Stories V

November 18, 2010: Stories V

November 16, 2010: Boss Once Again

This job is not all light work with frosting and cake.  There is some real heavy lifting that has to be done with all the frozen boxes.  It can wear on a body over time.  That is what happened to my boss.  He had done too much heavy lifting and his back was bothering him.  He had been to all kinds of physical therapy but now it was necessary for him to get a cortisone injection to ease his pain.  He was going to be out for several days so it was now time for me to take over the ranks once again.

The full time workers were not happy that I had been put in charge considering that they technically had more status than me, but I was the only one who knew what to do in the department the way that the manager wanted it to be.  There was going to be a bit more stress than usual with holiday preparations underway.  One of the workers had a panic attack thinking of all that had to be done until I told her to just shut up and do the work and we would all be fine in the end.  The day consisted of making fruit tarts - 9" cream shelled pastries with loads of real fruit on the top.  Then it was time to break out some pies.

The pies that we had received all came in in a gigantic frozen truck that is stationed outside of the store along with all the holiday turkeys.  My luck was that the pies were in the very back corner of the 25 foot trailer buried behind pallets of turkey with no jack to move them.  It was time to go Indiana Jones...I climbed, I crawled, boxes crashed to the trailer floor, boxes crushed underneath me.  I finally was getting close to the back of the trailer and one more surprise-the pies were directly below the refrigeration fan.  The closer I got the colder I got.  My eyes were tearing up from the severe blast of cold to the face.  I reached down and grabbed several cases of pies and went out of the freezer.  Two more sets of this exact journey and we had enough pies and I felt illness coming on.  Happy early Thanksgiving everyone.  Enjoy your pie and crushed turkey.

Until Next Time.

Stay Sweet,

Lil' Buddy