Re: Hate Thread
I hate it when you're ready to leave, but can't quite yet because you'd be too early, but only by about 10 minutes so you can't really do anything worthwhile, and you end up writing a comment about how you hate it when you're ready to leave, but can't quite yet because you'd be too early, but only by about 10 minutes so you can't really do anything worthwhile, and you end up writing a comment about how you hate it when you're ready to leave, but can't quite yet because you'd be too early, but only by about 10 minutes so you can't really do anything worthwhile, and you end up writing a comment about how you...
Well, you get my point.
Made you late, didn't it?
I hate this whole liquidation process. I'm fine with the signs. I'm not prepared to inflict bodily harm onto the liquidator himself. And I hate the fact that we have to mark every fucking book that people are buying with a remainder mark because we can't have them buying the books at discount and then taking them over to the store in the mall that's staying open to get a full price refund, oh no, because, you know, company policy is that you DO NOT take returns without a receipt, so they'd *see* that they'd purchased it cheap and should refund it accordingly, but oh no, because if the customer bitches and moans and gripes and threatens enough, they cave and give in and do the return, so we have to peel off every fucking price tag on the books that we're selling MASSIVE QUANTITIES of right now, tick people off because we're marking up their books (I had one guy, who was buying graphic novels, ask if the marker came off. My response was "No, sorry." "Then you just ruined the book." "Well, I'm not happy about it either, but I have to do it." "I should get an additional discount because of that!" "No.") It goes against my very nature to be doing this and I'm finding it an incredible pain in the ass but it's something that, unfortunately, we have to do because people are greedy.
And speaking of greedy, one of our supervisors put up on FB that, when she left at 8pm tonight (we opened at 10am), the other manager informed her that we'd done a whopping
$45,000 day. AVERAGE day is
5000. As my boss put it, when my one co-worker was depressed over this asshole giving her shit because he bought books *yesterday* and we wouldn't let him return them for the 20% off today "Yeah, all these people, complaining about the store closing. Where were they at Christmas when we could have used the revenue to keep the stores open?"
So yeah, I get to go in tomorrow, possibly attempt to tidy up the store (*insert laughter here*), and more than likely wind up on register because we had lines TO THE BACK OF THE STORE because people are buying mass quantities of books that we have to peel and mark on every f'ing transaction.
And they wonder why I shoot things in the head to relax.
Like Sin, I bought a ton of books around christmas because its my favorite thing to give as Christmas presents (everyone in my family loves to read..) My favorite bookstore went out of business around Christmas time too, so that makes me double sad.
