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I don't know about you guys, but the first thing I think when I'm getting hitched is "how will this impact my coworkers?" It is none of your business when someone else decides to get married. None. At. All.
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To be fair, I'm more upset that we've lost an experienced, capable manager. Replacing her will involve bringing in a new person at a time of the year when that kind of change in leadership will be most detrimental to the efficacy of the team; even if the replacement has experience in the role, they'll be trying to find their footing in this store's workflow. This will be on top of the other managers having to work around the groom's absence during, again, the shittiest time of year. I'm not saying he can't get married whenever he wants. I'm saying they should never have hired him for a manager role, knowing full well that he would not be available when we need him most. That's on management, not on him. (I am also mad at this guy for being a simpering piece of poo poo, however. So that probably colours my posting on this matter.)
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Nov 24, 2014 17:48
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:To be fair, I'm more upset that we've lost an experienced, capable manager. Replacing her will involve bringing in a new person at a time of the year when that kind of change in leadership will be most detrimental to the efficacy of the team; even if the replacement has experience in the role, they'll be trying to find their footing in this store's workflow. This will be on top of the other managers having to work around the groom's absence during, again, the shittiest time of year. Clearly your store leadership wasn't too concerned with any of this, or they'd have made concessions and allowed the other manager time off during the holidays rather than have them quit.
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Nov 25, 2014 02:21
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Since the store that I've worked at has been built, the only day that we've been closed is Christmas. Today, management has informed us that we will be open this year. Thanks for not only the minimal notice but also the fact there is no benefit to the employees to work Christmas day whatsoever.
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Nov 25, 2014 04:17
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Duckman2008 posted:I do think planning your own wedding specifically in December is irresponsible if you work retail. What if their partner could only get off work in December? We had to change our wedding date four times because of my husband's job. If you only saw it from my side without knowing the other half I'd look like a giant indecisive dickbag but I really had no choice. My boss gave me poo poo for taking off time for my wedding (he claimed I didn't give enough notice but it was on the calendar for AT LEAST 6 months in advance) but it eventually blew over.
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Nov 25, 2014 04:25
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"Look, I know walking down the aisle is important to you, I'm just asking why you won't consider walking down aisle 4?"
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Nov 25, 2014 07:51
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http://imgur.com/gallery/eohZwLa Fess up. Which one of you was this?
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Nov 25, 2014 11:28
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Today is going to suck. Tuesday before Thanksgiving AND we're expecting 6-10 inches of snow tomorrow 
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Nov 25, 2014 15:03
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Kilonum posted:Today is going to suck. Tomorrow will be worse At my whole foods we had 600 turkey orders for Wednesday. gently caress And 6-10 inches of snow means it will be the worst 12 hours ever Oh and my dad had a heart attack last night so this week can just gently caress off
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Nov 25, 2014 15:13
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Pumpy Dumper posted:Tomorrow will be worse Snow won't be as bad for you guys inside 128. Not that anyone pays attention to those prediction maps, they just hear the worst amount and freak out.
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Nov 25, 2014 15:21
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Kilonum posted:Snow won't be as bad for you guys inside 128. Not that anyone pays attention to those prediction maps, they just hear the worst amount and freak out. Yeah people heard "40% chance of 12 inches or more" and immediately did the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6zaVYWLTkU
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Nov 25, 2014 15:25
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Today's my day off, so only 2 more days before this poo poo is over. I'll take Christmas over Thanksgiving any time. Stupid poo poo from the last few days: -Observing idiots lifting up all sizes of turkeys by using the paper price tag attached to the turkey, price tag predictably tears off. Even worse when they're just looking around for that perfect size turkey, so I've witnessed 1 person rip off 3 price tags. USE THE NET HANDLE M'AM. -Got to have a precise sized turkey. I can understand not wanting to go under your wanted needs, but going .75 lbs over isn't going to ruin your dinner!! -"Can I have a two rib, rib roast." "Sure no problem, brb" ... "Here you go." "Oh, that's way too much (6 lbs), I just need enough to feed two people." Sure lady, brb, I'll go cut you your 2 inch rib steak... - Had a rich guy tell me all about how he's spending a couple hundred dollars every day or two on his 10 dogs, feeding them tons of Salmon and turkey everyday, all the while having me price up some 16.99lb crab legs for his niece, and about a $30 lobster tail for himself. I was nice to the guy or course, but sucks seeing how he spends probably as much on food for a week than I make in a week. - Living in the warm south, means that rich people from the north flock to our area for the winter. That means, nobody knows where the hell things are, plus they're all old so none of them can see signs, or have the energy to find things. So we're constantly escorting slow, drooling, old people to products all day instead of stocking product. Of course as I'm waiting for said customers to catch up to me, another 2 old people ask me where things are  - Had a new young guy start couple weeks ago. I give him the simplest of tasks, price up hams and fresh turkeys. Most common mistake is that people forget to change the expiration date on the price tag to match the one on the product. Of course it happened to the new guy, but he managed to do it three separate times on the same item, even with a reminder note next to the machine and me explaining his error and the importance of correcting that particular error. Also the new guy is slow, slower than he should be with the given task. Type in one item in the machine, and you're set for a full pallet of product. Dude barely could get through half pallet within 3 hours. Again, I took the nice route and just simply showed him how I would do it to blitz through it. Came back in the morning, and the dude still barely got poo poo done. I felt like going in passive aggressive mode and tell him that in the past ten years, anybody new we hired during the holiday could do several pallets within 3 hours, but I heard rumors that he already wants out, so why bother? Eventually he got a total of 1 1/2 pallet of hams done in 3 days with about at least 2 to 3 hours of uninterrupted time each of those days.
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Nov 25, 2014 19:17
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Less than an hour to go today. At least I got to see a beautiful sunset while collecting carts 
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Nov 25, 2014 23:06
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ijii posted:Today's my day off, so only 2 more days before this poo poo is over. I'll take Christmas over Thanksgiving any time. I feel you We got 600 turkey orders at my store. But our store has the worst order tracking system I've ever had. And at my first job we just wrote orders on a big piece of cardboard. I'm hoping to god we have enough to cover all the orders.
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Nov 26, 2014 02:41
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We got a new woman in my department the other week (and another two new people - one the week before that, and one last week, and they're actually decent and getting better). She goes to pieces mentally at the slightest difficulty, and can't get roughly two hours of work done given eight hours. There is no amount of work that she could be presented with that would not be too much for her and cause her to get ridiculously stressed out. Also she is skeletally thin with about the expected muscle mass and impact on her ability to do anything requiring the least bit of strength. She literally couldn't pull the trigger on a perfectly functional price gun forcefully enough to consistently print labels from it. I don't really understand how that is even possible. I feel sorry for her because she's obviously got some serious issues but she's also by far the most incompetent person I've worked with, really annoying, and kind of freaky looking. Literally everybody that's worked with her for any length of time already hates her and she'll probably be gone soon but I have no idea how she was hired unless the store manager just decided to hire people sight unseen because it's the holidays.
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Nov 26, 2014 03:52
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I've dealt with some real special ones like that. The kind who can't or won't learn how to use the scan/pricing guns are the best because they're utterly useless at ANYTHING else too! And of course because they need constant micromanaging to get things right, you're not actually saving any time or labor by adding them to the team. You just have to babysit them constantly instead of getting your own poo poo done. Woo, holiday hires!  Actually I get the next two days off and close on Friday so I can go into a proper turkey coma for the first time in five years and not have to interrupt it to go into work. So thankful for the small things in life...
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Nov 26, 2014 04:10
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Since we were talking about lovely schedules a few pages ago, mine is awful too. Just finished a 6pm-3am and go in on Thanksgiving 6pm-2am and back in on Black Friday for 1pm-9pm. Oh and I get to come in on Saturday morning at 5:30am for a truck. gently caress this time of year.
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Nov 27, 2014 10:53
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Anyone else doing a Secret Santa at work? We do one every year at my store. Last year, gift cards and items from the store were forbidden, but this year, they're allowed if the person explicitly says they want them on their note. I got one of our new Christmas temps, so I don't really know the guy at all. His paper just says that he loves reading and watching stuff about teens and high school and that he shops at the store where we work. The fact that you shop at a major retailer that sells media doesn't do a lot to indicate his tastes outside of Melrose Place and Vampire Diaries.
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Nov 27, 2014 17:53
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Nessa posted:Anyone else doing a Secret Santa at work? I imagine Dawson's Creek DVD sets are super cheap these days.
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Nov 27, 2014 23:58
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Nessa posted:Anyone else doing a Secret Santa at work? See if you can find some books from the Vampire Beach series. They're terrible and he'll probably love them.
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Nov 28, 2014 04:57
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You guys are awesome and I sympathize with everyone who had to work today. You all deserve so much more.
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Nov 28, 2014 06:00
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Wow I was so lucky today. I was supposed to be doing crowd control for black Friday but when I got there my manager said he needed me in the backroom. gently caress yes let me screw around in the back away from all the madness.
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Nov 28, 2014 09:02
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i'm so sorry for all of you who work today. i worked a black friday once at a radioshack and it sucked and i was fortunate enough to get a 12 hour closing shift so i cant imagine what it must be like to work a store people actually want to shop at
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Nov 28, 2014 13:58
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Man, I'm sure there are Targets out there where being open all night made sense, but mine was not one of them. The initial rush made time fly by, but then midnight hit, and while we weren't *dead*, we certainly weren't doing the kind of business where it made sense to keep me and two other cashiers until 3 AM.
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Nov 28, 2014 21:43
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The Lord of Hats posted:Man, I'm sure there are Targets out there where being open all night made sense, but mine was not one of them. The initial rush made time fly by, but then midnight hit, and while we weren't *dead*, we certainly weren't doing the kind of business where it made sense to keep me and two other cashiers until 3 AM. Some of us were just doing our part to not shop today, hoping that retailers will stop making your poor souls have to work ridiculous hours on a loving holiday.
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Nov 28, 2014 22:55
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Nocheez posted:Some of us were just doing our part to not shop today, hoping that retailers will stop making your poor souls have to work ridiculous hours on a loving holiday. The world doesn't stop spinning just because it's a holiday, man.
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Nov 29, 2014 05:55
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blackmet posted:I imagine Dawson's Creek DVD sets are super cheap these days. We don't actually have any Dawson's Creek, but I'm pretty sure they aren't on sale anyway. Got him "Perks of being a Wallflower" and some various edible sweets. I worked today, but it actually wasn't too busy. Our Black Friday sale is from Thursday to Monday and we had a ton of snow. Enough snow to close the schools and for the news to tell people to avoid all non-essential travel for the day. My store is downtown, where we get mostly business people on their lunch breaks, so a lot of people looked out their windows this morning and said "gently caress it, I'm not coming in to work today."
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Nov 29, 2014 07:20
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Nessa posted:We don't actually have any Dawson's Creek, but I'm pretty sure they aren't on sale anyway. Got him "Perks of being a Wallflower" and some various edible sweets. Perks of being a wallflower is excellent.
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Nov 29, 2014 11:56
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My first Black Friday in a while as a store manager, only had to deal with two meltdowns. Not too shabby.
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Nov 29, 2014 14:02
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Duckman2008 posted:My first Black Friday in a while as a store manager, only had to deal with two meltdowns. Not too shabby. Employee or customer?
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Nov 29, 2014 16:54
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I only had one issue for thanksgiving. Lady came in for a 10-12lb turkey but I literally only had 19+ left. She didn't have an order so I told here there was nothing I could do and she started to breakdown and just kept saying "I should've pre ordered" and all I could says was "yes, you should have"
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Nov 29, 2014 18:37
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Antifreeze Head posted:Employee or customer? Haha manager.
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Nov 30, 2014 06:43
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Ugh. It's a Marshmallow World and everybody in it can go suck a candy cane.
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I can't decide if I should be grateful to be unemployed during the holidays. One the one hand, no money, but on the other, no Black Friday.
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Dec 1, 2014 04:09
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How was black friday in your retail stores? I work at Whole Foods so it was busy but wasn't crazy. I feel like BF has to eventually stop because people are going to realize you can get better deals with cyber monday and cyber week.
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Black Friday for us was way slower than the norm- but this is also the first year that our chain had e-commerce available (Michaels is way behind the times when it comes to anything tech related). My first Black Friday 3 years ago we had all 7 registers open and there was still a line to the back of the store. This year we only had between 4 and 5 out of 7 registers up and there were maybe 6-8 people in line at any given time. Although to be honest our deals sucked this year- pretty much the only good sale was one particular Christmas tree which our store ran out of the weekend before Thanksgiving. 
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Dec 1, 2014 14:52
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Of course. We got our first angry customer just 5 minutes after the doors opened Friday over that tree. Just enough time for the customer to make a beeline to the tree forest, find out it was gone, and then head up to the front and demand a manager.
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What's so great about tree 117?
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Honestly, I don't know. It's 7.5' tall, has built-in lights, but we have another pre-lit in the same size and nobody seems to want that one. It's just ultra-premium, I guess, so everyone wants it because it's like $450. We have been out forever. My district manager told us to explain to customers that the shipping container carrying those trees from China fell off the boat and sank into the Pacific
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