Are Those Fish?

 So there I was, unboxing our bug shipment.

And there was a father with his child nearby looking at the fish.

As the fish wall is a popular destination for parents with young kids as it can be quite entertaining to the kids to watch the fish swim around.

In any case.

I was finishing unboxing all our various bugs.

And the father looks over and asks me "Are you unboxing fish?" 

...

Like...I suppose that's a legitimate thing to ask. Since our fish do come in boxes....Much much larger boxes....

Plus I was standing by the fishwall at our cricket podium and unboxing things.

But like...most of the mini containers I was unboxing....were clear.

So you could see the sawdust and some superworms and such if you looked. 

And like...the containers I was pulling out were rather...small? Not really large enough to fit fish inside them. Not unless they were little fry or something. 

But yah no, I told the dude. "Nope these are bugs."

Because what else could I say?

I mean most of the boxes  said "Live BUGS" and there was no signs of water anywhere in said containers. 

*shakes head*

-Sarnic Dirchi

Wrong Wrong Wrong

 It was a day for weird animal shenanigans apparently.

Mostly because like ALL the animals came into the store today. *shakes head* 

Like usually on Friday's I only expect to get in our Fish Shipment...if our Truck is in on time. Which surprisingly it was for once. It arrived before 10 am which is a miracle honestly because the trucks have been showing up towards the late afternoon for the past little while. 

But it was great news as it would give me something to do during my shift.

And overall putting out the fish went without hassle....except I got in a bag of fish that were labeled "4 bolivian ram cichlids" and when I looked at the bag to see if there were any dead within it...I could immediately see that 2 of them were not in fact bolivian rams. No they definitely were 2 blue acara cichlids instead.

And while the other 2 cichlids in that bag appeared at first to be the bolivians....upon placing them in the tank and seeing them with the other bolivians we had already there...I realized that the other two were convict cichlids instead.

So they sent me 2 blue acaras and 2 convicts....instead of 4 bolivians. *shakes head* 

But we also got in our reptile shipment today as well and the paperwork said we were only getting in 1 ball python....but there were 2 in the box. O_o 

I later discovered that there was a second invoice behind the first that showed this second ball python on it.

But it was weird to look at the first invoice and realize that they sent us one snake extra.

*exhales* I notified the company about the 2 ball pythons before I realized that there was a second invoice for the 2nd python....so hopefully we don't end up with 3 in the system when I should only have 2.

In any case. 

We also ended up getting a cricket shipment in that was supposed to have 7,500 large crickets in it. But in typical fashion 4,100 of them were missing. 

And we also received in our small pet/bird shipment today too because the delivery ended up having truck issues and couldn't deliver them yesterday. And for once all the animals in our shipment showed up.

One of them being a chinchilla. 

And I'm used to them being a certain size.

But the chinchilla we got in today is like twice the size of the one already in the cage. He has to be fully grown and he's giant!! lol *shakes head* 

So yah...it's just been a weird day when it comes to animals. 

-Sarnic Dirchi

Cricket Traps

 We had the pest control guy come into the store today to check the traps he'd set around the store to...well trap the pests that could potentially enter the store.

Namely bugs like spiders, or ants, or larger animals like mice--though that hasn't been an issue...really.....

I mean he did end up catching a mouse in one of the traps...but it was one of our 'for sale' mice that had escaped from his cage and vanished.

Y_Y;; kinda wish we'd found him before he died. *exhales* Note to keep in mind if one escapes again. Check the traps daily just in case.

In any case.

The dude mentioned that he was surprised at how many crickets he could catch in our store. Like 50-60 each time he comes in.

Which wasn't that surprising to me because like....we sell crickets....and said crickets get loose all the time.

However....

The pest control dude hadn't known that lol.

He just thought we had a high influx of crickets in the store randomly.

*shakes head* lol it made more sense to him when I showed him where we kept our crickets and told him that we sell them and that they escape.

He was like "Oooooh"

Yep.

So yah. Finding crickets in the traps? Not surprising at all. lol

-Sarnic Dirchi

Superworms

So we've out of superworms for the past week. 
Because they basically sold out within a day when we got them in last Thursday.
Which makes sense cus I only got in like...twelve.

Thankfully though.
I got in a few more today.
24 containers of 25ct Superworms.

Which probably will also vanish within the next couple of days if they haven't already all been sold by the end of today.

In any case.
I'm not sure how the conversation started.
But my manager ended up calling me over to the podium.
Where a customer was waiting.

The problem?
The customer need a ton of superworms.
From how it was explained they needed like...200-300 superworms?

Which is alot.
Especially when I have a limited supply of them.
As each container only has like 25 in it.
So 4 containers would be 100.
8 would be 200
12 would be 300.

And considering that I've had people constantly asking me throughout the week if we had any in stock.
I was loathe to give like half of my supply at least to this customer.
Who apparently needed all the worms for a....biology?? class taught at the nearby university.

Thankfully the customer was understanding of the situation.
And was like "I'll take as many as you can give me."
Because they were aware that if there's a shortage going on that it's a pretty dick move to take all of our superworms. 
Especially when we had a large cricket shortage happening at the same time. (I didn't get in any today and we've been out of them since like Monday) which means that more people will be looking to get various types of worms to supplement until they can get more crickets.

I ended up allowing them to take six containers. 
Which was like...1/4 of our supply.
But at least it still left us with around 18 containers (though some had already sold earlier) to hand out to customers.

Though again....I doubt they'll last long.
If I still have some tomorrow I'll be surprised. 

-Sarnic Dirchi

Hold On

We had an older gentleman come into the store today looking to get some mealworms.

So after checking to see if he wanted them in a 50 count or a 100 count.

I went and grabbed him a 50 count and handed it to him.

And after the customer opened the container to double check that the mealworms were actually alive. 
Opened up his messenger/laptop bag he had with him and placed the mealworms inside.

I was like O_o???
Because he started zipping up the bag with the mealworms inside...and like he hadn't paid for them yet.

So I was like..,are you actually trying to steal those mealworms right in front of me?
Or was he wanting to just keep his hands free??
But like...he was ancient enough that I could see him 'forgetting' to pay for them and just walking right out of the store.

So to prevent the customer from stealing. Whether intentionally or not intentionally....
I was like "You may want to keep those mealworms in your hand until you pay for it."

The customer was like: "OH. Right." And took the mealworms back out of his bag and went up to the front to pay for them.

Such an odd thing...but I'm glad he did buy them in the end. 

-Sarnic Dirchi

Standard?

So my manager has been doing the animal counts for the past little while...like three our four months now? So they've done them at least like idk 12 times? 

And yet there's still times where they don't remember things or misunderstand something or want to double check things because they're not confident of their skills.

Most of the time that struggle is that they don't always remember to count the animals that we have off the floor. Kinda an 'out of sight out of mind' sort of problem.
While other times it's just counting the goldfish and crickets because there's a ton of them.

Today though was a unique issue.

Because like....my manager has done this count at least a dozen times right?

And today she was like "I think we're missing all of these." And points to the listing for our 100 count mealworms.

Like it's normal for us to be missing a couple of them because we use those containers in the store to feed our reptiles. So to have 1-3 of them missing is understandable. 

And from how my manager had marked it it showed only one was missing.

But no. Apparently the manager was like "No no we don't have any of these!" 

No I'm pretty sure we do as I remembered seeing a bunch of them earlier. 

So I go to our fridge and sure enough there they all are.
"You mean these?"

"No. Because those don't say "standard" on them they say "large" instead!" 

Which yes....on the container of 100 it does say large mealworms.
But that's the standard size of the mealworms. We only carry 'large' or 'giant' versions. 

Again. My manager has been counting similar looking containers for the past three or four months.

And hadn't had an issue with it before.
My guess is that they actually read the words this time on the paper and then realized they didn't match the words on the container??

No idea.
They did admit to 'overthinking it' which yep. They did over think it.

Because we haven't ever carried any other type of 100 count mealworms. *shakes head*

-Sarnic Dirchi 

Oh Worm?

We got our bug shipment in today.

Which was a relief because we've been out of all our worms (mealworms,waxworms,superworms) for a week now because we didn't get a large enough replenishment (and no mealworms whatsoever) last week in order to meet the demand of our customers.

Which sucks because like--we can't ever predict what will become popular when.

Like for a while it was Superworms, now its waxworms.

And it seems like whenever the demand for them gets super high----

That's exactly when our supplier randomly decides to send us barely any or none at all. 

*shakes head*

I don't get how that coincides so well, but it is frustrating.

Especially because I only get the various worms in once a week.

And so if you miss grabbing one of like the six containers we got in (and some people are greedy and like buy them all in one go) then...well you're screwed until the next week when you can try again. 

So I was glad today that we got in a larger quantity of our worms than like...six of them.

I mean the Superworms still seem to be going through their shortage as I only got like maybe 9 containers of those? (They'll probably be gone by the end of the day honestly) 

But at least the other ones I got twice that many.

So they'll hopefully last a bit longer.

Still...I'm not looking forward to telling customers that once again...we're out of worms when they do all get sold out. *exhales* 

-Sarnic Dirchi

Discount Me

Had a customer come into the store looking for waxworms first thing this morning.
Her first question was "Did you get any Waxworms in?"
To which I responded "No." Because we hadn't gotten any in last week in our shipment.
So she was like "Well get me the freshest ones then."
Ha. Jokes on her. All the waxworms we had were from two weeks ago, because we didn't get in a shipment last week and hadn't yet received in this week's shipment because our various worms only come in on Thursdays. 
So i grabbed her the container.
She was like "When did these come in."
"Two weeks ago." Was my response.
"You don't have any from last week!?"
"No, I didn't get in any last week." -AT this point I could tell she had thought my first time responding was for 'this week' instead of the 'last shipment' we received. *exhales* 
But i was like "Our shipments only come in on Thursdays." to her "Why not!" Because we only get replenished for what we sell. So guess what?
If picky customers don't BUY the waxworms, then we don't get more in until we SELL them.

So she was stuck with waxworms from two weeks ago unless she wanted to wait until Thursday this week.

She didn't want to wait.
And instead asked me if we would discount the waxworms because "the other girls would." 
*rolls eyes*
I honestly don't know how we got onto this 'discount the waxworms' kick but it is super annoying.
Like they fill the containers with more than 50 waxworms so it's okay if some die.

But noooo customers want them ALL alive.

So I was like "A discount?"
She was like "Like 20%" 
So I double checked with the manager to see if the one on duty would do a discount.
He was fine with it and was like "You can do 25%"

Ha.
No. If the customer is expecting 20% then I'm going to give her what she wants.
No need to make her get more greedy in future purchases.

So I told her we could do the 20% off. 

*exhales*

At this point I think we're practically selling all our waxworms at a discount. Because people are freaking picky. I don't know why its suddenly a problem now.
We never had this issue before the past couple of months.
And now its practically every customer with waxworms is having issues with them when nothing has changed with the shipping or what we do to care for them.

*shakes head* 

Like I do get that you don't want to buy things that are already dead. I understand that.
But still. There's more than 50 waxworms in the container of 50 so it should be fine. 

-Sarnic Dirchi

Egg Crate

Sometimes it's amazing what customer preferences stick in your head. 
I mean, I encountered the customer once before. A shift or two ago.
Recently because I recognized her and I had to wonder why she was back in the store already. 

And she was memorable just in how she interacted with her children....not in a good way. One of those "Be quiet we're doing this my way" sort of people. 
I felt bad for the kids honestly.

In any case.
They were grabbing crickets that other shift.
And the woman had stated that she didn't want egg crate in her bag because it makes it hard to get the crickets out.
Which easy enough to do.

And when she came in today...for more crickets (as well as fish filters) I was like "No eggcrate right?" 

To which she nodded.

Really, I was just kinda surprised that I remembered that detail. Because like...I talk to lots of customers during the course of the day and I don't always remember them if they visit again. :S

-Sarnic Dirchi

People Are Strange

Sometimes I get those customers in the store....where I wonder if they're on something. 
Because like....they have this frentic energy about them. And don't quite seem all there. 

So I was helping a customer with betta fish as my coworker was bagging up crickets. When this other customer basically butted in asking if we had a specific type of betta in stock.

He was looking for a big blue long finned betta that was some sort of 'dragon variety' 

But the conversation started with: "What's your most expensive betta?" 

As apparently these fish are expensive....the style he was looking for.
But my most expensive type wasn't the type he was looking for.
He was looking for one with long fins. Like the longest fins you've ever seen....

Which like dude....the bettas are in cups....how do you expect their fins to be long?? *shakes head* 

I did my best to try and help him find the style of betta he was looking for.
But unfortunately, I didn't carry the type of betta he wanted.

However, he jumped right from not being able to find a betta, to asking me about the crickets that my coworker had been bagging for him.
Mostly in...how do you keep them from escaping?
Which like...you don't? 
They'll escape no matter what. 

And then after receiving that answer, he took me over to the chameleons, and asked about cages and wanted to know dimensions of a cage and lectured me about types of cages of chameleons...

And like his whole thought process was just....chaotic.
He jumped from topic to topic so quickly.
Seeming so frantic.
Like....I had to wonder if he was alright.... 
Seriously...such a weird fifteen minute interaction with this guy.
Where I felt like I never got a good answer for him that satisfied him....

-Sarnic Dirchi

Fear Factor

I often (it feels like at least twice a month) have customers come into the store to buy bugs for a 'fear factor' sort of event that they're doing. You know where they either have to 'eat a bug' or stick their hands in a dark box (filled with bugs) that sort of thing.

I had one of those customers today.
Doing the 'stick the hand in the box' side of fear factor.
Where he wanted to get some mealworms...but they ended up being too tiny.
And so he went for Superworms -which are like ...well...super big versions of the tiny mealworms lol. 

The notable thing about this particular thing.
Was that I opened each container of superworms he was going to get, to make sure that there were superworms in there. (as once in a blue moon there's one that comes to us missing the worms.) 

And he was like. "It's funny, I'm using this as a fear factor, but you're handling them easily without any qualms. I guess that means you can get used to anything after a while." 

lol.
Which is very true.
What scares one person may not scare another....
And definitely experience and long term exposure with working with the bugs at work has definitely desensitized me to them. lol.
Not that I was sensitive at all to them in the first place....I grew up with a brother who enjoyed catching bugs and I would often join in growing up....so I never really had problems with handling the bugs. lol 

-Sarnic Dirchi

Do. Not. Enter.

So there I was, in the back behind the fish tanks trying to hurry and finish cleaning the dishes I'd been washing in order to put them (food bowls, water bottles, hides, wheels) back into the small pet (Hamsters, Mice, Chinchillas, Guinea Pigs) cages. 

It's not the quietest back there. 
With the whirr of the fish system a constant buzz in the background as well as the sound of running water from both the sink and the fish tanks themselves...it's not always easy to hear things going on beyond about like two feet. 

And I was focused. I was off the floor. I was out of sight of any customers. Washing, cleaning, rinsing, putting away, organizing etc etc. 

I was rinising of the wheels at the sink when for whatever reason, I happened to look up. Towards the doorway leading into the main part of the store.
I don't know if I heard something, or sensed something, or just caught movement from the corner of my eye.

But when I looked up.
There was an old gentleman standing there, gesturing at me, saying something...though due to the fish system, I couldn't make it out. 

But what I was mentally trying to do as I turned off the sink and dried my hands off to approach this guy....was...why was he back there? Was it some sort of maintenance man? Was it a customer? It definitely wasn't a coworker. 

But I was confused why anyone but a coworker would be back here.
Because clearly on the door is a sign that says "Employees Only." Meaning NO CUSTOMERS SHOULD BE ENTERING IT!

Yet, here he was. A customer.
And what did he need?
Mealworms. 

Which I only had the 35 count in stock currently -He wanted the 100 which I've been out of for like two months.- 

So I open the fridge we keep the mealworms in -he was standing right next to it- pulled out the 35 count and handed it to him.

And he politely went on his way.

But still, I'm left a bit confused.
Like....why in the world had he come back there anyways?
A coworker would have told me -since we have walkie-talkies now- that there was a customer needing help. So obviously he hadn't gone to a coworker.

So I can only guess, that he heard me back there making noise. And so ventured back there (instead of you know, finding my coworker who was already out on the floor....) to find help for his needs.

And while I admire his gumption for finding me.
I am rather irritated that they ignored the "Employees Only" sign and interrupted me. *exhales* 

-Sarnic Dirchi

Bulgarian Cages

There are days when talking on the phone with customers is difficult.
Especially when they say words that just aren't creating an understandable meaning in your head.

Today I had a guy call and ask if we had any Bulgarian Cages in stock.
O.o
Bulgarian cages? I'd never heard of such a thing.
Was it a certain style of reptile cage? Like where the doors open in the front? Or the lid comes off? I'd never heard of it being referred to that way.

I mean, our animals will have names related to places like the Asian forest scorpion, the Russian Tortoise, the Greek Tortoise, the African Sideneck, the Short-Haired Syrian, the Russian Hamster....

but Bulgarian?
Never heard of it.

But thankfully after a bit more questions on my side and repetition on the guy's side. I finally figured out what he was actually saying.

BUGarium
An Aquarium for Bugs.

Oh.
*shakes head*
lol.

Admittedly we'd only started carrying those a few months ago, so I hadn't yet received a phone call asking if we had them in stock. Which is why I had difficulties processing what he was saying, because I hadn't been asked it before.

But now I know. and hopefully if I'm asked again, I'll be able to understand what the customer wants much more quickly lol.

-Sarnic Dirchi

Dating in Blue

So every week we get in a shipment of various types of bugs.
Like crickets, mealworms, waxworms, red wigglers, night crawlers, fruit flies, superworms, and recently hornworms.

And as a way to keep track of when each shipment of bugs comes in.
We take a marker, and date the bug containers.
That way we can ensure that our older containers are sold before our newer containers.

Otherwise we'd probably end up just selling the most recent containers and the older containers would just sit in the back and die off....

In any case.

As I was busy with other tasks in the store,
My coworker took charge of dating and putting away this week's bug shipment.

That's what she was working on when I went off to take my lunch break.

And when I got back.

She informed me that she'd put away the crickets and such (as we don't date those)
but hadn't touched any of the containers of various worms.
She'd just left them in the back for me.

Why?

Because she'd been unable to find a marker to use to mark the dates on the containers.

O.o
How could that be, when we had plenty on the podium. They couldn't have all disappeared in the half hour I'd been gone on lunch.

So I asked her if there weren't any on the podium.

....Apparently....
She hadn't realized we could use those markers to mark the containers.
Why?
Because she'd thought we could only mark the containers in with a black marker.

And the ones we keep to write stuff on the fish bags and cricket bags....are blue.

It's funny....
Because we haven't used black markers in ages. Like at least a year.
As we'd switched to Blue markers a while ago.

I don't understand why she thought it had to be black....like we used to use black markers....before the head manager decided to switch us to blue.....so maybe that's where she got it from....

Obviously I need to have her date the bug shipment more often....

-Sarnic Dirchi

A Counting We Will Go

So, every now and then, we have to count all the animals in the store.
To ensure that everything is accurate between what is actually in the store, and what the system says we have in the store.
Basically this count is a 'fresh beginning.'

Now, last year, we got a notice that we only needed to do this 'fresh start' count once a year.
Why?
Because Every. Single. Week.
We count the animals.
Literally. We do.
Because if we don't count them every week, then we don't have an accurate inventory of our animals, and therefore wouldn't get anymore animals in because the system would think we would still have some.
So. We count every week.

Which means....it doesn't make a lot of sense as to why we need to do a 'fresh start' count every quarter like we'd been doing before.
It's basically wasted time.
So last year.
They said it would only be once a year.

However....
Things apparently change.
And we're back to doing them every quarter.
Which should mean every four months or so.

But it's stupid the count we did tonight.
Because literally we had to do the same count just TWO months ago. Back in January.
So it makes no sense whatsoever to have to do it again!

But again we did it.

And 7,051 animals later.

We had finished our count.

My eyes hurt....those fish are not easy to count. *shakes head*

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -When to Clean

It's always interesting to have my coworkers do different tasks.
Because each one will react to different tasks differently.

Me...I've done every task so often, that I really don't have a preference about when I do those tasks. For me, it comes down to a matter of timing now a days.
If I come in first, and the next person doesn't come in for a couple of hours, I do this.
If they come in sooner, then they do this and I do that.
Pretty simple for me.

That doesn't mean I don't have tasks that I like to not do.
Because I do. Like bird bedding. Dealing with all those feathers. Or scrubbing tanks. Or having to handle the scorpion/tarantula. Definitely tasks I'm not fond of.
But, again, I've done them so often, that I often let the other people decide the tasks they want to do.

I let them decide more often than not, because I just want to get the task done. And people tend to work a little faster at tasks they like to do than at tasks they don't like to do.

Still. It's interesting to see which coworkers prefer to do what.
Some will avoid Crickets at all costs. Others its the snakes. Handling reptiles in general. Or holding the hamsters. Avoiding Hay duty. Avoiding cleaning out the cats. Or doing the back rooms.

There's a variety of reasons for these avoidances. Allergies, smell, dislike of feel of the animal.

The latter...
It's interesting to see people afraid to handle certain creatures.
Like my coworker today, isn't fond of reptiles. At all.
Especially the snakes, but often it takes them a bit to get the animals out of the cage.

lol, so I often find myself coming to the rescue when I notice my coworker struggling with certain creatures.
And I often just swoop in, take hold of the creature, place it in the cage/tote and then walk away. lol.

I suppose it comes in handy to be comfortable handling most of the creatures.
Because when one is afraid of getting injured....
Things take a lot longer to finish.
But in the end, they still get done.

And I can't let them get away with avoiding what they don't like...
But I do try, to help them where I can. :)

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Negativity

I was in the middle of an un fun task.
The task of checking the prepackaged crickets that were sent to us.
These containers come with around 24 crickets.
But after a week....they don't always have that many.
So I gave myself the 'fun' tasks, of going through all the boxes.
Tossing the empty ones, emptying out the ones that only had a few crickets, marking down the ones that had less than 24 to try and get them to sell.

It wasn't fun work.
Especially because I wasn't here when it was supposed to have been done last week.
Which meant....there were a ton of boxes to go through.
*sighs*

But it had to be done.
Yet, right in the middle of working in it.
I got a sudden jab of a headache.
It came out of nowhere.

And it really felt like someone was sending negative energy my way.
So weird.

I didn't think much towards it.
I was figuring that the smell of the crickets and the hurried pace I was going through them had put me in a tense mood and was giving me the headache.

But then, towards the end.
I looked up.
And saw one of our new hires...
Standing there.
Staring at me.
Just staring at me.

Such a weird thing.
And when I moved out of his line of sight.
My headache faded away!
O.o

So I wasn't crazy when I thought someone was sending negativity my way.
Someone was.
Though I wasn't sure why....
I'd barely talked to the guy...
Perhaps I just happened to be in the way and he wasn't focusing on me.
Who knows.
I just hope it doesn't happen again.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Feeding

Sometimes I wonder how much of what a customer tells me....
Is of their own imagination.
Or what one of my coworkers actually told them...

You see...
We had a bearded dragon returned to us.
>.< It was passed our return time frame...but the head manager decided to allow it this time.
Not sure why...but at least the dragon is back in our care.

I'm not sure exactly what is wrong with it.
But I'm told...that they were told to only feed the bearded dragon like 4 small crickets a day.
O.o
Which....is rather limited for a beardy.
We end up feeding them at least 10 crickets at a time.
Because they're little pigs and love to eat.
Four....is a bit...like being on a diet I suppose.
They can get by...but it won't make them as happy or healthy.
And this bearded dragon was more on the unhealthy side....

Hopefully we can get it better....
And that we can better educate the customer on how much they should be feeding the bearded dragon at a time.
Because...I'm pretty sure all my coworkers know that they need to eat more than 4 crickets at a time....
But who knows....

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Counting

Damaged boxes can be annoying.
For one, if its a product and its all bent and contorted...customers are less likely to buy it.
Because they probably think there is something wrong/broken with it.

Damaged boxes that hold the products can be annoying because if its bent all weird then it could have broken the product inside, it could be more difficult to open or to carry about without everything falling to pieces. Basically...its a box you don't try to pick up or risk items falling on your toes.

Then there are the creature boxes.
Those really shouldn't be damaged.
At all.

Because if they are....
That usually means that creatures can escape.
Holes can be chewed through and exploited.
Meaning animals loose.

Today.
It wasn't animals.
But bugs.
Yah. More bugs.
We got in another shipment of bugs today.
And the cricket boxes were damaged.
Squished.

Which is bad.
because the contorted shapes...
Left room for crickets to wiggle their way out.
Bye bye Money.

So to try and figure out how many crickets we lost from the damage boxes.
I counted the crickets before I added in new crickets.
Then counted again to see what the difference was.

Ah. It harkens back to the days when Reth was still my manager. As she would have us do that so we'd know if they actually sent what they said they sent us, instead of just assuming that they did.

Talk about a headache though.
Imagine counting 3,000 crickets.
Then adding in another 3,000
And trying to see if the mass horde of moving floor added up to 6,000.
Ow.
My head.
It doesn't help that the crickets didn't smell that great in the first place.
so I spent like 10 minutes breathing in bad smell as I tried to count.

To find....
The numbers were basically accurate.
We hadn't really lost anything in the shipments besides the dead. O.o

So weird.

-Sarnic Dirchi

MLAARE -Pinchers and Stingers

It was a momentous occasion at work today.
One that I have not been looking forward to.

>.<
We're now carrying scorpions and tarantulas at my work.

Bleh.
Creepy creatures.
Ones that I do not wish to handle or look at or see. Let alone sell.

For a different coworker,
It was like Christmas Morning had come.
The news that our shipment of creatures had arrived had them lighting up with excitement.
Opening the box. More so.
For there was the scorpion, there was the tarantula.
And this coworker was right in there, picking up the creatures.
Face lit up like a kid in a candy store.
Talking excitedly, trying to get me to hold them.
Ha. Ha. No. Put the thing away and keep it away from me.

But for my coworker, it was the best day ever.
Because they're obsessed with scorpions. Have already owned them before as pets.
So to be able to have them in the store, practically a dream come true.

At least somebody in the store is excited. :)

-Sarnic Dirchi