The plantains in rice (in the crock pot) are a game changer. They are great for taking my medication as well.
I have some pork chops and a ton of vegetables in the crock pot that will cook all day while I'm working.
My schedule is pretty rough this week, a lot of "daily doubles" as I call them, work a night, come in early the next day. I'll make it. I am paying for 2 rides home this week.
I rode home with someone who has the ear of the boss. I told her 2 things: 1. I like working 11-8 that would be great (boss wants that too) and 2. I don't care which days I have off but 2 together in the middle of the week would be great (everyone wants the weekend).
Sunday work was pretty crazy as expected. One thing I don't like about retail - the customer can be the rudest, most verbally abusive, and disrespectful customer and we are just supposed to take it with a smile. The customer really thinks they can come in and treat us like crap just because we wear a uniform. And management has the attitude we have to take it with a smile.
Sometimes, I think, you need to set boundaries, especially with the younger generation. Take Valentine's candy for instance. We had some Saturday, none yesterday. Someone comes up to me "Gimme candy" "Sorry we're out". "I know you have some, give it to me!" "We're out!" "Go check in the back" "I'm sorry we are out" "Well (cue verbal abuse)"
In a realistic situation we would be able to say "Hey, that's not alright, cut it out" and, if it continued, have them thrown out of the store. But, at my store at least, it has to be the most egregious abuse before they will step in.
I had an incident some time ago. I found a customer opening packages and taking things out. I said, very nicely, "Ma'am, please don't open the packages" She went off on me cursed me out, shouted at me, etc. Then she went and found my boss, said "I was rude". She came to me (thankfully not with the customer) and took the customer's side even though I explained she was opening packages (we are supposed to stop them). So I got it twice.
How likely am I to stop the next customer?
The customer has learned they can be as abusive as they want, all they have to do is say "The associate was rude" and the associate gets in trouble. "I want to cash this phony check for $10K" "Sorry we can't do that" "Management he was rude to me" (associate gets in trouble) "Sorry you still can't cash the check".
Side note that same customer came back a week or two later, tried to check out with a $130 stroller. She had gotten a barcode somewhere for a 50 cents part from hardware and had it stuck on the box. I was assigned to "help her with a price check" as security caught it. She kept pointing at "her" barcode. I scanned it and saw it was not the item. I took it off (boy was she mad about that) and scanned the correct one, which was $130. I recognized her so I was very cheerful. There were lots of witnesses. So she couldn't say anything about me. But she tried, later, to get the stroller for $70 I heard her talking to another associate. She did not get it. She is stupid because if you pull something like that I'm certain you go in a database with facial recognition.
We have a system that does facial recognition on everyone who walks in the store and flags known troublemakers, alerts security.
I'll put up the recipe later but I made roast pork with apples, plantains, lime, and some vegetables. It turned out very well.
I plan to cook up stir fry meat (diced boneless pork chops) tonight and freeze that, then I can thaw it, cook with stir fry vegetables. I have to cook it by the 18th.
I don't freeze raw meat, only cooked and ideally in a meal. So the meat will be done at least then I can add whatever veggie sounds good. I will also pan fry some pork chops with gravy and of course make an unseasoned one for Cleo.
I also have 10 pounds of chicken. I plan to make a chicken paprikash with half and then maybe a Tikka masala with the other half.
That's it for now!
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