My Single Mom Life

I've had a lot of jobs over the years, some of them had some not so fun duties involved.
At Pier 1, I was the shipping and receiving manager, that basically involved unloading the trucks of goods three times a week, unpacking them, pricing, and putting them on teh sales floor.
But it also involved ordering all the stores supplies from pens and aprons, to making sure we had the correct commercial lighting bulbs on hand if a bulb blew out.
I also was in charge of the majority of electrical supplies too.
I did a lot of repairs, painting, and other odd jobs when I wasn't doing shipping and receiving.

The light bulbs were by far one of the most nerve wracking jobs.
The ceilings were about sixteen feet high, and our ladder was only twelve feet tall.
I hated having to get on that ladder, stand on the very top rung, use the special light bulb grabber tool, and remove the old light bulbs, then install the new ones.

I would get up there and have another employee holding the ladder at the bottom, and another employee taking the bulbs and also handing me the new bulbs.
It was so scary up there, and these weren't standard bulbs, they were those huge fluorescents and huge incandescents.
I was always afraid the bulb grabber would not get a good grip, and I'd drop one of those huge bulbs sixteen feet down to the hard floor, and smash into a million tiny pieces like light bulbs do when they break.
I was afraid someone would get cut by the flying glass, or a bulb would land on someone's head, and we'd get sued.
It was truly a nerve wracking job at times.
I dropped one of the big incandescents on the stockroom floor once, and it took me nearly three hours to clean up all the glass.
Then when we were changing the layout of the stockroom around, I found more tiny shards under the shelves, months later.
It's amazing how bulbs shatter and spread out like that.