Hi All. I will be telling more Walmart stories. Some Black Friday some everyday Walmart silliness.
I will first tell you about my second black Friday. I was a veteran by now with a year under my belt. One of my managers said i would be helping to run things and over all help out at electronics.
On Thanksgiving morning I was told we had everything ready to go and were preparing for the next few days. All I remember is the SouthPark episodes where it is Black Friday on the show and the gritty head of security runs the place like a real police force. Black Friday is coming.
Thanksgiving night came and we had special deals for Thanksgiving. One was a great deal on a tablet. We also had good deals on video game systems like Xbox Ones and PlayStations. Xbox’s were in jewelry. and PS4’s were in sporting goods where they could be locked up and be sold more securely. Once the sales hit I was super busy in TV’s and video games right off the bat. I was behind the electronics counter getting Nintendo 3d systems to sell when the crowd for the tablets rushed one of the assistant managers to grab a bunch. He tried to push back the crowd but the person up front pulled back and punched him. After that people just swarmed. I slammed my hands on the counter and asked people to get back but nobody listened. The manager was taken in the office in the back to get taken care of. There was a one per person limit but that went out the door once the manager left.I was back helping people find specific deals when there was another rush for TV’s and people became angry that they couldn’t pick up their TV right there. We made them go in the back and pick them up at the dock with their slip of paper stating they get one. I talked to one of the workers that unloaded the trucks and he said people tried to stab workers to get them. The police were there already up front to make sure nobody went nuts up front by the registers. After my break I came back I saw more people being rude and mean to get the product before others and people were using their carts like cow pusher on an old fashion train. About an hour after my break all of our registers were going non stop. I was asked to go to garden department to run that register. It was only so the person that works their could get their lunch break. I said yes because I am a good worker so I went over and Immediately remembered all the extra Christmas toys were behind a barrier in the garden area. That and it was very cold because we didn’t have real walls in two parts. Just fences and a tarp on them. Being out there for an hour was not fun but at least I wasn’t there for the whole night. It was very busy and people had no patience to wait. After my hour I only had a couple more hours to go until I could go home. I spent the time back in electronics getting people set on all the sales and checking them out and getting video games. It was a long night and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
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