the computer from another plug so he can do the work he couldn't finish last night. An extension cord wouldn't help me because dough mixer is 220V. I finally decide to prep a bunch of stuff that isn't my responsibility, do the dishes they couldn't do because of the dark, etc. He thinks everything is hunky dory because each oven is on a different circuit and they can still do the school orders. Big surprise as he finds that the blowers for both ovens are on the same circuit that is out. He calls Excel and they promise power will be back by 6 PM. Manager calls owner to arrange to do school orders from the other store, finds out other store has no power, either. By this time, I've been there three hours. I decided I'm not waitng around anymore, so I head for home.

It was nice not to have to make dough, but I lost the money from the cancelled school orders, I'm pretty sure they won't make any dough today once the power is back on, so I'll have to work twice as hard tomorrow. That totally sucks.

Note to self:
Art Director's Club of Denver, Click resources > Job opps. There is a student art competition deadline in September. Really should join this.

Current mood: frustrated
Geez, going to work tonight was a total joke and waste of my time. A phone call telling me not to come in would've been appreciated instead of making me drive from Aurora to Thornton for a half hour of cutting green peppers. Just what I need when "cheap gas" is going for $1.89 right now. I'm so glad our manager is on top of things and finds out in advance when schools do/don't need to have pizzas delivered for lunch. Turns out today was an in-service day and there were no students. They sent the first batch of pizzas out before they found this out. Morons. So that, coupled with the fact that they're dead at the moment (more about that later) and there was no dough to do at all.

Next, the owner is upset that food cost is at 39% right now. Well, duh, you put out an unlimited toppings coupon—what do you expect? The store is in an area where people will take everything for free whether they wanted it or not. He's decided to raise the delivery charge to help cover the increase. I'm not sure to what as I've heard anything from $.60 to $1.00. There goes another portion of driver tips. The reason they're kind of dead now is the owner suddenly stopped sending out advertising. He's gearing up to launch some stupid pizza called "The Mediterranean." It's some chicken, garlic weirdo concoction that I refuse to try because it has green olives on it. Ewww. So, it's dead and in an effort to save labor (and make up for the outrageous food usage), several of us rush drivers were told we weren't needed. Great. Of course, the asst. manager that the head manager has a thing for is on overtime already and she works all day tomorrow, too. The whole situation is insane. I give up.

Current mood: amused
So, here is today's horoscope:


Have they met my bosses? Helloooo, nobody in my store has gotten a raise in years. I certainly never will. Man, that horoscope is too funny. I'm glad I don't base my whole life on those, but they're good for a chuckle once in a while.

I just saw a commercial on TV for the place I work. That has got to be the most boring, unprofessional-looking ad I've seen yet. It doesn't make me want to order from us, but then, I wouldn't order from us anyway. The last thing in the world I want to pay to eat is pizza. Anyway, the store was really busy last night. I'm beginning to think it's a conspiracy against me. When I drive, we're dead and when I don't, we're busy. It's starting to become a running joke in our store. The other day the asst. manager was looking at the schedule and said, "Uh, oh. Donna's driving tonight. We're going to be dead." I told the owner of the store this morning that he ought to pay me not to drive so that his sales will be higher. He had the nerve to laugh at me. Oh, well, it was worth a try!

I was at Lowe's to get a small (116") drill bit (I broke mine yesterday when I dropped the drill) and I was drooling over all the cool attachments that are out for the Dremel rotary tool. They also have cool drill bits that I want, but the set is $9 and I really need to wait and see how much my car repairs are going to cost before I blow money on something I don't really need.

I wonder what's up with the Locker Room show on KBPI. I was listening this morning and they kept playing this statement from the program director about how the Locker Room is off and there will be news next week about what's up with the morning show.