I never shop on Black Friday, in fact I barely shop in person at all anymore. I get most of my stuff online these days, it's way easier. And I don't like retailers that stay open on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, it's so not fair to the people who have to work that madness.
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The company I work for does retail credit. While the company is closed Thursday & Friday, I am on-call this weekend. I don't expect any problems out of my systems, but you never know when you will end up as collateral damage to a DDOS attack on someone else.
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I have to work the new job (quit WalMart flat out a few weeks ago) which is an online used book store. Should be interesting, I'll prolly be safe this year as I'm in receiving and prolly too new to me moved to picking or shipping since I just started a week ago.Seph
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Quoth WishfulSpirit View PostJumping the gun a bit Irv? We aint even to Turkey Day yet. Though I do look forward to hearing the stories.
*Edit: and wondering why things aren't on sale yet.Flood
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Quoth telecom_goddess View PostI never shop on Black Friday, in fact I barely shop in person at all anymore. I get most of my stuff online these days, it's way easier. And I don't like retailers that stay open on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, it's so not fair to the people who have to work that madness."Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably
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Quoth Food Lady View PostThis is exactly how I feel. Now that I have Thanksgiving and Friday off and could shop I will not, on principle. The only thing I'll go for is groceries. There is no reason for me to be near that mall.I am staying the heck home! (Except for going to the Post Office on Friday, that can't be helped.)
Though to be fair, the fabric store has always been closed on Thanksgiving Day, all day, and in recent years has spread "Black Friday" sales to Wednesday and Friday, splitting up the chaos into more manageable pieces. I think that's much better than making employees have to give up their holiday and time with family.I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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I'm off today and tomorrow...wound up with some cold from hell probably from a CW (or public transportation, who knows...I did get my flu shot early though so it's not that). Planning to stay in today, I might venture out tomorrow. Mom's working today so we're planning to have our 'big' dinner tomorrow and invite a friend over.
And I just found out my debit card was compromised..woohoo. Luckily no money was taken as the bank's fraud center caught it immediately (I never increased the limit on the card so the big non-test transaction was automatically declined). I think I can track down exactly where/when the breach occurred, I'll see if I can get the timestamps from the bank when I go tomorrow to replace my card."I am quite confident that I do exist."
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I've been out of retail for years, though I am still working tomorrow. I refuse to set foot in a store today or tomorrow, period. To anyone that has to work today, you have my sympathy. For tomorrow, good luck, and remember that shoes are throwable as well as bludgeoning.Cheap, fast, good. Pick two.
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Quoth XCashier View PostThough to be fair, the fabric store has always been closed on Thanksgiving Day, all day, and in recent years has spread "Black Friday" sales to Wednesday and Friday, splitting up the chaos into more manageable pieces. I think that's much better than making employees have to give up their holiday and time with family.
This is my first Black Friday I haven't worked in some years now. I wouldn't shop it (though one store tempted me with a sale on socks) but I couldn't anyway since they decided to do a semi-optional cleaning day at my work. We originally had Tuesday-Friday off, only working on Monday. They're installing new equipment and we can't do any production those days. We get paid 8 hours for Thanksgiving, so that's two days pay. Basically they said, if you're one of the ones hurting due to the days off this week, come to clean up after the installers for a short day. (I'd guess maybe 6 hours) Obviously I'm going in.Last edited by notalwaysright; 11-23-2017, 07:58 PM.Replace anger management with stupidity management.
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Currently embedded in the checkout line at the swamp. So many people.
ETA: note to self- if I decide to play music on my phone to pass the time, bring earbuds next year. Mastodon doesn’t exactly fit the holiday spirit.
ETA: shit overheard in line: “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is a lame movie.”
We’ve found a witch. May we burn her?
ETA: the po-po just went into the LP room. Somebody’s getting coal in their stocking.
ETA: I survived. Throw me a party.Last edited by Irving Patrick Freleigh; 11-23-2017, 10:59 PM.Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.
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