Hey, hey, a little sneak peek at the painting I'm working on. I'm soooooo happy with it. I want to finish it now, now, now so I can see what it will actually look like!

Anyway.

Wow. Crazy day at work today. I mean, crazier than usual at the moment. This morning, a shelf full of glasses fell off its arms and all the glass crashed on the floor, just a couple of inches from where I was sitting on the floor. But somehow not a single bit of glass hit me. My legs were still shaking 20 minutes later, though. Bloody hell.

And half an hour before I finished work there was a fight (!!!!) between some customers. Not entirely sure what the hell it was all about. People got spat on and hit in the face/head (two of my colleagues who were trying to break it up and get a baby out of harm's way), smashed lamps and glasses on the floor. 4 or 5 policemen, our security guard and the management and who knows how many colleagues trying to break it up.

Nice with a bit of drama, eh? Atleast it gives me something sort of interesting to blog about, right? ;-)

Heh, and as I was leaving work, I got in the queue to buy some bits; I was clearly not working, I had my coat on, my bag and a pile of stuff to pay for. And yet, a customer came up to me and said "excuse me, have you got so and so?!" I just looked at her and said "sorry, not working right now" and carried on with what I was doing. I really felt like adding a 'fuck off', but the situation didn't call for that, after all. ;-)

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Today I heard a woman say to her husband "no, I'm not going to buy that today. I'll wait until they're giving it away. They'll knock off at least 10% soon."

What the..?!! I was standing RIGHT NEXT TO HER! These people don't give a shit about us and that we're about to lose our jobs.

Another woman asked what we were going to do with some drinks coolers "now that you're going to close?" In my mind I was saying FUCK OFF, but out loud I only said "they are not ours, they belong to Coca Cola."

Vultures, the lot of them!

I just want this to be over. I'm not sure how much more of this I can take. Every day we work so hard to try and make the store look presentable, but within half an hour of opening, it looks completely trashed.

Just put us out of our misery; let us know if we'll be closing and when. Enough already.

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I'm tellin' ya.. I don't even know where to begin to describe how sucky work is right now. Yesterday people were ducking under the shutters when we opened; we weren't even able to get the shutter posts out! This morning we had to have several people + security staff from the centre at the door so we could open the shutters in an orderly fashion.

And once they got the all clear people RAN in through the door, grabbing a basket on the way, and stuffing it with.. whatever. I've never seen anyone behave like that. And what exactly is it they are expecting us to have? We've had a sale on for a week now, we get very little deliveries, certainly nothing like cds and dvds, so the store has to be stocked with whatever we can find - a lot of it stuff that's been sitting at the warehouse, for one reason or the other, for ages.

At one point I was on till and a lady came up with a bunch of stuff, she asked me to check the price of one of the items and when it turned out that it was £10 she didn't want it, "no, I only want things that are 1 pound". And I just thought to myself: fuck off!

Today I couldn't be bothered to play the nice sales assistant role, I only said the most necessary to the customers and didn't feel like looking at them either. This situation is really very exhausting, physically and emotionally, so they can't expect us to be all smiley and happy to help them.

Because they don't help us, do they? Do they put things back when they realise that they don't want it after all? Nope. So they can just fuck off. We don't owe them anything. Bloody vultures. Picking the bones dry of a dying man. Dying, not dead.

Yesterday morning, at the staff briefing, when asked what we should say to customers who complain about not everything being 50% off (what part of UP TO don't you understand, suckers?), our assistant manager (it was our manager's day off and I guess he didn't deem it necessary to come in, at least for a while, to give everyone his support..!) said to tell the customers to fuck off! Hah!

And dagnabbit, on the last day, whenever that will be, but it seems more and more certaint hat there will be a last day, I bloody hell will! Because what can they do? Sack me?

Fuck off! ^_^


Phew, better now. Thanks for letting me blow of some steam. ;-)

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