Oh my gosh… yesterday, my shift at the supermarket was suppose to be 5:00p-10:00pm (first time I had a shift that late). They called me at 2:00pm and asked me if I could come in ASAP. because, between 9:00pm-10:00pm on Sunday evening they only have one checker and one manager and that checker has to know how to run the U-Scan self checkout station. They never trained me on the U-scan.

Organized chaos!

If you think that you are merrily going on checking yourself out, let me tell you the truth. You move a product, my handset beeps, you’re kid is playing with the scale or scanner, my handset beeps. You put a bag into your basket before finishing the whole transaction, my handset beeps… you can’t find a produce code… you get the idea. I spend most of the time poking my wireless handset clearing errors.

It’s like managing SIX registers at one time. It’s realtime and it’s like at any minute, it’s all going to blow up in front of your face.

The person that was training me said I looked so cool and calm. She doesn’t have a good bullshit meter. It was a blur, my brain was hurting, I was on autopilot. Just make believe I was hire to play the part of a calm and cool U-scan clerk.

P.S. I also found out something I didn’t know before. As low man on the pecking order, if the overnight cashier (they use U-scan only between 10:00pm and 6:30am, no regular registers) needs off, I will get scheduled to cover that shift.