Black Friday... It approaches...

[BetaSword]

Woooooo... Creeeeeepy... Blaaaaaack Friiiiiiiiday...

Anyways. Yes, the day approaches. The Friday after Thanksgiving. The biggest selling day of the entire year, the beginning of the Chistmas shopping season. And hell for those of us that work retail.

Sooo... Anyone got any fun stories of Black Fridays past? Or perhaps an interesting work schedule coming up on that day? Perhaps some other interesting insight into the biggest consumeristic day of the year?

Personally, I get to work from 5:30 a.m. until 10 p.m. And this is my first Black Friday actually working. So yeah. I'm definitely not looking forward to that at all.

Joy!

[John]

Oh ****.

My workplace should be getting busy as well, but closer to Christmas it'll be hell.

That's what you get for working in the food industry (but I don't work at McDonalds, mind you).

What's worse is that one of my co-workers'll be leaving on the 4th to go back home in Italy. I'll miss him, he's a pretty cool guy, but that means my workload doubles...

AND WE'RE STILL SHORT A DRIVER!

[Thefremen]

Woooooo... Creeeeeepy... Blaaaaaack Friiiiiiiiday...

Anyways. Yes, the day approaches. The Friday after Thanksgiving. The biggest selling day of the entire year, the beginning of the Chistmas shopping season. And hell for those of us that work retail.

Sooo... Anyone got any fun stories of Black Fridays past? Or perhaps an interesting work schedule coming up on that day? Perhaps some other interesting insight into the biggest consumeristic day of the year?

Personally, I get to work from 5:30 a.m. until 10 p.m. And this is my first Black Friday actually working. So yeah. I'm definitely not looking forward to that at all.

Joy!

I work from 5:30-4 but no worries I work 6 days that week so I'll be frayed at the edges.

[Hank the Tank]

The day after Thanksgiving is the day we movie theaters get hit hard. One of my co-workers said it is one of the busiest days of the year along with Christmas and Summer movies.

[John]

Oh ****.

My workplace should be getting busy as well, but closer to Christmas it'll be hell.

That's what you get for working in the food industry (but I don't work at McDonalds, mind you).

What's worse is that one of my co-workers'll be leaving on the 4th to go back home in Italy. I'll miss him, he's a pretty cool guy, but that means my workload doubles...

AND WE'RE STILL SHORT A DRIVER!

Actually, scratch my first two sentences.

I forgot we already had Thanksgiving...

[Tollwutig]

It'll be a slow day for me, I work in a Bank Data Center, the people I support will be on vacation and shopping.

[kurisu7885]

I expect CUstomers Suck to get a huuuuge update soon

[Demontestament]

Woooooo... Creeeeeepy... Blaaaaaack Friiiiiiiiday...

Anyways. Yes, the day approaches. The Friday after Thanksgiving. The biggest selling day of the entire year, the beginning of the Chistmas shopping season. And hell for those of us that work retail.

Sooo... Anyone got any fun stories of Black Fridays past? Or perhaps an interesting work schedule coming up on that day? Perhaps some other interesting insight into the biggest consumeristic day of the year?

Personally, I get to work from 5:30 a.m. until 10 p.m. And this is my first Black Friday actually working. So yeah. I'm definitely not looking forward to that at all.

Joy!

^^ Ahhh how I do not miss times like this. And since you asked so nicely about Retail Horror Stories about Black Friday I shall provide all I can :D.

One that sticks out in my mind the most(See: Reason for constant Electro-shock Therapy) is during my second year working at TJ-Maxx. I had just started the day and the triptophan from all the turkey I had ate the day before(Thanksgiving is my day :) ) just started to wear off. Anyway right as I clock in I get stopped by one of our regulars who was known to be very ill tempered and huge compuslive buyer. Honestly I think this lady was OCD when it came to buying ****. Anyway she wanted to know how much a knife set was, just like every other sharp object that came in a set it was missing pieces, I told her I couldn't tell her off the top of my head but I could look for her. So she throws(not hands) throws the knives to me, thankfully nothing came out. Well I go and check with the manager and I am informed that since it is open we cannot sell them to her, I looked in the back and found a new set(the exact same) unopened so I take it out to her and tell her what I was told. She started to flip out, screaming I was trying to rip her off because she was black and if it were anyone else I would of sold the open set to her. I try to calm her down and all she does it scream, she causes a scene and a manage comes out to talk to her, I am sent a away. I don't take anymore than three steps when I hear the manager scream, as I turn a see a knife fly and hit a whinney the pooh stuffed animal next to me right in the head....**** she lost it...that is saying she even had it in the first place. I can see my manager has already bailed on me by jumping into the women's bathroom and locking herself in there...yay. She threw another one, ok tried to throw but this one was a **** toss...she might of rolled a 1. Anyway I grab the first thing I had and throw it at her and charge. Before I get to her I hear a "The cow says Moooooooooooo" and the lady screaming. I had hit her in the chin with a See and Say player.

[Tollwutig]

Leave it to Demontestament for good retail stories.:D

He wins an internet.

[Demontestament]

Leave it to Demontestament for good retail stories.:D

He wins an internet.

Oh I have more, just need time to type them:D

[kurisu7885]

Oh I have more, just need time to type them:D

If you type them into CUstomers SUck, link us damnit!!!

[Demontestament]

If you type them into CUstomers SUck, link us damnit!!!

that would require effot, and I am too damn lasy so I will just type them into here.

[kurisu7885]

that would require effot, and I am too damn lasy so I will just type them into here.

Okie dokie. :D

[Demontestament]

Well here I am again with a slightly more funny story to tell on the blackest of black days in hell if you work retail.

It was closing time(thank ****ing God) and after working 11 god Damned hours listening to the mindless drabble of the zombies who buy the TJ Maxx **** that they think is top quality(little do they know we superglue name brands on them ;) ) I was ready to close up and head the hell home for the night and spend a nice weekend free from the prison of infinate stupidity. Well back to the story, there is an annoucement starting at 20 minuets to closing and every 5 minuets after that to let all the little retards know that the story is going to close. And of course there is always that person or persons who has to be the rebel and not jump off the cliff like all the other good little lemmings. I was back in the homegoods department(Pots, Pans, KNIVES, and decorative crap a blind person wouldn't even put up on their house) cleaning up. I hear each and every announcement go off and then I hear some screaming and hollering from the kids section. Two women were still shopping and decided that screaming racial slurrs at all the "Whities"(see: Me and one manager) to shut the **** up they would be out when they were nice and ready. I sigh because I know exactly where this is going, yep they called me to clear the floor....Ooookay this is my fun for the night I guess. Just replace fun with one step closer to going on a murder spree. I begin to walk to the kids department, along the way picking up a few fallen items and setting them back in their places. I come across a decapitated horse on a stick(one of those sticks with a horses head on it) well I need to zero this out so I pick it up. Now one thing with me is if I have some sort of large stick in my hands I have to spin it through my fingers, it is a habbit of mine I guess. Anyway I begin to walk up to them and kindly say "Excuse me, the store is closed and has been for ten minuets now, you have to take your selections up to the front counter or come back tomorrow." I guess I had a bite in my speech because one lady took a look at me and started to run, the the second not far behind her....I guess they got the point??? I walk up to the front and start zeroing out the decapitated horse thing when my manager asks me what the hell that was about. Told her "No idea, just told them what I always do" she then laughed and said "maybe it was because of that" as she pointed at my hip....I had forgotten I had picked up a butcher knife before being called to clear the floor and put it my belt until I could put it away.

[kurisu7885]

Demon, if only you coud lhave heard me laugh at that one.

[Demontestament]

Demon, if only you coud lhave heard me laugh at that one.

I was known for carrying random items throughout the day.

[kurisu7885]

I was known for carrying random items throughout the day.

IF you had a toy gun, odds are they'd have been running faster.

[Demontestament]

IF you had a toy gun, odds are they'd have been running faster.

I was doing random Revolver Ocelot gun tricks up at the front counter one day with a toy six shooter :D

[kurisu7885]

I was doing random Revolver Ocelot gun tricks up at the front counter one day with a toy six shooter :D

Talk about bored. How many times did you drop it?

[Demontestament]

Talk about bored. How many times did you drop it?

4 or 5 times when i started off

[kurisu7885]

4 or 5 times when i started off

Hey, at least if you cosplay as Ocelot, you'll have had practice at the skills

[Demontestament]

Hey, at least if you cosplay as Ocelot, you'll have had practice at the skills

I tried juggling 3 guns like her does in snake eater and promptly hit myself in the face. I can do it with 2 but 3 is a bitch.

[kurisu7885]

I tried juggling 3 guns like her does in snake eater and promptly hit myself in the face. I can do it with 2 but 3 is a bitch.

Juggling is only part of it, the other is managing to pull the trigger on one in your hand between tosses.

[Demontestament]

Juggling is only part of it, the other is managing to pull the trigger on one in your hand between tosses.

havent gotten to trigger pulling down yet, pain in the ass really.