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  • #196
    Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

    I'm only going to say this once. Black Friday is not a holiday.

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    • #197
      Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

      I don't know which I'm looking more forward to... the zombies fighting, or trolling the zombies about how they'd rather rack up credit card debt than be with family, while they spend time away from their families doing so.
      Last edited by FlagDUDE08; 11-24-2016, 11:13 AM.

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      • #198
        Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
        I don't know which I'm looking more forward to... the zombies fighting, or trolling the zombies about how they'd rather rack up credit card debt than be with family, while they spend time away from their families doing so.
        I went out once maybe 10 years ago shopping for a GPS that was in the stock according to the computer, but was gone when I got there.

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        • #199
          Originally posted by jen View Post
          I'm only going to say this once. Black Friday is not a holiday.
          I still get paid like it's one...
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          • #200
            Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

            Originally posted by jen View Post
            I'm only going to say this once. Black Friday is not a holiday.
            Piggybacking on that:

            Your store staying closed on Thanksgiving does not make you heroes. Stop patting yourself on the back because of it.
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            • #201
              Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

              Originally posted by Handyman View Post
              Piggybacking on that:

              Your store staying closed on Thanksgiving does not make you heroes. Stop patting yourself on the back because of it.
              Chains advertise that fact to get the indignant people to shop at their stores come Friday morning. Don't shop with the bad people's stores, shop at our good people's stores! Stores for people like you.
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              • #202
                Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

                Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                Chains advertise that fact to get the indignant people to shop at their stores come Friday morning. Don't shop with the bad people's stores, shop at our good people's stores! Stores for people like you.
                Exactly. It's all marketing. That being said, I don't shop on Fri, minus beer (Goose Island's Bourbon County Stout comes out on Black Friday, and it'll be gone within the hour, usually).
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                • #203
                  Originally posted by Jimjamesak View Post
                  I still get paid like it's one...
                  Me too.
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                  • #204
                    Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

                    Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                    Chains advertise that fact to get the indignant people to shop at their stores come Friday morning. Don't shop with the bad people's stores, shop at our good people's stores! Stores for people like you.
                    Then there was JC Penney who won't try to fool you and proudly advertised they were opening at 3pm Thanksgiving Day.
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                    • #205
                      Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

                      When I was in college (95-99), I recall that K-Mart had employees in their stores on Thanksgiving Day. I don't recall if the stores were open for business or if it was all prep for the Friday Crush, but they absolutely had staff in their stores. A family friend worked for them back then, and my parents hosted their family with the whole of our own, and his mother would bemoan that her son was stuck in the store working that day. That differed from my retail jobs, where we would prep for Friday by working late on Wednesday night.

                      Really, not much has changed for retail employees at many large chains. The difference now is that the consumers can now enter the stores... and likely a few more employees in the stores than 20 years ago.
                      "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984

                      "One does not simply walk into Mordor. Its Black Gates are guarded by more than just Orcs. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume." Boromir

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                      • #206
                        Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                        When I was in college (95-99), I recall that K-Mart had employees in their stores on Thanksgiving Day. I don't recall if the stores were open for business or if it was all prep for the Friday Crush, but they absolutely had staff in their stores. A family friend worked for them back then, and my parents hosted their family with the whole of our own, and his mother would bemoan that her son was stuck in the store working that day. That differed from my retail jobs, where we would prep for Friday by working late on Wednesday night.

                        Really, not much has changed for retail employees at many large chains. The difference now is that the consumers can now enter the stores... and likely a few more employees in the stores than 20 years ago.
                        There were employees, but it was a skeleton crew usually consisting of the overnight stock team, and people who volunteered. Not even close to the amount working presently.
                        Jordan Kawaguchi for Hobey!!
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                        mns, this is why i love you.
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                        MNS - forking genius.
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                        MNS - sometimes you gotta answer your true calling. I think yours is being a pimp.
                        Originally posted by hockeybando
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                        • #207
                          Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

                          Originally posted by MinnesotaNorthStar View Post
                          There were employees, but it was a skeleton crew usually consisting of the overnight stock team, and people who volunteered. Not even close to the amount working presently.
                          I remember when it was controversial to work on T-Day at all if you weren't essential personnel.

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                          • #208
                            Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

                            Originally posted by leswp1 View Post
                            I remember when it was controversial to work on T-Day at all if you weren't essential personnel.
                            Ahhh, the good ol' days...
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                            • #209
                              Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

                              Originally posted by MarkEagleUSA View Post
                              Ahhh, the good ol' days...
                              oui

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                              • #210
                                Re: Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

                                The fact that the spam threads keep popping up...good lord.

                                We should bring back the thread where people created posts based off of various thread titles. (mashing them together) We could have a lot of fun with that now
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