It's the most wonderful time of the year

[Jester]

Yeah, but then you have to have a tarp or something so the bodies aren't visible through the back window and who needs that extra hassle?

I have three additional words for you: dark tinted windows.

[Amethyst Hunter]

I have three additional words for you: dark tinted windows.

Even better, two words: SEMI-TRUCK!

[MadMike]

Wouldn't be easier just to use one of these?

[Barefootgirl]

Mike is right. Besides, after you've chipped them, you can use the, er, mulch, as fertiliser. Brings your roses up a treat.

[morgana]

Mike is right. Besides, after you've chipped them, you can use the, er, mulch, as fertiliser. Brings your roses up a treat.

Also wonderful for fattening piggies for bacon . . .

[CrazyCashierGuy]

That would be the place. Give the man a cookie!

The part about management caving in and giving crappy customers what they want and a gift card was a dead giveaway. Thank god I only work there about 14 weeks a year.

[Retail Associate]

The part about management caving in and giving crappy customers what they want and a gift card was a dead giveaway. Thank god I only work there about 14 weeks a year.

Are you a College student? I won't ask which hellho....I mean, which store you work at, but we have a few young college students who work as cashiers during the summer and Christmas breaks. You just may be one of them.

We once had a woman at the service desk for over three hours giving the clerk/management a helluva time. THREE HOURS! The clerk was in tears and nearly hysterical.

I don't know what her beef was but they gave in to the bitch. This woman is in there all the time and used to work there. I've waited on her at the jewelry counter and am as nice as is humanly possible because I don't have 3 hours to deal with her whining.

I will never understand the reasoning behind any establishment wanting those kind of people to return to their place of business.

[CrazyCashierGuy]

Yep, except in Indiana we're ununionized.

My first boss would have gotten the company sued one night if I had known that I can not be clocked in against my consent. Fortunately he later got fired for embezzlement, so all is good.

Our store managers also are a bit more rational down here it seems, they dont usually have us doing "projects" in busy stretches of the day.

[Retail Associate]

Yep, except in Indiana we're ununionized.

My first boss would have gotten the company sued one night if I had known that I can not be clocked in against my consent. Fortunately he later got fired for embezzlement, so all is good.

Our store managers also are a bit more rational down here it seems, they dont usually have us doing "projects" in busy stretches of the day.

We're unionized here in Michigan, too but it doesn't mean crap. The UFCW stinks!

The ass manager that always wants projects done on busy days is new. This isn't the first time I've had to tell him that working on a project is impossible when I'm the only one there to cover all these areas. I'd never even make it to the back room because the phones ring constantly.

I'll give him a few months and he'll be just like the rest of the managers...invisible!

[4Gifts4Lisa]

OMG they do NOT leave poopy/bloody underwear. Do they? Are you serious? Joking? I have to know.

[chainedbarista]

sadly enough, lisa, it's a true story; i've heard tales and observed some things that are bad enough to make your soul shrivel.

[Retail Associate]

OMG they do NOT leave poopy/bloody underwear. Do they? Are you serious? Joking? I have to know.

Oh, yes they do. About 2 months ago I had gone into one of the fitting rooms to get all the clothes people had left behind. I tossed them into a shopping cart and began refolding and rehanging them.

At the bottom of the pile I noticed 3 pair of boys underwear rolled up in a ball. The empty package was lying next to them. I began to unwad the underwear when something squished in my hands.

Some little boy had pooped his pants. His mother must have grabbed a package of three off a peg and stole a pair so her precious would have clean underwear to put on. Rather than keeping the soiled ones seperate, she decided to wrap them up inside the remaining two new pair.

People are disgusting.

[DesignFox]

"something squished..." EWWW...I can just imagine that...and almost feel it myself... THAT "made my soul shrivel"!!

Oh, and just make sure you put a tarp down when you use the Those things get rather messy...

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

If I accepted a hug from a customer, I'd get written up for sure.

[Channard]

I was thinking about why Christmas doesn't appeal as much as it did a couple of years ago. Yes, my dad's passed away a couple of years ago, so we have to have Christmas without him and that sucks. But that's not the main reason. What really sucks the fun out of Christmas for me is knowing that the day after Christmas I'll be working. Just thinking about it fills me with hate, seeing all those people standing outside the doors like zombies. I just get so bloody annoyed thinking about the stampede I'll have to face on Boxing Day. And the fact that there's always a few idiots who always ask us to throw in free stuff, oblivious to the fact that people are queing up to buy our electronics stuff. I admit I'm not what you'd call a people person, but the sheer thought of Boxing Day just pisses me off so much.