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.
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.
Name: LaDonna
