Third Shift Notes-Our 9:00 am is your midnight!
Saturday, February 19, 2005
wow, we're making the big time...
Interesting....
Our night crew chief, the one with rather large marriage problems, has been transferred to another store to replace another chief, who used to work at our store, because, as word would have it, he is recovering from an operation on his (I'm not making this up) balls. He will be out for at leset a month and maybe longer.
Remarkably enough, we are doing just fine. All the stock get on the selves and people are in a good frame of mind. For the first time in a long while, we had another "pot luck' chow time tonight. I made chill, which went over well.
Got an email from a student in California about doing a research project on third shifters. I did not mention this to my fellow workers as I do not want to suggest that my interests are any more or less than the ones they hold.
I found out last night that Lee, of the frozen food department, will be on vacation next week. Thus explaining why I'm working Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Friday nights.
But on the good side, we get a raise as of midnight tonight when I check in. For parttimers, that's another 25 cents an hour or two bucks a day.
So when I went to the library today I was told I have fine of two dollars. There goes the raise.
Saw Bill today at The Dutch. He's an old third shifter and told me that third shift workers, according to an article he read, can expect to live five years less than other workers. But I'll bet we get into few traffic accidents.
Not to sleep. Got to take over Frozen, if I live to get there.
- posted by Peter Roberts @ 1:34 PM 6 comments
