Things are HEATING UP at Blockbuster.

I'm standing there. Wiping the sweat off my brow with the sleeve of my shirt. It's 32 degrees. Couldn't ask for nicer weather. Problem is, I'm friggen inside. Worse yet, I'm at friggen work. To top it off, it's only friggen 26 degrees outside. That's right, I'm at Blockbuster and it's an unexaggerated 32 degrees inside the building. Here's a little back story. A few weeks ago our A/C crapped out on us and was repaired a day or so later. So I already experienced one shift of clothes sticking to my slightly moist skin. Temperature weren't too bad that time, only 25/26 degrees. Week later, A/C craps out again, this time it's the whole damn system. I called instantly to get some repair guy there. "Well dispatch someone right away" they say. The day rolls on and I get this phone call at 4, "Um, our guy got caught up at the last job so he won't make it until after hours. That will cost more, so is first thing tomorrow okay?" I said okay, cuz what the hell did I care, my shift was ending and I wasn't in for two days. Anywho, it gets repaired again but not until I roasted during that shift as well. But this time I was a little smarter, opened up the door, set up some fans and had a nice little air flow. Record temp that shift 27. So then came this weekend. Let's count the many crap things about Saturday's shift. 1. World Cup soccer (futball, to true fanatics). This is EXTREMELY popular in the GTA, therefore meaning less customers. 2. Game six of Stanley Cup playoffs. Edmonton is involved. Edmonton is a Canadian team. It's hockey. It's the finals. Therefore, less customers. 3. It's extremely nice outside and it's saturday. If you are not a fan of soccer or hockey then you sure as hell weren't inside watching movies on a night like this one. Therefore, less customers. (If you haven't guessed yet, I'm implying that the store was as dead as Don Johnson's career. That's right! Take that Don Johnson! 4. DVD player wasn't working so therefore, no trailer tape, no movies, no music, no anything. Just silence. 5. The A/C was busted again. This was reason it was 30 degrees in the store. And finally 6. I had the worst case of swack, swalls and swass I have ever experienced in my life. I was walking all bull legged, like I had been ridin' buckin' broncos for hours. Picture this if you may. Rubbing your nut sack over some inverted duct tape, back and forth in a fluid motion. That's how sticky sweaty I was in the crotch region, thus causing my funny walk. Oh and I know you all wanted to know all of that. But I'm getting off topic. Ya so it was warm. Since I closed the store that night, I kept the fans on all night to try and move the air around and possible cool down the store for my Sunday opening shift. I get to work and low and behold it's kinda cool in there. I look at the thermostat, it reads 22 degrees. I'm happy but I know as the day gets warmer, so will the store. So I open up the door to let the cool morning air in to bring the temp down a little more inside. I also kept all the lights off for most of the day . But that soon became pointless cuz as the noon sun rose, so did the temperature. It climbed and climbed and by 2 it was 29 in the store, this is when I start calling head office people cuz I, nor the rest of the staff was going to want to work in this heat again. All I got were voicemails and no return phone calls. By 4 it was 32, our chocolate products were only keeping there shape cuz the packages made it so. But they were clearly mush inside. My shift ended at 5 but I was still making calls to get the situation resolved. Needless to say, I left without getting a response. As I write this it now dons on me, I work tomorrow as well. The A/C will still not be fixed and they are calling for another hot day. Looks like my the sweat glands in my ass are going to get another work out. I can't wait!