Full Panic

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This is a follow up to yesterday's renovation post. Management made us believe this was going to be a smooth transition. When I picked up Andrew after his shift last evening, I should have read the unspoken signs. He finished at the time they were closing for renovations. The person they sent to keep new customer's from coming in and letting everyone else out was Vanessa. That's either a stroke of genius or more likely a sign that the script if there ever was one is lost. Vanessa is not cut out to guard a door. She claims to be 4'11" but I think she says that because she just wants us to believe she's close to five feet tall. She is the quietest, sweetest little lady I've ever worked with. Next to my own kids she's easily my favourite co-worker. She just has some limitations and telling people something they don't want to hear is one of them. Fast forward to 6:30 this morning, thirty minutes before our planned reopening. The regular maintenance guy just called in sick and all the other alternates are already in doing other things to try and get the restaurant ready. Management was in full panic mode. It was stressful and initially it bothered me but as the day progressed I found it more amusing than anything else. We managed to open just before 9:00 am. Only two hours late. Apparently that was thirty minutes faster than our sister store managed. I don't know why no one saw this coming. Anyone else had a stressful day today?