Evening/night shifts had a vending machine of ready meals but nothing fresh where I worked; only during certain daylight hours. I do not know if other supermarkets even had that but this is based on my experience, so you’d have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chapter 4: A change of pace
Before anyone says anything, I worked in retail during the 2010s so please suspend some disbelief for now 🙏 Spiderforest collective cameo time lets go Brothers – Postmasters Sprout and Oz become unlikely heroes after discovering a mysterious magic mailbox. With[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Not everyone will react this way, this is a very “Ash” reaction. Small talk about bills or something would be a good way to converse with a customer but in this case, Ash’s brain worked very literaly here. And that’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Volume control Ash, VOLUME CONTROL PLEASE See also: Flori refusing to move ↓ TranscriptAsh is on his knees in the chiller, half looking back to the customer on the other of the counter. "I'm sorry erm… they're all g-gone erm-[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Breathe in, breathe out ↓ TranscriptFlori begins to walk over to the counter where Ash and the customer stand. Sacrastically, she turns to the person she was conversing to: as she walks away "Give me a sec, dear, the newbie[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
She’s right imo. I’d much rather someone tell me there’s nothing in stock or they don’t know then fluff around with corperate scripts. Heck I’d get good feedback from customers telling me as much. I still maintain this even when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
…and then Flori goes back to being too forthcoming with her strong opinions. 😬 ↓ TranscriptFlori hooks a slender fingers around her pearls as she talks, not looking at Ash. "As for reserving products; we can only order[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Everytime I type “Oh?” I think about hatching pokemon eggs ↓ TranscriptAsh looks into the opened box that he grabbed from the chiller, his fac turnin to confusion. "Well ummm Flori? There's a cake here with today's date on it…"[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“She must know better as she’s been here longer than me” – reminder that Ash here is 19 yo and not fully experienced any working dynamic that hasn’t been “adult/older generation generally knows best” ie education and parental supervision Self[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
CJ cares really awwww —– Language note: “Temp” is shorthand for “Temporary” “Wot?” is a slang pronounciation of “What?”, just as “Jus’ ” is dropping the “T” in “Just” “Dang” is a polite way of saying “Damn” – as some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…