Yesterday was my first, well technically my second day I was opening dairy clerk at work since I came back from my most recent knee injury (not counting the other one because it was only 4 hours). Monday is one of the toughest days to open for because it is a 2 day wall load (yogurt, cheese and everything that isn't covered by the milk load) and I get in most of my add items making my load more like a 4 day load. Of course things tended to go from bad to worse the very second I actually walked in. My section was a complete train wreck with holes everywhere and nothing faced up. Sunday is a repack day so it should be an easy day but since my store gets so much business at night the night time checkers who sometimes function as backup dairy clerk often do not have enough time to be back there when the store gets busy.

I intended to do juice first but they just had to pick this day of all days to teach me how to order milk which is pretty much the only thing I still didn't know how to do. I knew how to order for a wall load but still not milk. I have to tell you while ordering milk is not nearly as hard as I thought it was going to be to say it is a pain in the ass is an understatement. It requires me to count literally everything that is both on the shelf and in the cooler and write it all down which is extremely tedious, boring and takes FOREVER. It took me a good solid hour to write all that down and I tried to tell them that I wasn't sure if I got this one right but the numbers were all entered in the computer anyway which makes me hope I didn't fuck that particular one up too bad because I wasn't even sure what in the hell that particular product was supposed to be.

After that was done I had a mess of empty milk crates to clean up in the cooler that I had to keep trying not the trip over when I was ordering the damn milk load for the next day. I keep telling the backup dairy clerk not to leave a bunch of empty milk crates all over the floor and there is even a sign on the cooler door telling them that but

THEY DON'T LISTEN!!!

This is both extra work for whoever the opening dairy clerk is which was me and is a safety hazard because I can't even begin to tell all of you how many times I almost tripped over those things.

After that was done I took my first break and got back to work. I had to borrow a bunch of juice from a display that is on add and had to rebuild that entire end by replacing 2 shelves with yogurt so we wouldn't have a giant hole. Luckily I had some help for a little while. he filled the juice which was great until all these customers kept appearing out of nowhere and we both got stuck in the torture chamber/checkstands. Whatever moron thought it was a good idea to make dairy clerks backup checkers really needs to be slapped. I was up there for so much that I wasn't even able to finish filling the eggs before I had to go to lunch.

I was back from lunch and there were still these rushes that kept coming out of nowhere while I was trying to fill what repack we had while I was still waiting on my load which was at that point around 2 hours late. I look at the invoice and find out that 356 cases (not including the add items which would really add up to at least 600 cases) were ordered for that day which I guess looking at the holes and the lack of product in the back wasn't much of surprise. I could of course understand the need to go big but what pissed me off is that this had to be done because not nearly enough was ordered for Saturdays load.

So 1 o clock rolls around and my load finally shows up give or take about 3 or 4 hours late. It takes a while for the load to be delivered so by time I had everything broken down it was around 2:30 or so. Because the warehouse are too lazy to actually do things right a lot of the product that came in was damaged so there was a bunch of stuff that was in produce crates all stacked up in a watermellon box. I decided I was not going to worry about that at all because I didn't have time to anyway. I was able to stock some of the load before I got there and fill the milk but I am sorry to say didn't have enough time for anything else. So the opening dairy clerk for today is going to walk into an even worse mess than I did yesterday. I do work today but was originally slated to check expiration dates of course given the situation I explain I will probably have to help the opener catch up so she can write an accurate order for Wednesday.