I don't even

[morgana]

I would have taken that as permission to keep it, as a "tip."

Why punish the kid? Isn't it enough he has to cope with this as a relative?

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I moved from California to Virginia a couple of years ago, and in both localities in which I lived, K-Marts were 'going down.' Must be a big restructuring going on.

I think they may be getting ready to exit out of NC entirely in the foreseeable future. Not only was the one near me (Greensboro) closed recently, so was the next closest one (Reidsville.) IIRC the next closest one to me is in Winston Salem (which from my house in NE Greensboro would take roughly an hour to get to) or Burlington (east of me, straight shot down US 70 about 30-minutes away.)

They have a distribution center not five minutes from my house and if I heard correctly, it's getting ready to shut down soon.

[Lovecats]

I live in Kannapolis, NC and the only Kmart in the area is in South Concord. Haven't been in that one in a few years but it was pretty dead then.

[EricKei]

I've found those who yell the loudest about how everyone around them is a potential thief, and suspect that they'll be swindled the instant they let their ever-present guard down, are usually thieves themselves.

Back at GameStore -- we always had a strict bag check policy for ALL company employees whenever they left the store -- yes, even including DM's and corporate dudes. At one where I used to work, the ASM was cheerfully strict about enforcing this policy rigorously. Naturally, he was the reason why our store had hundreds of dollars in gameboy/GBA (etc) games go missing before he was caught -- he had been smuggling them out in the cuffs of his slacks.

Must be a big restructuring going on.

Sears/Kmart (same company) closed at least a couple hundred stores last year, and my guess is that that trend will continue. 30 years ago, they were the biggest department store in the US (in terms of gross revenue), but now...not so much.

[XCashier]

I've found those who yell the loudest about how everyone around them is a potential thief, and suspect that they'll be swindled the instant they let their ever-present guard down, are usually thieves themselves.

We had a person at work on the office/payroll side of things who was constantly berating us for the slightest of billing mistakes, accusing us of trying to short the company or get them fired for discrepancies, ....

Well, yeah, the less money the company takes in, the less he can steal from it! How can you be so inconsiderate?!

[KellyHabersham]

Sears/Kmart (same company) closed at least a couple hundred stores last year, and my guess is that that trend will continue. 30 years ago, they were the biggest department store in the US (in terms of gross revenue), but now...not so much.

That happened with the Sears closest to our house, although part of the reason that location closed was because the space they were leasing wasn't really big enough to carry everything the store needed. (Something like that, anyhow.....I think my mom got this from someone who worked there)

[Argabarga]

We lost our K-mart years ago when they did the big restructuring into the "Big K" brand, since then, I've never seen another, not in my state, not anywhere I've gone.

They're just in the long, slow process of withering away.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

No K Mart here either. Not sure what Flowers is, but I work for a drugstore. Which has its own set of drugseekers in addition to the usual NC white trash

Flower's starts w/an R.

So you're dealing w/the neighborhood dealersdruggists purchasing their meth supplies, amIrite?

[blas]

No more KMarts locally here, although we do have them in bigger cities yet. It's kind of pathetic because KMart took up nearly an entire mini-mall here on one end, the grocery store I used to work at on another, and now both have been gone for a while.

I don't think you people truly know white trash unless you've been to the midwest, particularily this part of Wisconsin.

I'm talking men shaped like Peter Griffin wearing Packers Super Bowl shirts from 96 yet (with all kinds of mustard stains on them), pants with more holes than seams, cheapest brand of cigarette dangling from their lips, drinking the Walgreens brand of beer.

[Tama]

The cigarette is essential. Absolutely REEKING of smoke with no attempt made to freshen up. The added scent of swamp ass is preferred but not required.

[EricKei]

Ah, yes, the heartbreak of psoriasis swamp ass...So sad, so sad.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I don't think you people truly know white trash unless you've been to the midwest, particularily this part of Wisconsin.

I'm talking men shaped like Peter Griffin wearing Packers Super Bowl shirts from 96 yet (with all kinds of mustard stains on them), pants with more holes than seams, cheapest brand of cigarette dangling from their lips, drinking the Walgreens brand of beer.

Green and gold Zubaz with more holes than seams. Also Natty Ice or Camo if the Walgreens brand of beer is unavailable.

[BearLeeBadenaugh]

Rofl, Blas, IPF, were you two hiding out watching me interviewing people yesterday?

Saw two of the Peter lookalikes and at least three pairs of Zubaz.

Also wound up telling one guy "Just leave, I can't even breathe being in the same room." Fresh and stale ciggy smoke, mixed with enough AXE that he was a fire hazard.


Don't even get me started, again, on the unsuitableness of some of the candidates.

Who shows up for an open interview for HEAVY LABOR with a doctors note limiting them to 5#?

[Tama]

Someone needing an unemployment signature

[XCashier]

Also wound up telling one guy "Just leave, I can't even breathe being in the same room." Fresh and stale ciggy smoke, mixed with enough AXE that he was a fire hazard.

Probably hasn't bathed since the Clinton administration, too. Naturally, he thinks you're out of line for saying that.