Around 4:40 at work we noticed that multiple coolers were down--where all the bacon/lunch meat/cheese; the milk/creamer; half and half and cream cheese and soft cheese; eggs; and fresh meat. Also the meat and dairy coolers for backstock. All down. So it was a race to get them covered, but it was just me and my team lead until one of the front end guys wandered by and offered to help. As we were blocking off the meat and trying to keep the cool air in people were coming up and trying to shop around us and kind of argue about things... we explained there was a power outage and we were trying to trap the cool air and they couldn't buy anything. Caution tape was used to tie /secure the doors to the milk cooler and when the front end guy and I were trying to get the really long cheese/lunch meat cooler blocked off people kept trying to buy stuff. Even after it was all covered in plastic I caught woman ripping the tape loose where we had taped 2 sections together to get something out---that was in the section that still had power but I had to tell her that because it was blocked off she couldn't buy it. She seemed surprised that it was blocked for a reason and not just like that.

Most people were nice but some got an attitude. And one guy kept circling around like an aimless shark for ... I dunno how long seemed like forever, maybe 20 mins. I finally told him that we didn't have a technician on site and even if they were to get here and fix it immediately we'd still have to check the temperatures on everything to see if it was safe and I had no idea if it was able to stay at a safe temp. At some point he stopped his circling and left.

When I left at 6 they were still waiting on someone to come repair it and I'm not sure we were able to keep things below 40F, just because we weren't sure how long it had been out and it did take some time to get things covered.

Thankfully I'm off tomorrow so I don't have to deal with that. It will be bad if the dairy cooler didn't stay cool, everything will have to be thrown out and while we were trying to get the eggs and meat covered people kept coming up and opening the doors and then just staring. No one seemed to notice the lights were out.

Several weeks ago they had to reject a milk shipment because it was too warm and it took us about a week to finally get stocked back up in milk. I'm not sure what is going to happen if we have to lose

Laura, how much pressure does it usually take to convince hospital administrators that an employee without an advanced degree is more trouble than continuing to employ them is worth? I'm considering taking up a new hobby.

Oh dear, Matt. That doesn't sound good. Unfortunately, most health care facilities have such severe staffing shortages that they will put up with employees long after they should be let go. It may help to be noisy about it though!

I have dithered and put off Leaving the House for hours now. SIGH

Ow. Y’all I managed to slice my finger with a mandoline yesterday. Took a chunk off my cuticle mostly but owwwwwww. It’s not too bad until I accidentally bump it and then owwwwwwww.

Sends little kiss to the boo boo. I'm sorry. So annoying.

Yikes, meara!

I am headed to ltc’s kid party at a loud, bright bowling owl with a migraine. Send all the get through this ~ma, please.

Hive mind: what am I tipping the party host for an hour and a half children’s party when the host did the party set up and pretty much keeps the schedule moving?

Timelies all!

Sigh...life with Mr. S continues to be challenging. We had had 3 nights without meltdowns, then he got disregulated last night while with Gary and ended up a mile and a half down the road.(I had to go pick them up) Right now they're at the creek in the park behind our house, trying to catch fish. (We do not have a tank or fish food, so the fish he catches do not last long. Why does he do it? Dunno.)

Fingers, especially near the nail base, can be really sensitive.

The outage sounds pretty annoying, askye, as do the customers.

I survived the party. The kids had a blast and now I’m going to take my migraine to a quiet, dark room.