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Having worked in retail for 5 years, this is how I feel when the first of the fall holiday merchandise is being stocked. (bleachernation.com)

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[–]caketimenow 77 points78 points ago

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The worst is when they put in that Christmas song CD. Just one CD. That you have to listen to. For weeks. Over and over.

[–]a_starfish 18 points19 points ago

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you took me by the haaaaand... MAAAADE ME YOUR MAAAAN

[–]nvr_ndr21_13 11 points12 points ago

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That one NIGHT (one night) made everything alriiiiiiight (oooOOOOoooooo)

[–]Xorba 10 points11 points ago

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LAAAAST CHRISTMAS I GAVE YOU MY HEART

[–]MangorTX 2 points3 points ago

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But the very next day, you gave it away...

[–]diuvic 1 point2 points ago

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Santa Baby, I've really been an awful good girl.

[–]thespacebase 5 points6 points ago

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Don't go breakin' my heart!

[–]captainpixystick 1 point2 points ago

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HRRRRNNNGGGGGG

[–]NotThatDoug 3 points4 points ago

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A few years ago I worked at a supermarket that just played this album on repeat for a month, it killed my Christmas spirit that year.

[–]kyoutenshi 1 point2 points ago

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Couldn't get worse than a "Taylor Swift Christmas" on loop.

[–]hitech_lolife 1 point2 points ago

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gaaaaaave you my heeeeaaaaart

[–]vamihilion[S] 1 point2 points ago

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This is the exact reason I'm glad that Walmart took away Walmart radio. At first I was upset about it, but then when it didn't come back for Christmas, I think I might have done a dance of joy.

[–]BonKerZ 0 points1 point ago

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You should insert Air Supply's Christmas Album. It's eargasmic.

[–]vamihilion[S] 0 points1 point ago

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Eargasmic you say? I suppose I could jerry rig something up to the PA system...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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If it's Mannheim Steamroller...I'm okay with that.

[–]maristar87 0 points1 point ago*

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At least it's something new. We have once CD (mixed non-offensive 80's/90's music and country) they play over and over again for the whole year up until that point then they play the Christmas CD for about two months, which for some reason includes 6 different versions of Santa Baby.

[–]Givants 0 points1 point ago

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This is definitely the worst part about christmas, is gotten to a point where I don't even enjoy christmas anymore

[–]Zervonn 0 points1 point ago

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Thankfully my company has a subscription to some radio service that provides channels to play. Its only slightly more bearable.

[–]freckles42 0 points1 point ago

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I did my time in retail while working at Build-a-Bear. I assure you, by that Sunday after Black Friday I would have gladly taken a normal Christmas CD.

As it is, BaB's normal CDs are pretty horrible - when I worked there (2002-4, seasonal job during college) they only had two or three CDs during the normal seasons. All of them had awful bear-themed songs (with the classic "Cheerleader Bear" standing out in my memory).

The holidays were a special kind of hell, though, as the "Beariday" CD only had eight songs on it. That means it cycled every 30 minutes or so. So during a normal eight hour shift you would hear each song sixteen times.

I just checked their website. Apparently they still sell the CDs and now the songs are also available for individual download! YOU TOO CAN ENJOY "Bears Wish You a Merry Christmas" and "Oh Teddy Bear."

[–]inferno719 0 points1 point ago

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I hated this with a passion. Even worse, where I worked, there was the overhead music in the whole store, (well, most of it, you can't hear it at all in some places and it's loud in others) and then there's also holiday music playing on a radio behind some of the aisles. I thought it was a prank at first, but no, management did it on purpose.

To this day I don't understand why.

[–]LuckyAmeliza 8 points9 points ago

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Wanna know what's worse? That's all I know of retail, since I only seem to get Seasonal jobs.... FML.

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[–]willymo 6 points7 points ago

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At Wal-Mart they'll hire you and lure you in for seasonal work by telling you about how employees get a bonus if the store does well and all this shit. What they try to avoid telling you, is that you have to work there for a year before you're actually elligible. So really you work pretty much minimum wage with no benefits in the worst time of the year with no chance in Hell of getting any time off until they decide they're through with you, then they basically try to rub you out of the schedule until you just quit. And that's why I will never shop at Wal-Mart ever again.

[–]LuckyAmeliza 0 points1 point ago

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Worked there once... I can Confirm this.
Except with me they just stopped putting me on the schedule and suddenly said " Oh, yeah, we forgot to tell you... we don't need you anymore" I actually worked half a day before they decided to tell me that too.

[–]vamihilion[S] 1 point2 points ago

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Wow, they told you that after half the day? Normally they wait til your done for the day before firing you.

[–]LuckyAmeliza 1 point2 points ago

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Well, this particular wal-mart is kind of a pit with people with bad attitudes who work there. ( at least while I worked there... but it's still a pit)

[–]vamihilion[S] 2 points3 points ago

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I think you may have just described every Walmart everywhere. All of my managers have perpetually bad moods.

[–]LuckyAmeliza 1 point2 points ago

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Yeah, It also didn't help that my Supervisor ( I forgot what the hell they call them now... CSM? ) Was a double talking, fucking bitchy, cock juggling Thunder-cunt who resented the fact I got the job because of my best friend from High school who she was distantly related to through marriage. ( but I think we all have worked with people like her... I get one at every job, just about.)

[–]vamihilion[S] 0 points1 point ago

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You got it Csm. Though now their called Css because they aren't "managers" they're "supervisors". And yeah, at least one at every job.

[–]willymo -1 points0 points ago

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I think we worked at the same store lol.

[–]willymo 0 points1 point ago

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Wow. Now I really don't feel bad at all for putting in my 2-weeks and just not showing up after the 1st week. I kinda felt bad for the other associates, but I waited until the seasonal rush was over so I didn't screw them into having to pick up a bunch of extra slack. Once we got rid of our Christmas stock, I quit when they kept telling me and the other new guy to go home early. I knew they would just get rid of me soon anyway. Plus, pretty much every stocker at the store thought they were God's gift to the work force even though they were really just self-righteous assholes that would put anyone down to make themselves look better. Just had to quit before I went postal basically.

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[–]willymo 0 points1 point ago

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I know. It's hard, but I just can't shop there knowing how they treat their employees. I give the managers shit, but really the shit just trickles down from the top. Maybe that's the trickle down economy I've been hearing so much about.

[–]LuckyAmeliza 0 points1 point ago*

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Depends... One place I worked they paid me the same as the rest, but gave me extra for working on Sundays, then another where I worked overnight they gave me $3.50 extra an hr than the dayside ( which came out to $10.50 total per hr.). but yes, for working on a holiday I would get basic Overtime pay, but almost everyplace I worked they would cut our hours to make up for it.=/ ( as well as some places giving seasonal only 2-4 day workweeks... which is fine if you're not all that worried about money... but if you actually want/need it, it's very much just FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...)

[–]n734lq -3 points-2 points ago

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FML.

I appreciate the input, and I'd like to point out, there's a great venue for these sorts of posts - fmylife. You'd find a lot more reception over there. :)

[–]FullOfMan 14 points15 points ago

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Being that I am the only person in the whole store that can lift a box heavier than 50 pounds, this is exactly how I feel. And we have a lot of heavy fucking boxes in the Holidays. Like 200 in a day. Thanks for the gif, I just realized that I should quit my job.

[–]willymo 1 point2 points ago

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Lol Christmas made me quit my stocking job last year at Satan-Mart. Not only do you get ridiculous amounts of heavy shit to stock, but most of the time there's nowhere to even put it and they just keep ordering more shit! Besides all that, your managers become slave drivers and any hint of niceness they ever had disappears and the only thing out their mouths are "Hurry up!" "Need to work faster!" or some unmotivational bullshit that's usually followed by "We have twice as many coming tomorrow!" and you can forget getting any time off. Good times.

[–]Butch_Magnus 1 point2 points ago

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You should probably try and get a small raise over your scrawny coworkers.

[–]panfist -3 points-2 points ago

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Would you say that you pick things up and put them down?

[–]BeneficiaryOtheDoubt 1 point2 points ago

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He's a package handler.

[–]HeelsUpDickIn[!] 16 points17 points ago

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If I could give more than one upvote, you would have them all. I know the feeling exactly

[–]vamihilion[S] 7 points8 points ago

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Thank you, my good chum. Though I still can't decide which is the worst. Probably Halloween because of just how messy it becomes.

[–]Peripheryy 4 points5 points ago

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Shit, I work in the backroom at Sears and we already have SO MANY CHRISTMAS TREES. I'm not looking forward to the music....or the tons of game tables...any of it. :'(

[–]Guysmiley777 7 points8 points ago*

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I had to assemble all those trees when I was enjoying all that is working in retail. The years I spent working in a department store in their "fixtures and display" group permanently damaged my ability to enjoy holidays.

"Oh, we need 48' of tandem set up down this aisle. These plan-o-grams don't really match our fixtures or product allotment, but you can just... make it work. Also, we need those 12 artificial trees set up."

I worked there during the Bob Vila days, so every 10 minutes over the fucking PA system was click "Hi, I'm Bob Vila. Have you tried the new Craftsman blah blah blah". But during Christmas season his annoying shills were the only relief from the holiday music.

[–]Peripheryy 0 points1 point ago

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Jesus. They have this thing now that goes off like an alarm: RRNNNTTT RRRNNNTTT RRNNNTTT ATTENTION SEARS ASSOCIATES, CLEAN YOUR AREAS. ATTENTION SEARS ASSOCIATES

[–]n734lq -1 points0 points ago

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click

I upvoted solely for this word. I appreciate posts with this sort of accuracy, and attention to detail. :)

[–]whytookay 1 point2 points ago

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When the Christmas lights come in. At the end of August. Then they just sit there for the next 2 months. Taunting you with the knowledge that you'll have to stock them come November.

[–]owwo 12 points13 points ago

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Man I swear I can hear his voice in the gif!

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[–]slashsigh 6 points7 points ago

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Wait, the gif has no sound?! I don't even...

[–]pragmatao 0 points1 point ago

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It's uncanny.

[–]Afronerd 9 points10 points ago

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For those of you want sound Clip of the episode the gif is from

[–]CalamityOne 2 points3 points ago

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I worked in retail for 4 years, and there was a precursor to the holiday merchandise. A forewarning of doom. The dreaded school supplies. Yes, that is the correct reaction.

[–]dfuzzy 1 point2 points ago

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I work at Gap. Today, I just finished a 6pm to 2am shift. I just showered and am now on my way out to study a bit. In 4 hours, Im going back to work to do more work. This is only just the markdowns in preparation for fall holiday.

tl;dr, I feel you.

[–]zappa103 0 points1 point ago

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an 8 hour shift!?!?!?!...do other Americans know about our slave labor practices?

[–]dfuzzy 0 points1 point ago

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Its not the 8 hours that are a big deal. Its the 19.5 hours of work in a 28 hour period while working on only an hour of sleep.

[–]Wolfosaurus 1 point2 points ago

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5 years? Pfft, rookie...

[–]Acebreak7 1 point2 points ago

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AND TOBY IS THE DELIVERY MAN O:

[–]I_am_Knot 1 point2 points ago

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Yesterday, I had a woman at my job come to my register with a coupon and one item. The coupon would allow her to redeem one free item, which she would not bother looking for and the other was a small make up product. Having gone and retrieved her complimentary item myself I scanned in her two products and told her politely that he total would be $3.80. The bitch unloaded TWO wallets from her trash bag size pocketbook and dumped $2.70 worth of pennies onto my counter, grabbed her shit and left. Had to pay the rest out of pocket. F*** retail! I realized then that my holiday season had begun and things were only going to get worse.

[–]Drazyr 0 points1 point ago

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Here in Canada we have a clause in our currency act that restricts how much change customers can use for a single purchase, with different restrictions for different denominations. If your state/country doesn't have similar legislation, than your legislators are assholes.

Also, when I worked retail, I had the mentality that until the receipt prints the product does not leave my sight. I don't care if you're in a hurry, you came out to shop and you will pay the time cost for it.

Anyways, good luck mate!

[–]I_am_Knot 0 points1 point ago

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I would have gladly stopped the customer. My manager was standing next to me at the time of the incident. He called after her himself and even went as far as to look for her in the parking lot, (I live in a very small town and it's safe to assume one could not get too far out sight quickly). It was of my on volition that I payed the remainder. It was only just the single dollar.

My legislators are assholes, sometimes. This is one of the instances that they fall into the timeline described.

Be easy in the North.

[–]pragmatao 1 point2 points ago

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I swear that GIF has sound.

[–]Xani 1 point2 points ago

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I used to work in retail. Left pretty soon after they put Christmas cards and wrapping paper out on the 1st of September.

[–]justconcentrate 1 point2 points ago

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I couldn't love this more. I was in retail for 6.5 years. My former manager has been in it for more than a decade. I don't know how he did it.

[–]Vocalities 1 point2 points ago

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My place of employment has had fall stuff since early August. We'll be getting Christmas stuff in next month.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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You don't know hell until you've worked retail during the holidays.

I'm so glad I escaped that black hole.

[–]spiralout87 0 points1 point ago

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fuckin Toby...

[–]elitexero 2 points3 points ago

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"Right? And if I had a gun, with two bullets, and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice."

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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I can totally relate, I work at Target and so I man the fort in electronics at 4 in the morning as the doors burst open and 11 thousand soccer moms run into the store to grab the 24$ Kodak camera stepping over their own children and clawing at their middle aged peers. I FUCKING LOVE CHRISTMAS AND HOLIDAYS AND STUFF. -_-

[–]ElConQuistaDave 1 point2 points ago

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I shudder at the thought of having to listen to Christmas music. One year the muzak that plays in our store played a different version of The Little Drummer Boy every other song. I think it's the closest I've ever come to shoving sharp objects into my ear for relief.

[–]guspolly 0 points1 point ago

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Actually, when I worked in retail, the Christmas music was a welcome relief to the playlist that played the other 11 months of the year.

[–]slashsigh 1 point2 points ago

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I've been stocking Christmas merch for the last two weeks...

[–]Joeredofdoom 1 point2 points ago

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Only five years? Unless you are absolutely hopeless or making good money, get out while you still can.

[–]Guysmiley777 1 point2 points ago

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Getting out of retail was the best thing I ever did. I was working at a department store while going to school, when I put in my notice they tried to talk me into staying. First and only time I've actually laughed in someone's face.

[–]odragon 0 points1 point ago

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Ditto. Working temp contracts for warehouses is better than the customer versus manager bs you might come up against.

[–]Greyscale88 0 points1 point ago

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If it were this easy, nobody would work retail.

[–]deadweather 1 point2 points ago

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Ive worked retail for 5 years too... high five

[–]vamihilion[S] 2 points3 points ago

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High five! Mathematical!

[–]balthamaisteri 0 points1 point ago

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I swear I heard his voice.

[–]this_username 0 points1 point ago

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I swear I can hear the sound of his screaming.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Where the fuck do you work? My store had Fall stuff stocked at the end of July/beginning of August.

[–]cnidarians 0 points1 point ago

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Or if you've worked at Starbucks, the seasonal drinks.

[–]hexapus 0 points1 point ago

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I can hear this gif.

[–]smartassredneckgirl 0 points1 point ago

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The Christmas music on constant loop will make you just cringe after a while. Very seriously looking for something to get me out of retail after 20+ years, I've finally had enough of it.

[–]benemal 0 points1 point ago

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Now with sound, thanks to the miracle of auralsink!

[–]wilse 0 points1 point ago

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Retail can be a great way to get some basic work experience and I have mad respect for the people that do it. However, 5 years is pushing the limit, in my opinion.

[–]TehScrumpy 0 points1 point ago

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But it is fall. Its September. The kids are back in school. Colors are a-changin'. This is a magical time for me. For October is Halloween (yes the whole month) and November is NaNoWriMo. Then its all downhill once they start up that Christmas shit.

[–]boondoggie42 0 points1 point ago

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Why are you mentioning this now? Isn't it time for the fall stuff to come down and the christmas stuff to go up?

[–]Aynielle 0 points1 point ago

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I worked at a Walmart for 7 yrs, finally quitting this summer, and I can honestly say I'm actually looking forward to the holidays for the first time in almost a decade.

[–]Beeyull 0 points1 point ago

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I just want to give my condolences to you for working in retail for five years. You're a better human than I!

[–]Rainflake 0 points1 point ago

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I want to say the same thing as a mailman. You wouldn't believe the amount of christmas cards we have to sort out and deliver the 2-3 weeks before christmas. A couple of weeks ago we started to get in advertisements for christmas products.

In fucking august.

[–]poclava 0 points1 point ago

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http://www.gifflix.com/files/2e668a0d9406.gif

[–]jimmysceneit 0 points1 point ago

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Why only fall holiday merchandise for us non retail folk? It might make a difference because I'm in So Cal too.

[–]vamihilion[S] 6 points7 points ago

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I suppose it's less "Fall" and more "Fall and winter". That said several factors really contribute to the rage.

First, it is a reminder that shit is about to get real. The stores are going to be as busier then any other time of the year.

Second, each of the big three holidays have their own sections. Shelves and aisles filled with all sorts of merchandise for people to pick through and demolish.

And the third main frustration comes straight from the second. It's the messes that customers make. Every night we restock and rezone so that everything looks good in the morning. So that we can do it all over again the very next night. And it's not that this doesn't happen anyway, but the degree with which it happens starting at back to school time and moving through Christmas is so much greater and more concentrated. Shit looks like an episode of Hoarders.

Tl;Dr: Store gets busier, holiday sections get wrecked, must restock and clean up to rinse and repeat. Futilety.

[–]goddesspyxy 6 points7 points ago

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I remember my first Christmas at Target. I was asked to zone toys. By the time I got done zoning an aisle, I literally had to turn around and do the same aisle again. That's how fast it turns to shit. I feel your pain.

[–]Schrodingers_Ferret 1 point2 points ago

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God I fucking hate that.

Families will see you zoning four feet from them and still trash things.

Or when they tell their kid "don't worry. It's his job to pick those things up."

[–]Mothian 1 point2 points ago

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As someone who works courtesy desk at a grocery store, I can only agree with you 100%. I should also mention that customers tend to be on short fuses during the holidays, which makes it that much less fun to help them.

[–]panfist 1 point2 points ago

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customers tend to be on short fuses during the holidays

There's a road that I can see from my house that usually gets a lot of traffic. It's a main thoroughfare for both commercial, industrial, and local traffic. It normally takes 30 minutes to go three miles down this road because of how dense everything is around here.

Two malls, and a bunch of strip malls and restaurants also happen to located on this three-mile-stretch of road.

From November to January it takes a fucking hour to go three miles down this road.

I can only imagine that customers that just came from such hell traffic would probably be on a short fuse.

[–]odragon 1 point2 points ago

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It's most of the mega malls and retail hubs that cause these issues. Blame the city planner for calculating the traffic needs.

[–]Erikm06 0 points1 point ago

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It's so much work that comes out of nowhere. It's the worst. Fake snow on trees makes such a freaking mess.

[–]oh_shit_he_said_that -1 points0 points ago

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where do you work? target employee here

[–]vamihilion[S] 0 points1 point ago*

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I work for Walmart. It's one of those jobs that I'm thankful for the experience, but I'll never do it again once I quit

[–]betonthis1 0 points1 point ago

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I feel your pain. Sounds like your an overnight stocker, am I right? ZMS here, the day I dread the most is Black Friday! I can't stand unloading those trucks!

[–]vamihilion[S] 0 points1 point ago

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I'm an overnight cashier, but seeing as it's overnight they tend to use me wherever they need. So I do a little bit of everything.

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[–]JavaLSU -2 points-1 points ago

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Seriously, what is up with stores selling people stuff during peak shopping seasons?

It's like the stores were opened to make money or something.

[–]MrWendal 0 points1 point ago

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This is how I feel when reading "how I feel posts" with animated gifs that could be used for almost any situation.

[–]vamihilion[S] 0 points1 point ago

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Sir, you made me lol. I give you an upvote.

[–]guspolly 0 points1 point ago

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I work master control at a TV station, and I had a similar reaction when we received the first holiday-themed commercial of the season.

(They were putting in their entire 4Q order and it's not scheduled to air until December, but still, we have it.)

[–]asphaltwanderer 0 points1 point ago

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TRU. 8 years. I AM this gif every year.

[–]willymo 1 point2 points ago

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Are you the Dalai Llama? You are a master of patience, my friend.

[–]Accused918 0 points1 point ago

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I work at a Kohls in Virginia and tomorrow is the first day that we are getting CHRISTMAS stuff in. It's the middle of fucking September and this is not acceptable.

[–]vamihilion[S] 1 point2 points ago

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High five for Virginia at least.

[–]Buhrdt 0 points1 point ago

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They are setting up Christmas stuff at my store tonight.

[–]checkeredcheckbook 0 points1 point ago

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I feel the same way. And right after we set up all the fall merchandise, all our winter merchandise appears. Massive amounts of glitter EVERYWHERE.

Also, lots of fragile ornaments. And children who like to touch everything in the store.

[–]vamihilion[S] 1 point2 points ago

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Uwagh! The glitter! How I hate the glitter! Gets all over your everything and doesn't come off!

[–]NewmansPwn 0 points1 point ago

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I work in glass studios and a week before september it is already time to start cranking out pumpkins.

[–]Bad_rash88 0 points1 point ago

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Did anyone else actually hear the last NOOOOOOOOOOOOO ?

[–]hokieflea -1 points0 points ago

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haha this is an instant classic

[–]madeupstatistician -1 points0 points ago

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I saw Christmas trees come in on the truck at work (retail) today. I might have cried a little.

[–]heatheranne 1 point2 points ago

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I feel you, I started getting slippers in last week. (Apparently everybody buys slippers for Christmas,)

[–]Flickcm -1 points0 points ago

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I'm expecting Christmas stuff to be coming out soon.

[–]LlamaInATux -1 points0 points ago

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Every Halloween for the past few years I've seen stores set up Christmas stuff.

Having to work the holiday season in retail sucks more than a hoover picking up an 8lb bowling ball and still having power to spare.

Except replace the bowling ball with the customers, and the hoover is the retail fellow. This is what most people expect you to do for them.

Edit: Make sure you retail folks take off for Halloween NOW. Have fun, damnit.

[–]theramennoodle -1 points0 points ago

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This is how I feel in June when we start getting the fall stuff in.

[–]PlusSixtoReason -1 points0 points ago

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Fuck the holidays.

[–]thelegendaryU1 -1 points0 points ago

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I know exactly how you feel. Been working at Home Depot for about 5 years and we start getting our christmas stuff last week of September. We're always like WTF!?

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YES!

[–]passtheblunt -1 points0 points ago

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Retail sucks man. You have my support :) Keep gettin dat green

[–]Jealous_Hitler -1 points0 points ago

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I saw Halloween stuff at Albertsons

THE HOLIDAYS ARE UPON US

[–]ShoepZA -3 points-2 points ago

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Wow, I've never seen that used on reddit to explain some mundane part of someone else's life before, thanks so much for this untapped pocket of creativity, and thanks for being so special!

[–]mudflips068 -1 points0 points ago

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down voted for gayness

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