Miss Piggy's Grocery Store Checkout Headlines

[Salodin]

What the fuck else would you do with her? You're not marrying the woman, you're just getting yours and getting the fuck out.

[Qalbert]

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Walmart put out collection boxes for food for their workers.

[Moss]

I hope they have their Thanksgiving dinner early since they will have to be at work at 6 pm

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[Krazy]

Actually, according to my friend in the frozen department, most everyone starts at 1:45pm and goes to midnight on Thanksgiving (though there are people who start later and stay until around 2am or so, I think he said). Then they have to come right back to work as early as 5am on Black Friday.

[Moss]

and those are probably blackout days too where you absolutely cannot take off

I remember telling Target I was missing a blackout day for a prom or something and they were like "nah can't have that day off it's blackout" and I was like, look, I'm not going to fucking be here so dill with it

[Melena]

and those are probably blackout days too where you absolutely cannot take off

I remember telling Target I was missing a blackout day for a prom or something and they were like "nah can't have that day off it's blackout" and I was like, look, I'm not going to fucking be here so dill with it

That's right on par with my manager at Babbages telling me I needed to work on my graduation night cause he had a date and needed it off. Told him to schedule me if he wants, doesn't mean i'm going to be there.

[Moss]

That's right on par with my manager at Babbages telling me I needed to work on my graduation night cause he had a date and needed it off. Told him to schedule me if he wants, doesn't mean i'm going to be there.

it's dumbfounding how inflexible companies can be about stuff like that. they legitimately expected for me to skip senior prom to operate a damn cash register for $7.50 an hour.

graduation is even worse

[Glowstickthetaru]

and those are probably blackout days too where you absolutely cannot take off

I remember telling Target I was missing a blackout day for a prom or something and they were like "nah can't have that day off it's blackout" and I was like, look, I'm not going to fucking be here so dill with it

Always made me laugh, when I worked retail, the only days they typically would black out were stat holidays, which they couldn't legally make someone work. So whenever I wanted one off I just told them that if they put me on the schedule that day, not only would I not be showing up, but I'd be making sure most of their staff wasn't either. Have fun on Boxing Day with only the management staff on hand!

[Melena]

it's dumbfounding how inflexible companies can be about stuff like that. they legitimately expected for me to skip senior prom to operate a damn cash register for $7.50 an hour.

graduation is even worse

Was even funnier when I quit and he said I legally had to give him two weeks notice. About a month later he got fired for sexual harassment. I should have ratted his ass out when he tried to slip my prom date a condom and his phone #.

[Anoat]

If it makes you feel any better Babbages either went under or got bought out by Gamestop (can't remember which), so I'm sure they got screwed over eventually.

[Kohan]

If it makes you feel any better Babbages either went under or got bought out by Gamestop (can't remember which), so I'm sure they got screwed over eventually.

They didn't get screwed over, honestly. When it was Babbages and Software Etc., last-minute funding saved them from certain destruction. They later became a part of FuncoLand, which is where the Game Informer magazine originated, and which later changed its name to GameStop.

[isladar]

And that's where babies come from.

[Melena]

Kohan beat me to it, but yea Babbages before going under nearly got bought by EB Games, and last minute Barnes & Noble bought them, then sold it off, and through random mergers and marriages that would make a redneck family proud we now have the titan known as Gamestop.

Due to all that mergers, we actually had two gamestops in the mall near my work. The company that owns the mall wouldn't let the smaller gamestop out of it's lease so the two had to compete against each other despite only being a couple hundred feet away from each other.

[Komm Suesser Tod]

Due to all that mergers, we actually had two gamestops in the mall near my work. The company that owns the mall wouldn't let the smaller gamestop out of it's lease so the two had to compete against each other despite only being a couple hundred feet away from each other.

That happened here. They weren't in the same mall, but they were less than a mile apart on the same road.

[Viq]

I was working at Gamestop when that final merger happened. We had two Gamestops in that mall, and one across that street that was originally a Funcoland. Shit was retarded, because almost every day someone would call out of one of the stores, and the DM gave all the managers free reign to call employees from a different store to try and cover.

[Necronus]

HA! When I moved to where I am in MD I always laughed at how there were 4 Gamestops within 5 minutes of my house. Two were in the mall, one upstairs and one downstairs on the opposite wall ... you could see the other from the entrance of either one. Alternatively, there were two Gamestops in strip malls across the street from one another except one was only really accessible by northbound traffic while the other was accessible by both directions. I remember looking for a used game once and the guy pulled up the inventory and was like "yeah, they have one across the street" ... classic. They eventually closed the duplicate stores, but not for like 5 years.

[Acevalefor]

There are still 2 Gamestops at Washington Square Mall in Portland (Beaverton technically). They seem to work together in that one carries lots of console accessories, controllers, PC games and new console games and the other carries lots of used console games and extras like RC cars, puzzles, and various electronics.

[SephYuyX]

Oh wow, memories.
I worked through all those iterations from hs frosh through early college.

Started at Babbages/Software as lowly seasonal scum, then when it became Funco I was seniorsales/thirdkey, ASM when it became Gamestop (was a ringer for Suncoast during funco>gs too), eventually a new store opened up and got manager for that one, and right before EB merge was district manager. About 6 years worth I think.. Not too long after that (like a few months), EB got finalized, I almost had my second degree, and gtfo for a real job.

It was a real fun job before it became gamestop, and then it went down hill fast. Funny to see how shitty of a company it is when youre on the management side of it, and it looks like its gotten even worse.

I do miss the yearly swag trips, and all the goodies we got at the store, but damn, I never recommend working there unless it's your first job and have no intentions of ever staying there.

[Callisto]

http://www.chicagonow.com/cta-tattle...-at-granville/

A nude woman claiming to be the "goddess of the train" halted southbound Red Line service for a short time early Saturday afternoon until police could escort her off to jail at the Granville station.

The "goddess" said she was going to the front car to drive the train and told everyone else to get off, according to Anne, who shared these photos.

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No doubt the actions of this woman prompted this CTA alert sent at around 1 p.m. today:

"Some 95th-bound Red Line trains are operating with residual delays after an earlier disturbance aboard the train at Granville."

That's a disturbance one doesn't see too often.

As Anne put it in her email to me: "Just a normal day at Granville." Though she did add: "This tops anything I have seen in 20 years riding the CTA.

[Moss]

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