Good Monday Morning, Everybody!

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I hope you had a GREAT christmas day yesterday and Santa was good to ALL of you! :bounce: And now here we are at Monday and the beginning of another work week. For those of us in retail, that means all the Clearance Sales begin today! Do you go shopping on the day after christmas? Another thing it means is...returns. The most hated transaction in retail.

Tony (our new puppy) is doing wonderfully! He didn't cry even once last night while he was in his kennel, so we got a full nights sleep! :bounce: His is such a joy to have too. Greekspeak thinks Tony loves ME more than he loves him because he's always right where I am in the house. Right this moment, he is laying across my feet looking up at me with his adorbale puppy eyes. As you can probably tell, I love this little dog!

So what's YOUR plans for today? Are you off work? And if you are, are you going shopping?

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I hope you had fun yesterday!

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Hope that all's more than wonderful in your part of the world. :hug:

Ah, the dreaded day after Christmas in the retail world. I hated that so much...returns galore, plus all of the rugrats out of school so the parents flood into the malls because they have no better way to entertain them. :scared:

Are the kitty/doggy relations going any better yet?

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Yes, Bandit seems to be tolerating him a little better now! :woohoo: He still takes swipes at Tony if he bothers him while he's eating, but I think that's OK. Tony needs to learn to leave him alone when he's eating.

I go in today at noon. I'm not looking forward to all the freakin returns, let me tell ya.

And you're right--Bandit needs to be able to eat in peace.


I dreaded post-Christmas returns like crazy. If they were as simple as a sale it would be no problem, but all of that paperwork :puke:. I don't envy you one bit on that.

ESPECIALLY on the day after christmas. x( I may try to stay away from the registers as much as I can today and let the other managers deal with them. (yeah, right)!

Stay on the sales floor--be one of those "vultures" who swoops down on customers the second they cross the threshold into your store and just follow them around the whole time they are in there. Then you won't have to go to the registers too much. :silly:



(I joke about the "vulture" thing because some overly-anxious sales people remind me of vultures descending on prey. :rofl:)

I'm no vulture. I will go say hello to them. Welcome them to my store. Ask if I can help them, and then I leave them alone. I'll check back with them after a while to see if they have any questions I can answer. I don't like sales people hovering over me when I'm in a store, so I don't hover over them when they're in MY store.

Which was I made myself visible, but I didn't swoop down on people the minute they came into the store or got within eyesight. Unfortunately the management wanted anyone who crossed the threshold, or particularly anyone within 10 feet to be greeted and offered assistance (and they meant pressured to buy). That's why I wasn't the best fit in their environment.

But NO high pressure. Just check back with them to see if they have questions. I'm cool with that. I have lots of people who come in all the time, and several who hug me every time they come in, so they get my attention at once. :rofl:

That is great news about Tony!

I'm staying away from the stores and giving everyone a bit more breathing room.

However ~ I will be back at Block Buster. I watched 4 movies in the past 2 days and I'm enjoying the peacefulness around here.
We all stayed the hell home yesterday and slept.



BTW ~ Merry day after Christmas!

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It's good to see you today! I'm glad you had a nice, peaceful day yesterday! Merry day after christmas!

Do you expect a busy day?

I'm sure we'll have a lot of returns and people coming in to get stuff that's on Clearance beginning today. At least the time will go quickly.

Your family will ALL be there to greet you when the day is done.

:woohoo: That's the GOOD part! :woohoo:

I love to watch puppies and cats getting to know each other.

I'll bet Greekspeak was only teasing you about the pup liking you better.

I think he IS teasing...Tony spends as much time near him as he does me. That IS the best part of the day! :woohoo:

A puppy? You got a new baby! I'm glad he let you sleep, he must feel safe.

I will not go shopping, I will stay home and read the directions on my new camera!

Are you working and did you and greekspeak have a good day? :hug: to you.

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You hadn't seen heard that we got a new puppy? Well, here he is:

I have to go in at noon today. x( We had a good day, Greekspeak and I. We had some really good food and just enjoyed each other's company! I hope YOU had a great christmas!

I have 2 cats who occassionally act like dogs. I haven't had a dog for so long. We live on a very busy street with no fence and every time I think of a puppy I realize I better move or get a bunch of money for a fence before I get one. Congratulations on your puppy baby!

He's wonderful! He's 6 weeks old and a standard poodle and my baby!

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Happy Boxing Day.

I had a delightful time yesterday, and there's no way that anybody could get me into a shop today, I think that most of the post-Christmas sales begin tomorrow here in England but I'm not going into any shop for quite a while yet.

Glad that you're getting on so well with Tony - is Josephus getting used to him?

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I've never been wished that before. But then DU is the place where you can routinely be wished "happy wednesday morning." ;) :pals:

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I'm glad you had a good day! We had a good day here at the Clintmax household too! Happy Boxing day to YOU too! Josephus seems to be doing better with him now...the only time he will take a swipe at Tony now is if he's eating and Tony bothers him. I think he'll be fine. He's better with every day that passes! :woohoo:

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Tony looks adorable in the pic you've just posted, I'm sure that he and Josephus will get along wonderfully soon enough.

He's just adorable, he is!

At the moment I'm just starting to figure out how to work my new M.P.3 player - and am wondering how the hell I managed to get so many ridiculous music files on my computer which I would never listen to. :shrug:

So I have to go deal with all the returns. x(
Those of us who have music on our computers are in the same boat as you, TJ. I think we ALL have files on there we have no idea where they came from. I have TONS of files on my computer too. Some I haven't listened to...ever.

I've now got over 1500 items to look through on the library - the vast majority of these to be removed immediately.

Then I get the great fun of ripping all of my C.D.s and turning them into various playlists.......but I'm still very happy with my new toy :bounce: :bounce:

Knowing how long returns take from the perspective of a customer - I can only imagine how nasty they are from your side of the till. :hug: to help your day along.

I have a feeling I'm going to need lots of hugs before this day is over. Yours is the BEST though! :hug: So what kind of mp3 player did you get?

Which should easily take what I want to throw at it.

I'm being festive and transfering the Christmas Oratorio by J.S. Bach to it at the moment (shockingly the 'sample songs' didn't really appeal to me very much).

It looks jolly easy to create playlists, which will be helpful given that most stuff I listen to is broken down into several tracks.

We got a Creative Zen Micro. It has 6GB of space, which is plenty for us. Greekspeak really enjoys it!

My intention is to have essentially all of my music stored on it - then I don't have to carry things around with me.

That was our purpose as well. So far, Greekspeak has used it and I haven't. Then again, he's the one that's been on plane trips recently and I can't wear one while I'm on the sales floor helping customers :rofl:.

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We both had a great Christmas, and today is still a holiday here.

And I'm really glad that you got Tony. Sounds like one happy pup! :pals:

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I hope you're doing fine. Today's a holiday there too, yes?

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We have today off. Tomorrow too, for Christmas day being on a weekend.

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I'm glad you had a good day yesterday! Tell Miss Heidi I said hello and give her a big hug for me! I'm happy you get another holiday today!

We're doing nothing today! :bounce:

I'd do nothing too if I had the day off! But, I DO have tomorrow off so :woohoo:

I have no plans for today.


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I'm glad you get another day! Good to see you again today! :pals:

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If we go out at all it will be out to eat for lunch and perhaps a movie!

Just like the day after Thanksgiving, I avoid shopping the day after Christmas like the plague! Thankfully I have nothing to return, and neither do the rest of my family!

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I hope you have as easy a day at work as possible, and that people in the store are kind and patient.

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If I didn't have to work, I'd avoid the stores too. I don't blame you there! I hope you have fun today whever you decide to do! Hopefully we won't have a LOT of returns. I think last year was pretty easy, so hopfully this year will be too.

Good to see you today!

I got called in to work early because guess what...lots of people coming in to do returns and shop for the clearance sales we have going on and they need the extra help! So, I'm off to the store now. x( The only good thing about this is that I'll be off work early instead of late! :woohoo:

I hope everyone has a great day! :hi: