You know Suzicate was right. Shame for taking delight in another’s misery. I made fun of my co-worker slipping on a piece of turkey. Like the saying goes, what comes around, goes around.
This week, I’m working in the frozen department. No its not for punishment but to cover the Daniel the freezer clerk who usually does frozen because he’s going on vacation. Working in the frozen department mainly consists of stocking the ice, filling ice cream and frozen dinners to the freezer. I work with a jacket and gloves in negative temperatures. It’s a job that requires me to wake up at 4 AM and work til 12 PM. It’s one thing to do frozen but to wake up at 4 in the morning to do so, makes me cranky…
I open the freezer doors and its cold. I see a pallet of frozen pizzas stacked about 3 boxes high, 9 deep and they’re stacked on top of a bunch of frozen dinners. The pizzas are leaning and since its the early morning, I’m not thinking right nor am I careful. I’m trying to push the pizza boxes back to the other side so the weight is distributed evenly and then for what ever reason the pizzas start sliding back towards me! I’m trying to hold up about 9 full boxes of frozen pizza, when my arm gave up causing pizza boxes to fall all over me.
Since its an accident at work I had to report it because of the bruise on my cheek, otherwise I would have played it off like nothing ever happened…
Supervisor CD: What happen?
Me: Some boxes fell on me.
Supervisor CD: How?
Me: Not sure.
Supervisor CD: What fell on you?
Me: Pizza…
Supervisor CD: HAHAHAHAHA!
Gotta love CD, he always has a sense of humor…
Me: …
Supervisor CD: I’m just messing with you man!
Me: So are we done?
Supervisor CD: Yeah, you might want to put something cold on that bruise of yours.
Me: Oh let me guess, pizza?
Supervisor CD: HAHAHA!
About a few hours go by and Supervisor CD sees me stocking the frozen dinners…
Supervisor CD: Hey, what should I get for lunch?
Me: I dunno…
Supervisor CD: How bout some pizza?
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That will be “the joke” for awhile, right?
Gosh, I don’t even like getting up when it’s 60 degrees! I can imagine how you feel!!
@Alicia
It totally overlap the deli turkey incident. Pizza falling on you is a lot funnier, I guess.
I would hate working all day in a freezer, a half hour would be about all I could handle.
Secretia
@Secretia
I don’t know how well girls would do in the freezer plus it wouldn’t look right. Doesn’t something happen to girls in the cold?
Nothing much more fun than being the butt of someone’s joke.
@Lorelei
Indeed but it’s all good fun. I’ve worked with CD for 4 or so years so I’m trying to go back in time to see what I can dig up on him.
hahaha karma. how’s that bruise healing, Paul?
@Sharon
Nothing like a face only a mother could love =P
As a good friend of mine likes to say “That’ll learn ya!” I’m with CD… HAHAHAHA j/k Gotta be able to laugh at yourself and I see you can do that. Funny post!
@Peg
CD’s great to work with. We gotta make light of things sometimes.
I told you it always comes back to bite you in the @$$, at least it does me. I’m NOT laughing at you…just stopping by to see if you’d like to go get some pizza! Thanks for the shout out!
@Suzicate
Ha! Suzicate, always a pleasure to have you put me in my place. Sure, are you paying?
I used to stock a gas station cooler. That was my whole job. I couldn’t imagine spending all that time in a FREEZER. No thank you.
@Justin
Ah, the cooler is just a tad warmer than the freezer but you get the idea.
I haven’t had decent pizza in two years. I’d happily take a hit for a slice right about now!
@Scott
No pizza for 2 years? Where have you been Scott?
What does CD stand for? Crazy Dickhead? Cocky Dipshit?
Sorry. I don’t even know the guy. I shouldn’t be nasty.
Thanks for stopping by my blog and cursing at windows.
I like and follow SuziCate, too.
@GregoryJ
Sometimes Windows can be annoying.
I hate cold, I hate frozen pizza, I hate 4am unless I am still up, I hate things that attack me unexpectedly, especially if they are inanimate objects. LOL. Poor guy. I am feeling very bad for you right now. Take a box cutter to them. Go stabtastic on the whole lot of them!!
@Wicked Shawn
LOL! I’ve thought about it but then I’d be out of a job and cold.
CD, what a funny dude. That freezer job sounds just too c-c-c-c-cold brrrrrr!
@Diane
I don’t know how some people do it everyday.
I don’t know how you handle spending all day in a freezer either, but then again, you probably have funnier work stories than most of us on here (okay, me at least). Sorry to hear about your work-related pizza bruise though!
Mmmmm. Pizza!
A pizza bruise? That’s a brand new kind of violence. In my community, someone would start a new nonprofit to protect people who are attacked by pizzas. We have a very charitable community.
Instant karma got you!
I had a pizza avalanche today! I am filling in frozen for the week becuase My frozen supervisor is on vacation and I volunteered to fill in. I had an entire 6-wheeler full of pizzas and went around a corner way too fast and the whole thing even the wheeler fell over. It hit the day old bakery rack and knocked that over and almost hit one of my meat wrappers that was filling stuff in the meat counter. Good times. I am remembering now why i got out of doing frozen