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Thomamelas posted:Waldenbooks was my first retail job. By retail standards it wasn't bad. Sunday nights I would get the 6pm to 12 am shelving shift. There is something very relaxing about taking a cart of books and just putting them in alphabetical order. Two other coworkers did that shift and we had full control of the sound system. So we'd each put in a few CDs and hit random. You'd get this mix of 90's metal, showtunes and bits from comedy albums. Which shouldn't work but it kind of did. Back then you could ask him if you'd get a bonus without getting reprimanded for a bad attitude
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I worked at a CompUSA in high school, and the best part was getting printer cables at cost because back then no printers came with their own cable. And the loving things cost like $50 retail, but under $1 at store cost. I also had to stock the shelves when Windows 2000 was being released and we had to put them in huge plastic security cases because they were also crazy expensive, like $300, and software was incredibly easy to steal. We had a badass ex-Polish military manager who would absolutely ignore the corporate mandate to not follow or confront shoplifters outside the store and he once tackled a guy who was making his way out with an armload of software. One of the best parties of my life would have passed me right on by if I hadn’t worked at that stupid place.
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We didn't get a Steve and Barry in our mall until like 2003 but I loved that store.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Yeah, turns out he was pretending the entire time.  Hey, remember Sonique? No, not the MP3 player, this lady: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zns8Y8phigk Man, what a fantastic song.
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Trabant posted:
Oh dang, I forgot about this song. I listened to this so much back then.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Back then you could ask him if you'd get a bonus without getting reprimanded for a bad attitude She, but yeah. She was a pretty good boss, and a great one for retail. No random fuckery with the schedule. When she needed coverage, she didn't ask someone to close who was opening. She might not have given me the raise if I asked but she would have just said no. And not tried to imply I was an rear end in a top hat for wanting it. Also it was the queerest place I ever worked. Everyone there was either LGBT+ or an ally.
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Trabant posted:
Heh, I lost my V-card to that song.
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Cartoon Man posted:https://www.avclub.com/beavis-and-butt-head-do-the-universe-new-movie-announce-1848544271
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Not that it matters, but this will make, what, a third Beavis and Butthead continuity? Original series + movie. Reboot series circa 2011 New series where they are old (well, like middle-aged, the age they would be if they aged in real time since their debut), set in modern times. Sort of a continuation of the first series. This series, which is still I guess the continuity from the first one, but "alternate" because of a black hole, or something.
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Cartoon Man posted:https://www.avclub.com/beavis-and-butt-head-do-the-universe-new-movie-announce-1848544271 Rocko's Modern Life already did it.
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Happy Landfill posted:Two strawberry and...orange, I think the second one was? They were real good 10/10 I think they are Spanish Spanish not Latin American Spanish.
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mind the walrus posted:It's like Mike Judge and John K are in an eternal competition to see who can be more irrelevant with their 90s animated refuse. yeah but Judge still has all the goodwill from Silicon Valley, Idiocracy, his recent animated reboots, etc. to work off of the most relevant thing John K’s done since some animated backgrounds/etc for a Miley Cyrus tour during her first shock phase is getting MeToo’d
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Trabant posted:
don't remember which as-seen-on-tv comp this song was on, but i can say in spite of never hearing it all the way through i definitely know the hook that's going to be in my head all day now
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Thomamelas posted:Waldenbooks was my first retail job. By retail standards it wasn't bad. Sunday nights I would get the 6pm to 12 am shelving shift. There is something very relaxing about taking a cart of books and just putting them in alphabetical order. Two other coworkers did that shift and we had full control of the sound system. So we'd each put in a few CDs and hit random. You'd get this mix of 90's metal, showtunes and bits from comedy albums. Which shouldn't work but it kind of did. I loved working at Walden. Genuinely probably the happiest I ever was in retail. My managers all the way up to district were fair people and every single coworker was weird but in a sweet and harmless way. The manager who hired me remembered me from my dad bringing me to the store as a kid and that was really pretty sweet. I was crushed when the business went under. That last year of operation was just... Sad.
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Milo and POTUS posted:You can get laid and pay in 8 weeks? It’s called lay-away 
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Look at these lamestains swingin' on the flippity-flop wearing wack slacks like some kind of tom-tom club.
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You’re just jealous because you’re bound and hagged while they get to be big bags of bloatation. Harsh realm, cob nobbler
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I was catching up on the schadenfreude thread and I thought this'd fit this thread: https://imgur.com/2863QiH.mp4
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Mu Zeta posted:How the hell did Encino Man become a meme. How did Jeremiah Johnson? 
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"a dream of a superstore so grand, it would shake the foundation of entertainment marketing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqteqcR4uKg
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Animal-Mother posted:Holy poo poo. Did his music suck then or did that come later? It was horrible rap music. So it sucked, but in a different way.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HGW-6V7vHI
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dialhforhero posted:It’s called lay-away Layaway feels like a mad 90s things; do stores even do layaway anymore?
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Neito posted:Layaway feels like a mad 90s things; do stores even do layaway anymore? Not many or it’s not often advertised like it was back in the day. Walmart did it up until a year or two ago. I know Toys R Us was doing it until they went out of business.
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Neito posted:Layaway feels like a mad 90s things; do stores even do layaway anymore? TJ Maxx in my town still does it
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fartknocker posted:Not many or it’s not often advertised like it was back in the day. Walmart did it up until a year or two ago. I know Toys R Us was doing it until they went out of business. Theres a smallish chain of outdoors stores around me that I'm pretty sure does it, or did until recently, but it was more like "make down payment now, pay the remainder within 90 days", or 60 days or whatever. So basically two payments as opposed to IIRC, weekly or monthly payments of like 10% or some poo poo back in the day.
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Most department stores still do, especially if they sell larger appliances. There's not even a credit check most places, since you don't get the item till you pay it off. It's basically just saying, ill give you 20%-40% what you're asking right now and you'll honor that price in a month or two when I return with the rest.
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FilthyImp posted:Now they just get you to sign up for a credit card. I mean, I guess in retrospect this is the real answer. Cheap revolving credit accounts became popular starting in the 80s, right around the time you see lay-a-way start declining.
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Alternate universe Macaulay Culkin.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Alternate universe Macaulay Culkin. Thank god this univere's Culk ended up pretty cool
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