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RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I walked into work, logged in, and we had 1090 orders. Even though managers had already seen me, I was about this close to running out and calling out sick.
Are you in a DC or on the dot.com/PUT/Whatever-they're-calling-it-now side in-store?
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Sonic Glitch wrote:
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I walked into work, logged in, and we had 1090 orders. Even though managers had already seen me, I was about this close to running out and calling out sick.
Are you in a DC or on the dot.com/PUT/Whatever-they're-calling-it-now side in-store?
The latter.
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RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:
Sonic Glitch wrote:
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I walked into work, logged in, and we had 1090 orders. Even though managers had already seen me, I was about this close to running out and calling out sick.
Are you in a DC or on the dot.com/PUT/Whatever-they're-calling-it-now side in-store?
The latter.
God bless. Especially this time of year.
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Sonic Glitch wrote: God bless. Especially this time of year.
Thank you. It's not my first rodeo, but it's not any easier.
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I actually kind of miss working black friday. Sure it was nuts, but I got left alone to do my job.
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Sonic Glitch wrote:I actually kind of miss working black friday. Sure it was nuts, but I got left alone to do my job.
I will admit, thanks to how things were set up this year, I missed about...90% of the insanity.

See, we had our big sales starting Thursday night at 6 PM. I was scheduled to work... 9 AM to 6 PM that day. I spent the first seven hours of my shift just filling the Christmas candy aisle. :D The last two? I brought out some movie displays, took a break, did a few other things and slipped out at about 5:51 PM. Got home, had some turkey with my dad and stepmother and that was it.

Friday... was insane, but I managed to spend most of it out back at the packing stations.
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For the first time in many, many years, I was not in hardlines retail for the Thanksgiving weekend. Managing the overnight in a 24-hour food-service environment had me surprised by how much business we did Thanksgiving night/Black Friday morning (because I was expecting zero) but it wasn't like the physically dangerous mob scene I encountered working a Toys R Us Thanksgiving night.
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Mikey wrote:For the first time in many, many years, I was not in hardlines retail for the Thanksgiving weekend. Managing the overnight in a 24-hour food-service environment had me surprised by how much business we did Thanksgiving night/Black Friday morning (because I was expecting zero) but it wasn't like the physically dangerous mob scene I encountered working a Toys R Us Thanksgiving night.
Yeahhh, Kohl's was brutal on Black Friday back in the early 2000s. Grocery distribution, of course, never sleeps, especially around holidays but there are no customers in my warehouse. I truly pity retailers who have to deal with Black FridaIy.

Then again, we ran a 21.5 hour shift the Monday before Thanksgiving...
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I did some Christmas shopping today. With the exception of three CDs, I'm done.
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They still sell CDs?
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Besides cinnamon flavored whiskey, I generally drink real adult drinks, like Jameson, Bullit etc. Last night I went to a party at a co-worker's place and the only thing there I could drink was this blue booze.

Passion fruit, cherries and ginger delicately (HUH?) blended with French vodka. It was, different.

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Romulan ale?
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Ah, the holidays have arrived here at DITL! :D
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Captain Seafort wrote:Romulan ale?
Are my ears going to grow points now?
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RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Ah, the holidays have arrived here at DITL! :D
Tis the season?
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