The only reason my manager and I have Black Friday off was taking on Thanksgiving closing duties. Our department is supposed to close an hour earlier than the store. We have kept the store open longer some years, because fuckers need day-of baked goods, and refuse to do it their own damn selves.
Writing “Happy Thanksgiving” on a cake while hearing “Oh, you have to work on a holiday‽ Why don’t they just close the store for the day!” Why, I don’t know, Gertrude, you absolute textbook example of genius, maybe it’s because you “forgot the traditional cake!” again, for the third year in a fucking row, and decided to do your months shopping while you’re here! Yes, get more two-bite brownies for your family of type-2 diabetics, that’s exactly what they need!
That was true my first handful of years doing retail, but the last few years I got to skip black Friday because my manager forgot 3 years in a row to blackout black Friday and I got PTO in 6-8 months ahead of time. Pissed him off every year when he’d start making the schedule/telling me about how the day was gonna go, only to find out I had it off and already had plans (scheduled months ago) so I wasn’t going to be there, scheduled or not.
I worked at a walmart for a while between jobs and I miss working there and I especially love working holidays. It was so much easier and stress free compared to my actual job. Oh no someone is yelling at me because they cant find the thing they want… On no someone didnt get their milk they really needed.
Id go back to that in a heartbeat if it paid a living wage.
At the time I thought it would be that. Went from CAP one to department head in about 10 months before getting a hit on a resume I submitted almost 2 years before.
I think if anything its a type of job that just wears on you over time especially with how hard it is on your body and the bs around sick leave and etc.
x.doubt
tell me you have never worked retail (or even known someone who does) without telling me………
dude earlier today a customer genuinely asked me if I was working on black Friday.
like gal the entire roster works. you gotta be in the gd hospital after a freak accident to get out of working on consumerism day ont
The only reason my manager and I have Black Friday off was taking on Thanksgiving closing duties. Our department is supposed to close an hour earlier than the store. We have kept the store open longer some years, because fuckers need day-of baked goods, and refuse to do it their own damn selves.
Writing “Happy Thanksgiving” on a cake while hearing “Oh, you have to work on a holiday‽ Why don’t they just close the store for the day!” Why, I don’t know, Gertrude, you absolute textbook example of genius, maybe it’s because you “forgot the traditional cake!” again, for the third year in a fucking row, and decided to do your months shopping while you’re here! Yes, get more two-bite brownies for your family of type-2 diabetics, that’s exactly what they need!
That was true my first handful of years doing retail, but the last few years I got to skip black Friday because my manager forgot 3 years in a row to blackout black Friday and I got PTO in 6-8 months ahead of time. Pissed him off every year when he’d start making the schedule/telling me about how the day was gonna go, only to find out I had it off and already had plans (scheduled months ago) so I wasn’t going to be there, scheduled or not.
I worked at a walmart for a while between jobs and I miss working there and I especially love working holidays. It was so much easier and stress free compared to my actual job. Oh no someone is yelling at me because they cant find the thing they want… On no someone didnt get their milk they really needed.
Id go back to that in a heartbeat if it paid a living wage.
I think some of that stuff would be a lot more stressful if you expected the job to be a long term thing you need to support yourself with.
At the time I thought it would be that. Went from CAP one to department head in about 10 months before getting a hit on a resume I submitted almost 2 years before.
I think if anything its a type of job that just wears on you over time especially with how hard it is on your body and the bs around sick leave and etc.