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Not to dismiss your wound, but that looks surprisingly like the scar my 10 week old kitten left on my hand.
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Nov 26, 2013 06:53
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bowmore posted:That is pretty much all I've ever used. Over 8 years in retail I never cut myself on it. Ditto. The biggest problem with those is that literally nobody can hang onto the same cutter for more than a week. We keep a box of them in the warehouse, ask a manager to get ya one and that's about it. Uline must make a killing on those things.
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Nov 26, 2013 09:18
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They break too easy. They also get rusty from hand sweat. They also rip your pockets to shreds when they get old and loose and the blade sticks out and if you keep it in your top pocket it pokes your nipples sometimes. The moral of the story is just get a fresh box cutter.
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Nov 26, 2013 12:08
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There's a reason these exist:  (There's a 3rd one for electricians but I can't find it right now.) 1) Even skilled workers will eventually hurt themselves on sharp things. 2) People are idiots and it's probably a good idea to limit the ways they can get hurt.
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Nov 26, 2013 12:26
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I work 6-10 am and then 745 pm til midnight tomorrow. I'm wondering how many times I'll hear "oh, it's such a shame you have to work on Thanksgiving" from some customer as they unload $300 worth of crap onto the checkstand. It's kind of funny how they don't realize they're part of the problem.
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Nov 27, 2013 16:43
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Fortunately the big orange DIY store seems to have no plans to ever open on Thanksgiving. We only open an hour earlier than normal on Black Friday so it's not like anyone's coming in at ridiculous hours. Plus, I managed to wrangle a closing shift on Black Friday out of the store manager so I can avoid driving back in the middle of the night after consuming mass amounts of turkey and stuffing.
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Nov 27, 2013 16:54
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I can't wait to scarf down turkey with family at 3pm tomorrow, then drive home and drop my wife off so I can get to work by 6pm! At least I work in corporate IT, so my xbox is getting plugged into my second monitor and i'm playing GTAV all night unless something goes wrong. 
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Nov 27, 2013 17:43
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I was thankfully given a choice to work Thanksgiving or not and I chose not to. Not worth the time and a half, Thanksgiving and Christmas are the two holidays I enjoy the most and I'm not giving them up. However tonight I get to do one of my most awkward shifts as a rep, Grey Wednesday. I go in at night to "help set up" for Black Friday, which means stand around and occasionally move some boxes to make aisles and poo poo. The awkward part is it is the only time I'm ever scheduled to be in a store past closing, as someone who doesn't actually work for the store. It is just weird to be there as help when I'm there to represent one brand, do I only help when my brand is involved, do I just help in general. I usually just do the latter and make jokes that I won't touch the other brands, but it is still a weird shift. At least my company bought Subway for all the stores, so my store's employees get some free food tonight.
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Nov 27, 2013 20:21
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Corkscrew posted:Fortunately the big orange DIY store seems to have no plans to ever open on Thanksgiving. We only open an hour earlier than normal on Black Friday so it's not like anyone's coming in at ridiculous hours. Plus, I managed to wrangle a closing shift on Black Friday out of the store manager so I can avoid driving back in the middle of the night after consuming mass amounts of turkey and stuffing. Same thing here at the big blue DIY, including opening an hour early. I'll be opening, which I hear is the busy time because of all the internet orders placed on Thursday we have to fill. I'm closing tonight which means I get to arrange signs.
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Nov 27, 2013 21:29
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I hate Thanksgiving and Christmas and am happy to work over them when given the choice  (I understand most employees aren't given one)Guess I'm alone huh? Everyone I work with feels the same way I do. Holidays are for children.
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Nov 28, 2013 00:31
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I hate holidays because I work over them. Well, okay, our store is closed Christmas Day, but the lead up to it makes me hate it anyway. Also I had to work today, work tomorrow, and work Black Friday. And also because of  SNOW Sunday and Monday were ridiculously busy. Today was actually relatively tame by comparison - I think most people pushed their Thanksgiving grocery shopping forward, which we weren't really ready for, ignoring that we're already short handed. One of the workers in our department quit and finished her last shift on Friday, and the girl they pulled from cashiering to replace her wasn't asked if she wanted to work in our department. So she kind of threw a hissy fit and says she doesn't want to work here specifically because she wasn't asked (but if she was asked, she'd be ok with it!), so we've basically got this untrained person working in our department for a grand total of 5 days before she's put back up front again, and nobody knows what to do with her. During one of our busiest weeks of the year. Ugh.Thank goodness I work at a grocery store so AT LEAST Black Friday will not be so bad, or else I'd give some thought to ending it all by throwing myself under the Friday shopper stampede.
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Nov 28, 2013 01:49
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To all my retail brothers and sisters who are closing tonight, or doing black Friday prep work, I dedicate this to you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gklM1AiZX0s
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Nov 28, 2013 05:03
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Fingers crossed for all us goons. Be safe out there!
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Nov 28, 2013 13:00
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hahahaha our ecommerce site is down right now, good job developers.
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Nov 28, 2013 17:30
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Welp a made it home safe and sound. Got off a little early today, 3:00am-9:00am shift. Didn't have to deal with any rowdy customers, and now I have the house to myself to relax. I even got to get out of family gatherings because I "had work". Awesome.
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Nov 28, 2013 18:50
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Godspeed to all the Black Friday workers in here!
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Nov 28, 2013 20:19
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Best of luck to you poor souls.
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Nov 28, 2013 21:15
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My body is ready.
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Nov 29, 2013 01:48
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Drove past Wally World on my way to work just now and holy poo poo it's crazy, not a parking spot to be seen. Hope anybody working there now has a safe night.
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Nov 29, 2013 01:56
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Just gave my two week notice today, no more retail management for me. Now I get to start at the bottom of an actual Fortune 500 company and work my way up in a Career.
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Nov 29, 2013 02:22
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Good luck to anybody working Black Friday, I only had to do it once at a proper retail store but I wouldn't wish it on anyone 
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Nov 29, 2013 02:26
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T minus 7 hours till open. I probably should try to get some sleep.
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Nov 29, 2013 04:03
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YF19pilot posted:T minus 7 hours till open. I probably should try to get some sleep. We've been open for two hours, sucka. 
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Nov 29, 2013 04:17
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That was the single worst shift I've had in my three years of retail. It will probably be trumped by tomorrow.
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Nov 29, 2013 04:31
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devmd01 posted:We've been open for two hours, sucka. We haven't closed in over 11 months.  Holy hell that was madness. And I technically still have 45 minutes on the clock. I get off the the first 30 minutes of a flash sale. Like that'll happen. 
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Nov 29, 2013 04:38
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Foam Monkey posted:Drove past Wally World on my way to work just now and holy poo poo it's crazy, not a parking spot to be seen. Not only were all the parking spots taken, but people were parking in the undeveloped lot next to the Walmart by my dad's house around 6pm.
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Nov 29, 2013 06:22
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Reading this thread, the number one thing I'm thankful for is that I have a full time 8-5 job that doesn't require us to work on holidays, and especially not on Black Friday. Good lord, I feel sorry for everyone here that's having to deal with the crushing mass of consumerism.
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Nov 29, 2013 06:43
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Thankfully I don't have to go in until 10am tomorrow. But my cousin had to leave at 7pm to open for her job at a mall store and her sister goes in at 2am to work in a piercing kiosk in the mall. It's also her first official day of work, she's only had training before now. I pray for her sanity. All the people at my big blue electronics store weren't happy when they found out I was a given a choice if I wanted to work tonight and was able to say no.
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Nov 29, 2013 07:04
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Yay, 4 hour, 8pm-12am coffee bar poo poo shift down. Now I just have to wake up at 9am and do a 10 hour shift. And an 8 hour shift on Saturday. And probably another 8 hour shift on Sunday. gently caress everyone who thought it was appropriate to fling credit cards at me and/or raise hell because your exotic 'I'm special!' latte with 7 very specific instructions took a long time to make. It was also nice of the coffee bar manager to schedule only 3 loving people to work tonight while she sat on her rear end in her office doing fuckall. One would think a section/department manager would be working along-side her team during the busiest, most chaotic day of the year, but noooppeee. Then again, I remember this is retail where individuals absolutely incapable of demonstrating even basic leadership skills tend to get promoted from nepotism alone.
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Nov 29, 2013 09:46
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I stopped by my old gas station last night, and it's the same as it ever was. The cool GM is on his way out. May 26 was my last day, and they still haven't found someone to work my old hours. It's almost as if people shouldn't be expected to bust their asses for 8 bucks an hour and no benefits.
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Nov 29, 2013 11:18
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Reporting from lunch break. Not all that bad, have had busier days. Menards is loving god awful according to customers, I imagine walmart is the same. I get off in about two hours and will go home to enjoy my first playthru of Skyrim (an early adopter I am not) E: cut my damned hand on heavy paper when unwrapping a roll of vinyl flooring.
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Nov 29, 2013 16:22
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As someone who has never gone Black Friday shopping, I was forced by the in-laws to go to Walmart with them for their Black Friday "tradition" to get my mother-in-law a lovely $300 50 inch TV. Needless to say it was a horrific experience and I was literally disgusted by the way customers acted towards everyone in the store, both customers and employees. While I was not looking forward to coming into work today, I can at least be thankful that I am not subject to the masses. You guys are strong souls.
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Nov 29, 2013 17:22
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YF19pilot posted:Reporting from lunch break. Not all that bad, have had busier days. Menards is loving god awful according to customers, I imagine walmart is the same. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/28/walmart-fight-black-friday_n_4357939.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
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Nov 29, 2013 20:02
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My wife's Walmart isn't allowed to stay open for the overnight hell sales, but both yesterday and today were MASSIVELY busy. She works in a greatly understaffed "small store" so yesterday she got the joy of breaking down pallets to fill endcaps, checking for out of stock/generating picks, handing out bracelets for pre-Black Friday sales, and being the person in charge of one of the not-normally-sold-in-a-Walmart-"Hot"-"Items" when the sale started. She wasn't told about those last two things until five minutes before both started (5pm and 6pm respectively) AND she's not exactly up on electronics, so she had a pretty lovely Thanksgiving day. There were no incidents but it was still stressful. And the parking lot today was jam packed so today's gonna be more of the same. It was a marked change from how things were last year. Both Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday were complete dead zones. Yeah, last year was the only year they were allowed to stay open, but no one came out for the dead of night sales so it's not like these people were there last year. Kinda wondering how the bigger store in the area handled things, considering they are allowed to stay open overnight and once Black Friday is over, there's going to be a MASSIVE round of layoffs in the rank and file associates and they know it's coming.
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Nov 29, 2013 20:25
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Went in Wednesday night at 10pm, since it's our 6th consecutive truck, nothing went up and we stayed until 8:20 am backstocking it in our ridiculously overstocked stock room. Went in again Thursday at 8pm. The store was only packed for a couple of hours and then it died down. I had to do a double shift and help with the produce truck so I stayed until 9am. Just woke up from a nap, have to go back in at 2am. What did you pussies do with your Thanksgiving 
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Nov 29, 2013 21:44
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I wasn't looking forward to this Black Friday as much because I got moved from working on the floor to being the front of the line queue directing people to which register. First hour was fine, it was people who grabbed a handful of the stuff they knew they wanted and tried to get out asap. These people were nice and friendly and I could keep the line going decently. The next 1.5 hours was the people lucky enough to grab a cart and were loaded up. It was about 50/50 on the complainers and non complainers about the wait time in line. Plenty of "If I KNEW it was going to take this long, I wouldn't have bothered!" people I had to hear. Plus the line stopped dead compared to earlier because people were loaded up, groups of people were all intermingled in their carts and had multiple orders, so it wasn't nearly as smooth. After 1am we killed the line queue since it wasn't needed. That's what makes me laugh about the whole thing. 2 years ago, we opened at 5am FRIDAY and it was busy pretty much the whole time. Last year we opened up at 9pm Thanksgiving, and had a deadzone from 2am till 7am, which made sense, you're either gonna be there at the open, or you're gonna come after some other places that open at 5am. The same thing this year when we opened at 8pm, a deadzone after the rush. Sales have remained unchanged from 2 years ago. So you have a whole shift you have to add for pretty much no benefit. I do hope they get it thru their skulls that opening on Thanksgiving is a waste, but that's hopeful thinking on my part.
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Nov 29, 2013 22:02
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I work on furniture sales, which isn't too insane for black Friday. Still, I got to the store at 6 am, and I'll be here until after 7pm. Just now finally getting a break. I'm commissioned at least, so I'm making a lot of money today. Not like my poor sister who works at target and had a six hour shift last night, then a twelve hour shift today.
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I didn't work retail today for the first time since I've been working. My husband did, though. He's never so much as left the house on Black Friday. I'd been trying to prepare him for the battle and the devastation for weeks. The fool didn't listen. Right until the point we pulled up to the department store he works at, that is. When he saw all the cars, people parked in the grass and along the road, he looked like he might throw up. I tried to tell him, I really did. When he got off work, he practically ran to the car. I didn't even come to a complete stop before he had the door open. He had a rough day. He said he'd never had such an urge to just slap an old lady before. He had this older lady who was upset that they were out of stock of something she wanted. Apparently she demanded that my husband tell her why the hell they had allowed the store to run out of Super-Popular Item. Another was insistent that the red version of the coffee maker was somehow inferior to the black one, although she really wanted the red one. A third was upset that the red toaster was a different shade of red than the picture on the sopping-wet, smeared circular she brought with her. Also, apparently the store sent out circulars for Christmas deals. Deals that aren't available yet, and won't be for some time. Smart. Good job.
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I was lucky. As the lot attendant, I spent my whole shift gathering carts and helping people load, so I was safely outside the store and away from the ravenous hordes. I did get yelled at by an old bastard because I wouldn't open the door we were leaving locked to control the flow of people into the store. The door that didn't have a line in front of it and was on the other end of the building.
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