It's almost over!!!!!!!!!!!

Can I even begin to tell you the excitement I feel about this season almost being over?  It hasn't felt like Christmas anyway....the mall I work at didn't decorate much.  They usually have HUGE...I mean HUGE....ornaments hanging all from the ceiling, pointsettas EVERYWHERE, and music playing, carolers singing and much much more.

This year there were a few pointsettas and about 1/2 of those got stolen.  At least the ones in front of my store did.  There were no ornaments, Santa barely had a workshop area.....and I didn't see one caroler.  Now there was supposed to be a flash mob sort of thing happen at the food court like that one video that went around.  But we are too far away to hear if it happened and just close enough that when people walk in with food in their hand and then ask where the food court is you look at them funny.

Anyway, today is a day off.....whew....I feel as bedraggled as that little kitty!   But it's just Thursday and Friday!  I hope I can make it......I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can!

Black Friday

I think I might have actually survived the day after Thanksgiving!  Whew!!!!!  Stories to come.

Really just unbelieveable

I can't believe some of these people that work in retail.  I know that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to make a retail establishment to work.  I know that you don't have to have any degrees in, like, say business or marketing or biochemistry.  But it does take half a brain and you have to at least be able to use common sense and problem solving skills.

The longer I'm in retail the longer I realize that these problem solving skills have all gone down the drain.  People today don't know how to problem solve.  And they don't care to learn. 

So therefore, I'm afraid for future genereations.  I'm afraid that the world in in trouble and will not survive.

And to top it all off....the general public is completely selfish.  They don't care about anyone but themselves and they don't want to even work on the team or on helping someone else get ahead.

I am just not sure where we are going to end up.  Lord, help us all if we don't pull ourselves together soon!

bah humbug

Yea....santa claus came to the mall on Friday.  Really?!?!?  Three weeks before THANKSGIVING?!?!  You've **GOT** to be kidding me!

Now I love the jolly old man.  I even have fond memories of sitting on his lap telling him what I'd like for him to bring at Christmas.  But I always figured out it was Uncle Bob all dressed up. 

Seriously though...I don't know what the retailers are trying to gain by making people think they don't have much more time to shop.  I'd love to believe that people aren't that gullable.  But in my heart of hearts I know they are.  I know so, because I'm in retail....I know so because they are coming in the store and acting like they have to buy things up in a hurry or there won't be any left.  

FOLKS!!!! IT'S ONLY NOVEMBER 11TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS...I love you Santa Claus and I'll email you my list later!  :o)

Years ago....

I used to work at the top of the John Hancock Building.  I loved that job.  Most of the time I could do my homework (I was in college at the time) because it got cloudy during the winter and no one would pay to come up and look at the clouds.

Most of the people that would come up into the building were tourists.  And many didn't even know English and didn't understand our currency.  So they would pull money out of their wallets and say  "How much?"

I realized that I could've robbed so many people blind.  They often put $100, $50, $20 dollar bills in their hands and say which one?  And I could've just taken the $100 and said "Thanks!"

But since I'm basically an honest person I didn't and I would only take what was needed to pay for the items they bought.  I can't imagine going to another country and trusting the person behind the register to take the correct amount without cheating me.  Every time that I have traveled overseas I have had someone with me that was able to help me out in the currency department.  I wish that everyone else had the same help with them.

Maybe the few of you that read this will learn from their mistakes and will help others in their travels.

Retail Bone

Not everyone has the retail bone.  I have to admit that I have it.  I'm not sure exactly where it resides in the body but I have the retail bone.

I'm not always happy about it.  In fact sometimes I wish that it could be removed.

I wish that I could get rid of it....it hampers the function of other bones in the body.  And I'd like to someday see what those other bones can do. 

So what does this retail bone do for me you ask?  Well, it actually makes you good at a retail job.  And those jobs will never make you rich.  You will never be on the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous by working a retail job.  In fact you will most likely live below the poverty level the rest of your life.  You will struggle to make ends meet and you will not enjoy getting out of bed every morning. 

You will miss many family gatherings and they will not understand why you have to work over every holiday and why you can't take two weeks off at Christmas to go and hang out with them. 

But when you have the retail bone...this is your life.  This is what you are destined to do for the rest of your life.  You may try to escape it and you may even have the fortune of getting out for awhile.  But you'll be back.  And when you come back you will begin at the bottom.  You will be forced to climb back up from the lowest of lows.  You will have to crawl past all the others that don't have the bone but think they do....and you will have to prove to those people that your bone is right, true and genuine.

It won't be a happy climb, but one that you are destined to make.  Therefore you might as well suck it up and do it.

So here in this blog you will read the stories of me sucking it up and doing it.  You will read about the customers past and present that have the nerve to open their mouths and say things to me that they would never dream of saying to their friends and family.

I hope that you enjoy your journey though the stoies.....I'm sure with Christmas right around the corner we are going to get off to an incredible start.

Thanks for reading......Follow if you dare.