Overwhelmed!

Oh. My. Word.  *shew*  I am SOOOO tired today.  Christmas night is the night retail stores convert from a "Christmas" theme to "back to normal".  In my store, there was a crew of many people all doing cleanup, and changing things, moving things, etc.  For all those people working, they bring back many many things that can't be sold any longer -- which comes to me.  And so many of them were pulling the recalled things overnight too.  And vendors pulling their seasonal things off the floor to be sent back.  Of course, that doesn't include all the things customers were still bringing back late into Christmas Eve night.  -- WTF?  They opened gifts early perhaps? What a mess it was this morning!  I worked. and worked. and worked. and worked some more to get it all organized up and processed as much as I could.  And probably could have done more -- if I wasn't interrupted all day long with unnecessary questions. 

Lets just say "Overwhelmed" was the word of the day!!

One of the frustrations in what I do is that everyone assumes that I'm the "clean up act" and anything needing to be cleaned up falls under me.  A case of bathroom cleaner with bleach broke open, bottles leaking everywhere -- and what do they do?  put it in a plastic bag and leave it for claims. Bleach, being a corrosive, didn't stay contained in the plastic bag, of course.  So it was all over the floor -- waiting for me to clean up at 6am.

Some of the things brought to me are not returnable to vendors, so it ends up in the trash.  Someone overnight decided to toss out some pieces of wood - that were much to big for the compactor to handle, so they wedged in sideways.  And people who tossed in garbage after that, it just sat there, all blocked up and no where to go.  So .... yep... you guessed it, I was "workin' the garbage" for a good chunk of my day.

An MOD - (manager of the day) - now they're supposed to have an idea what to do with stuff, and give employees correct directions, directed a fast food restaurant employee to bring the empty CO2 soda carbonators from the restaurant to me.  Um, nu uhh, that's a hazardous container, empty or not, it cannot be tossed in the trash.  I told him to take it back up front, he should get "swap out credit" from his vendor.  But why did the MOD tell him to bring it to me in the first place?  Sheesh -- get a clue, pal!

I have a mountain of work waiting for me -- and much more will be added tonight, I'm sure.  But my priority tonight was to leave promptly at 3, and come home to Sadie, who'd been cooped up inside all day.  She makes me smile, coming home to her is a joy!  I took her to the park for a long walk, and just finished up dinner.  (I didn't share my glass of wine with her, though. hehehe) 

I'm hoping for a better day tomorrow :) :)