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Okay, first a disclaimer, some people may find this story a bit gross, and I don't blame them, if I had anyone to call to let me leave, or keys to lock up the store I would have done so. Also I want to add that usually I am a very sanitary person I was my hands probably 10 or more times a shift, NOT including restroom trips, and usually keep a bottle of hand sanitizer by the register that I use every few customers.
Alright the story, I was working overnight at my last gas station job, and like an idiot I went in VERY sick. I had had a cough for a few weeks, and I figured it was due to all the smoking around my house, and the fact that I have a lot of throat related problems anyways. Well over the night things got far worse, I ended up getting coughing fits so bad that I would end up vomiting violently which led to a blood vessel or something busting in my nose, so I had a very bad nose bleed toward the end of the night. Just about every time it would slow I would end up back in the restroom and it would start again.
So there I was all alone in the store, with this disgusting nose bleed and near constant cough, of course being a little after 5am there was no one to call to come and relieve me, since the manager was already on her way in and saw no need to rush. So I just sucked it up and apologized to every customer that came in, and kept the germ-x close at hand.
Everything went okay until I got the worst SC of my life. It was about 5:15 or so and he wanted lottery scratch off tickets. So I rang him up and off he went, for 5 minutes. He came back in with a free ticket and wanted to cash it in, I told him sorry I can't do it until 6am ( the lottery terminal in Missouri shuts down at 2am and can't be turned back on until 6am.) He stood there and argued with me about it for 10 minutes, even refusing to let me leave and use the restroom, so I ended up having to stand there in the middle of a coughing fit which led to me puking in a trash can with blood streaming down my face. Did he care? Nope he bought more tickets and went out and scratched them, he continued this right up until 6am when he could cash in the tickets. The worst part though was that the guy won 100$ on one of the last tickets he bought and just had to shove it my face before he finally left.
Now you may ask, why the hell didn't I throw this guy out? Well because I can be fired for it, at that company only the manager has the ability to kick people out, and even then they had to ask someone at the office first. The only exceptions were theft and violence.
Alright the story, I was working overnight at my last gas station job, and like an idiot I went in VERY sick. I had had a cough for a few weeks, and I figured it was due to all the smoking around my house, and the fact that I have a lot of throat related problems anyways. Well over the night things got far worse, I ended up getting coughing fits so bad that I would end up vomiting violently which led to a blood vessel or something busting in my nose, so I had a very bad nose bleed toward the end of the night. Just about every time it would slow I would end up back in the restroom and it would start again.
So there I was all alone in the store, with this disgusting nose bleed and near constant cough, of course being a little after 5am there was no one to call to come and relieve me, since the manager was already on her way in and saw no need to rush. So I just sucked it up and apologized to every customer that came in, and kept the germ-x close at hand.
Everything went okay until I got the worst SC of my life. It was about 5:15 or so and he wanted lottery scratch off tickets. So I rang him up and off he went, for 5 minutes. He came back in with a free ticket and wanted to cash it in, I told him sorry I can't do it until 6am ( the lottery terminal in Missouri shuts down at 2am and can't be turned back on until 6am.) He stood there and argued with me about it for 10 minutes, even refusing to let me leave and use the restroom, so I ended up having to stand there in the middle of a coughing fit which led to me puking in a trash can with blood streaming down my face. Did he care? Nope he bought more tickets and went out and scratched them, he continued this right up until 6am when he could cash in the tickets. The worst part though was that the guy won 100$ on one of the last tickets he bought and just had to shove it my face before he finally left.
Now you may ask, why the hell didn't I throw this guy out? Well because I can be fired for it, at that company only the manager has the ability to kick people out, and even then they had to ask someone at the office first. The only exceptions were theft and violence.
Well she never called my manager instead she called the head office and filled a formal complaint. It ended up I that my doctors notes had to be forwarded to the hr person to prove that I was indeed sick at the time. A week or two later she came in again to complain about the incident to my manager. Luckily my manger told her to hit the road.
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