September 26, 2014

Prompt: Write about a weird day in your workplace.

There was a day we had gotten a lot of snow and I had to go in for work. I'm a cashier at a fairly small grocery store, but we close for nothing. We were open on Thanksgiving and Christmas even. I always work Sundays and they're fairly busy because everyone goes shopping after church. This day, church had actually been called off because of the amount of snow we had received. So we never really had much of a rush like we'd usually have.

Most of us cashiers just hung out up front. We'd been a little short staffed because one girl had gotten sick and one of the guys couldn't show up because of all of the snow and ice. Even with us having half of the normal amount of checkers, we had too much free time. We had a rubber band war when there weren't any customers. Later in the day we'd decided it was cold and we were all getting pretty hungry.

The manager who usually works the night shift is the youngest one and she's really laid back. Her and another one of the higher up girls had gone back to our deli and used to oven to fix a frozen pizza. All of us checkers begged them to fix us a pizza too. They agreed to as long as we bought it. I'm sure we weren't supposed to be doing that at all, but it wasn't busy at all. The few people that would come in wouldn't buy much, so we decided to make the most of what could have been a boring day. Between the rubber band wars, dancing, pizza, and all the other crazy things that went on that day, I'd have to say that was one of the strangest days of "work" I've ever had.