Its been 5 years since I entered Retail Hell, and no matter what the job might be, people are always the same, sure the faces change, but its always the same thing no matter where you go. Your expected to know everything about everything, you will get abused by customers almost on a daily basis, if Corporate is planning a visit, you can expect people to run around like Fucktards because they were slacking on their jobs or just did Shit their own way, So they have to hustle to get it back to 100%, well they hustle around making everyone do extra shit, so you hustle doing work. I for example finished a 10 hour shift this morning, knowing the Regional manager was coming I did my best to do the impossible " Zone the shit out of The Christmas Dept" I knew it was a waste of time and by 10pm tonight it will be Fucked up again, But God forbid the Regional Manager figures out I have the entire Christmas Dept to do every night by myself, I wonder how it would make people look. But regardless I had to make it awesome for these people so I skipped my two 15min breaks and only took 30 min on lunch instead of an hour to get shit done. Needless to say when your given a list a mile long 9.5 hours sometimes isn't enough.

Here is my list from last night:
1. Work all pallets of freight-there were 8 pallets all were stacked six feet high with Christmas crap ( whatever doesn't go up has to be sorted by category on 4 different pallets, after a special stock label is posted on the outside of the box )
2. Clean up outside with the leaf blower
3. Make new signs for all plants in the Garden Center ( my Dept. manager couldn't find the new signs so I had to make new ones)
4. water the Poinsettas ( 8 tables )
5. Take care of the return karts ( the shit customers leave around the store, yea we put the shit away at night) I had 3 Karts all loaded to the bursting point.
6. Take out trash ( other end of the fucking store )
7. Move Clearence plants to far back outside wall
8. Mark Downs ( check everything to see whats on sale, if its on sale make a new price point for it )
9. MEGA ZONE ( Hit all 5 Christmas Isles, straighten the shit out of them, pull everything forward) and since the shift before I come in never does this, I come in to a mess. If nobody zones during the day I clean up a days worth of Mess.

I started the Mega Zone at 4:22am, I did not finish untill 7am....See my point?

and of course this list was not finished I did the most important things on it, I would like to meet the guy who could do all this though.....And Kill Him, he makes people like me work to the point of a blackout.

And what a surprise, when My supervisor toddled her happy ass in this morning @ 6 she had the FUCKING BALLS to ask me why everything wasn't done.

Well Bitch I don't know, maybe because my To Do list was longer then a slave owners whip, maybe because I'm the only one there at night to do this shit.


This is my new outlook on the Holiday Season.





I have been turned from a person into a



-Pacified Associate
" You've just been unplugged "