Today I had to work 7am-12:30pm. I usually like that shift. It's not a long one and it usually goes by pretty fast. Today it was one of the longest days I have ever worked, or at least it seemed like it. The store hired a new cashier. He is in his late 40's, single, works part time at a clothing store and is oriental.

I am not one to be prejudice so don't jump to conclusions about why I have mentioned he is oriental. The only reason this has anything to do with the story is that he has a VERY thick oriental accent. words with "L" come out as "R". So I am RISA not Lisa. Any how...

He started at 8am today. Our cashier supervisor did not start until 9:30am. So I was stuck having to train him in. There was no other cashier on duty, just me. Friday mornings can get very busy. Most customers are only buying a few items like donuts and coffee, but there are enough of them that I don't have time to do anything other then scan the groceries, put them in a bag, and collect money.

Today I had to explain every step I made. If I pushed a button on the register I had to tell my newbie what I was doing and why. I had to explain to him every little detail in the cashiering process including how to properly bag groceries.

I don't mind training, I just don't like to do it when I am the only cashier and it is busy. I feel the customer suffers because it will take twice as long to get them out of the store. I also feel the new employee suffers because in my effort to get the customer out the door fast, I might overlook something I should have explained.

The other problem we had was I guess you would call it a cultural difference. My newbie had only been in the United States for 6 years, He was born and raised in Japan. Every time he made a mistake he would stop what he was doing, apologize and bow to the customer. I could tell many of the customers where surprised by this. The town is very small and very rural. Many of our customers come from farms that have been around for many generations.

The other issue was his accent. He spoke English well enough. I could tell at times he was searching his brain for words, but his accent made it hard for some customers to understand him. I myself had to ask him to repeat things several times.

I did my best to make him feel welcome and showed him as much as I could while still trying to keep the customer happy. I think it should be the supervisors job to train in the new cashiers, not mine.


On a totally different subject.....

My husband didn't have to work yesterday. I did. I know he reads my blog and I have nothing to hide from him on here. Even when I rant about him, I know there is a chance he might read it. When EFX went down I knew because my husband said he tried to get on my blog and it wouldn't let him. I'm sure he thought I did something to block him from it.

We have never kept secrets from each other. At least not recently. After we spilled our guts to each other about our pasts last summer we vowed to never keep secrets (except what we are getting each other for Christmas).

When I got home from work yesterday I asked my husband what he had done on his day off. He told me he just sat on the couch and played his baseball game on the play station. That and took the dogs out several times.

Today when I hopped on the computer to check the e-mails and catch up on everyones blogs I got a little surprise in my e-mails in box. It was a confirmation from an adult dating service! They sent me my user name and password. So of course I went to the site to see what "I" had been doing.

Apparently Some one using my computer (must be hubby...I don't think the dogs know how) Is a single white male looking for a single female. He didn't seem to be too fussy. The profile said he doesn't care about their weight, hair color, skin color or age.

This little shocker had me checking the history on my computer. I don't think hubby knows I can do that. To my surprise he visited several chat rooms, a few porn sites and just about every blog I had linked on this page. Including the one at EFX. I'm guessing just to make sure it really doesn't work.

I'm not really sure what that all means. I don't know why he didn't tell me he was on the computer. I don't know if I should ask him about it or not. I'm not really mad about it, maybe a little hurt that he would go to a dating service and pretend he is single. I'm not really sure what to think about the adult chat rooms. He still can't believe we all "talk" to each other and it's not always sex related.

I wouldn't even be a bit concerned if it wasn't for a comment he made last night after we had watched a TV show that was talking about women in Iran and the fact that if a women commits adultery the punishment is death, yet the males can have more then one wife. After he heard that he told me "You only get one husband but you can have as many lovers as you want". At the time I just laughed and told him I didn't want any lovers...just him.

Now I am wondering if that was his way of trying to tell me he wants to experiment with some one else. We had talked about it before but always said we could never go off by ourselves and have sex with some one else. We agreed it would have to be a threesome and we both would have to be present at all times. Now I'm wondering if he wants to know what else is out there.

I'm almost afraid to ask him about it. I'm afraid he will tell me if he can't go to chat rooms, then I can't blog. I have nothing against chat rooms, its just that if he thinks all we do in "blog land" is talk about sex, then he must be talking sex on the chats. I know he has had cyber sex with some one. even though he doesn't even know it. I walked in one day and he was typing on the screen what he would do to the girl. When I asked him about it he justed laughed it off and said he was just having a little fun, it didn't mean anything by it. His rationing was that it was probably some bored house wife just looking for a little excitement, it wasn't like he actually knew the person.

Part of me is suspicious, part of me is hurt. I'm just not sure if this is something i should worry about or not.