23 Things Only A Chocolate Shop Employee Will Understand
11. The Quest To Find The One Box
Sometimes, a customer will come in and know exactly what they want to buy. And although it's not on the shelves, the computer insists that there is, in fact, one single box left. In the stockroom.
If you asked most people to imagine the back room of a chocolate shop, they'll probably come up with something out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In reality, all stockrooms are largely the same, whatever kind of shop you work in. All of the products are kept in nearly identical boxes, stacked two or three high, and any sense of organisation probably went out the window two days after the last stock count.
Add to this the presence of the manager in the next room, who thinks you're just wasting time, and the fact that these rooms need to be kept cool and going in search for a single, lost box of chocolates starts to make you feel like Indiana Jones. This might simultaneously be the most exciting, and frustrating, part of your whole day. Which is kind of sad, really.
Of course, by the time you find what you're looking for and get back to the front counter, chances are the customer will have left anyway.