[sirens] Loconuts returns to the DUmp [sirens]

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Loconuts is back from wondering the internwebnets like Solomon, and has returned to the DUmp:


https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181009480

Thu Nov 23, 2017, 10:57 AM
Locut0s (6,060 posts)

And so starts the month of retail hell...


I manage a retail store that sells gaming, electronics, and pop cultural loot / swag. It's Thursday but our black Friday starts today. Send warm thoughts that I survive lol. I'm joking I'll be fine. I've worked retail off and on the past 10 years. But this is my first holiday season as a manager. Lots of long hours ahead though. I've already out in lots of overtime already of course.

Just a smattering of other DUmpmonkey posts, so I'll just stick with Loconuts:

Sat Nov 25, 2017, 02:01 AM
Locut0s (6,060 posts)
12. Thanks for all the well wishes. Today was a long one. 8 am to 9:30pm...

There were about 1 and 1/2 hours of breaks in there. 1/2 hour actual break during work and then I left the store for 1 hour at the end before returning to help out with the close. Still that's a tiring number of hours to put in on such a busy day. Although it wasn't actually nearly as busy as the previous years I worked at one of the other stores when I was assistant manager. This store that I manage now is actually much slower, although I've turned it around so that it's doing well now. More long hours to put in before the holiday season is over but one of the major hurdles is almost over now 

As I've said elsewhere in another post, I really don't have a lot of complain about in life. This is 1st world problems I'm talking about and my life (aside from life long depression and anxiety which is mostly controlled) is actually good. I'm one of those who loved to complain all the time 24/7 in a joking way to cope, most of it is not serious and is laced with humour. Dark humour

Sat Nov 25, 2017, 10:58 PM
Locut0s (6,060 posts)
14. I wish I could say that the money gets to small businesses...

The reality is that I know different. Luckily this is not my own business. I'm the manager of a store in a chain. I would never be able to survive as a small business myself. I know what the margins are and they are so insanely razor thin on some of the hardware that we sell that we are incentivized almost not to sell just a piece of hardware by itself because we literally lose money after everything is factored in. That's why we sell used stuff and pop culture merchandise. Even then it's only because we are a chain business that the individual stores can make a go. The companies that manufacture the hardware and games set the prices and leave so little room for any profit at the retail end that it's impossible for any kind of smaller business to make a go of things. Honestly it leads to a lot of shady business practices and incentives stores to push all kinds of unwanted junk onto customers like crappy accessories that fall apart because stores make no money on a lot of the other stuff.

This isn't only our industry of course. Manufacturers leave similarly razor thin margins on lots of things. Cars, computers. It means only the huge retailers can survive. Sad.

[Carl]

He sweeps the floor all day is what this really means.

[franksolich]

He sweeps the floor all day is what this really means.

Yeah.

No way is the locust primitive a manager, even of the restrooms, given his past record.

I suspect it's that inflated and wholly false job-title, "co-manager," when in fact one's just another clerk, but the employer wants to make it sound more interesting.

[SVPete]

You have to give loco some credit for giving so many DU-folk a view of unfamiliar territory ... working a job.

[Old n Grumpy]

That's why we sell used stuff and pop culture merchandise.

Sounds like he works at a thrift shop. He must also have an MBA with his vast knowledge of business.

[Carl]

Yeah.

No way is the locust primitive a manager, even of the restrooms, given his past record.

I suspect it's that inflated and wholly false job-title, "co-manager," when in fact one's just another clerk, but the employer wants to make it sound more interesting.

Back in the 90s one of the local convenience store chains had just about everyone badged as "manager in training".
The funny part was that as soon as they finished their training they were shit canned.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Sounds like he works at a thrift shop. He must also have an MBA with his vast knowledge of business.

Probably a low-end game and comic book store.  Most of them, even the name brand ones, take used games, consoles, and comic paraphernalia in trade or buy it for peanuts then resell it.

[Mr Mannn]

Yeah.

No way is the locust primitive a manager, even of the restrooms, given his past record.

I suspect it's that inflated and wholly false job-title, "co-manager," when in fact one's just another clerk, but the employer wants to make it sound more interesting.

He quits every time he deals with stress. No way he would be a manager during the Christmas rush.
My guess is he was just released from the nut house and he's back in his parents basement again.

[67 Rover]

Probably a low-end game and comic book store.  Most of them, even the name brand ones, take used games, consoles, and comic paraphernalia in trade or buy it for peanuts then resell it.

Spencer Gifts if they still exist is my guess.

[I_B_Perky]

So he works in a game/comic book store.  For some reason the guy that owned the comic book store on the Big Bang Theory comes to mind.

Manager of a comic book store... another dummie overachiever.