100 Things Meme #36
The Story of Thanksgiving by The Ellen DeGeneres Show Players

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May your turkey be tender and moist.
May your relatives be nice to you and
not make you crazy.
May your football team win and your
nap be refreshing.

If you shop on Black Friday, please
be nice to the employees in the stores.
They most likely gave up time with their
families to ( Read more... )

Some hate holidays because they mean visiting with family you really don't
care to see the rest of the year.  Some just hate the hype.  Some like me had
holidays ruined for them by working retail.

There have been years where I didn't even put a Christmas tree.  I was so busy
at work I would just be too tired to do it.  People are stressed out and ( Read more... )

My company has a pretty easy return policy.
Things can be returned within 90 days for most things.
Some can only be returned within 45. Like electronics,
cameras, DVDS and stuff like vaccumms. After that you
need to contact the manufacture for repair or replacement.
Items with a copyright have to be unopened or you can only
exchange them. That's ( Read more... )

A while back I posted about customers who purchased items with coupons
and then returned them. At that time we gave them back what they paid plus
the amount of the coupon.  So the shelves were stripped of certain items 
for real customers till the shelves could be restocked.  Then when these
"special" customers returned massive amount of merchandise, ( Read more... )

We match ads with certain conditions.  We don't match ads that required a card to get the sale price.
We only match national brands. We only do the matching at the guest service desk.

Guest went to regular register first with ads and was brought over to me after she checked out. She
had an ad we don't match due to the loyalty card required.  She got ( Read more... )

You talked all week about how a guy friend was coming from out of state to visit you.

You told everyone you work with that you were going to the State Fair on Sat with this guy friend.

You begged everyone to work your shift on Sunday because you had someone visiting you and you were
going to the State Fair on Sat.

You posted all of it on your Facebook ( Read more... )

I haven't been around much lately.  I've been stressed out for many reasons.

Work, allergies, money and just crappy stuff.  I went into a funk.  I have 1290

messages in my inbox here.  I have 920 email messages in my email account.

I haven't been able to write anything. My muse ran off.

( Read more... )

As many of you might know, I work retail.  To make it even worse, it's discount retail.

To make it even more of a challenge, I work the return desk.  So my day if filled with

less than pleasant people.  So the following message is of grave importance.

( Clink For A Very Important Message )

I worked for a major discount retailer in the Layaway section for many years. Black Friday was one of the worst days each year.  We would have people at the register, boxing and putting things away. We asked the customers to stand behind a line until we called them to the register.  They would push and shove each other. People would take things ( Read more... )