I left work early today. I am off tomorrow. I am off Monday. I am off Tuesday. I am off Wednesday.

Aaahhh.

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daniel · early evening · say it · ping it

The holidays are such a rough time for me. I’ve been in retail for to long to participate anymore. Sorry.

It starts out easily enough. The great fall clothes start to come in (my favorite season for apparel). I buy a few things. Halloween rushes by…Then we put up the holiday decor! Its always fun to transform the store! We start to see cheerful, early shoppers, sales are up, yay! Then its time for Thanksgiving. I do love Thanksgiving!

The day after however, is somewhat painful. Those folks on Black Friday really tear up the place. It is a fun day though, and fools me into thinking this year will be different. I even put up some decorations at home. It all goes downhill rather fast. The store gets messier. People get crazed. They do not watch their children. They leave trash. They are not polite.

Don’t even ask about Christmas Eve. Those people scare me. They are grabbing anything at this point. Stepping on the clothes that they threw on the floor. At the end of business, I have to almost physically remove them. They want to “get one more thing”, and criticize my “holiday spirit”. Oh, and they swear at me too.

Now its over , and I am mentally exhausted, wondering, “was I there?”
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daniel · early afternoon · say it · ping it

Today sucked! Have you ever been so stresssed about something that you abso-fucking-lutlely forget everything about a topic that you have to KNOW??

So, yeah, I bombed out on a conference call at work today. About freaking PAYROLL. I was so worried that I would be asked something that I wouldn’t know that I was frozen. Very bad. I used to excel at things like that, but I feel so poorly equipped in this job. That I’ve had for 2 years. 2 years that feel wasted.

I blame it on the season. Retail Christmas’ suck.

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daniel · late evening · say it · ping it