Giambattista Valli | Spring/Summer 2019
… head; … quiver; … the man once…; …heart…
Stesichoros, “S9″, The Geryoneis (tr. by David Campbell) in Greek Lyric (via antigonick)
Everyone going shopping on Black Friday, be aware of three things:
The retail workers are working 12 hours shifts. We are threatened with losing our jobs if we don’t show up unless we’re dying in the hospital. I had an assistant manager show up with fucking strep because he would’ve been fired otherwise. Yes, he did infect 7 and hospitalize 2 coworkers; who knows how many members of the public he infected.
The stores have, maybe, 5 of that special cheap thing you’re after. Corporate does this on purpose, and stores are not allowed to order enough. The prices aren’t even that much lower. They lie about how expensive something is to fool you into thinking you’re getting a discount. You aren’t.
Most of the workers you will come across will be new hires for the sole purpose of being bodies for about three months before they’re fired. They actually don’t know anything because they’ve been working there for maybe two weeks, and have had no real training. I was once hired at Staples a week before Black Friday and expected to know how to deal with phones, coupons, the online ordering site, and AS400 after five 6-hour shifts. This is the kind of person you will likely be dealing with at Black Friday.
Do me and my retail family a favor and don’t shop Black Friday. Any company that needs a sale day like Black Friday to get their sales out of the red doesn’t deserve to be in business.
This also goes for anyone that works shipment too. We’re suddenly expected to stay as late as they want you to even if they know you don’t have a car and rely on a ride to get you to and from work and know you can’t stay late. Shipment workers will suddenly start getting berated for not getting things done and it is by far the most stressful time to be a shipment worker for any store. Especially when they throw in new hires that don’t know how to process things and are expected to work at the same pace as the people that have worked there for a while.
Retail is shit around the holidays, especially Black Friday
ok fellow millenials, it’s time to kill black friday
LET’S KILL BLACK FRIDAY
As someone who has to work – can confirm. I also think I’m getting sick? Which is hilarious, because I basically have to power through it because of the potential fallout if I don’t show
the third thing is huge. also, an addition for general holiday shopping: if a store is understaffed, please don’t take it out on the people who ARE working there. in our case, we were already way below the number of people we were supposed to have hired on for the holiday season and then corporate also went ahead and cut our hours. ummmmmm… what???? so we’ve basically been running on a skeleton crew for the last couple of weeks. they poured all our available hours into black friday and every other day for the next month is going to be super sparse. this isn’t our fault as associates. this isn’t even our managers’ fault. it’s purely corporate. so please don’t get mad or impatient if you can’t find someone to help you or if a register closes because someone has to take their break. we’re doing our best with what we have.
love galore 