Just float through your shift. So do your work but chillax and try to be happy. You are only there to hold down the real estate as cheaply as possible for transform co. Don't get caught up in the drama or the stress. You can't do anything to make Eddie change his plans. No store can. Promises promises promises for over a decade now. Plans intentionally neutered by another action elsewhere. Just try to be decent people and be happy. Work and (hopefully) collect some pay. Be good, get good.
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I would have quit, but my store closed. At least I've been milking that unemployment the last 4 months! Thank you taxpayers!!
Best post in a long time. Who cares. Kmart and Sears are dead. Might as well screw around until the door shuts. Can't get upset and care when it's aewll f---ed. Nice post...I agree.
And I thought the 425 coffee makers we received on Christmas was bad. At least the coffee makers did not take up as much space as a snowblower. It took us over two years to sell most of them and we sent the rest to a closing store.
While I might reveal my local by doing so, 314 portable ACs. 314. . I mean unless there is some system onhand glitch this almost trumps the 477 snowblowers two or three years ago. They would not let us send the snowblowers back but living in a highly snowy area we did sell them all when Home Depot ran out of them (they were 5ish HP smaller units).
I don’t care anyone if I out the local they have like 320 of those three drawer tool sets (rough count).
I mean the on hand could be totally wrong. Our store will sell this junk so a gross mistake of quantity gets overlooked,
You want a good laugh customer comes in at 8:30 “do you have (blank).” “No but we’ve got portable ACs can I interest you in one? “ stare blindly at them and OMG are they mad. If you can deadpan them the reaction is oh so funny.
I admit I’ve done way way too many years in retail but it’s ohh so funny to see the reaction you get.
I don’t get why people are so stressed. If 10 carts of tools come in you just meander through it at a leisurely pace. If they want patio sets, grills or exercise c-ap built you just build it. When the day is done you punch and leave.
If Eddie decides those three drawer tool sets are the wave of the future again and they send another hundred in you just stack them and be done with it. If they sell they sell, if they don’t they don’t. He obviously knows best. Why argue?
The only reason I can see being stressed is the customers are angry (well we still have them) because they closed most of the stores and are funneling 5 stores worth of business to 2 so half the time anything anyone wants is gone and you have to explain that there are only two stores left and you sold 25 garage door openers again this week.
You still should only care so much. Let King Eddie do his thing. When he decided mattresses were the wave of the future we took the 30 or 40 of them set them up and now the customers can wait at the one open register while sitting on them.
Laugh at the absurdity of what they do send in. Don’t get mad. Think of how silly it is when they send in hundreds of portable ACs they will never sell and how they’ll be a space burden or used to fluff out empty sections well into the winter.
I agree with this post. I honestly have stopped giving much of a sh-- anymore at this place. I just go with the flow at this point until either I find a better opportunity or until the wheels fall off, whichever happens first.
A perfect philosophy of how to function in such a stressful and toxic work environment well said!