You can't do that in retail

[Racket_Man]

**** hands Irv some.....

either

1. eggnog with a little burbon

OR

2. burbon with a little eggnog

*****

Take your pick Sir

[Nemesis44UK]

I hope you find an elf impaled on your white picket fence.

Does it make me evil that I laughed a lot at this?

[Kristev]

Oh dear. I forgot the gingerbread bosses. Sweet revenge, literally.

[Jay 2K Winger]

And what is this emotion you humans call "wuv"? This concept of wuv confuses and infuriates us!

Wuv, twu wuv, will fowow you, fowevah...

[Rantsylvania 6-5000]

Oh wait...I already did.

Take A Letter Maria

To the Hosebag Who Bitched Me Out Because We Had Valentines Day Products On The Shelves, The Very Nerve:


This is because Christmas is only 4 days away, we have fuck-all left for Christmas stuff left to sell, and we can't just leave the shelves go empty to spare you the pain and mental anguish of looking at hearts and cupids and love things that you probably have no use for anyway.

No shit!

They seem to know that wage slaves are powerless. After all, they go running to the Almighty Corporate Gods when they want to complain about an employee, or to get free shit. If they don't like the seasons being pushed too early, they need to go to corporate with their complaints!

Does management know that you are doing this all by your lonesome, and the seasonal help is as useful as a screen door on a submarine? That's not fair at all, and it's past time management stepped in and lit a fire under them; what are they being paid for if they're not bothering to work?

In my experience, managers worship the useless employees, and shit on the hard workers. I don't get it either, but that's how most managers are.

Puts hot cocoa on the plate, with marshmellows. Also puts gingerbread shoppers. You can bite their heads off without getting fired.

Awesome!

Does it make me evil that I laughed a lot at this?

Yes. And we like you that way!

[Merriweather]

Merry Christmas to you too. I hope you find an elf impaled on your white picket fence.

Now, now, don't take it out on the poor elves. Hey, maybe you could somehow entice some elves into taking the place of your co-workers.....

At Random Craft Store, we already have a few spring things in but, surprisingly, no Valentines yet -- but it's coming. So is Easter. Just waiting for the compliants to come in.

The craft stores are the only places it actually makes sense to have holiday stuff up several months before that holiday. Making stuff can take a lot of time. A nice gift might take a couple of months, and you'd need the materials long before the holiday. And lots of people make stuff to sell at craft fairs, and the Christmas fairs start in November, so you have to have the stuff made even earlier than that. So I'm happy to see goodies for a holiday up at my craft store in time to (in theory, at least) make things by said holiday. But I wouldn't mind skipping the music til a bit later

[taxguykarl]

[QUOTE=Irving Patrick Freleigh;987039] The Useless Meat Byproducts I Call Seasonal Help:Thanks for nothing...I messed up a monitor.

Oh dear. I forgot the gingerbread bosses. Sweet revenge, literally.

Even better: PINATA BOSSES!

[Ironclad Alibi]

Even better: PINATA BOSSES!

And just what would you expect to find inside a piñata boss? I don't think it would be candy, and I wouldn't want to stand under one when it broke open.

[wolfie]

**** hands Irv some.....

either

1. eggnog with a little burbon

OR

2. burbon with a little eggnog

*****

Take your pick Sir

Racket_Man, you definitely don't understand the Christmas "Spirit". I'm surprised Jester hasn't already told you - eggnog is made with RUM.

[mharbourgirl]

Racket_Man, you definitely don't understand the Christmas "Spirit". I'm surprised Jester hasn't already told you - eggnog is made with RUM.

Which is why both are usually in my holiday coffee. Except today, because I have to drive out to the boonies to make dinner at my in-law's house. So tomorrow morning I'm going REALLY enjoy my reward.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

To My Co-workers, Particularly The Useless Meat Byproducts I Call Seasonal Help:

Bahahahahahahahahahaha!

I could NOT have phrased this better myself. I have been through SIX holiday seasons now at the Games store so I've seen tons of seasonal people come and go and for the most part I'd say your assessment is accurate.

It's been especially lovely this year because corporate decided to give us dick all in training hours for these folks so at most they worked MAYBE three shifts before getting thrown in to the Christmas rush.

It's going to be even more fun next week in the after Christmas insanity.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Oh, it's even worse than you know CC.

There is not one seasonal hire on my side of the store this year I want kept on after the holidays. Not one. Usually there's at least a couple who do well. But this year it's almost as if we went out of our way to hire the laziest, most incompetent, most smucky kids possible.

And then my manager insisted on giving them tasks they really couldn't do correctly due to incompetence or lack of training, such as purging out the backroom of certain items and such.

It's a big part of the reason why I won't be feeling all that sad to see Christmas go this year. Another is that I'll only be working two or three days a week for most of January, because I'm burning up the last of my vacation.

[earl colby pottinger]

Seasonal Help

Oh, it's even worse than you know CC.

There is not one seasonal hire on my side of the store this year I want kept on after the holidays. Not one. Usually there's at least a couple who do well. But this year it's almost as if we went out of our way to hire the laziest, most incompetent, most smucky kids possible.

How bad can it get? The store I work with gets major contracts to install hundreds (some years thousands) of computers into the schools of the local regional school boards. The full time employees and some contract people like me are used as the team leaders and students are hired to do the bulk of the work.

And it is hard work, most schools have no air-conditioning during the summer when they are closed to save money, and the older schools don't have elevators. Which mean carrying the old computers and CRTs (yes CRTs) down as much as four flights of stairs and then carrying up the same stairs replacement computers in the full heat of summer. Even with frequent breaks (2 * 15mins) and a long lunch (1 hour) it is hard, hard work.

An important point is these students are usually the best of the technical courses and are recommended by their teachers. Very rarely do you get a bad worker from this groups of kids (15-18 year olds). But did you notice that I said we install thousands of computers sometimes?

Well, then we need more hands and we ask the students if they know someone who wants to work for some money. Note min-wage in Ontario is $10.25 per hour, the average student will clear just under $500 a week before taxes if they work full hours Monday to Thursday, if you work Fridays you get time and a half.

But! And it is a big but, these students are smart. They know if they bring in a slacker that the slacker will collect money and the person who recommended them will end up doing all the work. So they think about who they would suggest.

This year we had 18 students, we needed 5 more. We asked if they had a hard working friend to offer a job to for two months. Out of 18 students with who knows how many friends only one student dare recommend someone. Only one!

Even the smart kids know how lazy and dumb most of their friends were!

PS. Two of those working students were grads and now have full time employment at that same store.

[HappyFun Ball]

Hands Irv a Red Velvert Cupcake (They are really good, extra moist because they have sour cream in them and marscapone cream cheese frosting)

Ummm, all I have here is Peach Schnapps alcohol wise..

[downforit2008]

Thank God the season is over, huh? Seems like these customers have no idea what Christmas was really all about. Maybe they should find out before walking into a Retail store.