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Monday, November 13, 2023

Where Teddy Was Shot

Back on November 3rd and 4th I spent my workdays at a conference in downtown Milwaukee for my new job. I can't speak to any after-hours activities, but as to the conference itself: far duller, with much less swag handed out, than the hospitality conferences I attended back in Days of Olde. 

Not the point of this post tho.

 Just inside the doors of the hotel was this plaque, marking the spot where a would be assassin in my hometown shot Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. I'd known of the attempt all my life, but unless my memory has gone kaput this was the first time I ever stood on the same ground. 





Saturday, November 11, 2023

More Office Decorating

This morning Smiley joined me in transporting a lot of items from my storage unit down to my office, with Lisa paying a co-worker to load up his truck with my couch, mirrored coat rack and chairs while my Mazda was filled with the odds and ends you see here. 



I gotta admit, getting that couch up 2.5 flights dang near killed me and that was with Smiley doing 65% of the lifting.  My word. 


The office is nowhere near finished, but it IS improving  . . . 

Sunday, November 5, 2023

Office Decorating

Junie took a road trip with me to my office, as I have started to bring in some personal effects to brighten up the place - note the bird clock, moon globe, and Smiley's 2010 Father's Day gift on the top of the bookcase, along with my new (to me) Keurig. 


Wednesday, September 27, 2023

An Unlikely Coincidence

So get this: there's pouring rain and a heavy fall thunderstorm Tuesday morning. About a quarter mile from work I see a car, facing the wrong direction, in a ditch. I pull over, pause to regret my decision, then run back to the other car to ask them if anyone is hurt.

There's woman and her two teens in the car. They're fine and there was no accident; she said she pulled over because it's her kids school bus stop but went too far and slid into the ditch.

The rear passenger wheel was a good foot off the ground. I told her she'd need a tow but we could try one time to push it out, thinking maybe she was hung up on something.


Like all teens, her boy wouldn't get out of the car to help until she yelled at him. He was content with sitting and watching. Not that it mattered. Pushing it didn't work. It made things worse, and with the tire now a foot higher I could see the drivers side tires were buried in mud.

But get this . . .the woman says "Are you Dan?"

It was Jackie S--, a friend of Lisa's that I've met a few times, and a former almost-stepmom of my nephew and nieces. 

Small world. Too unbelievable to write down if this was fiction, for sure.

Anyway, a guy pulled over, told us he worked down the road and would return with a chain to pull her out.

Good deed (unsuccessfully) accomplished, I headed to work, completely soaked.

Update - ok so it was simultaneously NOT so unbelievable, but also more so. It turns out she called me by name because she thought I was answering her call for help. Not in a general way, she was literally texting me asking to come help. Apparently she lives out there and Lisa gave her my # and told her to reach out in a pinch. Which was fine, if one of them hadn't transposed two of the digits.

So she thought she was texting me but wasn't. And I happened to pass by and stop randomly. Yes, I know it was the road to work but I was coming from that direction only because of a Pokestop along the way lol
 


Thursday, September 7, 2023

Lunch with Nolan and Throh

Recently Smiley pressured me to download and start playing Pokémon Go again, as he and YaYa are pretty avid fans. I acquiesced and brought up my old Level 5 account from 2016 - which was really Smiley's at the time, because he was too young for a phone - and I've already advanced to level 20 in a short time. 

Today at work I took lunch on the patio with Nolan, and look who decided to join us - my boi Throh!



Thursday, August 24, 2023

Today's Drive

My ride into work at 6:30ish A.M


And my ride home at around 4pm - given that this two lane road is itself the detour route (putting me an extra 4 miles out each way) I inched along the edge of the drainage ditch, through some of the branches, to get through. 

Monday, February 27, 2023

Nolan For the WIn

When something frustrating or unusual happens at work I say "Dear Diary . . .," as if I'm going to record it for posterity. 

Today my friend Nolan gave me a lift to the bus stop after work, as Lulu had borrowed my car.  I don't remember what he did, but I started to say the catchphrase when he interrupted:

"Dear Diary, this journal is full.  Shut the F--K up."

I broke out laughing. LOL

Sunday, January 29, 2023

How to Tip Your Server

Smiley couldn't dig his car out of the snow in time for work so I drove him this morning. Cut ahead eight hours. I had to take the exchange kids to the mall. Rather than keep going back and forth I went to his restaurant and had coffee to wait out the hour until he was off. 

He gave me the check. $3.10, and I gave him a twenty dollar bill. 

"Do you need change?" he asked

"No. Take $6.90 as a tip and put ten towards the garbage bags you bought for us." I said. 

"The garbage bags were fifteen," he responded. 

"Ok. Then take $1.90 as a tip and fifteen for the bags"

LOL










Friday, January 27, 2023

Moments that Have Altered my Brain While Working at McDonald's - by Junie

 Moments while working at McDonald’s that have definitely altered my brain 


1. The time I spilled a 2.5 gallon bag of Caramel frappe mix and my manager tried to clean it up and then spilt another 2.5 gallon bag of mocha frappe mix
2. The time a guy refused to go pull up into the parking spot and so my coworker was instructed to just go outside and wait with the food in the parking lot until he pulled up and got it
3. When I got an order for 32 cents.
4. The time a guy and his wife pulled up to the first window where I was working and asked me if id ever been to chipotle and when I lied and said no he asked if id ever been to qudoba and then proceeded to call me a bitch after I said no again 
5. When a guy came into the drive thru PLASTERED and his eyes were so bloodshot that I thought he was blind and I proceeded to defend him to my coworker who said he was drunk until I realized..that you can’t drive if you’re blind 
6. When I spent the entire shift being made fun of by my coworkers for liking Taylor swift 
7. When my family wanted food for the fireworks and so I ordered a big order and spent 20 mins packing it up just to walk into the lobby and have the bag break. I spent 5 mins picking up nuggets and fries off the ground 
8. When my manager picked up a customers dollar off of the ground and it had cocaine folded into it
9. When I was taking orders and started the order with “what do you want.” on accident
10. When my coworker shit herself 
11. When my coworker pissed herself 2x
12. When my coworker pissed herself and then sat in it for the rest of her shift
13. When said unpottytrained coworker made my other coworker cry because she refused to stand up and take orders bcuz of her “knees” even tho my other coworker literally walks with a walker and STILL stands for orders 😭
14. When one of my older coworkers saw a customer (who was male) with nail polish on and ranted to me about how it was disgusting and vile and weird and how angry it made me and how “only women should do that”
15. When I had an argument w my coworker about abortion after seeing a roe v wade protest 
16. My manager getting into a fight with this old dude because he wanted to sit in the lobby when it was closed followed by him screaming that she was ableist (??)
17. When I had to serve my best friend’s ex and they asked if she hated her ( she did )
18. When the line during a Night Shift was so long and stagnant because one of the cars wasn’t moving and we were all wondering why and then my manager went outside to check what was going on and the driver of the car was KNOCKED OUTTTT asleep and he had to wake him up 😭😭
19. My coworker throwing ice down my shirt while I was doing dishes

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

The Craziest Things

Junie asked me the craziest things that happened when I was a waitress many years ago and they're kinda neat so I thought I'd share here.

1. Serving my now husband breakfast at Webbs and 30 min after meeting him declaring, "I'm going to have to marry you" Just call him Nostradamus. 

2. When I burnt E. Michael McCann's toast during the Jeffrey Dahmer trial because I DID recognize him and I was awe struck. For those unaware he was Milwaukee County District Attorney from
 1969 – 2007

- Lisa

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

More Gunfire on the Freeway

I got to work almost 90 minutes later than normal this morning,  after the Sheriff's department closed 94W due to a suspected shooting. Alas, I was already on my way when the order came down. 

Why anyone would shoot a gun on the freeway, and why this has recently become the fad du jour, escapes the reasoning skills of my feeble little brain. 

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Question

would you be upset seeing me as your funeral director 🧍🏻‍♀️ would my piercings bother you? 
yes or no - LuLu

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Attack of the (ineffective) November Hornets!

It is November 10th, 2022, and I spent my lunch sitting on the patio at work, blissfully enjoying a 74 degree day. 

That alone is remarkable: November, almost mid-November, and it is warm enough in Wisconsin to sit outside without a coat or long sleeves. Wow. 

(Although a cold front is moving in that will restore us to a stereotypical November by this time tomorrow),

Alas, my meal featured numerous attacks by hornets, also a rare sight this late in the year, hornets who seemed as irked by their unusually extended life as I was. 

This guy in the picture was unusually aggressive, refusing multiple efforts to thwart his advance on my drink. In fit of manly courage I swatted him, knocking him to the ground, then stepped on him. Sometimes a 700x size advantage helps. 

Immediately, however, his buddy dive bombed me, looking for payback. I swung my plate at him, meeting him halfway. There was an audible "thonk," like a tennis ball hitting a racket, and no more was seen of the pesky but loyal-to-his-brethren hornet. 

So endeth the tale.



Friday, October 7, 2022

An Unexpected Bonus

Here's an unexpected bonus from my bird feeder at work. The local chipmunks made a habit of stealing sunflower seeds, dropped by the birds, and burying them in the big pots on the patio. These pots, I'm told, have not (intentionally) held plants since Covid broke out.  

Apparently chipmunks have short memories, because these seeds, instead of becoming chipmunk din-din, started to grow. 


And now, by virtue of my bird feeder, I have grown pots full of sunflowers that now grace the patio! LOL

Friday, September 23, 2022

My birdies

One of the best things about my new job - aside from the pay, sunlight, weekends off, and respect - is that I petitioned to install a bird feeder outside my window, putting a wealth of birds three feet from me most of the day. There are masses of sparrows, the rare red winged blackbird appearance, cardinals, and a group of mourning doves that now entertain me daily.  There's even some bumblebees that bobble around the flowers next to it. 

I love it!