Okay, started the day like any other work day, so skipping past the unnecessary same ol' details of the morning, getting straight to work. Today, asked boss lady what she'd like me to work on, as I was thinking of working out stationary because it still had yet to be touched, but she told me to work crafts (vases, frames and candles), but there wasn't much there, not really so I didn't understand why that. But looking at what was left for housewares and HBC, she added those to the list, but to start with HBC and get all that done and whatever time I had left go to the other sections. I knew already I wouldn't have any time to do anything else, while I did knock out much of it days before I still had a lot, and much of that were things that had to be unwrapped from plastic, so tedious and slow. I got everything on a u-boat that I knew for sure I could put out then went to it.
First thing I pick up off the u-boat when getting out to my isle was a case of bodywash, opened it up, started to remove them, putting several in the emtpy space I made on the shelf, but noticing what looked like icky stuff on the bottoms of them, thought it was dried up goo from a leaky one (figured I'd find it soon enough). I pull out another one from the box...WTF! Wait a moment, not good enough...WTF!!!!! Maggots!? Huh? Eeew! Gross! A huge pile of white squirmy things were all at the bottom center of the box. Then I went to grab the ones I put on the shelf to put them back in the box and my hand brushes against more that must've fallen off of the bottom of the bodywash bottles and were crawling around on the shelf. Okay, I think the boss should see this. So I go around to the next isle where she was working on the pet supplies and being that there was a customer in my isle I just calmly whispered to her that I opened up a box of bodywash and there are maggots all in there. She's like, What!?
So she comes back around with me and sees the big pile that had spread out across the carpet and totally grossed out storms over and grabs some roach & ant killer spray. I tell her, I won't be able to handle it if you use that. She said I didn't have to, that she would. And even with customer standing there, she starts spraying all over the place, the box with the product, not really getting the critters at the bottom, just the tops of the bodywashes, and then the floor around it. I had to back up into the receiving area the poisonous vapors were too strong. Customer just continued to shop, didn't seem to bother her at all. So once the air was somewhat clear I rush out passed that isle via another and grab my u-boat hauling it to the front HBC isle to start working there instead. Then I discover more of these crawlies on top of another box, left overs apparently from the one they'd come from. So I take a closer look. Oh, these aren't maggots, they're termites! Silly me. Duh, cardboard, chemical product, not food, why would they be fly larvae. So I tell my boss. Yeah, from quick glance and not close enough, these little white bugs appeared to be squirming around, but in fact have legs and jaws and were eating the cardboard.
So we went to the back and just as I thought once I knew what they were, yep, all over the wooden palette as well. Boss lady took care of the box bringing that out back outside, I lifted up the palette and dragged that out so they don't decide to set up house in any of the other ones. Then went back to working. Of coarse now the carpet where I would soon need to go back to put out other stuff now has pesticide all over it, wonderful. I made a mistake not taking a closer look at first and going to her because she overreacted spraying like that, but anyway, don't need a termite infestation in the building either. Bad enough we got beetles crushed everywhere when we suddenly had an invasion from them a few weeks ago, damn things stink too. Anyway, so I continued to work, but at one point my boss calls me to the back, she had the back door opened and asked me if I could get some paper towels and the spic 'n span, okay, I knew what she was going to do. I thought at first when she sprayed down the merchandise that what a waste, but yep, just as I thought, she was going to clean them off now. O-kay. Not my doing. After she came back in with the batch of cleaned off bodywashes, gave them to me to put out. Eh, I think, I think I'll wait until I get to the perfume and am wearing gloves for this, I can't trust they're cleaned off well enough. As I said earlier, mistake that I even mentioned it to her, bosses sometimes go too far with how they do things. This is a hair and body cleaning product, granted maybe no pesticide got inside, but I wouldn't want to take my chances, I guess I'm just paranoid, didn't help that I had vertigo years ago and since have a fear of most chemicals, especially ones made to kill. This goes to show, never know what you are buying, what its been exposed to before you get it.
It still amazes me how pesticide happy so many people are, back when I worked as a cashier at my last job in North Carolina one time one of the stock guys was up front and a wasp came in and started flying around him, he freaked and grabbed bug spray and started spraying it everywhere in the air, and get this, the only person that moved away was me. But did he get the wasp, nope, it flew away somewhere. Only thing he got was himself standing amidst the vapor cloud and any other people, working and customers nearby oblivious to the toxicity they were inhaling. Another time while working there I was put on a register closer to the service desk and suddenly one of the ladies started spraying the air without giving me a warning, just over one lousy fly, I moved quickly but got a large gulp of the air, started coughing and wheezing right away. Went to the restroom to wash my face and eyes and still coughing up what I inhaled, even rinsed my hair. My eyes were all red and messed up the rest of the night, and made sure to give her dirty looks for trying to kill me because I didn't get any apologies or anything. I always tell people, there are other poisonous things that aren't quite as deadly that could be used, spray with any strong household cleaner, it'll do the job pretty well too because insects unlike us rely on breathing through pores along their body, those get blocked and they'll eventually suffocate.
Not much else noteworthy happened today, crazy customers as it picked up after lunch time, I couldn't wait to get out of there. After work I picked up a few things we needed (aluminum foil, some pans so I can make pork chops or chicken in the oven later, another pair of gloves for work since mine had holes now in almost all of the fingertips) with the last little bit of money I had, got less than a dollar left to me until Friday. Got home, showered, grabbed my thawing bowl of fruit out of the fridge that I didn't have time to eat for breakfast (my dog is such a pain in the morning, takes too long with doing her business outside), sat down and ate that while answering messages here. Took dog out, played with her for a little bit, sat down, turned on Berryz Koubou playlist on Youtube (I hadn't listened to any music at all for over a week, so its good that I am, fun stuff to listen to keeps me feeling good even when not), typed up this entry.
My apartment complex is renovating the building exteriors, they just started our building today, will probably be at it for a week and a half or two. New siding, as well as replacing any old rotted wood underneath and any balconies that are lopsided, what this means, next year we probably won't be able to afford living here anymore, at least the minimum wage will have gone up by then, not that it'll do much good. At least they're finally doing something, place was starting to really look run down. Hope they fill in that big gap at ground level, I'm sure once the siding is off it'll be easily seen and into our apartment. Oh, added note, there were two guys on our porch this afternoon, Snickers wasn't too comfortable with that, she barked at them and I saw they one of them was trying to say something to me, so I opened the sliding glass door to hear what he was saying, he asked if my dog was going to go Cujo on him and break through the glass. Hahaha.
Good one. This little thing, nah, just protecting her home and me.
Oh, suddenly remember, last week my mom hollers out to me, Meg, what is this! Looks like a worm! I come out from the kitchen where I was and into the living room and see this dark slim long thing crawling across the carpet. I get down close to examine it, huh? Looks like a really large millipede. I watched it appearing to crawl slowly along in a wide 'S' path, still can't tell really what it is. I was trying to see if it had legs or antennae, the body looks segmented but couldn't tell because it didn't sit still and was so slim, and only like maybe two of my fingers long (5-6 inches perhaps at most). Then I blocked it with my hand to keep it from getting away, and the way it curled up my mom said Meg, I think that's a snake! Watch out, in case it tries to bite you. Yeah, now I see it, the scales and the small tapering triangular head. It was trying to get away from my hand and crawl down into the carpet threads. I told my mom to get me a tall glass so I can capture it and bring it outside because it was squirming around a lot now. She comes back with a small glass. Oh, come on mom, a large glass! They're all dirty. Uh, I don't think the snake is going to care if its not washed. Too late, it escaped my clutches, I lost sight of it in our too dim apartment lighting, lost within the meadow of carpet threads. Never did see it again, maybe it found its way out via that crack running along the edge of our floor to the outside or perhaps it'll feed itself off of whatever ants we have, and a later time we see it, it'll have grown big enough to eat us!
Oh noes! Hahaha
If anyone can tell from reading this post, I'm feeling okay today. This is where friends play a big part in my life, thank you.
