Tired, tired, tired.
May. 5th, 2003 08:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
same_skyThere's so much work in the produce world! I sort of figured that today would be slow.. it's been incredibly rainy and thunderstormy pretty much all day long. Usually, when it rains, we do less business. Today turned out to be one of the busier days we've had. I sold one woman $125 worth of plants. I cannot imagine buying so many plants! It's ridiculous, in my opinion, but no one asked me. Which is good. I like selling stuff, especially $125 at one time.
I really hate dealing with all the plants, actually. And is there really so much difference in two varieties of tomatoes or cabbage? This one man came in today looking for an argument. He hounded me into lowering the price of a cabbage plant by 50 cents. I normally wouldn't have done it, but at that point, I would have paid 50 cents to make him go away. I think he felt a little bad, though.. apparently, him and Carolyn argue about such things all the time, and he thought I was upset. Actually, I was a little upset, but not really because of the 50 cents. I just don't like it when people get so confrontational about stupid things. How do I know that this cabbage plant was the variety of cabbage that it says it is, because it's in a box with two other kinds (in rows) and how do I know that no one has been out there moving things around without us noticing? Calm down, people! It's just cabbage!
I don't mind the work too much. I'm kinda overqualified to be a cashier, but it's not keeping me up nights or anything. Now that I've done it a few times, I don't mind the mornings too much. I don't care much for getting stuff out of the fridges and putting it out, but it's getting easier. I don't mind going through the bins looking for rotten stuff, though it can be extremely gross. Today, especially, because they didn't really do it yesterday, so the stuff had an extra day to spoil. Actually, Monday is an excellent day to shop at Gilliam's Produce.. I remove stuff by a stricter standard than say, someone who's paid $600 to a delivery person earlier in the day. ;) I even kind of enjoy putting up stuff when the delivery truck comes, and putting together delivery orders for sending out (we deliver to some businesses) can be fun. What I HATE is the afternoons. I've finished the previously mentioned stuff, and while there's always plenty of stuff that I could do, most of it is either extremely icky (cleaning up rotting produce) or vague (straightening up). It's just so boring when you're between customers.
I could tell a couple of customer stories, but I'm ready to move past the produce. I was there for ten hours, followed by dinner and computer time, so I don't have much else to add. I think there will be some reading on the couch now.. we have a tin roof and it's raining pretty hard. It sounds soo nice. I love the sound of rain.. I even have a rain CD that I listen to. It's brilliant for destressing. My hubby found it for me.. I won't say how or where, but I thought it was very sweet. :) Our connection kinda sucks tonight anyway, so I'll try to catch up with my lovely friends tomorrow. :) Night!
I really hate dealing with all the plants, actually. And is there really so much difference in two varieties of tomatoes or cabbage? This one man came in today looking for an argument. He hounded me into lowering the price of a cabbage plant by 50 cents. I normally wouldn't have done it, but at that point, I would have paid 50 cents to make him go away. I think he felt a little bad, though.. apparently, him and Carolyn argue about such things all the time, and he thought I was upset. Actually, I was a little upset, but not really because of the 50 cents. I just don't like it when people get so confrontational about stupid things. How do I know that this cabbage plant was the variety of cabbage that it says it is, because it's in a box with two other kinds (in rows) and how do I know that no one has been out there moving things around without us noticing? Calm down, people! It's just cabbage!
I don't mind the work too much. I'm kinda overqualified to be a cashier, but it's not keeping me up nights or anything. Now that I've done it a few times, I don't mind the mornings too much. I don't care much for getting stuff out of the fridges and putting it out, but it's getting easier. I don't mind going through the bins looking for rotten stuff, though it can be extremely gross. Today, especially, because they didn't really do it yesterday, so the stuff had an extra day to spoil. Actually, Monday is an excellent day to shop at Gilliam's Produce.. I remove stuff by a stricter standard than say, someone who's paid $600 to a delivery person earlier in the day. ;) I even kind of enjoy putting up stuff when the delivery truck comes, and putting together delivery orders for sending out (we deliver to some businesses) can be fun. What I HATE is the afternoons. I've finished the previously mentioned stuff, and while there's always plenty of stuff that I could do, most of it is either extremely icky (cleaning up rotting produce) or vague (straightening up). It's just so boring when you're between customers.
I could tell a couple of customer stories, but I'm ready to move past the produce. I was there for ten hours, followed by dinner and computer time, so I don't have much else to add. I think there will be some reading on the couch now.. we have a tin roof and it's raining pretty hard. It sounds soo nice. I love the sound of rain.. I even have a rain CD that I listen to. It's brilliant for destressing. My hubby found it for me.. I won't say how or where, but I thought it was very sweet. :) Our connection kinda sucks tonight anyway, so I'll try to catch up with my lovely friends tomorrow. :) Night!
