Have some perspective, people! in Stuff

Doing a cycling-entry. Haven’t done one of these in a while. Usually when I do these, I’ll finish an entry and realise I’ve been cycling for half an hour.
Anyway, I need to release some stress today after that shift at work.

Customers are monsters. Ergh. ERGH. I was very short throughout the day, not giving very good customer service at all LOL. But fuck me, when I’m getting asked questions like, “Why don’t you have the milk I usually get?”, “I want my eggs!” and, “You don’t have any soy yoghurt,” I was at the point where I was standing there blinking in disbelief at them.
Have they been living under a rock the past 5 days? Did they just come down from the nearest cloud? Fly in from Jamaica that morning, maybe?

We have a fucking natural disaster happening literally a 20 minute drive away. People’s houses and businesses were and are under water. By all means Customer, if you want to grab your snorkel and dive down under the floodwater to milk the fucking cow yourself (because that’s probably where the poor thing is), then you can have your God-damn specialty milk.

Customers don’t get it. That there’s a flow-on effect. Given the fact of what’s happened/happening, I’m stunned at how much stock our store does have. We’ve done well, considering, but the warehouses are running a day behind on deliveries. When I walked in, the produce section was looking pretty bare. Fresh produce is obviously going to be the hardest hit.
My department was pretty much just out of milk and eggs, but we still had some of the more pricey varieties. But no, Gladis wanted her $2 milk and no other, didn’t she.
I was filling what was left in our milk storeroom when a customer called out to me through the fridge for her product, and when I reminded her that the milk factory was probably under water, she’s like, “Is that why everything looks like shit?”
I just said, “Yeah, that’s why,” and kept working.

Man, those poor stores down south that went completely under- what a cleanup job they’ll have. To think I was in Lismore only 3 months ago for Tropical Fruits, shopping in that shopping centre that went under. Fucking unreal seeing the video footage on the news. The water has receeded there now and left devastation, but now there is a warning for Rockhampton, which is back up north in my state! I’m smack-bang in the middle of all this flooding, safe and cosy, but I’m certainly not oblivious to what’s happening around me. The cleanup from the cyclone itself is happening up north and probably will for months yet, and the aftermath of the tropical low by the time it got to where I am was still nasty but I have nothing to write home about other than a fuckload of rain.
Walking to work and back, there are strewn tree branches and leaves everywhere, but that’s about it. Nothing a few street sweepers won’t fix.

But these customers today ergh. If I go into a supermarket and see nothing there, I can understand why. I’ll take what is there and not whinge and bitch about it.

Fuckers.