So you really enjoy threads full of teenage angs
t. Damn.
It’s not the shoppers; it’s the stores that run these stupid-ass limited time only offers that you can only maybe get if you happen to be there right as the store opens. I don’t think it’s worth it but for some people, it’s the only way they can afford these items. If the higher-ups didn’t run these limited offer deals to incite a buying frenzy, you wouldn’t have the hassles you do. Blame corporate.
It doesn’t count because you’re all Aussie and shit.
I do not know about enjoy, but the Op seemed to have a good rant, and your only answer was the extremely dismissive “Waaa! Waaa!”
Why even bother posting in the thread at all if you are that annoyed by complaining? I do not run into you often, but it is always seems to be very negative and harshly so. You went after another young person not too long ago and looked like a jerk doing so.
If you read through it, myskepticsight had a long shitty day and backed up how and why. It really was a damn good rant.
I am sure you are correct. I get my shopping out of the way on Mondays and Tuesdays after Black Friday and before Christmas.
The rest I do on the Internet.
Jim
To the OP.
I am so sorry. I really feel for you-it sounds like you really wanted to spend time in St Louis and instead came back to this-low pay, stress and a migraine. Are you off tomorrow? I do my part, as stated by others, and NEVER will I shop on this day. I won’t even go to the grocery store. I did go out for lunch-nowhere near a maul, er mall.
I hate people as a rule, and seeing more of them, earlier in the morning and ruder to boot, does not appeal to me. Apparently mileage varies…
Oh yay, another Carol Stream post where she proceeds to shit all over it and then duck out!
:rolleyes:
Tell me something-do you EVER contribute anything useful, or just drive-by insults?
myskepticsight-a sixteen-hour retail shift? YIKES!
My sympathies. I still have nightmares about working at KrapMart.
No, it wasn’t. It was whining, pure and simple.
Speaking as a retail veteran–
The days in the week preceding Christmas often have sales volumes similar to that of Black Friday (depending on the type of store, etc.) but the experience isn’t nearly so unpleasant. Why? Because the customer expectations are different. People aren’t expecting to get that exactly perfect super-duper-gigapixel camera for 10 bucks. They’re just happy to find something appropriate to put under the tree. And stores aren’t promoting those special deals either. So you end up with stores crowded with harried, tired, impatient people, but they’re not necessarily aggressive in the way that they are on Black Friday. And since their expectations are lower, it’s a lot easier to meet or exceed those expectations.
And your’s wasn’t? A post search on your name yields the vast majority of your comments are snippy little remarks in the Pit. At least myskepticsight actually contributes, you diseased cuntrag.
“Diseased cuntrag,” contributes how, exactly?
I did my part by not buying ANYTHING on Black Friday. No gas, no groceries, and especially no gifts. I didn’t even shop online. I might have missed the opportunity to save a few bucks, but I didn’t get my nerves any more frazzled than they normally are. I think that my nerves are more valuable than a little bit of money. The whole experience is just an exercise in futility.
“Black Friday” started as just being a convenient day for Christmas shopping - a lot of people got the day off from work and had an opportunity to go to stores. But now the stores are feeding into the crowd instinct by running special sales that are only good for a few hours on the morning after Thanksgiving. The poor sales staff who have to bear the brunt of this rush have my sympathy. And I’d especially like to commend the WalMart manager who, almost five hours into the sale, was still courteous and helpful in finding the DVD player I was looking for and answering my questions about it.
I got stoned instead. 
Carol Stream, you’re acting like a spiteful jizzbag, pure and simple.
myskepticsight, I deeply empathize. I ended my term in retail hell a year and a half ago, and am I ever glad to be out. When I was working, Sears opened their doors on Black Friday at the slightly more reasonable hour of six a.m. and closed at 11 p.m. A ten-hour shift is bad enough, but I can’t even imagine sixteen hours. I almost got snared into working for Sears again for the holidays to earn some extra scratch, but boy am I glad I didn’t. Allow me to prop up your feet and get you a delightful beverage.
Shoudn’t whining about personal problems properly go in MPSIMS?
No you idiot, rants go in the pit. In fact if there had been a problem with the location of this thread, don’t you think that the Senior Admin of the Pit Lynn Bodoni would have said something or moved it.
Why don’t you just fess up to being crabby or a jerk?
Jim
If that were true, the Pit would be virtually empty. There are plenty of threads in this forum “whining” about personal problems. The only poster whose whining is truly annoying is you.
Damn, beaten to the punch! Curse you, What Exit?, and your superior typing skills! :shakes fist:
From the rules:
Rants should be suitable for the Pit
Rants which are genuine but simply too tepid or mundane for the Pit will be moved or closed, as we see fit. Lastly, rants about personal trauma that are expected to generate mostly supportive, sympathetic responses will likely be moved to MPSIMS. This is not a commentary on the seriousness of said life events, merely the best forum for that type of thread.