“Where’s the butcher?”

Sometimes people feel like they should ask a question, but don’t know if the reply from the other person will be friendly. That’s why we might not ask a very important question. Maybe the person asking the question feels like it will cause problems. So they won’t ask the question.

At Gowell’s shop and save I work in the deli and the kitchen making food and slicing cheeses and meats for customers. I of course was stuck in the kitchen alone wearing my Gowell’s shop and save shirt that was stained from roast beef and saw a customer walk towards me. By the way whenever a stupid question or a question I don’t know the answer to is ask. Well it’s always when I’m alone because someone has to go get something. So this customer comes to the counter and asked me if I was the butcher. I said I wasn’t and before I could finish my sentence they then asked me. “Do you know if the butcher is in today?” I knew that I was supposed to send them towards the meat department so I told them, “the meat department is by the lobsters on the wall and just knock loudly on the door and someone should come out and ask you what you would like to get or something related to that.” So they walk over and someone comes back into the kitchen as soon as I solved the problem.

Then 5 minutes later we had more pizza orders, and I was watching the deli while catching up on dishes. This is when the person in the kitchen with me who was doing the pizzas went to get more doughs and guess what happens? The same guy from earlier comes back and says that the meat department doesn’t cut what he wants. So I asked him what exactly he wanted, and he said, “I wanted a chunk of the wildflower ham this big.” The size of the cut he wanted was too big for the slicers and I didn’t know what to do. So I asked him, “do you know how they normally cut that because I can’t get the slicers that big.” He told me that they cut it with a knife. The person who was working with me came back and made a huge sigh. I asked them if we normally cut the ham that big and with a knife. Of course they pushed me to the side and said that it’s too dangerous for us to do and we need to not do this. So they got the size of the chunk the person wanted. There was also a time where I was working and I asked, “what’s on our meat lover’s pizza?” Now of course I was prepared for the answer that I heard. “I don’t know, maybe we put all of the veggies on it because the people love meat.” I got a little mad and said that we have 5 different meats for pizzas and I don’t ever remember eating a meat lovers pizza in my life so how was I supposed to know. I got it settled and I put all of the meats that we had for pizzas on the pizza. Ham and pepperoni first, then hamburg, sausage, and bacon. It sounded stupid in the moment, but I didn’t want to mess up the order. This was back when I first worked at Gowell’s and didn’t want to get fired or spoken to. The reply the coworker said was funny though. It just wasn’t funny in the moment.

To this day I don’t know what the heck happened those nights, but most of the questions I asked felt like stupid weird questions to ask. I never really liked asking questions so every question I ask sounds too stupid to ask. I recommend just don’t think about things too much. If you want to know the answer of something then just ask it and don’t worry about it. The more you think the worse you might feel about asking something, but of course you shouldn’t go and just ask and say what ever you want. You don’t want to make too many people hate you. Also not asking an important question that’ll make you finish something might have bad consequences. Imagine if the person who ordered the pizza didn’t get the pizza they wanted. They might start a scene in the store then you might end up more embarrassed than if you asked the question.