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Dec. 6th, 2020 07:47 amOn the third day of Christmas Walgreens gave to me... firing my fellow overnight employee.
I'd meant to post that on the third but life has gotten in the way. Anyway, I decided to take work up on their ever so generous offer to let me work overtime this week and work tonight. Honestly, if they'd said hey, you wanna just work straight til the 13th, I'd have said yes faster than I did for the two days they did wind up begging me to work. I agreed to work tonight since that'll mean holiday pay and OT on one check (huzzah!) and then next Monday but ONLY because they apparently couldn't get anyone to work.
This, corporate, is why you don't fire people at the holidays. Because when C told me, "well, guess A's gone," I damn near died laughing internally because uh, guys? I'm gonna be out for a bit and without A, that leaves no minions to work overnight in the immediate lead up to Christmas. I did not laugh aloud though, as that would be rude.
Alas, Fridays and Saturdays are getting much busier between us being the only thing open and the festival of lights kicking into high gear. Last night I spent damn near three hours in photo, and don't think I didn't spend every one cursing B who started printing an order for somewhere between 12 and 20 photo books. That I have no idea how to assemble! Why even start that mess if there's no chance in hell of finishing it? And why, oh why, was the promise time something like an hour after it had been submitted? It takes that long to print just half the order, let alone do anything with it! Somewhere around 2am it just stopped printing and neither of us could figure out what to do. Neither did D who came in to relieve me sooooooo... who knows.
Anyway. Agreed to work because I'm looking at likely at least a month off and I remind you all that is unpaid. I work retail. This is going to be...interesting, I suppose.
I'd meant to post that on the third but life has gotten in the way. Anyway, I decided to take work up on their ever so generous offer to let me work overtime this week and work tonight. Honestly, if they'd said hey, you wanna just work straight til the 13th, I'd have said yes faster than I did for the two days they did wind up begging me to work. I agreed to work tonight since that'll mean holiday pay and OT on one check (huzzah!) and then next Monday but ONLY because they apparently couldn't get anyone to work.
This, corporate, is why you don't fire people at the holidays. Because when C told me, "well, guess A's gone," I damn near died laughing internally because uh, guys? I'm gonna be out for a bit and without A, that leaves no minions to work overnight in the immediate lead up to Christmas. I did not laugh aloud though, as that would be rude.
Alas, Fridays and Saturdays are getting much busier between us being the only thing open and the festival of lights kicking into high gear. Last night I spent damn near three hours in photo, and don't think I didn't spend every one cursing B who started printing an order for somewhere between 12 and 20 photo books. That I have no idea how to assemble! Why even start that mess if there's no chance in hell of finishing it? And why, oh why, was the promise time something like an hour after it had been submitted? It takes that long to print just half the order, let alone do anything with it! Somewhere around 2am it just stopped printing and neither of us could figure out what to do. Neither did D who came in to relieve me sooooooo... who knows.
Anyway. Agreed to work because I'm looking at likely at least a month off and I remind you all that is unpaid. I work retail. This is going to be...interesting, I suppose.