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I work at Buy Mart.  I’m just a stocker.  I’m gonna find you in your sleep!  No.  Not that kind of stalker.  A stocker.  That was a joke.  It probably wasn’t funny.  But, yeah, I’m a stocker.  When the trucks bring in stuff we have to take it out on the floor.  Put it on the shelves.  Or stack it up in the stockroom.  We use these hand jacks.  They won’t let us drive the fork trucks.  And if somebody breaks something or some kid throws up in the aisle, they send us out with the mop.  I mean, jeese, if your kid’s sick, keep him at home.  What’s wrong with these people?  It a… it only plays about a dollar more than minimum.  I got a raise at 6 months and at a year.  I usually work about 30 hours a week.  Like double that at Christmas.  And the hours are kinda screwy.  I mean, they’re all over the place.  One week I’ll have some real primo day shifts, and the next week I’ll be working evenings, which really suck because you have to be at work by three, and you don’t get off until eleven.  Really it’s midnight before you’re really ready to go.  But what’s really worth going to at midnight?  I mean, if the chick’s going home with somebody, they’re probably already gone.  And then, just to really screw with you, they’ll give you a day shift, so you’re thinking, “Alright!” but then have you work the night before.  So it’s almost like a double shift, and you’re so tired you’re like wasted for two days.  I haven’t been been with a chick, in like…  I don’t know.  But it’s inside.  Except when we have to go for carts.  And it’s a job.  I mean, I got bills.  I got car payments.  If I don’t have a car, I don’t work.  Man, you gotta know how that is.  But you see, the thing is, what I really, really hate, is that they do random drug testing.  And I’ve never been tested.  I know they do.  This guy I work with, he’s been called in like twice during the past… what… four months?  I just wish they would test me, man.  I just wish they would.