Today I actually managed to get myself out of bed and on time to work. Despite that amazing accomplishment of actually being a few minutes early to work the rest of the day it was an absolute crap show. It started at 7 am when the store officially opened. The first customer of the day ended up coming soon after we opened and as it turns out she’s allergic to cinnamon and I didn’t know that the protein for the smoothie she chose had cinnamon in it. She went absolutely ballistic and called the store multiple times asking us to bring her a new smoothie get her a refund and we just didn’t have the staff to go bring her a new smoothie and she seemed fine she was able to take a Benadryl and everything so I didn’t kill her. I still feel really awful about the whole event I should’ve been more aware of what I was putting into the smoothie. But to be fair she didn’t specify she had a cinnamon allergy.
That event ended up sending the rest of my day into a complete spiral. I was a mess. My anxiety was so high I dropped 3 people’s credit cards and forgot every other order on the headset. I also managed to say “do you have the receipt?” instead of “do you have the rewards?” at least twice!
To make things even worse, I found two spiders crawling on me throughout the day! The first one was dangling from my hair in front of my face before the store even opened! The second was crawling around my arm after I handed out a smoothie! They were very tiny but spiders still freak me out so I was not at all thrilled to find them on my person!
And since today is Friday I had about no time to eat anything until I got off. So basically I haven’t had a chance to eat breakfast or take my medicine. I also ended up having to stay half an hour after my shift ended to help with the rush because we were short staffed. Which means that I almost didn’t have time to grab lunch between shifts. Luckily the therapist for the kids that I babysit had to cancel so I was able to go in a little later which meant I could grab something for me to eat. I didn’t know this was the new plan until I got to my car because somehow I managed to leave my phone in my car!
I am really hoping the rest of this day goes a lot more smoothly than my first shift. But as far as I am concerned, I would like nothing more than to lie down and sleep the rest of this awful day away.
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