Actually his name was Mike Evans, and he played Lionel Jefferson on The Jeffersons and All in the Family. Apparently he died of Throat Cancer at the age of 57. That sucks. Of course I grew up with early 70’s TV, so some of you may not be familiar with who he is.
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My third shift cook that only works two nights a week and that hung me LAST weekend because he was in the crossbar motel called about five o’ clock. He and his wife are on the schedule for tonight, tomorrow, and Christmas eve from something like 8pm-2pm. He said that his mother was flying in to Hartsfield tonight, but he didn’t know what time, and his wife’s car was in the shop, so they could not come in (and so on ad nauseum). He sounded drunk, but could have just been tired. They do work full time jobs during the week, which is why I let them off Christmas Day. They are the only people on my staff that are off on Christmas, mainly because they have to be back at work at 7am on the 26th.
I asked him why his wife couldn’t drive down to the airport and pick them up after dropping him off at work. He started arguing with me and started coming up with reasons why not. Basically it boils down to he was either drunk, or just decided to get fired prior to Christmas. If I was going to quit, it would be now, not afterward. I told him that he didn’t have a choice, it was not enough notice and he had to be there. He told me to do whatever I had to and if I needed to fire him that was fine. At that point I said “whatever” and hung up. I had to try and get the shift covered and go to bed in case I ended up working in his place. 30 minutes later he calls me back and asks why I hung up on him. I asked him if he was calling me back to tell me he was going to be there, at which point he said no, he wanted to know why I hung up on him. He was pretty pissed off. I told him that since I had to cook in his place I was sleeping, and hung up again. He has called back once, but I just let the asshole roll to voice mail, which he did not leave.
One of my two cooks for second shift just didn’t bother to show up today, so I suppose I have to get that covered. I am going in to work in about a half hour to cook for awhile and see if I can cover tomorrow. The good thing is that this guy is not That good anyway, so would have been replaced eventually anyway. I just hate that it had to be this weekend. My Christmas Day just keeps getting longer and longer.
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I ended my day at work yesterday by spending my afternoon at the doctors office and then at line at the pharmacy waiting on a damn prescription for Silver Oxide. I burned the crap out of my hand at work yesterday, which is something I haven’t done in a very long time. Fortunately that’s what we pay workers comp insurance for. What really surprised me is that they didn’t drug test me. The drug test EVERYONE for workers comp injuries now.
My personal doctor is on the panel of physicians, so that is who I went to see. There’s that and the fact that our workers comp office has to call and set up the appointment. I know everyone at our corporate office, so she probably just forgot to request a drug test. It doesn’t matter to me either way, but considering how many dumb asses show up to work stoned or drunk and hurt themselves, I am really surprised about it.
The hardest [art about a burn like this is that every time that I even get near the grill, my hand feels like it’s on fire. That’s all kinds of fun.
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