hi
me bored
very very hungry
work was good today
3 ppl chose to forfeit their savings for the sake of getting through the line
when i came home it was very quiet , very nice, smelled good as well.
no nana tonight, maybe a quick dinner and go play.
i'm listening to inxs - never tear us apart
wet nails
bye

Thoroughly Modern Jewel - Edited

First off, thank you soo much to Stephen Funk.
Please check out http://serenadeingreen.blogspot.com
His post on not being a preferred customer , inspired me because I was listening to the Thoroughly Modern Millie soundtrack:
"There are those, I suppose
Think we're mad, heaven knows
The world has gone to rack and to ruin
What we think is chic, unique, and quite adorable
They think is odd and 'Sodom and Gomorrah'-ble
But the fact is everything today is thoroughly modern
Check your personality
Everything today makes yesterday slow
Better face reality
Good-by, good goody girl
I'm changin' and how
So beat the drums 'cause here comes thoroughly modern Mille now"
Well good news. After a horrific 8 hours on Sunday, I had 2 days off. This gave everyone time to dig out their Preferred Cards again. I only had to look a few people up and for the most part, I found everyone through their driver's licences. Good Job everyone! Keep it up!
There was a secret PC passed down to me indirectly from the powers that be. I used it in secret 3 times. I don't think I was supposed to, but eh. I had to laugh several times. One dude didn't have his card and he was spanish so I'm not sure if it was more funny the way he said it or what he said, but he echoed my exact sentiment that I expressed a few entries down. He was on the phone with his wife and said
"yeah baby they dont' have the PCs anymore, they say 'fuck the customers, fuck good customer service."
He was one of the ppl I swiped the card for. Had he not been on the phone I would have busted out laughing and probably would have walked around to hug him. I have no clue what stopped me to be honest :)
Another customer gave us all a good laugh. He bought a decent amount of food and I gave him his total.
"Here's a check, and may I have $50?"
"Sure thing, that takes your amount to $####"
While we were waiting for the check to print I was giving my awesome customer service since I was in a good mood because everything was working, and asked if he had big plans for the evening.
"Yes, I'm picking up my wife and we're going someplace expensive - THE GAS STATION!"
A few of the next ppl in line and I laughed.
Overall, I had a good 5 hours yesterday and I hope to have another great 6 on Sat.
KEEP BEING GOOD CUSTOMERS :)
MELISSA

TV and Music

Aloha
Yesterday I went to the library for mom. I got myself the Fall Out Boy Cd. It's pretty awesome if you want to listen to an hour of loud crazy hyper music. Fits me perfectly. I finally got caught up on all the stupid TV I've been taping lately too. Prison Break - woo! Next week the official escape begins if Michael can get the help of the nurse. The locks have been changed, the floor has been busted, hell the whole plot has been busted, but they are going anyway lol. What I still need to find out is what the heck happened last week on One Tree Hill. WGN chose to show the bulls game and put everything on later so I missed it. Family guy has been good as well. Oh well. I'm waiting for the sheets and towels to dry so that I can take my shower. I'm nervous for Idol tonight. Love songs...poor Chris.

JEWEL OSCO HATES ITS CUSTOMERS!!!!

Attention Jewel Osco Shoppers

It's official
If you don't bring your Preferred Card, you're just about fucked.
We can attempt to look you up through your drivers licence, or your social security number, but most ppl don't like that.
Here's the kicker
IF WE CAN'T FIND YOU IN OUR SYSTEM, THEN YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE ANY PREFERRED SAVINGS AT ALL!!! WE ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO JUST "PUT IN" A NUMBER FOR YOU.
Trust me, I learned the hard way today.
I signed the paper last week but due to ppl being inconsistant as previously posted, I was still puttin in numbers for ppl. I got my head ripped off today many times. Mostly from the customers, but there were some service desk ppl in my face a few times as well.
I have many issues with this as do you I'm sure, but I'll just sleep on it for now. I just wonder if the president of jewel fell getting out of bed one morning and did a complete 180 degree spin and decided "fuck the customers" or something.
Lesson learned, point made.
If you are coming to Jewel sans PC, I suggest the following
1 - stop at the service desk
2 - go back home and get the fucking thing
3 - be prepared to be completely angered
4 - lose your savings (and btw, you can't just go up to the desk and complain about it either, they won't help you)

Pissed and tired
Melissa

If you need a good laugh, we'll be here for a while...

Hi :)
I was supposed to see a movie tonight with bff, and I had to get all my chores done, which was simply go to the store and then do dishes. Well, I went to the store. I got very excited about everything I was buying and bought the extreme value buy, and I got savings on Avenu :) I was so wrapped up in all that and I forgot to buy stamps. Oh well, I got them later while I was watching dude fix the flat tire I discovered upon my return to the parking lot. Hm, this story isn't making much sense is it? Here's the juice of the story - wake up, eat, go store, buy stuff, forget stuff, discover flat tire. My uncle picked my groceries and I up and took us home. Dude came home after that and we went back to Jewel (sigh, yes Jewel) and spend 3, count 'em, 3 hours changing the retarded tire. Everyone in the store saw us and I went back to go get the stamps while Dude was working on the tire. Then I went back in later for pop for dude and throat things for mom. Everyone was like "how's the tire coming?" Everyone knew it was my car from me being there earlier. Why didn't someone offer to deal with it for me lol. So yeah, Dude fixed tire, put spare on, we go tire barn, spend $600+ on 4 new tires. THEY HAVE BLUE STUFF ON THEM! Oh, and I acted like a baby lol. What's new right? There was like little plastic outdoor stuff for toddlers and I kept crawling up and going down the slide lol. I love being small.
Hyper and Adorable,
Melissa

New stuff!!!

Hey! I updated the weather pixie on here. She's a redhead now. It's too red but oh well. Speaking of new red things, I got a jean jacket today. It's Baby Phat, but I don't care. I have been watching this jacket since about November lol. It was once $100 and I got it for less than half of that lol. It's kewl dark denim with red leather on the shoulders and back.
Someone has suggested that I just call this blog "I hate Jewel" and they are right. Yesterday I worked and one manager told me that we are no longer providing customers with curtesy cards. The other manager was just like "screw it, do it yourself."

Idol last night was awesome! I loved everyone, and I hate Ace so much. I loved Kellie no matter what she did wrong and I don't normally. I will talk more later I hope.
Melissa

confused

Anyone know where I put my Dew?

How about my nametag?

Happy Easter!

Bottoms up!

Melissa

Rain, Jewel, Idol

I'm sitting here trying to enjoy some raspberry tea and it's raining. That's fine, I should put my cup out there to be washed. I washed this cup the other day and apparently the dish washing soap has a new formula that has attached itself to my cup. The tea is great, but the cup makes me wanna barf.
I finally had the chace to go to a team huddle on ... a few days ago. I found out that our store got mystery shopped and the secret shopper came through my line. *Everyone faints cuz they know what stupid things I do.* I AM THE FIRST PERSON ANYONE HAS EVER HEARD OF THAT GOT A PERFECT SCORE FOR MY DEPARTMENT!!! I WAS NICE, I MADE CONVERSATION, I WAS ADORABLE, I RANG THINGS QUICKLY AND OFFERED TO HELP WITH STUFF!!!
I have no clue when this happened, but it will never happen again, I promise. Our Highland store got a 91.7 overall score and we are leading in our district. That's up from our last score of 67. For my hard work, I received lots of recognition (the whole store is kinda buzzing about me, strange) and a $5 gift thing that isn't exactly a gift certificate, but isn't a coupon. I was so excited and I have always wanted to get one of these, but now I have decided it totally sucks. I wanted to buy a lunchable and pay with this "award" but you can't get your remaining change back if you don't use it all. You have to spend the whole $5 at once. It's totally useless to me cuz I don't want to eat my weight in food on break. I wasted 85% of my break dealin with this.
@#$%&!!!!
Yeah, Idol, Bucky bye bye! Queen theme was strange, as were many of the performances.
Ace Young - We Will Rock You - Strange! When Queen basically told him to go fuck himself, I think everyone except Ace knew he was doomed. It might have been slightly good, at least to me and I'm not a fan of his. I liked his outfit as well.
Kellie Pickler - Bohemian Rhapsody - Strange again. Not bad. It's easier to listen to her sing than to watch her do it. Wow?
Chris Daughtry - Innuendo - Unknown song, but he showed range. He almost hit those high notes too!
Katherine McPhee - Who Wants To Live Forever - This was very powerful but she just somehow didn't hold my attention. I really tried to pay attention.
Elliott Yamin - Somebody To Love - I don't know how the hell this dude keeps ending up in the bottom 3. He's quite good,dammit. I also just realized I have been jipping his name out of it's last "T". I think he needs to shave cuz it's just accenting the bad teeth that he can't help. He did the best out of all of them this week and ended up in the bottom. WTF!!!!
Tayler Hicks - Crazy Little Thing Called Love - I don't like him anymore. I haven't truely been that impressed with him or Ace since the semi finals. Yes this was a Taylor-y performance but ... eh
Paris Bennett - The Sow Must Go On - She sang very well actually but she looked fucking horrible, her and Kellie, she and Kellie, Kellie and she, whatever. A friend of mine said she looked too much like Raven for those of you who know who that is. I thought Tina Turner.
Oh well, next week is Rod Stewart's American Song theme. *eyerolls*
Elliot can't find himself in the bottom 3 or I know he will go home. Ace and Taylor need to leave.
Melissa

Brokeback Mountain Dew!!!!!

Am I awesome or what????
Hung out w/ Megan yesterday. We wanted to go bowling, but bowling didn't want us so we went to Borders, where as usual, I was a genius! We got a crazy idea to go wreck my house looking for a video and found one of them but not the one we really wanted. Then we got really daring and went to Blockbuster to get Brokeback Mountain. I was starving for no reason and popped into Subway to get chips and it never occurred to me that it was late. When the dude asked me if I was trying to make a purchase, I looked at him funny and showed him the chips. He said they were closed but let me have the chips for free. Must've thought I was either crazy or high. Both good assumptions.
Saw Brokeback Mt. Good movie. I actually didn't think we would be able to watch it at Meg's house because her sister seemed to have a minor heart attack when she saw it in my hand, but she ended up watching / sleeping through it with us. No problem. I liked it but there was one question I had about the ending. If you don't want a mini spoiler, don't finish reading. My question is - what is the motivation for the widow to tell the other guy that he died by the tire? Is that what she was told or a story she tells to make ppl feel better cuz she knows how he really died? I'm sure the book tells the details. Actually, its just a short story so maybe not. Who knows.
Melissa

Kick

happy song :)

Not much to say. Worked briefly. Nana is being a pain in the ass as usual. I haven't heard from Megan in forever. You know what I wanna do? I wanna go to Six Flags. I think Kt, Me, Caroline, and Meg should go and Care and Meg can do the big kid rides while bff and I go on the carousel and hold their coats. It would be great :) Kind of a dumb plan to go 4 hours away just go to on the stupid tilt-a-whirl or something, but still awesome! new waterpark!!! yaaaaa!

winds

been workin the past few days. yesterday b/c of the wind we lost power three times. i kept getting mad because every time the lights would go out, everyone would moan loudly. getoverit!!! i could still scan items so i was happily workin. the belts stopped though. annoying. the power only went out for about 3 seconds and came back on so...
i am minorly aggrivated with my schedule for next week. i work during idol both tuesday and weds. how purely evil is that. i think something is wrong with one of our cashiers. tonight i work 3-9 and then i open sunday and work 8 hours till 2!!!! ugga
me
ps happy half bday to me!