General => Lounge => Topic started by: DVP on November 28, 2008, 02:33:02 AM
Title: Black Friday....
Post by: DVP on November 28, 2008, 02:33:02 AM
Got to love it. Nothing like a 4AM-6PM shift in retail! Makes you want to drive off a bridge. Sleep is over-rated anyways.
Everyone that is getting up at the crack a$$ of dawn to go shopping... Your insane. Hope you get what you go out for.
Have fun and try not to beat anyone with merchandise or run them over with a cart and or car.
As for me I will be on the other end of things watching everyone rush around and act like fools. It is kinda entertaining for the first 10-15 mins.
I hope that most of you are sleeping in and letting the wife/girlfriend deal with the chaos.
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Post by: vinnietbird on November 28, 2008, 06:53:50 AM
I've gotten up before to go do a little shopping for the wife at that time on Black Friday before.I'm up early any way.I like saving big dollars as well.I got her a black leather jacket for $30.00.It was regular $180,after the sale,a JCPenney coupon,and my JCPenney discount (my wife works there),I walked away happy.Like you said,sleep really is over rated anyway.LOL.
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Post by: jcassity on November 28, 2008, 10:48:57 AM
the wife totally understands,, been there done that.
we go nowhere on black friday
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Post by: Cougar5.0 on November 28, 2008, 10:58:39 AM
Heh - a WalMart worker was trampled to death @ 5AM when wild-eyed shoppers rushed the door and trampled the poor worker to death.
Glad I don't shop at WalMart - holy !
It's a black Friday for that workers family :(
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Post by: ZondaC12 on November 28, 2008, 01:07:58 PM
A woman apparently had a miscarriage as a result as well....:mad:
I hate people....
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Post by: jcassity on November 28, 2008, 01:41:40 PM
oh god,, your starting an urban legend? pls ,, not calling you a liar but ,,,,, where's the beef>?:hick:
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Post by: LittleAngel1198 on November 28, 2008, 02:11:37 PM
This is why I went online and did my shopping. You get the same prices, and get delivered to the store for free, or some places have really low shipping, sometimes free shipping.
Yep, got my savings and the stuff I wanted. i didn't get a couple of things I wanted for Keely, but I can get them later, just not as good of a price. But, I saved some money today...all from online! LOL
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Post by: ZondaC12 on November 28, 2008, 02:26:10 PM
Yeah forgot to mention WHERE lol...some walmart in Long Island. Guess they literally BROKE the door down and it crushed the worker...
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Post by: Cougar8775 on November 28, 2008, 02:44:45 PM
hell me and my wife went to walmart this morning and we both got shoved out of the way for a pair of pants! pants!! We decided to not go again. Too many crazy people out there!
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Post by: LumpyCheeseman on November 28, 2008, 03:06:47 PM
F*** black friday. it seems the whole point is just for cheap shopping after turkey day. F*** that. seriously. just F*** it.
me and my family always practice late christmas just cause of s*** like that. wait till after the new year, and make a fun shopping trip of it. then, everyone is gauranteed to get what they want, and it will all be had for cheap.
F*** the mentality in this country.......everyone is gotta have gotta have gotta have gotta have gotta have gotta have gotta have gotta have gotta have gotta have
F*** THAT!!
people of this country need to be more like me. i'm plain happy with old s***. my laptop (and the one i have coming in a week or so) are old by pretty much any standard, but play the games i like and surf the web and watch movies, my cars are old and the parts (other than maintenance) are not likely to be new when i buy them. i live in a tiny dwelling, with my clothes, tools, books, magazines, and my car. and computers of course.
this stupid a** country.....
my heart goes out to the corporate wage slave who died this morning from it all....
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Post by: blu84302 on November 28, 2008, 04:46:45 PM
Wow, that made you sound like a douche British cigarette.
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Post by: baxo on November 28, 2008, 05:05:36 PM
Quote from: LumpyCheeseman;245140
F*** black friday. it seems the whole point is just for cheap shopping after turkey day. F*** that. seriously. just F*** it.
me and my family always practice late christmas just cause of s*** like that. wait till after the new year, and make a fun shopping trip of it. then, everyone is gauranteed to get what they want, and it will all be had for cheap.
F*** the mentality in this country.......everyone is gotta have gotta have gotta have gotta have gotta have gotta have gotta have gotta have gotta have gotta have
F*** THAT!!
people of this country need to be more like me. i'm plain happy with old s***. my laptop (and the one i have coming in a week or so) are old by pretty much any standard, but play the games i like and surf the web and watch movies, my cars are old and the parts (other than maintenance) are not likely to be new when i buy them. i live in a tiny dwelling, with my clothes, tools, books, magazines, and my car. and computers of course.
this stupid a** country.....
my heart goes out to the corporate wage slave who died this morning from it all....
I second that.. this consumerism is gettin out of hand.
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Post by: LumpyCheeseman on November 28, 2008, 05:06:13 PM
yeah, maybe i am a doucheBritish cigarette, but when the world falls......i'll be fine....
everyone else will be screaming that there is no more starbucks...
and like i said, my heart goes out to the corporate wage slave who lost his life.
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Post by: ZondaC12 on November 28, 2008, 05:15:39 PM
Not sure I would have been as heated, no, but Lumpy, I'm with ya, people really turn insane for this ...it's sad. No one should be INJURED let alone KILLED from....a shopping rush. Sheesh
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Post by: 5.0 tbird on November 28, 2008, 07:16:12 PM
Wtf is wrong with people? People are getting killed now by people trying to save 10.00 off a DVD player at Wal-Mart LOL. I'm glad all I did today was take off the garbage. :hick:
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Post by: Beau on November 28, 2008, 07:19:02 PM
My Black Friday shoppin' consisted of braving wal mart crowds just to get a pair of baby bottles, a can of formula, and some baby wipes...
took 37 minutes to do what normally woulda took 10. (and that's if i was walking slow...)
Sucks about the employee who was smashed/crushed...fvckin' impatient bastids always gotta get the jump...never minding the people who are innocent, bastids.
Course, I'm in a testy mood, what with an hour of sleep in the last 30 ...but...gotta love kids! :D
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Post by: rancheronut on November 28, 2008, 08:00:33 PM
well our store opened at4am. employees had to had to go through the auto shop before the store opened. i worked untill 3.30pm in the auto center. i had$5300.00 in sales when i left. which work out to more than $20.00 hour, i was earning:bowdown: . yes, it was ruff getting up that early to go in for work but i was enjoying the fools, sure made my day.:rollin: :rollin:
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Post by: Haystack on November 28, 2008, 10:35:47 PM
I can't belive people say there and watched people get trampeled. The least they could do is help them up.
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Post by: Haystack on November 28, 2008, 11:33:53 PM
The lady didn't miscarry. She went to a hospital and is okay. However, the employee of walmart did die. Toys R Us had a shooting happen during there black friday where two people died.
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Post by: jcassity on November 29, 2008, 02:40:49 AM
Yeah, probably in the north east ,, right?
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Post by: Cougar5.0 on November 29, 2008, 01:49:06 PM
Quote from: jcassity;245264
Yeah, probably in the north east ,, right?
...and what exactly are you implying here?
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Post by: Kitz Kat on November 29, 2008, 02:15:44 PM
Quote from: jcassity;245264
Yeah, probably in the north east ,, right?
Is that NE of your property? How's that working for you?
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Post by: Haystack on November 29, 2008, 04:00:18 PM
I remember that it was in california.
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Post by: ZondaC12 on November 29, 2008, 04:17:52 PM
Quote from: Cougar5.0;245311
...and what exactly are you implying here?
That the northeast is full of assholes. And hes right LOL
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Post by: Cougar5.0 on November 29, 2008, 04:25:37 PM
Speak for yourself bro...
:flame:
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Post by: ZondaC12 on November 29, 2008, 04:52:32 PM
Hey...let's face it. It's true. Not sayin the whole place is like NYC...but are people more rude and stuff in general?...Yeah. We got the worst drivers too...I know I read an article a year ago or so that surveyed the whole country and found that out. :hick:
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Post by: Cougar5.0 on November 29, 2008, 04:56:06 PM
Well, at least one of us was kidding - geez :punchballs:
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Post by: Haystack on November 29, 2008, 04:58:50 PM
in the 2002 Olympics, California voted that Salt lake had the worst drivers in the world.
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Post by: ZondaC12 on November 29, 2008, 06:16:42 PM
Quote from: Cougar5.0;245356
Well, at least one of us was kidding - geez :punchballs:
Haha I figured that but it's just kinda aggravating to me. I'm really laid-back and everyone else isnt. None of our neighbors are friendly. Everyone keeps to themselves. Maybe it's an isolated incident but it's kinda depressing.
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Post by: Cougar5.0 on November 29, 2008, 07:34:52 PM
Well hopefully your neighbors are mass-murderers :rollin: :flip:
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Post by: jcassity on November 29, 2008, 09:19:02 PM
Quote from: Cougar5.0;245311
...and what exactly are you implying here?
wow people,,
In respect to my saying an urban legend was being made up,, and was proved wrong,, i caught some news of a toy store up in jersey with a shooting.
So,, I said,, "yeah, probably in the ne , right"
you's guys took me wrong:flip:
now go paak the caar, go to the pear and have some clam chowda
Title: Black Friday....
Post by: Beau on November 30, 2008, 03:36:36 AM
The Toys R Us shooting was in California...
While I'm not gonna vilify those that live in Cali, OR NY, or region-wise,("the NE")..it DOES seem that more violence happens in those areas...why...more people.
But sweet god, a TOY store???? shiznit fire and save blowtorches, am I gonna have to take the .303 with me when I go to town to buy diapers!?
what in the blue fvck is wrong with people!?
Those morons who didn't help that wal mart employee should ALL be charged with accessory to murder, if not manslaughter.
If that happened to anyone in my family...their gravestone would read: here lies _ _ _ _ _ _, killed by a greedy fvcker with more money than brain cells. RIP Innocent bystanders.
I call for an immediate ban of ALL post-holiday, tax/duty-free sales from ANY/ALL stores.
Those of you who want to argue about this, just shut up for a minute and put yourself in the next-of-kin's shoes when you just found out your relation was smashed by a crowd of dumbass morons who have to get that Nintendo DS at 1/2 off before anyone else! Let alone the obviously mentally challenged dipshiznits who shot each other (and thank god not some child) because their women had an argument.
But let's place another gun ban, instead of skirting the REAL problem.
I'll probably come back edit this later after I've calmed down...but it still me off that most can't accept blame and be human beings. chickenshiznits...may the flames of hell burn high for those who ignored that woman who was crushed...:flame:
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Post by: DVP on November 30, 2008, 04:40:09 AM
Quote from: FordTruckFreeek;245428
The Toys R Us shooting was in California...
While I'm not gonna vilify those that live in Cali, OR NY, or region-wise,("the NE")..it DOES seem that more violence happens in those areas...why...more people.
But sweet god, a TOY store???? shiznit fire and save blowtorches, am I gonna have to take the .303 with me when I go to town to buy diapers!?
what in the blue fvck is wrong with people!?
Those morons who didn't help that wal mart employee should ALL be charged with accessory to murder, if not manslaughter.
If that happened to anyone in my family...their gravestone would read: here lies _ _ _ _ _ _, killed by a greedy fvcker with more money than brain cells. RIP Innocent bystanders.
I call for an immediate ban of ALL post-holiday, tax/duty-free sales from ANY/ALL stores.
Those of you who want to argue about this, just shut up for a minute and put yourself in the next-of-kin's shoes when you just found out your relation was smashed by a crowd of dumbass morons who have to get that Nintendo DS at 1/2 off before anyone else! Let alone the obviously mentally challenged dipshiznits who shot each other (and thank god not some child) because their women had an argument.
But let's place another gun ban, instead of skirting the REAL problem.
I'll probably come back edit this later after I've calmed down...but it still me off that most can't accept blame and be human beings. chickenshiznits...may the flames of hell burn high for those who ignored that woman who was crushed...:flame:
No need to edit.
Not sure how many of you have ever been on the other side of things but it is just as insane and dumb. I work at American, we are very organized and orderly about it though. We have lines ribboned off for certain items. Makes it a little more "fair" for those who wait forever. Most of our stock is not stocked on the floor. We are really big on customer to employee contact. So a sales person will take the first person in their line into the department, figure out exactly what they would like, check the paper, then send them to the computer that another sales person is keying sales on. That is how it worked yesterday. Got it at 4, worked keying sales/selling until 930, then Customer Assistance until 3ish when i took a little lunch (catered, really nice) Got off at almost 7. Then they needed a TV delivered and asked me if I could so I figured I would, hell whats another hour. I was finally done with working at 845. So almost 16 hours later and 37 1/2 hours since I woke up from my last 5 hours of sleep I was off. Didnt make it home and asleep til 130. I love being young.
Went smoothly for the most part. Only one customer got physical. He tried to grab a Wii game out of a managers hand as he was unlocking it and taking it out of its display box. It was sold already, and there was no way for him to buy it as this was the last one in the system. So h e started yelling and wanted the manager and Aaron tells him he is the manager and throws him out.
Other than that. I was -$80 in my drawer. Not good. Sold over 5g's that came back fraud. I had an error code on the card so I called in on it as my manager told me to and I was told to have the customer call the card company for more information. She "called" and talked the "them" on the phone. Well I got a manual approval from "them" and entered that into the system. It took it and I sent them off.
I go in today to fill out some paper work on a delivery I did after I got off Friday and they tell me it was fraud. The ID matched, I called, and I got approval #s. Well come to find out there is a way around the approval #s that i was not aware but she was (not going to post that for obvious reasons) and when she called "them" it was actually her friend. So yeah, if they find her I will be making a court appearance. The best part, she did this at another one of our stores too... She knew what she was doing.
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Post by: ZondaC12 on November 30, 2008, 09:58:34 AM
Quote from: Cougar5.0;245370
Well hopefully your neighbors are mass-murderers :rollin: :flip:
Well my wheels are faster so they'll neva catch meeee hehe. Hopefully theyre bad shots!!! :eek:
And scott that was kiiiiinda what I figured....but I thought I'd run with it anyway. Hehehehe
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Post by: jcassity on November 30, 2008, 10:42:58 AM
Quote from: FordTruckFreeek;245428
The Toys R Us shooting was in California...
While I'm not gonna vilify those that live in Cali, OR NY, or region-wise,("the NE")..it DOES seem that more violence happens in those areas...why...more people.
But sweet god, a TOY store???? shiznit fire and save blowtorches, am I gonna have to take the .303 with me when I go to town to buy diapers!?
what in the blue fvck is wrong with people!?
Those morons who didn't help that wal mart employee should ALL be charged with accessory to murder, if not manslaughter.
If that happened to anyone in my family...their gravestone would read: here lies _ _ _ _ _ _, killed by a greedy fvcker with more money than brain cells. RIP Innocent bystanders.
I call for an immediate ban of ALL post-holiday, tax/duty-free sales from ANY/ALL stores.
Those of you who want to argue about this, just shut up for a minute and put yourself in the next-of-kin's shoes when you just found out your relation was smashed by a crowd of dumbass morons who have to get that Nintendo DS at 1/2 off before anyone else! Let alone the obviously mentally challenged dipshiznits who shot each other (and thank god not some child) because their women had an argument.
But let's place another gun ban, instead of skirting the REAL problem.
I'll probably come back edit this later after I've calmed down...but it still me off that most can't accept blame and be human beings. chickenshiznits...may the flames of hell burn high for those who ignored that woman who was crushed...:flame:
I have a fantasy of what i would have done as a store manager........... of course i would have been fired afterward but it would have been in good stewardship of humankind.
1- lock the entrance doors once the employee was rushed out to the hospital to be pr0nounced dead.
2- shut down the registers and tell my employees to go to the lounge and not return until i call for them.
3- ask all shoppers please come to customer service for an important announcement
4- since shoppers dont listen, announce this a second time.
5-since shoppers still dont listen, ask my employees to troll the aisles and ask the shoppers to report to customer service for an important but emergencey announcement.
6- once satisifed that all shoppers were where i could see them gathered at the customer service area with all registers closed, i could then begin.
7-"today there was a death of one of my employees due to a group effort on all of your parts to enter the store in an unsafe manner. the gifts you have been so eager to get with no reguard for human life has blood on them. At this time, I am asking you leave the store and let your carts reside were they are and come back at a later time when you have had a chance to absorb what you all as a group have done. One or a dozen of you here today were aware of the fallen employee but chose to continue to your greedy dash for a discount gift. Perhaps more than a dozen of you saw this happen but nonetheless, many of you have decided to ignore human life for the price of a couple dollars. At this time, please exit the building no questions asked. All registers please report to the doors to and assist customers in thier exit, everyone please leave now and return in three hours if you wish. During this time, we here at walmart will take a few moments to remember one of our own and soon after, get back to work. For your information and for my protection, this meeting and video will be placed on youtube so it can be viewed by anyone investigating the situation."
Now,, tell me that wouldnt hit the news. Perhaps it would boost sailes instead of decrease them. For once, someone in walmart stood up for ethics and a common good.
Title: Black Friday....
Post by: DVP on November 30, 2008, 11:30:32 AM
Its Wal-Mart though. LOW COST! LOW COST LOW COST!!!. If they are highly overstaffed for that morning and they evacuate the store then they are not making any money and the operatimg cost shoots up. They dont want to lose money like that!
No a human life is cheaper because no one can put a price on that can they.
I hope this makes people see how "great" Wal-Mart is. They know hat there should have been staff keeping people off the doors. Its a emergeny safety hazard as it is. We line people down the front and side of the building. There is at most 10-15 people that are acutally standing infront of the doors, and they are a good 8-10 feet away from them.
I am really glad I work where I do. Great company and they care about my LIFE!