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I hate seeing dissapointed Parent's, actually, because god knows the kid will throw a fit if he doesn't get a Wii.
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It's their fricking fault for not ordering one or using their brains and buying early to avoid the inevitable Christmas congestion....this DID happen last year y'know!. Foolish people are the only kind in this world who can count on getting exactly what they deserve.
Onto more bitching.
This week....the week before Christmas is THE busiest week in the year for probably any retail i guess but particularly teh video games trade so it can really make a difference if one person is off. On Friday a guy called in ill......ok fine a bit extra work, no real trouble. On Saturday a bloody cockmunch i work with who is well known for being a bloody cockmunch also calls in ill (he really wasn't i live practically next door to him) and now the situations quite serious, on the 23rd the whole shop has to basically be renovated for the January sales (through reading the lists sent by head office i calculated that half the games on it went down by less than £5 and the ones that went lower are the bloody awful ones no-one buys) so everyone needs to be on task, processing trade and dealing with customers so the manager can get down to the important work i.e reshelving games and taking down the Fat Chris paraphernalia (I swear if i see one more Fat-fucking-Chris picture ever i will scream, cry or do both...he is plainly the most awful marketing idea ever). so near closing time on Saturday the manager (whose a nice guy) phones cockmunch and asks him if he'd like to make up the hours on the 23rd and get overtime for them. What does cockmunch say?
'Naaah sorry Matt, I have to meet people tomorrow'
Weakest excuse ever.
And even better another bloody idiot of a Christmas temp phones in sick on Sunday which means the staff is now down to four people for that day.
So it's today....I go in work for 10am for a contracted 6 hours, because as its Sunday the shops shut at 4 (blame religion) expecting maybe to do one hours overtime because of the sale thingy. Instead we get hardly any trade done, everyones on the edge and stressed because we happen to be understaffed and instead of doing the stuff he needs to do the manager has to do the day to day stuff....the most important day of the year and we struggle to keep up.
The after effect of this? Its closing time when we start raping the shop floor and starting over....we aren't even faxed the info we need for price changes till half four and to top it all off its a cold cold evening. Apart from the pizza (which teh boss bought for us 'cos he's such a five star bloke) i spend the next five hours un-stickering, re-stickering, pricing and shelving and only got my ass outta there at ten because i was ordered to, being totally knackered but I ain't complaining too much, I got paid....unfortunately the manager only gets paid the hours the shop is open so he's working around six or seven hours overtime with the only incentive being his boss will probably fire him if he doesn't get all the sale toss done. Retail sucks balls.
And thats me done [Exits angry mode)]
[Ceases rant]
Have a very merry Christmas everyone ^^ and if you do shop at Gamestation please appreciate the workers who get paid a pittance to put up with you and their plainly mentally deficient boss's.