Laurie and I had a nice, pleasant, relaxing day together yesterday.
We slept in and skipped out on our tribe’s weekly gathering.
Spent some time piddling around the web, went to the gym and then made a stop by Panera Bread for a late lunch/early dinner.
While we were there the restaurant wasn’t too busy but there seemed to be only a few visible workers. As we sat at the table one worker came by wiping the tables clean. Another was working behind the register and one or two were in the back preparing the food.
“Hey (insert name here) can you check the coffee for me?” said the employee from behind the register to the employee wiping tables.
“What?”
“Can you check the coffee for me?” the cashier responded.
We looked and saw a customer holding an empty coffee cup in between the coffee canisters and the register. The coffee canisters were roughly six or seven feet away from Laurie and I and the employee wiping the table.
Then the second employee then gave the oddest of responses.
“I can or you can — but I just came on.”
The cashier and customer looked at each other with puzzled looks. The cashier asked the other employee to repeat what she said.
“I can or you can — but I just came on.”
Laurie and I looked at each other with the same puzzled look as the customer and cashier.
The cashier then walked down to the end of the counter and walked over to the coffee canisters to check them.
Apparently, just starting your shift doesn’t actually require you to do any actual work.