wherein Liz has a rather stressful day at work

[edenfalling]

Note to self: When in doubt? Pirates. :-)

But anyway. MS and PM assure me that everything was normal at work until I punched in at 3:30pm -- maybe a little busier than usual, given the lovely weather, but normal. Within fifteen minutes of my arrival, the lottery machine had frozen up and MS and I began a two-hour inundation of what seemed like every eccentric in town.

The lottery thing is explicable: apparently GTECH installed new software earlier this weekend, and it was glitching all through the system. We actually had fewer problems than some other places in town. But it took something like fifteen minutes to process the instant ticket order for the week, five minutes to print a single Numbers ticket (and then ten minutes to cancel it, since the customer had given up and left), and over ten minutes to print the end-of-day reports we use to balance our records. And that was when the comm line was working -- it was down almost half the time.

The customers are less explicable. We keep a notebook to write down notable and/or hilarious instances of weirdness; usually we get one to three incidents a week. MS had written up (IIRC) four from 3:30 to 5:30pm alone, and had to take the book home with her to finish recording everything.

...

There must be something in the water. There really must.

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[uminohikari.livejournal.com]

...did the crazies come at the same time? :O

[edenfalling]

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Customers always seem to come in waves, so you usually get two to four at a time, but sometimes only one person in a line was wacky, while other times two or three were wacky.