Special K wrote:Dennis Kininger wrote:True, but BestBuy is affected by Black Friday.
Oh boy is it ever. And when they open at retarded o' clock in the morning, you better believe there will be a line of people lapping the parking lot...
twice. I am so glad I wasn't working there this holiday season.
Or at B&N like I was the year before that. The returns, oh god, the returns.
I feel for you still-stuck-in-retail people. I pray you find an escape! Or at least get hassle-free customers!
Wait a minute!
Hassle-free customers and retail? Is that even possible?
The only hassle-free customers you'll find in retail are probably sleeping infants...when they're not busy emitting that piercing scream that sends dogs running for cover when their idiot parents take them into the store at all hours instead of paying some teenager a few bucks to babysit them.
Yeah, I worked MANY holiday shopping seasons at Kmart (way too many!), when the store was open past midnight (I also worked at retarded O'Clock many times), I'd always see babies in the store at all hours. Babies are demanding and don't give a shit about being in public. I say, if you can go shopping you can pay a babysitter.
The only OTHER hassle-free customers in retail are the very miniscule percentage of sane, normal people who only want to get something, buy it and get the hell out of the store.
Yes, I also feel for people still stuck in retail. I still have friends at Kmart who are retail "lifers"...I know a woman who's an ORIGINAL employee from when the store, I used to work at, opened in 1974 and she's still there! I admire these people because I certainly couldn't have made a life out of retail as they have.
Retail was an experience, it helped pay my way through college and grad school and a couple years in between...I could buy school books and keep my car running. I also made friends I'm still in touch with today and I knew people I never want to see again.
Yeah, I can share retail "war" stories all day long but I'm happy I was able to escape it all.
Library work has its good/bad sides and can be "strange". I'm currently at work now. Wednesdays are typically on the quiet side, so, today, I'm sitting at my desk for a good hour or more with nothing important to do: Nobody has called with a question, no one has come to the desk with a question...so I get up, go to the staff area to make a mug of tea and walk back to my desk with it, an act which takes all of 5-6 minutes tops.
I get back to my desk and, in that space of time, I had two people waiting at the desk, a phone call and someone waiting to get signed into our computer room...this was after an hour or more of NOTHING. I decide to leave for a few minutes and BOOM! they appear. It's like there's a magic trigger in my chair which activates when my ass leaves it.
This actually happens quite a bit, too.
I DID know a few genuinely cool customers when I was Kmart. Now, I have to contend with the same levels of idiocy at the library where I work. I do get to interact with several very nice library customers and they manage to keep me going but the rest of these cretins would've fit in nicely at Kmart.
Yes, my dream job would involve NOT working with the public and there are library jobs out there but those people tend to stay until they die or retire.
I like library work, the pay is considerably better than retail and I imagine I'll stay in this field for the forseeable future.
Anyway, enough of my babbling. It may not seem like it sometimes, but retail CAN be escaped. I had to bust my ass while working and going to school and it took months of job interviews and frustration to land my library gig. I could very easily easily slip back into retail and hopefully, I'll never get that desperate.
Kristy escaped and I escaped, so hang in there and keep trying to get out.
Dennis
"It's impossible to be neat and tidy amidst the natural majesty of mountains of books."
Michelle...Read or Dream
I am now seriously thinking about quiting. I'm going to use my next four days off, FOUR DAYS OFF in a row but they can't let me off for one weekend. I'm going to use them to look for a better job.
