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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:18 pm Post subject: Black Friday discussion | |
| who's ready for BF 2009?? | |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:52 pm Post subject: | |
| NOT me! I am, however, ready to sleep in like a regular person on Black Friday. | |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:54 pm Post subject: | |
| Speaking of which, I have heard that several of our seasonal people were hired with the understanding that they WOULD NOT be working Black Friday OR the day after Christmas. I think this is very unfair to those of us that have worked both days for years w/o ever having one off! | |
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we will see once the schedule comes out. if that's true, cough, cough, I think I'll be ill. |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:21 pm Post subject: | |
If that is true...My tummy is hurting awful bad..The turkey did me in..and hard.. 
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject: | |||
I think this falls under the category of "YOU COUNT"! |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:10 am Post subject: | |
| I'm timing my swine flue episode just right.... | |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:55 am Post subject: | |
| i have not heard anything about temp hires not working balck friday. as far as i know, they are working. | |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:09 am Post subject: | |
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These are people that requested to have black friday and the day after christmas off, and were told yes. So unfair! I have asked for ONE of them off in 20 years, and was told that "It's an EVERYBODY work day!". What makes it even worse is that while I show up, many other people call out and get no consequenses whatsoever.
Underappreciated, that's how I feel at my store right now. |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:19 am Post subject: | |
| i thought for a brief moment I was going to pick up a job for the holidays... not necessarily at Macys, but in retail. Then I remembered black friday and all bets were off... | |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:16 pm Post subject: | |
Smart girl. 
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 1:39 am Post subject: | |
| If things continue to fall into place as they have thus far, I am planning to NOT be employed by Macy's on that date. | |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:59 pm Post subject: | |
| Huds, you are so lucky. I am playing the lottery every single day between now and Thanksgiving. I so much hate Macy's. It could be so much better if they just treated people with respect. | |
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| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 4:12 pm Post subject: | |||
Respect is a four letter...er seven letter word! It's obscene by Macy's standards! Their new motto is Way to Enslave! 
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:17 am Post subject: | |
| So....do you know the lucky numbers? | |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:18 am Post subject: | |||
No but I know Lucky Jeans! |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 1:04 pm Post subject: | |
| Well, okay, they will do. | |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:53 am Post subject: | |
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Things must be incredibly chaotic for Thanksgiving week.
I've been called at home TWICE in the past week asking if I can either work more hours (answer: NO), and whether or not I can adjust my days off... The good news is that I may have a green light on a new job outside Macy's. It probably won't happen until after February of next year, but I have the opportunity to come aboard early for very limited hours to earn some extra cash and get to know the business. There may be hope, after all. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:00 am Post subject: | |
Good luck. Let me know if you want to borrow my Lucky jeans. 
They asked me if I would like to work more hours, and I said NO, and then they scheduled me for more hours anyway. I should have known that being asked before scheduled was way too good to be true coming from the big red star. 
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:37 am Post subject: | |||
Huds, It's called CALLER ID. Get it. I never answer my phone if the caller ID says "Macys". |
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I know, right? I would, if I had the budget for it. Right now, I'm already a month behind on the phone bill. C'est la vie. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:05 am Post subject: | |
| store opens at 4 AM ...... | |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:08 am Post subject: | |||
when???where??? Our store opens at 5 on black Friday. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:08 am Post subject: | |
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thought it was 5 AM !!!
really ?? is it really 4 AM??? for all stores ??-except downtown stores of course. i had an interview last week for the PERFECT perfect job for me. i am so disappointed that i didn't get it...you don't know. the only thing, and i mean the ONLY thing keeping me at macy's is the money. but when i find a better situation, i am ready to walk. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject: | |||
They can't be paying you that much for you to stay. A fellow associate called me last night and told me she got, get this, a $.04 raise! Can you believe this shit? WTF? It takes more $$ to do the paper work. She's the top credit/sales producer in our dept. and this is the gratitude she gets. She told me, what's the point in trying. She was pissed royally. |
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