Black Thursday/Friday Debriefing Thread 2016

[wolfie]

When I opened the cupboard to get the flour, I found a mouse had eaten a hole in the bottom of the bag.

What would you have done if it had been a trackball or touchpad which had eaten a hole in the bottom of the bag?

[Food Lady]

wolfie,

[Kittish]

I confess, I did hit one Black Friday sale today. Stocked up on leather and tools and hardware. The store opened at their regular opening time and was closed entirely Thursday, though, so I don't feel too guilty about it. Smallish store, so the dozen or 15 people all in at once made it kind of slow getting to whatever item you were after, but everyone was being polite and even friendly.

[Ironclad Alibi]

What would you have done if it had been a trackball or touchpad which had eaten a hole in the bottom of the bag?

I would have used flour from the top of the bag. You see, the mouse ball is on the bottom where it gets dirty, but a track ball and touch pad have the active surface on the top, so they don't get dirty.

[Mr Hero]

I would have used flour from the top of the bag. You see, the mouse ball is on the bottom where it gets dirty, but a track ball and touch pad have the active surface on the top, so they don't get dirty.

People still use mice with balls?

[Food Lady]

I was for a while. I was hoping it would reduce the irritation to my ulnar and carpal nerves, but no dice. Went back to the regular one.

[Sliceanddice]

I did hit one black Friday sell. It was at a low end story at a small branch with little to no traffic that was running a sale with the same prices for 3 days. We mostly bought socks and charger cables.

[Sandman]

People still use mice with balls?

Until the mice get neutered.

[Ironclad Alibi]

People still use mice with balls?

Mrs. IA does. She has an old three button Logitech mouse she likes. She doesn't like the ones with a wheel, and we haven't found a three button optical mouse. Although we haven't looked lately.

[EricKei]

I'm used to having either a small desk, or a messy one -- usually both So a MarbleMouse (thumb-ball type) is perfect for me.

[Naaman]

I was for a while. I was hoping it would reduce the irritation to my ulnar and carpal nerves, but no dice. Went back to the regular one.

Have you tried a vertical mouse? My Mum suffers from wrist issues and she says it helps.

[Hsaud]

I'm in Canada so Thursday wasn't thanksgiving for us, but Black Friday sales are starting to get bigger here too.

What did happen was our manager was fired on Thursday so Friday was interesting. Now she needed to be fired but it left us short on leads and in a bit of confusion.
But we survived an made out day.

[XCashier]

I explained what happened to the cashier, to which she asked why I hadn't brought it back in to exchange it. I responded, "Why? It wasn't your mouse."

That was kind of you to be sensible about it.

[Pixelated]

Main Job means I wasn't working Black Friday, thank whatever gods there be. I did work Black Saturday but I didn't find it particularly horrific. It's going to get FAR worse (in terms of pandemonium and customer crush) as Christmas gets closer, if memory serves. All the people I dealt with were fine, and I didn't hear any horror stories from my coworkers either.

Damn these sensible and polite customers! How dare they leave me with nothing to report!

[Javarod]

I had the joy of Black Friday, a 1700 to 0200 shift after my usual 2200 to 0700 on a week where sleep was the exception, not the rule. I added to my arsenal of things I can and will do this year, pushing carts from one side of the store to the other, and cashiering. Thankfully my cashiering was off peak as I haven't rung register since 03, and these new fangled touch screen registers are confusing.

One notable funny is that Coke forgot to place an order. Wed night/Thurs morning I pulled the pallets down for Pepsi and Coke, 9 for Pepsi, 2 for Coke.