I used to work at a small grocery store in a very tourism driven town. At the store I worked a shift with what we called the ‘Zillennial Crew’, because literally all of us, including the manager, are under the age of 24. Earlier this week someone hit an electric pole with their car and knocked out the power for almost the entire town. This happened at about 5 pm which is two and a half hours before the store closes. The store’s backup generator kept things alive for about ten minutes, then everything went kaput. Everything except one check stand, at least. We think it had some kind of battery back up. Only half of it was working though: the cashier screen with the buttons, the cash drawer, and the receipt printer. No barcode scanner, no produce scale, no card reader. When the manager called the big boss (who was actually very mad at the manger for calling because it interrupted his golf session) he was told and I quote: “Since you still have a working check stand, you need to keep the store open until at least 6.” Needless to say, myself and the rest of the crew weren’t too happy about that, but the big boss threatened to fire us if we didn’t, so we tried to make the best of it. Since I’d been assigned to the half working check stand before the outage and the manager didn’t have a key to open the other cash drawers, I was going to have to check.
After some brainstorming with the manager, I figure out how to manually put in grocery items and the rest of the crew man the automatic doors and search for flashlights. The set up was something like this:
- 2 people at the doors informing people of what was happening.
- Customers without cash were immediately turned away.
- Customers were advised to have some form of light to navigate the store but we did have a few spare flashlights they could borrow.
- Customers told to not open freezer/cooler doors until they were ready to make their selection.
- Customers told to take a picture of every item’s price tag and show the pictures to me.
I did that for an hour. On top of all that craziness, there were about a dozen alarms going off across the store because none of the coolers were on (a system meant to help ID if a cooler has stopped working, but not very helpful during a power outage). So there were a dozen or so loud, blaring, shrill beeps going off almost constantly. The entire hour. 6 o’clock finally comes around, and right on cue, my check stand dies.
I immediately break down crying. I cannot form words. T
... keep reading on reddit ➡I couldn't believe my eyes when I woke up this morning. Servers down. Again. With a hearty sigh, I again had to turn around and face the outside world. Because of this downtime, I began to pick up the dirty tissues from beside my desk. I washed the week old dishes I'd left on the floor. Blizzard even FORCED me to get rid of my half-empty monster energy drink pyramid. If the servers don't get back up soon, I'm going to have to clean away my piss bottle collection. This better be fixed ASAP
PC shutdown accidentally because of a power outage, I have no AVR installed yet. No problems so far when checking my apps, any tips where to check for issues or to diagnose my pc?
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I'm in Texas and my area had the water shut down for a day. Now it's back on but we're on a boil water notice until at least Monday. I'm taking no chances having had skin infections before, so I'm washing my face with bottled water and Evian was the only thing left in the store.
Tell my why my skin feels so amazing?! Honestly, it feels so supple and moisturized. I don't use that many products anyway, just Vanicream face wash and Vanicream moisturizer, and some diluted tea tree oil for a toner. But oh my goodness, my skin feels incredible! I may never go back!
I'm seriously considering making room in my budget for for this.
What do you think is causing this? Is it the minerals in the Evian? Or the lack of minerals from the city water?
I read the book when I was about 12 years old and I can only remember the one part where the girl eats a big bag of chocolate chips and her mom yells at her for being so selfish.
