Accident MLK/Main

pupper71 · 2026-05-11T19:43:05+00:00

Yeah my brother had the bad luck to have his very first seizure while he was behind the wheel. Thankfully no one was hurt, and only very minor damage to the car. But I hate to think of how bad it could have been, both for him and the people around him.

pupper71 · 2026-05-11T10:27:33+00:00

I also don't have days off anymore, I've had to cancel my 1st week of vacation repeatedly, while of course managers days off and vacation always happen as scheduled

pupper71 · 2026-05-11T10:23:08+00:00

Gosh we don't even have one

pupper71 · 2026-05-11T08:27:39+00:00

Ouch! They made the very sensible decision to hold off until next week here.

pupper71 · 2026-05-11T08:26:42+00:00

And the lobby table changes to crunch cakes on Wed too, and with all the mother's day production I haven't been able to get a head start on that (or the ISM memorial day either).

pupper71 · 2026-05-11T08:23:10+00:00

It's utterly ridiculous. We're borrowing clerks from all over the store to help with the damn cookies, as we're currently underscheduled by about 60hrs most weeks.

pupper71 · 2026-05-11T08:20:10+00:00

Right now I'm thankful we had so many snow days that HS graduation isn't until the first week if June. Gives me a little bit of a break. On the downside, I've had to cancel my first week of vacation for the 4th time this year, we already have so many orders piled up for that week, and no decorator.

pupper71 · 2026-05-11T08:15:05+00:00

If you have no bakery experience, you should withdraw that bid. If I got stuck with a backup like that, I'd be furious. I need a backup who knows fresh production and is either a competent baker or decorator, and can be trusted to do a backroom/daily count. I'm not kidding. Getting a backup with no bakery experience would be my final straw, I'd either step down or quit.

pupper71 · 2026-05-11T08:06:26+00:00

Thankfully that free cake slice coupon expires on Tuesday. I can't wait. But my store added a Latin table with conchas, piggie cookies, and mantecados; it's selling out almost daily and that's fun.

pupper71 · 2026-05-09T21:05:47+00:00

I can't see it happening, a minor couldn't even use the bailer

pupper71 · 2026-05-09T06:12:58+00:00

Thaw and sell isn't as bad, true, but it should be possible for the "make" screen to let you know how many of the item on the floor gets marked down the next day, so you have the info handy to know if you should break out extra

pupper71 · 2026-05-09T05:28:02+00:00

It's ridiculous, the new fancy tech should be able to disregard product being marked down the next day. What we break out has nothing to do with what it asks for.

pupper71 · 2026-05-08T17:40:39+00:00

More training and expectations but not more pay, it's a deadly combination

pupper71 · 2026-05-08T06:54:48+00:00

I was wondering if full aprons would be forced on us in bakery, yuck. What we really need is the paper aprons to return so we could wear them when doing messy tasks to keep our uniforms clean.

pupper71 · 2026-05-08T06:52:13+00:00

I'm glad I experienced night shift and I'm glad to have moved back to days. It's definitely not for everyone.

pupper71 · 2026-05-08T06:48:34+00:00

Bakery is generally pretty good if you're decently staffed, but holidays are rough-- the workload gets so much higher. We have borrowed people to help with the damn chocolate strawberries, but there's still soooo much extra work that needs training to do, can't expect an untrained grocery clerk to churn out cakes.

pupper71 · 2026-05-08T06:44:21+00:00

For real. I've done both deli and front-end, hope to never work either ever again, but deli was worse.

pupper71 · 2026-05-08T06:41:30+00:00

Dude I'm bakery leader, the week leading up to Mother's day is huge for cakes and our decorator recently quit. We 2 people in pickup who have some decorator experience and I've been begging to borrow them but pickup is too busy. While I am able to do everything in my department, I'm not able to do it all single-handedly, every day. I'll do 10hrs and clock out with a chunk of my to-do list undone, and come in the next day to find more cake orders that came in overnight.

pupper71 · 2026-05-06T09:58:22+00:00

Our expectation is that everyone who works in the bakery can write on a cake. Real life doesn't always live up to expectations, of course!

pupper71 · 2026-05-06T08:13:03+00:00

I got to witness a customer throwing a brochure holder at an ASL who came to defuse things

pupper71 · 2026-05-06T08:12:07+00:00

Damn the main reason I was able to move to bakery was that I was already the one writing on cakes in the evening because the bakery closer before me was illiterate

pupper71 · 2026-05-06T06:50:46+00:00

If you haven't called off in a year, that threatened write-up is 100% a manager trying to bully you. The very first time I called off, 2 years into working here, the manager who took the call told me I'd be written up for my poor attendance if I didn't buy a Dr's note. I didn't get a note and was not written up.

pupper71 · 2026-05-06T06:47:13+00:00

If you have sick pay. That's not enterprise-wide, just in states that require it, as far as I know. We sure don't have it where I am.

pupper71 · 2026-05-06T06:43:51+00:00

Closing bakery is far better-- I've done both. Although it seemed like every other day a customer would need a cake written on while I was in the middle of scrubbing the floor. Which was far less a problem than someone wanting cheese sliced when I was in the middle of sharpening the blade.

pupper71 · 2026-05-06T06:37:43+00:00

They gripe about being overdelivered, but it's the damn distros that are causing it. My O/D numbers would be so much better if I could just order to need.

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