No Longer in retail

I feel since i no longer work in retail this blog has run its rarely updated course follow me at my new venutre

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The Truth Ads

During the last week I drove home to visit my dad and got to experience the joy of cable. However I was also exposed to the truth ads. These ads I feel are really aimed at the wrong people. They try to pass the blame of smoking off on someone else. In one add during a fake job interview a customer complains that using the tobacco companies product caused him to lose half his jaw. I can see how that would be upsetting, however I really feel like the truth ads try to take away the blame on the person buying the product. Its no secret that tobacco is bad for you, yet people continue to CHOOSE to purchase that product. The Truth needs to closer examine the fact that people are choosing to put that in their body. Does is suck that the product is on the market? I think it does, but people choose to use it, so Truth please refocus your ad campaign on education of those who use the products instead of blaming those who produce it.

Follow instructions carefully

For those of you who don't know what the above is let me tell you. Thats is a several thousand dollar plasma tv that clearly says on the box that it cannot be layed on its side for shipping. It is $80 to have that tv delivered to his home.

Music that brought me into the new year

With lots of free time on my hands now I've decided to share the music that I rung in the new year with:

A Long December - Counting Crows
A Very Good Year - Frank Sinatra
Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis
Auld Lang Syne - Dropkick Murphys
New Years Day - U2
Same Old Lang Syne - Dan Fogelberg
What are you doing new years eve? - Diana Krall
Happy New Year - ABBA
The New Year - Death Cab For Cutie

Friday November 28th marked my 5th year working black friday at my store. Honestly I never saw myself working past the first one I was involved in, but here I am five years later. This year the line outside our store stared Wednesday at 6:00pm, so yes there are people willing to sacrifice an entire holiday sleeping and sitting outside a store in temperatures that didn't get much above 35F. In the past five years I've only seen one fight ever happen, but I have however encountered hundreds (I know this number is not an exaggeration) of angry customers who eigher don't come prepared for what the day is all about, or who think that the rules of black friday don't apply to them. After five years here are some of the tips I can give to you:

1) If you want a good deal, show up early, very very early.

2) If you don't follow number 1 under no circumstances scream and and yell at store employee's that you didn't get the deal you wanted. Trust me we want you to get the product you want and get out of there as soon as possible. It's easier for both of us.

3) Don't try to skip ahead in line. Black Friday lines are very good at self regulating. If you try to skip in line, you will get yelled at. Also dont use the line "i only have a few things, can I go to the front of the line?" I've heard that question for the last two years while I've been regulating the line, and I will never, ever let you go th the front.

4) Don't abandon your cart. Its just rude and gets in everyone's way.

5) Just stay home, watch the ads, you can find just as good deals if you are patient. Or try the website and pick it up later.

6) Don't come to the store at open expecting there being people there that can help with returns. The line blocks that part of our store every year, and every employee we have is trying to help customers ringing out.

7) Never ever start a fight.

8) We may be busy but don't try to steal, we are not feeling charitable on that day.

Wall E is a terrifying film

Let me start by saying I love Pixar films, every single one of them. Howerever there are a few things about Wall E that really made me cringe. First the movie had self aware robots, and I have never seen that be a good thing, just ask John Connor. Really though those robots aren't nearly as big of a problem as is the fact that the new society on Earth has no idea how to sustain their own life outside of their spaceship. The Captain tells the kids that they can grow pizza trees, this is not a good sign. These problems don't really concern me nearly as much as really the big problem they never address. The movie presents the same group of people living on a spaceship for 700 years. For those of you that have seen the movie you know that this society is made up of people that have gotten very big due to increased laziness. So you have a lazy group of people confined to only each other. Obviously the waste problem should be a huge issue, along with the problem of what to do with the deceased would be very difficult. Yet my biggest concern is that fact that these people only have each other to reproduce with for 700 years, this would obviouslylead to 3 eyed, two toed offspring, but nope not in this movie, and that is my biggest concern.

Customer Satisfaction

According to a new survey by Men’s Fitness and Shape magazine, 85-percent of guys think of themselves as “good” or “excellent” in the sack. However, the same survey reports that half of women think “very few” of the men they’ve been with have been good in bed.
Additionally, seven out of 10 women admitted to faking orgasms This also happens to be the exact same number of men who believe they give women an orgasm every time.

Just thought I would share.