Wednesday, November 19, 2008

tying up loose ends

Tis the season to.......

Be rude and stupid when you enter a store, taking your temper out on store clerks.....I'm sorry if there was a line outside the store on Sunday morning to get the ad goods, and there were none left of what you came for on Tuesday evening. Call home office and bitch. There is not a damn thing I can do about it, as we did not put the items out for sale early and we at store level do not order or allocate merchandise. It is shipped to us based on what the buyers are able to procure from their sources and what our sales have been for the same or similar items. So griping me out about it won;'t help......as we sold out of stuff on the first day of the ad, I have already notified the DM that we could have used at least "X" amount of each item to get us thru the first day of the ad, much less the rest of the week. I am sorry, sincerely, because I know it is frustrating to not find what you want. But really, it is generally not the store personnel's fault, at least at my store, because we do hold items for the ad.....maybe you want to talk to the lady that bitched me out Saturday b/c I would not go back to the stockroom and get her the ad items she wanted early. my ears still burn from how bitchy she was. But how bitchy would she have been come Sunday if she had not been able to get the item b/c someone had sold it the day before?

Tired of high prices at the stores? Consider this. Payroll is the most controllable expense in most businesses. And in national chains like mine, we are allocated so much payroll per week----and believe me it is never enough for all that is demanded, but I am sure all businesses think that---and if we have to go behind your rear picking up your "Oh I don;t think I want this anymore" dumped items, and cleaning up where you spilled your drink or food and it got tracked all over the store b/c you were freaking oblivious to the fact that you could have caused an accident, then we use payroll and the more we use, and especially the more we have to use over and above what is given, then the money has to come from somewhere, and quite honestly it is not going to come out of the CEO's bonus (sorry, we wish we could have some of that too). So as the cost of doing business goes up, hey so do the prices. Hits us all.......So think before you let your kid run all over the toy dept tearing up jack........or before you just dump half your cart on the opposite side of the store from where it came from....... Yeah I know that's our job, but how would you like us coming into your workplace and tearing it all to hell for you to clean up?

Once again, if you drive up behind me and I am not going the speed limit, check out the vehicle in front of me---maybe it isn't either and I'm sorry about your luck, but I will not pass on double yellow or tailgate just so you can be 3 feet further along than you were...and if you tailgate me, I am going to turn my mirrors out so you can be blinded by your own high beams, and I am going to go even slower just to piss you off.....I know, I've seen me do it..........

Drive on your own flipping side of the road----the yellow line is there to tell you where it is, and it is NOT on my side of it.......

What the hell.......an 8 yr old killed his folks----with 4 shots from a 22 rifle each? Scary to think a kid that young could premeditate that and follow thru with it-----my hubby just explained to me how you have to load the shell before each shot--and the kid shot them 4 times each???????What a f***ed up world. You know my kids get pissed at me, but to even contemplate that?????I cannot fathom it. Kids and parents say all the time "Oh I could just kill you....." when kids screw up or parents don';t give in, but jiminy.......

Auto bailout------don;t......do not.....under any circumstances.......Hey if we could afford the stupid vehicles they are producing, then maybe they wouldn;'t be ready to go bankrupt.......

As far as the other bailouts, I think I had my rant on them before, but now-----did you know they are being re-thought, after the money has already been given out? Did you know that the bailout bill was full of pork, just to get it to pass? Did you know that companies still gave bonuses to bigwigs and resort meetings still occurred? AT OUR EXPENSE!!!!!!!!!

By the way, loved your stimulus check earlier in the year? You paid for that too......

I still loved mine, but the truth hurts too.....

Is there more? Probably, but I have to get my sewing stuff organized and put away, so I can contemplate how to arrange the living room to get the tree up in a couple of weeks. Then I have to clean my daughter's room, best done while she is at school, I think, for the level of cleaning I need to do, since she won't maintain it....so I can get her furniture switched out and moved around to give her more functional space.....yeah, and in the meantime , I have to fix dinner and run errands. Geez people, I am only off today and tomorrow until probably Thanksgiving.....

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