Black Friday starts the craziness that all retail employees dread; holiday shopping. People go out to get the best and the biggest deals for their loved ones. It gets really crazy. There are more people than average in the store, emotions run high, and we work very long hours.
When holiday shopping comes along, employees face many different, awful situations and make us cringe and want to die a little on the inside.
People who ask for 10 different things from the stock room then decide not to buy any of it.
We hate asking you to sign up for the credit card as much as you hate us for asking.
Listening to the same Christmas playlist over and over during an 9-hour shift. It may or may not make our ears bleed and never want to listen to Christmas music outside work.
You are depressed because you have to work on Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve.
Watching customers destroy your perfectly styled and standardized shelves and displays.
Furious customers who spittle as they yell at you for something that is their fault or something you cannot change.
Or managers yelling at you and the team for not meeting the sales goals.
Trying not to lose your cool when the store fills with people 5 minutes prior to the store closing.
When your feet go numb at the tail end of your 10-hour-long shift.
Shoplifters are lurking around every corner. Security can’t come fast enough.
Having to leave 45 minutes early just so you can find parking.
When customers want to return 10 different items that are on 10 different receipts.
The shopping cart is overwhelmingly full but the customer decides, after looking at the price, to not get any of it but one item.
The struggle is real...
