At least, it feels like it. If I haven’t mentioned it, I’m working on my fry-raise. Meaning I’m learning and practicing on making the french fries and once I’m certified on the position, I’ll get my pay raise for it. On busy days, it’s absolute hell! Today was one of those days. It was non-stop and I was overwhelmed most of the time. I always had a higher-level or two ragging on me most of the time. It was good-natured ragging and most of it meant to be constructive, but it didn’t help my stress levels. My hands (predominantly my thumbs) ended up getting quite a bit of oil on them during portioning and man does it hurt! No significant or visible burns, but I felt like they were virtually unusable afterward :lol:. It’s tough work, but others become very efficient at it and I’m sure I will to. At least, decently so.

My primary physical complaint is that for some reason, I get an awful pain in the middle of my upper back and I need to find stretches & exercises that’ll reach that specific point and keep it from happening when I work the position. I asked the shift manager what she recommends, and she just mentioned stretching but apparently swimming helps her, so maybe I’ll trying that. It’s good timing since it’s starting to get warm out and there’s pool just across the driveway

Maybe I can get the husband to give the painful spot a little work over.