Oo I am not happy right now. Work has this funny way of getting the worst out of me sometimes. My biggest pet peeve is incompetence and today was just filled with it.
I should first say that part of today's problem was my fault. I was being a bit incompetent myself for unknown reasons. I just wasn't starting movies on time even with plenty of notice. They were threaded ... just not started. I don't know what I was doing today but it happened twice, which is twice more than it usually happens.
Down to the nitty gritty though ... end of the day comes and we're missing 20 dollars in gift certificates. They were logged as sold but were not rung into the computer. OK, no problem ... we should be over in box to compensate and just ring them up. Nope, we were actually 5 dollars short in box office meaning we were ACTUALLY 25 dollars short. I called Rich and he said it was fine when he checked it at midshift. Now, I hate to call him on it but he probably didn't check. How can I say that? Well Matt sold one gift certificate and I was there for the sale. I saw him ring it up. He didn't screw up. SO ... while Rich may not be to blame for the actual shortage (Shawn was working box so it's his responsibility to make sure all sales are rung in), he could have/should have noticed this gift certificate sale discrepancy at shift change so we could have solved it before the end of the night.
Pretty much this means 20 dollars got up and walked away. Not good. Money doesn't walk away. Now there are a few theories that I have devised and not all of them involve theft. My first thought may be that we gave 2 gift certificates to one customer and they never paid for them and we never rang them up. May have been some confusion with the 38 people we had all afternoon. Of course, then there is the ugly scenario ... someone yelled "yoink!" and got away with 20 dollars missing. So ... Jeff I'm sure will investigate this mess because I had to call him about it. It's "solved" for now but this is not the end and has risen my blood pressure more than it should.
In other news, I'm now extremely nervous for this afternoon/evening. I'm to go on a date with Michelle but her parents want to talk to me for a bit. I have nothing to hide but ... oo, just nervous anyway. Everything will be fine, I'm confident. :: breathes ::
I got 2 papers down and 1 to go. I have 2 chapters to read yet and then I have to write the review for Monday. I can do it! I think ... but I'm almost in the clear. I can see the end of the tunnel and it is snowy!
No, we don't have snow, just using simile to get my point across. It isn't bright, it isn't sunny ... it's winter so snow. Get it? Yeah. I don't even know if I used the right word. "Like" is not there so is that a metaphor or simile when ... ah whatever. You understand what I mean.
On that note, I should have been in bed at least 3 hours ago but I had to work tonight. Have a good one.
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I can relate to the Joy of Cash Handling. When I worked at Epcot, I was the lead in a shaop that among other things rented electric scooters for people with mobility problems. There were twenty fic\ve or so of the things, usually all rented out and wandering the park during the course of the day.
Imagine the pleasure I had when one of my cashiers mad the lovely discovery that thhe keys for the scooters were the same as the keys for the cash registers- almost all the cash registers in almost all the merchadise shops at Epcot. I'll never forget my Supe's words when i told her about it on the phone: "that's not funny Fred!" Now that remark built confidence.
As for talking to Michelle's folks, I sure hope that goes well, though my natural sympathies are with the father.
When I first came to Alaska, I worked as a deck hand on a charter boat. One of the clients was a veterinarian who was concerned because his teenage duagther wanted to go on her first date, and of course the boy made hime nervous. I told him, "no problem Doc! Just have the lad over to your office for a friendly man to man chat- while your gelding a horse." Imagine it! "Well you know son, I expect my girl to be treated like a lady, and if she isn't- uh here hold these for me will you?"
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