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    took me this long to recover. everything went relatively smoothly. S was yelling at us to keep our hats on forwards, not backwards like a bunch of "gangsters." meh. ill be glad when she's gone. i ran the trivia contest for the third time in a row and it went ok. there was one girl who was really obnoxious and annoying and kept asking me why i didn't call on her more often. she had already won like four prizes. she was practically on the stage with me waving her hand in my face. later when i was walking around on the floor handing stuff out she tried to reach in and grab some for herself. i slapped her hand. there was another group of teenagers that were trying the same thing, but after the third "oh hey can i get four more for my friends" i told them they were cut off. and then some guy came up and asked for ten so he could give them out as christmas gifts. S happened to be standing there at the time, and she was like "no." even i was astounded by the sense of entitlement that guy had. just because its free doesn't mean you get as many as you want. jerk.

    the costume contest consistently gets the most complaints. the employees wander around and pick their favorites and then the top three are announced and they win some prizes. K announced winners at 10pm. a lady walks up to me at 10:03 and asks what happened. "well, she announced the winners already."

    "but i was told to be here at 10, and its only 10:03."

    "oh, im sorry you missed it. she must have done it just a few minutes early. but the winners were announced."

    "that's not fair."

    "pardon?"

    "i was told to be here at 10."

    "well, all she did was announce the winners. the employees wandered around and picked the top 3. the 10pm thing was just to gather everyone so she could announce the winner, there wasn't like a parade or anything."

    "unbelievable. that's not fair."

    "um, ok, if you feel that way im sorry, but it was done to the best of our abilities. if you'd like to speak to a manager--"

    "i will."

    dude, come on. you are 40 years old and dressed like a slutty version of elvira. the contest was only for kids anyways. she compained to all the managers, like they have nothing better to do than to listen to your whiny ass complain about a damn costume contest.

    and then at 1130 when we started lining people we were trying to keep the main aisle and the front doors as clear as possible. you know, in case of a fire or something. me, M, T, S, and H were all walking up and down the main aisle shouting at people to keep clear. if their number was in the 500s or something, they needed to be in the back of the building, not hovering lilke they were first. we got the aisle clear for maybe 30 seconds before these douchebags closed it up again. someone asked me where i wanted them to go and i said, "it doesn't matter. just as long as you're not in the main aisle or in front of the door." i was hoarse and tired by that point and politeness had gone out the window about an hour ago. M got up on a chair and yelled "if you don't want a Great White incident up in here, move out of the main aisle, thank you."

    and then the people who didn't reserve a copy were milling about outside and we had to keep yelling at them to get out of the middle of road. one of my coworkers got called a ridiculous bitch because she wouldn't let her in. it was almost 2am and pretty much everyone was out. we were on the last 3 people and S told us to not let anyone else in.

    aya. thank god its over.
    Kim: She's got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.

    I'd like to exercise my constitutional right to not give a fuck.

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    Quoth B&NGoddess View Post

    dude, come on. you are 40 years old and dressed like a slutty version of elvira.
    For a second I thought she was a guy, I had to go to the beginning and read the lady part. There's a lovely image.
    How was I supposed to know someone was slipping you Birth Control in the food I've been making for you lately?

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    • #3
      Quoth Soulstealer View Post
      For a second I thought she was a guy, I had to go to the beginning and read the lady part.
      Same here.
      Unseen but seeing
      oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
      There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
      3rd shift needs love, too
      RIP, mo bhrionglóid

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      • #4
        I was glad to see all our Bellatrixes were grown-ups, at least. All the little girls were Hermiones and Ginnys. And we had one Harry Potter who looked just like the kid from A Christmas Story. We had a magician/juggler guy but he had to do his stuff outside with people watching through the window cuz there just wasn't any room inside for him to move. He also came in handy for keeping the line outside entertained. Apparently he lives down the street from the store's community relations manager so he was "recruited" for free.

        I spent most of the night outside checking people in. It was a nice night and except for a few wind gusts that almost blew away the wristbands it was fun. We were well over capacity, though...max is 750, after that they were just lining people up along the side of the building on the other side of the door from where our table was. By 10 it went all the way to the pizza place 4 stores down. If you were stuck outside, it didn't matter what number you had, though. I wasn't inside when they started lining people up but they started with groups of 50, and as the inside people started leaving they started letting the outside line in, so pretty much wherever you were in line was where you were. The numbers really didn't matter at that point. My friend got to stand on the info desk with a megaphone when announcements needed to be made. I think she had fun doing that.

        Oh, yeah, I was wearing my hat backwards, too...no one said anything. It came in handy today when I got to work in the pouring rain. I had left it in my car so I wore it into work. Kept my glasses dry! Made my coworker jealous cuz she wanted one. She went to the party at one of the stores but she didn't volunteer to work so she didn't get one. She'll have to hope the other guy in the office who volunteered is feeling generous when he comes back from vacation, but I have a feeling if anyone is gonna claim it it'll be one of his girlfriend's kids...
        I don't go in for ancient wisdom
        I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
        It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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        • #5
          Look at the bright side:



          NO MORE! IS DONE!

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          • #6
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            • #7
              I finally have the photos from my store's party up. All 160 of them.
              Yes, you read that right. *faints with exhaustion*

              If anyone is interested, PM me and I'll give you the link and password. We had an AWESOME Harry (he was at the last one too - I want to get those photos up also) and a really good Tonx and Bellatrix also. I had a blast. Wish the store had organized it a little better, but what can ya do?!

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              • #8
                Quoth BookstoreEscapee View Post
                My friend got to stand on the info desk with a megaphone when announcements needed to be made. I think she had fun doing that.
                Anytime you can stand on something and yell at customers, it will be fun. I got to do something similar at Woodstock 99, working the main gate one day. Our duty that morning was checking that people either had a wristband or ticket on as they enter. During slow times, we'd stand on the ground watching, but if it got busy, we'd climb partway up the scaffolding that they had set up, so we could look down into the crowd. Caught a few people trying to sneak in by standing in the middle of a group. A simple "hey you" would sometimes get their attention, but their was one guy I remember I had to bop on his head to get his attention.

                Now, for anyone that that thinks that was harsh, here's the other end of the spectrum. These wristbands, after being out in the sun for three days would fade, and many people wanted new ones as souveiners. Since we had a limited number, we could only replace damaged ones. One girl comes up and shows me her sunbleached band, asked for it to be replaced. I tell her only if it somehow gets damaged/broken, wink wink. Minute later she comes back up and shows me her damaged wristband. "Oh my goodness" I say, "how could that have happened?" as I take the bad one and put a new one on her wrist.

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