I have my Thanksgiving weekend schedule. 3:0 PM to 1 am Thanksgiving. 1 PM to 10:30 Friday and fucking 9:30 am to whatever on Sat. I live about 25 minutes from work. I am going to see if there is anyway that can be changed especially since it's my 2nd Friday night/Sat morning in a row.

I am willing to work nearly 10 hours each of those days just not close and then open.

Please I am begging all of you if anyone you are spending Thanksgiving with talksabout going shopping please try to talk them out of it.

Remind them that there are people working 10 or more hours ON Thanksgiving and many at minimum wage or just above it. Some will only get a half hour break that during their shifts. Also to be nice to anyone working that weekend and stand up for employees if other customers are bullying them/berating them. Often retail employees can't do anything or say anything and some store managers will just side with the customer no matter what.

If this Black Friday weekend is like last year at my store there will be customers who cuss out employees, throw merchandise AT employees, insult us or deliberately try to make our job harder.

That is terrible. It sound like things have changed since I worked retail. The customers were still sometimes terrible, but Black Friday was sort of joyous. I made time and a half, so I liked the extra hours. Thanksgiving was a paid holiday.

When I worked grocery, it was the day before Thanksgiving that was nutty.

I get Thanksgiving OFF! My first paid holiday in... I'm not sure. But a lot.

I had a terrible night of intermittent insomnia, and concomitant fretting over a bad situation of at least 14 years ago that I kept up thinking of things that I could have done and didn't think of at the time.

I screwed up and now it's going to be a terrible weekend. I can't wait until Monday. I'm such a fucking waste of a person and I feel so goddam miserable physically and mentally right now. I just wish it could all stop.

That sucks Theo. I just dreamt the locksmith came back and painted my bathroom and charged me a huge amount!

I won't lie that the paid holiday helped And there were a few years where I got paid holidays at both jobs, plus time and a half for working at Penney's. It was good Christmas money.

I am a little at loose ends today, but have decided to clean out my closet so Aidan can take things to the curb again.

Gudanov. Do you have an employee assistance program at work where you can talk to someone? Mine really rescued me when I felt like the biggest screw up in the last few weeks. I think you should try. It is terrible to feel like this, and they are usually free. It was so hard to call, but they got me a counselor on the phone right away and then someone gave up their lunch hour to fit me in.

Timelies all!

Mr. S is having a meltdown because Gary won't let him watch something on Gary's tablet. Mr. S has been watching tv since early this morning, so he needs a break. Of course he doesn't see it that way. sigh...

Spoke too soon on the mouse front. Petunia is killing on right now. But I have mouse traps.

Sheryl, ltc lost most of her TV privileges for today last night for terrible behavior. So I feel you.

Go Petunia!

For askye: my sister was in a crowded store during the Christmas rush. One struggling employee was working her way through a backed up line of customers. This one guy got impatient and started yelling and insulting her for being slow and stupid. My sister, bless her heart, loudly told him to shut up and remember his manners. Guy got huffy and threatened to call the manager on her. Sister laughed and told him to go right ahead - she didn't work there and she'd like to see what would happen. All the customers laughed and the loudmouth turned bright red and kept quiet.

Love that story!