We had to run to Lowe’s the other day and every time we go over I’m reminded of how grateful I am that I’m not working there any more. They have more rules and regulations than the Army and cameras located every where and someone watching your every move. You have to take tests on everything that happens in the store on the computer. I couldn’t believe all the stuff they expected a cashier to know, they want you to know about every department so you’re able to fill in if someone doesn’t show up, I didn’t want to know everything and a lot of things I didn’t like.
I hated climbing up on that stupid high ladder to get light bulbs down and restock, I hate heights and with my bad hip they’re lucky I didn’t fall. I did like using the handheld barcode scanners at Lowe’s though, but I found out quick that you better watch the register while your doing it. It might have stuck on one wrong code and not registered anything else then you have to go through the whole process again, which happened a couple of times to me. It certainly made adding up all those heavy supplies easy without lifting a lot of the heavy crap to the register.
Of course you were suppose to move everything anyhow and check between and under everything and even open boxes and look inside because of theft and sometimes it got awkward because I certainly didn’t want to make customers feel like a thief. We had to do it because cameras were watching our every move and they always used footage at our monthly meetings. I always told them it was a new company rule when they got ticked at me. I was always amazed at the amount of theft and those that got caught and how devious they were with cameras everywhere.
When this particular store opened they were so strict it felt like I was working for the Gestapo and everyone was suspect. The cashiers actually were tested on carts of supplies and finding all the hidden stuff between boxes or in boxes and different ways people would try to slip things past. I actually wanted to work in shipping and receiving, but they decided I’d make a better cashier. There was a heck of a lot of crap to learn just to be a frickin cashier and they also expected you to learn where everything in the store was, they are big stores.
The handheld barcode scanners didn’t always deactivate those little magnets though when you tapped it so the alarms at the door were always going off. “Beep beep beep beep” until someone deactivated the door and grabbed the person and drug them back to a register to deactivate magnets and look at their receipt, what a pain. If we suspected someone of theft we weren’t suppose to stop them ourselves of course which I wouldn’t have anyhow because I’m a wuss, I’m not a hero and I would have also given them every penny in the register without a fight.
You weren’t suppose to wait on family members because they were afraid you weren’t honest and would give them stuff. They said in the past that had happened a lot so it was policy now. You have to call a manager to approve everything from cashing a check to approving a Military discount and that really ticks people off. We had to ask people for their phone number which I hated doing because people got ignorant half the time and it wasn’t my fault if they want to bitch then bitch to management not me.
Okay enough of my tirade about Lowe’s, I’m just glad I no longer work there, I quit because of the creepy appliance manager that had an eye for the young ladies and didn’t care much for old ones and was rude, I should have sued the jerk.
Finally after almost 2 months my DIL got in touch with us. She told us she would stay in touch and that she was bringing the baby up in 2 weeks when we were at the funeral of my Son. Some people don’t answer their cell phones at least not calls from MIL’s and last night was the first we have talked to her. I knew when my Son died that I wouldn’t get the same updates about Ethan as her family and was prepared to deal with that.
She lives in Kentucky and we live in PA so it’s not like I can pop over whenever I feel like it and I can’t force the woman to pick up her phone when I call. I had no clue if they had come up here when she said they were going to last month or not. I only got to hold Ethan once when we were down because I was sick and didn’t want to make him sick and even then I wore one of those masks to keep my germs away and made sure my hands were washed and sanitized.
Even though I had the stupid mask on he wasn’t afraid of me, but I wasn’t able to smother him with kisses. He’ll be 7 months old on the 1st of March and she said he weighs 20 pounds and is 28 inches long. Time flys by so quick, I was there at his birth and it was at the same time my Son was diagnosed with his Cancer, too many emotions with sorrow and joy at the same time. At any rate apparently she’s been up here for a week and only decided to call us last night.
I was at least grateful that she said she would bring Ethan over tomorrow and spend the night so we will at least get to have some time with the little guy. Life sucks sometimes, but we have to learn to deal and move forward, no one knows what the future has in store so we learn to take one day at a time. Of course I wont be working on the computer after they get here tomorrow and probably not Saturday either until late so I just wanted you to know why I wont be visiting your blogs.
Have a great weekend if I don’t visit tomorrow or Saturday.
Does your Mother know how you act when she isn’t around? I know circumstances dictate behavior at times and sometimes we act irrationally and do things out of the ordinary for various reasons. My concern though is with the children where I live and the total disregard they seem to have for other people and property and if they see something they want they just take it.
I see kids walking down the street talking on cell phones and listening to their ipods and wonder what kind of music they listen to that makes them disrespect everyone around them. When I say down the street I literally mean right in the middle of the street and then when a car is coming they try to make eye contact and dare you to hit them or bang on your car.
They make gestures with their hands and act like freaking hoodlums of course if the parents were around they wouldn’t act that way or would they? They try to fit in with their peers and it’s not always easy so sometimes behavior becomes exaggerated to impress. Would you believe someone if they came to your house and told you of your child’s behavior or would you believe your child?
When we have children we do our best to teach them right from wrong so they can function in society and fit in, but they don’t always follow the rules we lay out for them. Many people would swear up and down that they have good kids and know them well, but how well do we really know them when they are out with their friends and how respectful are they? Do we give our children too much or is there such a thing as too much?
It seems all kids have cellphones, computers, and ipods now a days and sometimes I wonder if they are frying our kids brains? I don’t even know how an ipod works, but I guess if I had young kids I would be up on all the latest and greatest gadgets. Even the poorest of people seem to find the money to purchase all these things for their children and if they can’t provide them a lot of these children acquire them by other means.
Do you know how your children act when your not around?
My friend Lea from Ocean Of Perspectives included me in her passionate blog meme, but at this particular point in time I seem to have lost my passion. It could be from menopause and low estrogen or from the recent events, at any rate the passion just isn’t there for now so it would be very hard to search and list any.
However Lea has listed 5 wonderful things that she is passionate about and if you’ve never visited her I’m sure if your interested in self discovery and meditation you will certainly enjoy reading her blog. Lea started out with Entrecard, but no longer participates, but I still try and visit her every day because I enjoy her blog.
I am really working on rekindling the passion that I had before and I’m hoping when Spring comes I will be able to renew my spirit with all the rebirth and beauty around me, but for now I sometimes feel as bleak and cold as the sunless dreary days that we’ve been experiencing lately.
