The New Guy quit.
Which means, at the Franchise, we are now down to four drivers. Paul quit two weeks ago, and Russell’s last day (although no one knew it at the time) was St. Patty’s Day.
This is one of those “good thing/bad thing” deals.
It’s bad for the store and the drivers because it’ll be a lot harder to staff shifts and meet everyone’s requests. It’s bad for Greg because his manager left at his other store so he’s going to have to work forty hours a week managing there, and then come up here to drive another fifteen or twenty to cover for absent drivers and shifts short on drivers.
It’s good for drivers, on the other hand, because it means we’ll be getting as many hours as we want, and with fewer drivers to work those hours, it means we’ll be taking more deliveries per hour, thusly earning more tips per hour. Plus, we’re heading into the busy time of the year (oddly, the franchise gets busier in the late spring and summer).
Here’s to green!
Residents of Jacksonville are suing Exxon-Mobil, the station’s franchised owners, and the contractors who caused the leak — $535 million!
They’re also preparing for the reality that this leak may be the turning point that moves Jacksonville, which has relied on well-water but might now have to pipe it in, from a largely-rural, upper middle class, two traffic light town into — ready for it? — Cockeysville. Run and hide, run and hide!
(Personally, Jacksonville is already fairly developed as much as it can be without some folks selling their farms, and as I understand it, various zoning laws forbid apartment complexes, and I don’t think the roads could be widened much beyond what they are — one lane each direction — so I don’t quite understand what the residents are worried about. Besides, someone in the article suggests that if the sewage lines don’t extend with the water lines, development would be impossible.)
PS - for you city and suburb folks who get your water from Baltimore City, consider — this gas leak occured just a few miles north of the Loch Raven, which is I believe the City’s largest reservoir — how much gas do you think is getting into your water supply?
