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  • #31
    I don't know what my schedule will be, but I told my boss I refuse to work 1st that day.

    I work at a gas station, in front of a Target, across the street from a WalMart, and down the street from a Kohl's, Best Buy, and God knows what else.

    I sincerely hope that A plans to have 2 people working 3rd the night before, for all the campers.
    I'm bringing disdain back...with a vengeance.

    Oh, and your tool box called...you got out again.

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    • #32
      I worked Black Friday last year at Macy's, and it wasn't any different/busier than a regular sale or weekend day. But that's just speaking from what I saw in my department, not sure what it was like in other parts of the store.

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      • #33
        I don't know about Black Friday, but I do know I've got the entire week of Christmas off. I'll be up in Chi-town with mom, drinking beer in smoky blues dives and checking out Second City Players.
        ...WHY DO YOU TEMPT WHAT LITTLE FAITH IN HUMANITY I HAVE!?! -- Kalga
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        • #34
          I'm not sure yet if I'll work until I know what the truck delivery schedule for Thanksgiving week will be.

          Either way, we'll be dead all morning, then it'll pick up a bit around lunchtime. Black Friday is the slowest day of the year for grocery stores.

          Which we'll need to recoup from the Nightmare Before Turkey Day, when all Hell breaks loose and we're bombarded with SC's out the wazoo.

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          • #35
            Much like DG, I too work in grocery, and BF and the following weekend are our last bit of slow time. Our Christmas rush picks up the first weekend of December and just snowballs from there through Christmas Eve, all the way up to close (we close early, at 7pm on CE). Our Black Friday is actually a six-day period starting one week from today and concluding the following Wednesday at close (midnight). I have the feeling I'll need to bring extra K-Y to work to keep up with the screwing we'll get. Thanksgiving itsself isn't bad--we close at 4pm and we only really see customers from 9 am (we open at 6, most jobs come in at 8) and 1 pm, and it's a paid holiday.

            Black Friday I'll be doing one of three things:

            a) Sleeping,
            b) Working a nice slow shift where depending on what department I'm in I can probably pretty much stand around and BS all day, or
            c) Sitting near the front of the line at Best Buy, grinning like an idiot, having maintained myself on chocolate and Dr. Pepper since 10 pm the previous evening.

            Any option sounds fun.
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            • #36
              Yeah, I'm looking forward to my second Black Friday in the mall, and depending, I may end up working two jobs that day.

              Luckily, gift card sales kick off that time of the year, so I'll be working my way to a big ol' commision check for that again.

              (Gurndigarn knows how small those commisions were, and thus knows how much I had to bust my butt as a part-timer to get a 50 dollar pre-tax check for that.)



              However, how to schedule is the issue. Do I overlap, do I double-up?

              I do know, however, that I plan to get some pizza from the pizza place in the mall for all the employees.
              Those who are loudest about their qualifications, tend to have the least merit to their claims.

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              • #37
                I'll be working. But, since I'm in a call center, all my customers will be trampling each other instead of bothering me

                I don't go in until 1130am, so by the time I get in, I'll have done any Black Friday shopping I'm going to do. My SO is already getting the Black Friday ads that have been leaked on the web and is developing a game plan. I swear, I can't get that girl to sit down and play any strategy games, but when it comes to planning our Black Friday attack plan she does it like a strategic genius.

                I haven't seen anything I'm really excited about this year. Last year, we got a new PC at CompUSA. They opened up at 9pm on Thanksgiving night, so I didn't even have to get up early for that one. The only thing I really want to do this year is hit Gamestop for any blowouts on used games.
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                • #38
                  Nothing like freaking out the Newbies. It's a small store, everyone works Black Friday, the sceduale has been up for two weeks. The look of horror as we describe last year to the newbies was priceless. Then the terror as they relize there is no changing the schedual. They will be traped. Like rats in a Mall.
                  I get to open, at 5:30 AM.
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                  • #39
                    Quoth Arcade Man D View Post
                    (Gurndigarn knows how small those commisions were, and thus knows how much I had to bust my butt as a part-timer to get a 50 dollar pre-tax check for that.)
                    I moved to route ops before they offered the commissions, so I'm not familiar with them at all. OTOH, they used to offer commisions on used game sales. I always thought it was a mistake to drop that commission, because used game sales had their own special brand of suck attached to them. I didn't look at the commission as "job well done" in most cases (although I did have a few techniques for increasing the number of sales I made); I looked at it as corporate saying "thank you for putting up with the idiots buying games".
                    Last edited by Gurndigarn; 11-10-2007, 01:06 PM.

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                    • #40
                      I'll be working opening shift as usual. 5am - 1pm (not as bad as it sounds, I normally work 6 -2). Everyone has to work that day. It always pisses the newbies off. We open at 6 and usually have at least 100-150 people waiting. I think that I am sort of warped because I almost enjoy working that day, its like "Idiots on Parade". I have also found that if you go into it expecting it to be crazy you don't seem to mind so much when it is.

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                      • #41
                        Quoth Gurndigarn View Post
                        I moved to route ops before they offered the commissions, so I'm not familiar with them at all.
                        $5 books were 25 cents each
                        $10 cards were 50 cents each
                        $20 cards (with free $5 book) were 75 cents each.

                        I probably made a good 7 bucks in those off one regular, though.

                        OTOH, they used to offer commisions on used game sales. I always thought it was a mistake to drop that commission, because used game sales had their own special brand of suck attached to them. I didn't look at the commission as "job well done" in most cases (although I did have a few techniques for increasing the number of sales I made); I looked at it as corporate saying "thank you for putting up with the idiots buying games".
                        Eh, they bring those back for about two months, between October and Thanksgiving now.
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                        • #42
                          A while back I requested that Friday off as well as the weekend that follows (we have Thanksgiving off, so that'd be a nice little five day break as I have Mondays off). I'm hoping since I have a bit of seniority that I get those days off.
                          DS Andy Cartwright: Everyone and their mums is packin’ round here!
                          Nicholas Angel: Like who?
                          DS Andy Wainwright: Farmers.
                          Nicholas Angel: Who else?
                          DS Andy Cartwright: Farmers’ mums.

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                          • #43
                            I'm always working in toys that day. Always. And where are the other "associates?" WHERE?!? No, just me, and 5 "guests" in line asking if we have more in the back. "More in the back?" "Any more in the back?" God damn, woman, do you not see me rushing in with piles of Cabbage Patch Bratz Aqua-Dots (with free rufies) to fill the empty shelves of crap that wasn't on sale?

                            Seriously, people, you don't need to have the government/corporations to tell you when it's okay to shop for christmas! Hell, if you want to do it in September, for cripe's sake do it! For cryin' out loud, the Canadians don't have to wait for the Santa Claus parade to be over the week before.

                            Take a day to digest the carbs and talk to your damned family. It's nice. It's peaceful. Sleep in.

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                            • #44
                              Quoth Can I Help Your A$$? View Post
                              Take a day to digest the carbs and talk to your damned family. It's nice. It's peaceful. Sleep in.
                              I'm off Wednesday, Thursday, and I don't have to work Friday until 5. And I work at a restaurant. And it's not anywhere near the mall or a shopping center .

                              So my family and I can just sleep in and cook a huge breakfast like we used to before the days of retail hell. And just drink and play board games Thanksgiving night at Grandma Goose's house. Some people get a kick out of waking up at the butt crack of dawn to shop. I hate shopping. And waking up.
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                              • #45
                                That wretched time period where customers beat the crap out of each other for most things means I stay in. I hate shopping, I hate the general public at this time of year, and I just cannot stand the traffic and then you add in snow and it's hell. And people think I'm loony for sleeping in till noon at this time.
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